The "Can't remember the name of this game" Thread v3.0

@themaster408: Do you remember if it had anything like docking on space stations or landing on planets or anything? The first thing that comes to mind for me when I think pre-1995 top down space exploration game is probably Star Control II. Anything like that?

Hello everyone, my brother and I have been looking for a game we played when we were younger, have some fond memories from the game and would like to replay it, sadly it has been lost somewhere within the last years.

(Possible) Year of Release: 2000-2008?

Genre: Strategy, Fantasy, Arcade'ish/Casual

Name (or just a keyword I remember from the cover?): Battle[...]?

Platform: Xbox, might have been on PS2 and PC as well, but I'm not sure.

Age Rating: 12+ (in Norway at least)

Characteristics: One Player Controlled Hero sending Minions at another Player Controlled Hero

It was a fantasy strategy game where one could either play through a small campaign or 1v1 each other.

There was one hero on each side of the map (rectangular little map) where you sent minions down lanes in hopes of killing the enemy hero.

I can't recall whether it was turn based or not, but I'mma take a guess on my bad memory that it was not turn based.

The maps were mostly the same, one "platform" sort of with lanes, player on the left side of the map and on the right side of the map sending minions at each other and gathering some ?light orbs? as some sort of currency for sending minions.

As far as I can remember the Graphics were good for the 2000s and the movement (pretty much just vertical movement up and down your side of the platform) seemed well animated.

I believe the player controlled heroes were element based, fire, Death, water, light, Earth and life? I do remember the light hero being freakishly over Powered.

You also had to beat the heroes in a campaign in order to unlock them and use them in 1v1.

Please do reply if you have any leads or it rings a bell.

@katjakaja: no one? Well okay, I know that I can't expect an answer so quickly, but does anyone has any ideas where and what I can search for? Any leads, suggestions or something? I feel that I have googled almost anything:(

Hm can't think of or find anything at the moment. The description brings two different kinds of game to mind for me. It sounds a little like a simpler version of a MOBA type game, like DOTA, League Of Legends etc, but the description also very much reminds me of stuff like Dungeon Keeper or Overlord.

It wasn't Anarchy Online then? It had a first person view, though still controlled like an MMO, not like a FPS, but other than that it sounds similar.

@fisk0: someone on reddit figured it out for me. It was called "Endless Ages". Can't believe someone figured it out!! Thanks for trying though.

Platform: PC

Years: Between 1995 and 2005

It was an open world, but I am not sure if it was actually considered a game or just some kind of simulation to kill time. I do not think there was an actual goal to the game, you just explored the environment around you. It wasn't an enormous open world.

You play from the first person and everything is made in 3D as it looked at the time, but everything was made from basic shapes nothing had any detail really. There was a room you could enter that had what seemed to be a giant robot daddy longleg spider that would go all over the room but I don't think it would actually killed you if it came near you. I think there were different places you could go to if you went far enough but most of the sky was black with no light. You never really interacted with anything just explored and saw everything I think.

I know this isn't a lot of info but I was very little when I played.

P.s. This may or may not be true but I think when it loaded there was a southpark advertisement. I do not remember if that was actually the game or if my uncle just had a southpark screensaver. So it may or may not apply. Thanks so much to anyone who can help!

@ My turn.

I played this game around 2000-2004.
It reminded me of dungeons and dragons (it had a party and was very similar with building models to icewind dale.)

I played it on PC. I know it was on PC 100% because I played the demo (then bought it) from a disk full of games. It was one of those 101 game, or 1000 games or something. I remember it sorted the games alphabetically if that helps.
It was a top down game with a group of 5-8 people.
I remember the first thing you fight is a giant rat in the cellar of a pub. After you kill it you go back upstairs and talk to the barkeep. "you see him put what looks like a gem in his pocket" is said. Then he says you can either take your money or what is in his pocket. If you take what is in his pocket you receive something that isn't worth much.

The map is lined with walls and has caves all around it with mini dungeons and monsters. At the bottom of the map it's snowing.

I don't really remember much else.

@fatalbanana: Any chance it's Hugo 3?

http://youtu.be/_8TMGdRnwIA

I found more...I think it is a game from this disk that I can't find a download for. http://www.cnet.com/products/100-great-games-for-windows-98-windows/specs/

I think so? If not it's damn close. Man, my memory did not do this game justice.

I've been thinking about a game demo or something that I remember playing in the late 90's to early 2000's. I can't clearly recall any details, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a full game that I played; it was either a demo or some promotional thing. It might have been from a PC demo disk from a magazine. It was a full 3D world, set in a first-person perspective. I don't remember if there was much interaction involved but you could walk around and look at stuff. It was at most an adventure sort of game. I think it was set inside some family's estate in a fantasy world and they go about their day while you explore around the area. They might have been some sort of anthropomorphised animals. I think there were crystals? I'm not sure if those last two points are just my memories of Star Fox Adventures blending in.

Edit: Some more things I just recalled in a reply below: I remember my game being pleasant and friendly. I think there was something about someone watering their garden or greenhouse.

@hitchockholmes: Only thing I can think of is OverLord..

@kadark: The second game you describe is definitely General Chaos. I think I actually still have it somewhere.

There's this game from a PC Gamer list I've been looking forever for:

The game I'm looking for is a game where you play a teacher (I think his name is John) and you can see all of your student's texts and messages. It's designed a little like the characters are from an anime and I'm pretty sure it's an indie game. I'm not sure what else is needed to track this game down, but if any other information si needed- I can provide it.

I also remember being a few students there who have some sort of romance going on. I'm not sure if that's relevant. There was also another story that I don't quite remember. Sorry for the vagueness... :\

@fatalbanana: I used to play it at my grandmothers all the time! If it helps clear things up, you start at a plane crash, and you find natives on the island who put you in a cage. You type in commands to control what happens. Such as "Open the door."

@naama_benamy: Don't Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story

@MikeFerrari7: Yeah that must be it. I have had this game (specifically the cage part) in the back of my head all these years for some reason. It's both exactly how I remember it and nothing like it. Nostalgia is a powerful thing. Anyway, thanks for your help man now I can put a name and visual to this splotch of a memory.

I'm going to give this one another shot guys, good luck. Gonna just do bullet points

• It was a demo
• Point and Click
• 3D
• Main player character was bald
• Start on a rooftop at night and goal is to break into somebody's apartment
• Believe there were hover cars involved.

Solved thanks to CitizenCoffeeCake. It's Spaera! (Although I can't figure out how to link the UPF to the game page...)

After the Encyclopedia Bombastica, the GB crew played a clone of Tetris Battle Gaiden that Brad didn't like as much (powerups weren't as consistent between heroes). I think they played it on Unprofessional Fridays. I believe it's a free PC download.

Does anyone remember? I always have trouble finding Unprofessional Fridays videos I'm looking for and I don't even know the game to search for this time.

[Solved]

The two games I was looking for are Legend of Legaia as the scene I remember the most (no idea why) is https://youtu.be/TJWtOTn6OE8?t=3m57s
The second I'm fairly sure is Ehrgeiz - God Bless the Ring "Quest Mode" - This one I didn't play as much but my memory of it is something that I think I would like now.

The website http://www.game-rave.com/psx/playstation_perfect_guide/demo_discs_other/index.html helped a lot. They only have the first few discs where you can click them but just googling the disc take took me to an emulator site that had all the game names on hand.

[/Solved]

I'll add mine here and I'm fairly sure to find one of the games we would need to know the other.

I'm fairly sure the games were on the same demo disc on the original Playstation or Playstation 2. One was a turn based game where you started in a town that was being overrun by monster on the outside of town. If I recall correctly your dad and some of the soldiers in the town went outside the gates to fight off the monsters but in that time the monsters either came into the town and attacked or maybe your father was injured and you took over....I don't recall. But the demo was all around being in this town being attacked and when you got into combat it did the Final Fantasy thing on actually going into the encounter. I think the town went dark when the attacks started.

* I believe the town in a circle and surrounded by wooden spikes...whatever that is called around towns.

* I also believe you had some really cool looking magic to use at the start. I want to say you could summon thing to fight for you but I don't recall on that part.

That is the one game I remember a bit more about the other that I really want to know I know less of. I believe it was on the same demo disc and it was a game where the first thing you did after buying a weapon and such was go into the (I think) sewers to fight creatures. If memory is correct I recall it being a rogue-like. I want to say I always thought of it as a 3D Fatal Labyrinth - http://www.giantbomb.com/fatal-labyrinth/3030-6380/

That was from this UPF it's called Spaera I think. Go to about the 50 minute mark.

@audiobusting: I think I'm looking for the exact same game! I just remember there was a room you could go in and it looked like some weird thing that looked like a spider would just move on the floor around the room! I just haven't found anyone who remembers it!

@mrmanuz: I don't know if it is, I remember my game being pleasant and friendly while yours sound a bit scary. I don't remember seeing any spiders. Do you remember there being characters that walk around in yours? I think there was something about someone watering their garden in mine.

@spunkyhepanda Don't Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story

Thanks you so much that's exactly what I was looking for! (did I do that right? I don't know, I'm new to this website)

@hitchockholmes:

[Solved] My brother found the name of the game on another forum, I'll be putting up the name here soon whenever he gets back from the shop with it.

Here is the best description I can give of this game whose very screenshots I can see in my head but I have never been able to track it down. I've never played it but here goes.

I believe it's a PS2 game. It was featured in the back of the Official Irish Playstation Magazine which as far as I know was just the English one but with prices changes to Euro and the write in page changed too. This would've been maybe early to mid-2000's.

Anyway, the game was from Japan, it looked like some sort of RTS type game mixed with a JRPG. You fought on one side of a war that used big mechs alongside foot soldiers. There were vehicles in the game that looked like old style flat bed trucks and if I'm not completely mistaken the colours of the two factions were grey and blue with their uniforms being somewhat inspired by that of the US Civil War uniforms.

@citizencoffeecake: Yes, Spaera is it. How could I forget the flaming bucket head robot. Thank you!

@hitchockholmes Sounds eerily similar to [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx0pb0BdfNU]Total Annihilation: Kingdoms[/url], but some of your details suggest a different game. Curious as to what you've found here!

@jesus_phish Sounds like [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsnVtEZIMR4]Ring of Red[/url].

Possible year of release: 2008 - 2012

Genre: horror/fantasy?

I remember the trailer just barely. I remember it was kind of weird, there was a train and it was dark outside of the train, and weird mouth creature thing attached itself to the outside of the window, then a bunch of stuff went down. That's all I remember.

A game on the GameCube, not sure about the date released. It was an adventure game, pretty sure you start on a ranch of some kind. Your first weapon is a stick(?) and you have to go into the mountains. Not really sure on the ratings of it and can't remember the graphics, but most likely were good. You are a child in the game I think. I think it was E10+

@sneaky_biscuit: Do you have any idea what platform it was on? What you describe sounds a bit like Toki Tori on the Gameboy Color, which came out in 2001.

Here is the gallery of screenshots from the GBC version, any of this look familiar?

@damodar: hi i dont think this is it but thanks for helping. It may have been mort the chicken and i was probably getting mixed up when i said it was 2d. Thanks for helpng anyway.

This ones really annoying me.

I remember plying this game on the ps1 where you were in a sunny town and there was a bottom area and an area higher up. It was 3d and i think it was a platformer where you had to collect or do objectives to progress but i think i may have only had the demo as i remember been timed and only playing the one level. I know its nkt very detailed but please help if you think you know.

Literally created an account just for this, it's driving me mental. Played this game probably around 1999 - 2001. Graphics would put it a little earlier, it was a pretty basic game but not 8-Bit.

PC game. 2D, birds-eye-view. Space background. You were a little thing collecting teeny space chickens. I'm pretty sure you had to do it in a time limit else a bomb would go off, and you were within walls of different designs. There was one level where you could go to the right for aaages and it turned out to be a red herring and there was nothing useful there.

Don't think I can remember anything else, in my head it was called Space Chicken but not even the friends I played it with remember it =S

I got one. It was a side-scrolling platformer for the PC. I remember it was an alien, hella contrast colors, and maybe bouncy music? Considering the fact that my friend's brother didn't know what I was talking about when I asked him about that game I played on his computer, I would guess it was a pack-in, but this was like 1999-2000 so I highly doubt PCs still came with pack-in games.

Also maybe some shooting?

@veelar: astro chicken oder chicken invaders 1?

Hello,

I am looking for a game I saw my brother play (And played a bit but not long) when I was around 8 (I was born in 1995, so around 2003 or so).

It was, from what I remember, a top down (With a slight angle to the camera) RPG for PC, I think it was for windows but my brother had one computer running Linux at some point, so it might have been for red hat or Ubuntu, 3D from what I remember. The closest thing I found seems to be baldur's Gate, which seems VERY simmilar from the screenshots I found, but some stuff seems wrong (Like the cursor being a leather gloved hand instead of metal and the fact I couldn't find a screenshot of baldur's gate with the ghost-dead PC thing that I explain lower, although it might be my memory going bad)

Two of the main things I remember are the cursor and the death system; The cursor, upon game start, became a medieval-looking metal gloved hand with the index finger outstretched as the pointer. As for the death system, I remember that, upon dying, the player character (Male from what I remember, might have had the choice though, it's pretty vague) would drop all of his equipment and become some kind of ghost, at which point you had to resurect (By finding and activating your body if I remember right) and re-collect all of your stuff in order to continue. I remember there being some kind of menu that gave the name of items when clicking on them to confirm you wanted to pick it up.

Sorry for the low ammount of details, but as I said I was pretty young and, frankly, it's very vague.

@dweramond: Going to take a wild guess and say it was probably Diablo, and judging by the time Diablo 2 and its expansion.

I'm trying to find out the name of not a video game but a version of solitaire.

The rules go: put down two rows of four cards. If there are any pairs among the 8 cards you cover them with cards from the top of the deck. you keep covering pairs until there aren't any left or you deplete the entire deck. If you run out of pairs to cover you lose if you deplete the deck you win.

Its a mindless game that I play to pass time sometimes. The odds of winning are really low so really its a good way to practice shuffling since you will lose a game in less than 30 seconds.

@mortal_sb: Neither unfortunately! Strange how many games involve chickens ... But thanks for trying! =)

Not a game, but a commercial which I think was for a game.

Weird, late 80s / early 90s Japanese thing with a stop-motion cyborg lizard(?) person. And that's about all I can remember other than the character moving about in a strange way. I'm sure it was featured in a list article from either 1up or Kotaku in the mid 2000s.

So... yeah. Pretty vague, but would be cool to track it down.

I've been looking for ages for these three PC-games I played when I was a kid. They are all from the mid-nineties.

Game #1:

• A fantasy multi-sports (triathlon/decathlon) game, with up to four players.
• Events included boxing, climbing up a huge brick building.
• 2D graphics, and all players were visible on the screen at all times (I think...). Quite colorful graphics. Maybe it was pre-rendered 3D even?
• You could play as a Yeti, a Kangaroo, a Woman or a Man. I think there were more characters as well.

Game #2:

• A top-down shooter. I think it may have had 3D graphics.
• The setting was futuristic and dark.
• You played as a dude (I think) who could commandeer various robot-vehicles.
• I think the enemies were aliens or robots.
• You walked around in dark/gray corridors mostly.

Game #3:

• Turn-based futuristic shooter in space, with 2D graphics.
• Graphics may have been pre-rendered 3D, but I'm not sure. It had a dark graphics style.
• It was like the worms-games without the terrain.
• I think each player was a spaceship, and I think there were various small "planets" on the playing field (maybe these were destructible?).
• Weapons included various missiles and rockets, mostly (I think).
• I don't remember if it was possible to move around or not.

@hypnotoadbrwowrowrow: Could the game you're thinking of be D/Generation? That's 3D future-y puzzle game and starts on a rooftop.

The game I'm trying to remember was talked about on a Bombcast like a year ago. It was supposed to be a dark colored psychological horror game. I feel like they might have had the dev of the game on but I cant remember. They talked about it for like 10-15 min.