/v/ - Video Games

I played a lot of those plug-n-play joystick games when I was a kid, but I barely remember them. I actually barely remember my childhood everything is fuzzy and vague. Even my highschool and uni years are becoming difficult to remember.

We had an old Compaq Presario Windows 98 Desktop PC. I vividly remember playing some kind of game on the thing. The game was already installed on the PC. I remember the game was played through an isometric perspective. I remember controlling a man that I believed was wearing a black suit (I hope my memories of Driver aren't fuddling my memories) with the mouse. I remember a petrol station and a road with cars going up and down to the right of the station. I also remember the game had a day-night cycle (I was surprised by this. It was the first time I'd seen a game with such a feature). I also remember not knowing what to do and not being able to understand or do anything.

>We had an old Compaq Presario Windows 98 Desktop PC. I vividly remember playing some kind of game on the thing. The game was already installed on the PC. I remember the game was played through an isometric perspective. I remember controlling a man that I believed was wearing a black suit (I hope my memories of Driver aren't fuddling my memories) with the mouse. I remember a petrol station and a road with cars going up and down to the right of the station. I also remember the game had a day-night cycle (I was surprised by this. It was the first time I'd seen a game with such a feature). I also remember not knowing what to do and not being able to understand or do anything.

Sorry. There's one more detail: Time-limit. There was some kind of time limit. You needed to do something within three in-game days otherwise you'd fail.

>>14297372

I recall playing the star wars ones pretty frequently.

>>14297385

Those are pretty great. I vaguely recall a game called "Four Footed Friends" and it was in the same vein.

>>14297372

I've started writing down the events of my day at night, no matter how uneventful. Nothing too long or crazy, just enough so I don't feel like everything is a blur. You'll be surprised at how different each day is once you sit down to analyze each one, even if they all follow the same patterns.

>>14297838

My days are all pretty much the same. Same work schedule, same breakfast, lunch, and dinner everyday with the exception of weekends where I enhance my meals by adding an additional side dish and bonus food peripherals like cheese and jalapenos. I did remember some of the plug-n-play joystick games and they were very influential on my taste in vidya. The spiderman one gave me a fear and hatred of sewer levels and the batman one got me to love exploration and puzzles. I'll have to try that journal trick if it can help me remember by childhood a little bit better.

I remember a PC game from the late 90s or turn of the millennium that had a Pac-Man clone but he was blue and a first-person Arkanoid type game. I got it at Office Depot so it probably wasn't some bootleg.

>>14297961

I've tried starting with my childhood, you'll just get mad at yourself for being unable to accurately chronologue everything you can remember.

>>14298050

this is what happens to any man when he forgets there is another gender

>>14298059

These days you have to try to forget them, otherwise live in a world where half of your species are vicious hellscreaming monsters that want to eat your aborted children.

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>>14298059

>imageboards waste too much time

>you just, like, need a girlfriend man

Where is this logic even coming from anyways? Why is this all of the sudden about women?

>>14298081

because life is about women you colossal faggot

>>14298050

Oh wow anon here lemme tell you one quick tip to improve your life exponentially!

Go to /r9k/ you lazy faggot

A game that I can only describe as "platforming off enemies" using extended combos in midair, had a cyberpunk theme, and was either a Dreamcast or PS2 game. Came out around 2000.

>>14298050

Cut out the masturbation and enquire "Whom am I?" within. The black void of nothing I've found is a massively more interesting state than any pornography I've ever browsed. It can only work if you kill the masturbation, though, otherwise you aren't feeling squat.

>>14298333

>not having a bit of introspective me time while using the fleshlight fan

>>14298350

literal gay spotted, enjoy fucking yourself and being beta bro

>>14298050

The solution for your addiction is simple, set yourself a limit of refreshes and other rules.

MathBlaster.

I suck at math now.

>>14298050

>having this little self control

Sounds like you're a faggot to me. Stop acting like a little bitch and own your actions rather than blaming them on a fucking vietnamese basket weaving site. Fucking piece of shit, your mom would be disappointed in you unless she already is.

>>14299595

Ah, not quite, but your suggestion got me on the right track. The game was Nightshade!

>>14297364

>that cover

Fuck off Myst was easy as fuck its only hard if you're a brainlet or have an observational disability(such as being blind).

>>14302730

>hey, let's make the same exact game except this time you play as a girl!

Nightshade was gay.

>>14302794

I'd fuck ms pac man

>>14303021

Hellgate London?

Restricted Area?

>>14303021

Space Hack?

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>>14303071

I know it wasn't hellgate but i'm fairly sure it was a 3d game not isometric. It could be space hack but i don't know since i never actually played it, only saw an ad for it on the back of some gaming magazine.

>>14302756

Little Samson? No staff weapon but the rest fits.

>>14301285

>"Fucking piece of shit", said one piece of shit to another

>>14303021

Restricted Area

Space Siege

Sacred 1 with Dwarf

>>14303206

No. That's not it.

>>14303021

Project Overkill?

>>14302756

Sounds like AD&D Heroes of the Lance.

>>14306130

That's it. Very nice. It looks positively awful. Thank you.

>>14306182

It's one of the most infamous games on the system and is argued by some the reason why D&D console games fizzled out.

You drive tanks, top-down view, and there's a capture the flag mode except it's a cow.

>>14306254

Return Fire.

>>14306296

Doesn't look like it. I think it was a 2d game. And there were cows.

>>14306312

It's probably one of the sequels. I feel good about this.

A shareware game I downloaded off the AOL kids section in the 90s cant remember the name of it but the gameplay was simple, you chose either a tank or helicopter and went to destroy an enemy base and rescue POWs

>>14306608

That describes Choplifter and a billion clones of it

>>14303935

Oh, shut the fuck up and do some push-ups or something.

>>14306312

>>14306254

RecWar

I remember playing it on lan parties.

>>14297364

some old puzzle game. You played as a bulldozer moving reflective boxes around to direct a laser to burst a balloon

>>14316111

I remember a Dexters Lab game where you did something similar but with flat mirrors you pointed in different cardinal directions and the laser had to reach an exit point. Dunno why, but I had a big game library and I replayed that fucking game for weeks. It wasn't even longer than 15 minutes either if I recall.

>>14316122

This game looks like a fever dream.

>>14307657

He probably cant because his man tits sag further than his arms.

>>14303092

Like ninety percent sure you’re talking about Hunter: The Reckoning

I have one.

All i remember is yellow steamrollers with missile launchers in some sort of post apocalypse. late 90's i think.

>>14316315

Blast Corps? I don't remember it being post apocalyptic though.

Some adventure game for the ps1 where you could transform into different creatures, one of them looked like a tadpole.

Itz*** mom's gay too haah

I remember on the ps1 there was this odd game that you fought over cubes as a resource. You could take the cubes back to your base and turn them into weapons. More cubes let you constructe bigger, better things. Any idea what it is?

>>14297364

I remember playing an arcade FPS (as in Arcade machine), but I think it's very obscure. It had two modes, a linear single player campaign with checkpoints and a multiplayer arena mode akin to Quake 3 Arena.

In the intro it had a Nazi/commie general with lightning bolts in his hat. It also seems to be a sequel. It was something like __2: _ Revenge

>>14316683

This might be the game.

>>14316704

>goes to heaven.

Doubtful, gluttony is a fuckin sin.

>>14316722

>implying someones works determines if they go to Heaven or not

Ive been looking for this old pc game i once had as a kid that i got from one of those CDs that came with PC gaming magazines. My memory on the whole thing is quite hazy but im quite certain it was some sort of side scrolling sci fi shooter. I think your mission was to save some woman and it had some sort of time limit because the fucked up part was that at the top of the screen youd see a portrait of said woman and the longer you took the older she got until she looked like a skeleton. I was deeply afraid of this as a kid and never played it again because of that. Yet because the memory never truly faded i want to know just what the fuck it was.

>>14316325

>>14316326

Nah it was in first person.

I think there were several vehicles you could enter and exit at will.

Myth of the fallen lord was a headliner on my personal list of 'shit that made enough of an impression to stick in my brain, but not enough of an impression to have any useful memories of anything about it so I could figure out what the fuck it was and be done with the nagging feeling of knowing I had forgotten something I had once enjoyed' for what felt like decades, the worst part is that once I remembered it I realized I didn't even enjoy it that much and nothing would make me happier than going back to feeling nostalgic for something I really couldn't remember.

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>>14297364

Yeah Myst is piss easy if you aren't a pre-teen like I was when I first played. I was too hyperactive to pay attention to the story until years later when I had it for myself. Its really 2spoopy if you don't know you can't die.

Then I went and played the first couple Journeyman Project games, where you can indeed die hilarious deaths.

>>14297364

I remember some Donkey Kong mock up flash game with two drunken guys. First entry was the original arcade it was poorly programmed, second was Mario vs. Donkey Kong, still poorly programmed and laggy as shit.

I was a big fan of Carmen Sandiego when I was a kid. I suppose a lot of 90s kids are. Easily one of the catchiest theme songs ever. I played a lot of this one game from the series I can't remember the name of, it was a puzzle edutainment title in the first person, and you're only addressed as Agent 13. Your job is to rescue the other twelve agents, who have been put in a kind of stasis where they just speak gibberish all day. It was a good game, with a good balance between being awesome and funny.

I'll also throw out another game 90s kids might remember: Anyone here ever played Logic Quest 3D? Vid related. Shut up, we weren't allowed Doom at that age.

There's a few, actually. One I spent a few months on and off looking for to get on an emulator was a really good JRPG with a somewhat steampunk setting, multiple (many) playable characters, and a fuck ton of different storylines. Also had a strong naval element. If an anon has an idea, fuck, tell me what it might be.

Older shit that I can't recall was this really fucking complex 2D game all about dinosaurs. I guess it was probably a point and click, but I don't recall enough of it to really know off hand. The other was some kidshit MMO that I discovered by buying a toy; it was an electronic one where you had to take care of a pet, if that rings any belly.

Sega genesis, you were a cop/detective. You had to fiill out a report card thing for whoever it was you were following, i remember something involving flying to different countries, what vehicle they were driving and maybe if they had a watch.

If you didn't fill in the report card correctly, you couldn't catch them or something.

>>14328574

I have vague memories of such a concept so you might be on to something.

>>14328574

you mean the one with the red magnifying glass?

i vaguely remember that one as well

>>14328574

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>>14329276

I spy?

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>>14329276

>>14329285

It might have been I Spy, but there were a ton of those games. I specifically remember it taking place in a museum.

>>14324651

Carmen Sandiego Word Detective

Fun for an edutainment game at the time.

When I was 14 or so I played a RPG whose name started with (again, not sure) the letter K. Graphics were similar to the Pokemon games (early ones). I remember getting stuck a lot in it since it might have been in japanese. Unfortunately I don't recall much else about it. I don't expect anyone to find it, but maybe a miracle happens. Think it was a single exe file too.

Instead of a NES or SMS my dad bought me an Atari XE.

There was this one game I played a bunch where you customize your own monster and fight other monsters. Trex was my favorite but I remember doing better with claw attack crabs or stinger wasps. Spiders sucked.

I can't remember the name of the thing.

My friends had mario and I had lode runner, fuck that game it was like the grandaddy of indie pixel shit.

some sort of sidescrolling NES game, I think it had fantasy elements and you played as a knight or something, I only remember starting near a large tree, I thought it was Castlequest, when I recently saw this game, but no, it's not the same game.

All of them. I have some sort of brain problem and my whole life is a blur. I know I played a shit ton of vidya on older systems when I was little but I cannot for the life of me recall most of them.

>>14330734

Huh. My first guess was Impossible Creatures but it's far too old. I wonder if your game was an inspiration for that.

Downloaded a demo of some kind in the early 00s. It was an isometric game where characters had red, green, and blue mana pools and skills. It had a few campaign levels with few skills and a quick game against AI that had you running around a woodsy level trying to beat other spellcasters.

>>14330734

Has to be Mail Order Monsters.

I need to not hit reply so fast while posting.

>>14331013

Wizards and Warriors, perhaps? The first level was a forest.

>>14335279

First two are Mixed Up Mother Goose and EcoQuest.

>>14297364

Lighthouse. WTF was i supposed to do after i followed the babby and alien through the portal? I got out of the submarine. Hours later i was still lost.

Never understood outpost either.

>>14335296

Thanks m8. Any clue on the robot fighting game?

>>14317462

>if you don't know you can't die.

technically you can die 2 ways, if you count getting trapped in one of the brothers books a death. or forget to bring the white page at the end

>>14335520

If I had to guess it would be Rise of the Robots, but to be honest I have no idea. You can count the number of PC fighting games from back then on a single hand.

>>14297961

I just got done writing something for the day, I can share the .txt with you if you'd like.

>>14335713

Looking it up it was apparently made by the same people who did that one Ace Venture point and click.