Questions tagged [identify-this-game]
For use when seeking identification of a game played on a retrocomputer.
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Searching for Swedish Mac game from the early 1990's where you try to sneak out of the house
I was given a funny, obscure game for Mac sometime in the 1994 to 1996 timeframe. Unfortunately I have no idea what the game was called, but I'd like to track it down.
The game, which was in color, ...
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Name of Atari ST 3D game?
I've been trying to track down a 3D game from the late '80s/early '90s. It was on the Atari ST and featured simple polygonal (space)ships1 floating over flattish polygonal ground with the occasional ...
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What is this old PC truck game?
I've begun to recall a game I played as a child with my brother, and I can't remember what it was called for the life of me. The reason I'm asking for identification is because I remember how much he ...
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Run and Gun game with bird creature as the protagonist
I faintly remember playing a 16 bit game as a kid, which is some sort of hardcore run and gun game. I don't remember if it was on a Sega Genesis or a Super Nintendo.
You take control of some bird / ...
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Looking for a platformer game
All I can remember of the game is that:
It was a platformer game
The game might have been made in the 90's
I think it was a DOS game
It was a very colored game
The main character was human (I think ...
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Trying to identify an Apple II space trading game
I'm trying to identify a game I remember from my first exposure to computers (the Apple II at secondary school back in the late '70s).
I remember two games I really enjoyed, the first a Star-Trek-...
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1980s game with a guy with an axe on a flying disc
I'm trying to identify a game I remember from the 1980s. The game was shown from a bird's-eye viewpoint (or maybe isometric?), on Apple IIe, IIRC.
You controlled a guy with an axe, who was ...
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Help identify old Apple game from 80s (Apple II, Apple IIGS)
I am trying to remember the name of a game I played on Apple II or Apple IIGS.
From what I can remember, the beginning of the game you are looking for your lost uncle or something. You to another ...
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Name this PC DOS Combat Flight Simulator
I'm trying to remember the name of a PC DOS Combat Flight Simulator that I played around 1991/92. I can give the following details:
It was named after a US fighter plane that would have been in ...
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PET game, enemies attempt to break through several concentric sets of walls
I'm looking for another PET game, which I cannot find on various sites. It was one of the earlier ones - it was available when I first got access to the PETs circa 1981/82.
The user starts in the ...
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Origin/source of “One Line” one-key game
Circa 1985 in our school BBC Micro lab, we wasted much time playing a tiny type-in game that looked a bit like this:
The playfield was filled with a random arrangement of asterisks, and the player ...
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Early game, “Chase” or “Escape!” and many others
I was leafing through an old copy of CC when I came across a review of a game on the Apple II known as Escape. I immediately recognized it as one I have played in many variations on different machines....
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a learning gomoku in Lisp
Years ago I played a version of gomoku that was written in Lisp that learned as you played. After a few rounds, it became nearly unbeatable. This was on Unix System III on a small PDP-11.
I have ...
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Identifying a game from probably the 80s
I am trying to identify a game from presumably the 80s. It was played with at least two players. Each player could set "balls" or "chips" on a 2 dimensional gameboard.
The balls or chips could be ...
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What was this old athletics game I played?
I used to play this athletics game on a really old PC. I don't remember much about it since I was probably 4-5 years old by then (1990), but what I still know is this:
It was monochrome.
There were ...
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Identify this Amiga game: It's just like Rocket League
I remember playing an Amiga game which was very similar to Rocket League, subject to the technology of the time.
It was a two player game with a top-down 2D playing area. There was a large puck ...
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2000's RPG PC game
I've been looking for a certain game, I think it's from the 2000's.
I can only remember a few characteristics:
It was an RPG game.
There was a cave, with what I think was a sleeping dragon and there ...
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Searching for an old planet shooter game
I remember playing a game when I was younger, it involved two players each having their own planet with a canon and the canon had different kind of missile attacks. These missile would damage part of ...
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Need help identifying math game where equations let you move from room to room?
Can anyone help me find an old math game where equations let you move from room to room? I played the game on an Apple II back in middle school and I want to use it with my daughter to teach her math. ...
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Identify logic game involving turning things into ladders
I'm not certain but I think it was a PC DOS game. I am reasonably certain it was not a Windows game.
It was some kind of logic platform game. You played a fairy, and cast spells that turned things ...
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Commodore 64 Game with Falling Character Scream
I'm trying to remember the name of a Commodore 64 game that had a character in it that would scream when it fell. I found videos of Impossible Mission, but the name doesn't seem right and the sound ...
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“Holographic”/3D arcade games
This is vague, but I remember seeing several different arcade machines, probably in the early 90s, with various sorts of "holographic" 3D displays. By that I mean that they produced depth perception ...
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Game from the mid-nineties with hovering vehicles
Not that retro, but still over 20 years ago:
I'm looking for the name of a game that was around in 1995, 1996 (Windows 95 era, although I think it was a DOS game) which I played on my 120MHz Pentium (...
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PET space arcade game with surprisingly good graphics
We had PET computers in my high school, 4032's IIRC, and a few classic games to go with them - the excellent Space Invaders port, Star Trek of course, and a few others. These all used PETASCII for ...
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Need help identifying an Apple IIc game/possibly educational with a top-down view
Played it around the end of the 80's but most probably developed between 1981 and 1986.
You had control over a person/avatar (not stick figure like, more plump looking) and could walk from scene to ...
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Educational DOS game involving teddy bears
I remember when I was very young (mid-to-late 90s) playing a probably educational DOS game that was like a whole bunch of minigames. At least one of the minigames (perhaps all of them) was teddy-bear-...
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Submarine diver game where you had to collect fish and other things for your aquarium
I've been searching for a game that I used to play a ton when I was a kid on the Windows 95/98, but I can't find it for the life of me!
From what I remember, you were a deep-sea diver that collected ...
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A game where you program a robot to fulfill missions
I'm looking for a game. Unfortunately there're only few things I remember:
You had a robot. There was no way to steer it manually, so to solve a room, every step to do had to be programmed in advance
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What was this game with a “Conan” style character on Atari ST?
This is about a 2D (third person) game I remember seeing being played on an Atari ST computer.
In the game the player controls a "Conan" style character (holding a sword, if I remember correctly). In ...
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Can anyone help name this game?
This is certainly a long shot... this game has evaded my searching for years and I would love to have this mysterious game named once and for all.
It came out prior to 1997 (possibly earlier this is ...
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1980's PC educational game where you build robots
I don't remember anything else from this game except it was in the late 1980's in my school and I was playing it on something with a scrollball, and you basically build robots and did science ...
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Where and what was Haunt.bat? A game pre-loaded on a c1992 PC
This doesn't belong on the gaming SE, so I'm trying my luck here.
I'm looking for any info I can get on an old game that I simply known as "Haunt.bat".
Here is the back-story:
In the mid 90's a ...
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Looking for an “Inspector” or “Detective” game (BASIC?)
I'm working on an emulator for the Soviet mainframe BESM-6. Among a few games written for it there was a game called "Inspector" (or "Detective"). Its code didn't survive; the only mention of it I can ...
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Looking for Win95 game with vector graphic
The game I can't remember the name of was like this:
You controlled a triangular space-ship which could fly from planet to planet and could land on it. The planets had gravity which made it not so ...
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In search of… SeaWar — NOT Battleship!
Hopefully, sufficient background
Many years ago (40-45), I used to play "Sea War" on a good sized time-share system. It was a text/adventure war game between a couple remote players, played over a ...
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What's the name of this game on the Amstrad that had red-blue separated 3D?
I remember playing a game on the Amstrad 6128 in the '80s or early '90s. It was a space adventure with at least part of the action flying through space and shooting alien ships.
There was an option ...
