Questions tagged [identify-this-game]
For use when seeking identification of a game played on a retrocomputer.
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1990s BBS game featuring mining elements from a planet
Sometime in the 90s (sorry, can't be more specific) I used to dial in to a BBS and play a multi-player game that involved manually mining elements from a planet. It was very detailed, you got employed ...
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80's Atari-800 game where pieces on a board move automatically according to preset rules
The game I'm thinking of was played on a grid of squares (somewhere in the range of 8x8 to 10x10) where each player put down pieces on their side of the board (I think it was white on the bottom rows ...
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MS-DOS Bear/Teddy Bear Spooky Halloween game?
In about 1993-4 I played a (probably free or shareware) MS-DOS game about a bear/teddy bear entering a house which was "spooky", I believe related to Halloween. Graphically it was primitive, ...
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Looking for a medieval store-management game on the TRS-80 Color Computer, might have been code from Rainbow magazine
Crossposted from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange, where it's been unanswered for almost two years.
I'm trying to track down a game I remember playing on our Color Computer 2 (it could ...
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Identify QuickBASIC Game involving launch, navigation, and landing of rocket on the moon
I recall playing a game that I had from source in QuickBASIC (probably 4.5, but maybe it was earlier QBASIC) during the mid-to-late 90s that I keep wanting to revisit. Unfortunately, due to the ...
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Arcade game: pseudo-3D flying down a Death-Star-like trench
I cannot find any references to this game so maybe someone here will recall it:
It was a full-sized arcade cabinet with an aircraft-yoke type controller with fire buttons on the tip of the yoke. I ...
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Looking for late 90s shareware open world racing game
I'm trying to track down a shareware racing game released somewhere between 1999 and 2004 - or at least, my parents found it bundled in a computer magazine during that time.
Here's what I remember ...
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Mid 80's arcade top-down scrolling spaceship shooter with upgradable ship
I used to play an arcade game back in 1987 (first year high school) and I can't remember what it was called. The screen scrolled from the top (very much like 1942) but you flew a spaceship.
Some ...
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What was that old FPS game where you shot rats in a sewer?
In the 1990s, I played an obscure shareware (I believe) FPS game for the PC (MS-DOS) which was closer in technology to Wolfenstein 3D than DOOM. It was rather dark, so I assume it had some sort of ...
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An old game with skeletons and other creatures
What old game is this? I don't know when it was released but, I think it was released after 1990 (Not 3D). It is a Platformer. I believe it is about aliens.
In the first level you arrive in a car and ...
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Looking for an educational game from long ago
OK so this is really old school. Back in the 1980s, as a latchkey kid, I played on the computers in the library in elementary and middle school. There was this one bizarre educational game that I'd ...
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Vertical shoot em up from early 80s
I'm looking to identify a vertical shooter from the 80s.
The setting is futuristic, with the main ship being able to get upgrades based on the floating bonus which is a letter. One of the was a ...
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Help me identify game from 90s [closed]
I can remember below pointers off the top of my head:
It was an adventurous game
We had to cross different levels (can relate to Mario for instance)
The protagonist was short and was wearing a cop ...
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PC 90s 2D Platformer Puzzler Indie Exit Levels With Robot
Platform(s): PC (Used to play on Windows 95/98)
Genre: 2D Platformer, Puzzler, Indie, Overcome some square obstacles, Exit to door or portal next level (100 levels approx if not a bit less or more)
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How do I find out the REAL title of a given video game?
The Wave Race game for Nintendo 64 is called "Wave Race 64 - Kawasaki Jet Ski" in a ROM set.
On Wikipedia, which I've previously considered authoritative for titles of commercial products, ...
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What stealthy NES game had that profile-view darkness/searchlight area?
When I was a kid, probably around 1990-1992, I was at my cousins' house and they played NES. I vividly remember a side-scrolling stage which either was dark the whole time, or alternated between being ...
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Arcade game with a sit-down cabinet and vibrating seat
I don't know the name of an arcade game; can someone please help?
When you go all the way to the ground, your ship turns into a car and your seat vibrates. In the last stage, your ship turns into ...
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MS-DOS adventure game heavily based on Blade Runner, circa 1991
I'd like to identify a game I played on my first PC (x386, 2MB RAM) which I built in 1991. It was also one of the first, if not the first game I ever played on a PC.
The game was heavily, and I mean ...
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1980s Commodore 64 game about flying toward tower
Wondering if anyone can help me shed some light on this vague memory I have as a kid. My older brother had a friend who got us tons of pirated games for our Commodore 64/128. I'm trying to recall one ...
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Cold war submarine game for the ST
I'm trying to recall the name of a game I spent too much time playing on my ST. It was a simulation of cold war sub combat. It took place entirely on a map view, where you controlled NATO subs, ...
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Which was this game with collectibles, that came with a washing machine detergent?
Availability
I most likely played it in the late 90s (1997+). It might have been the early 2000s as well, but it's less likely. My computer at the time was running Windows 95 or 98.
The game came on a ...
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What is this 2000s-era Windows XP or earlier educational computer game? [closed]
So I asked this question a while back asking for help with identifying a retro computer game, and got the answer I was looking for. Thus, I've decided to ask for help identifying another retro game ...
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Identify World War 2 European theater PC wargame circa 1995
I am trying to identify a World War 2 European theater PC game, which I used to play on a Windows 95 PC, but probably predates Windows 95.
The one thing that really stands out in my memory is that if ...
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80s game about running and maintaining a power station
Way back in the late 80s there was a game that centered around maintaining and running a power station for the local town. It wasnt particually complex or graphic.. just fun. On the lhs of the screen ...
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Looking for a Ninja PC Game where hero arrives in hang glider
I'm looking for a game I played in the early 90's on a Tandy computer. Here are the facts I remember by decreasing order of certainty :
The beginning of the game is the hero arriving in an hang ...
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Looking for a 90s Macintosh game
I'm trying to find an early to mid 90s Macintosh game.
It was a side scrolling shooter in the style of R Type.
You flew a spaceship that looked vaguely like the USS Enterprise from Star Trek, albeit ...
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Name of NeoGeo Shoot'm'Up where your plane can turn into a mecha (giant robot)?
I've spent a couple of hours looking at ROM lists, but cannot find this I used to play any more.
It's a vertically scrolling Shoot'm'Up (or "shmup"), meaning you saw the world top-down, with your ...
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Spider and snake in a square
In the game you were a spider which could run from one wall to the other.
The snake could either destroy your net or you.
If you reached another wall the room where snake could move got smaller. If ...
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Old computer game about a robot and questions
I'm trying to remember an old game I used to play as a kid. It may have been a Commodore 64 game, not sure. All I remember was you answered questions like for math or something like that and as you ...
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Looking for a 90's shooter-platformer game
Back in the 90's I remember playing a 2d shooter-platformer game on my family's home computer. I sucked at the game, and as far as I remember I never managed to beat the first level.
The details I can ...
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Does anyone remember an early 90s side-scroller with a player-controlled ED-209-like robot?
I remember playing a side-scroller at a Babbage's at the mall (on probably a sweet Compaq; I don't think it was on a C64, an Amiga, an Apple, or anything more exotic), probably around 1993, where the ...
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What was this music program I played with around the late 90s?
It ran on Windows 95 or 98 I believe. It allowed you to make music by placing colored blocks in various rows. I think it was associated with MTV, but I'm not sure (I had never actually heard of MTV at ...
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Old game, possibly called "Demons"
Does anyone know an old game, probably from 1980s or early 1990s where the player goes through a top down labyrinth opening secret rooms, collecting treasure, and food, and keys, trying to get to a ...
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Did this game and computer system from Magnum PI exist?
Here's some screenshots from the youtube clip [1986?]: Magnum P.I (Thomas crashes Higgin's security computer system):
Then Higgins says OMG Magnum you've crashed the "dracos three". I think he said ...
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Pac-Man-like: Playing a Excavator bucket or mining drill on a cable
I remember playing this game on the C=64 in the late 80s or so.
It was 2d 'platformer' arcade game where you have to clean the screen from pills like Pac-Man, but in a different way. You would always ...
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90s game about a man with a revolver fighting demons
The game I'm trying to identify is a side-scrolling platformer where the protagonist is a man wielding a six-shooter revolver. I think I played a demo or shareware version as it only contained one ...
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What is this side-scrolling fighting game for the Amiga?
I remember playing this game on an Amiga. I have no idea what it was called.
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Looking for educational AI game for classic Mac OS
I'm looking to find the name of a (purportedly) educational Mac game I purchased from a book fair handout around 1990–91.
The concept was that you would make up the rules to your own board game on a ...
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Looking for a MS-DOS cars game
Here are few things I remember, but it was not sufficient for me to find the game on a search engine:
The game is top-down game - with no camera angle.
It is a car game, with cops and robbers.
You ...
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Identify Windows DirectX game about building a manufacturing business
I'm trying to find the name of a game that I played in the mid-to-late 1990's. Here's what I remember about it:
What I played was a demo version, that came on a CD along a bunch of other demos. They ...
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Identify this 1990s-era educational game featuring kohlrabi
I have fond memories of several educational computer games from school circa 1993–1998. Possibly from MECC, but I haven't found this game on any lists of MECC games as far as I could tell.
It's a ...
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Identifying an old game from the early 2000s
I'm hoping this question belongs here as this is the closest site I could find that matched my situation.
Many years ago, around late 2003 or 2004, I came across this electronic toy that sort of ...
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What is the origin of this version of the "Moon Landing" game?
Among the BESM-6 games there was a "Moon Landing" game; the only one available in both English and Russian versions. The binary survived but it is not runnable (yet).
The description said that its ...
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A game where you could sell body parts for cash
Ages ago I played a scifi game on the Apple IIgs where you could sell body parts for cash. The game involved travel between planets and selling parts of yourself was a last ditch option to raise money ...
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Old grid-based puzzle game with snakes that wake up when on the same row/column as you
I'm trying to find an old game:
Played on an old computer, not sure which kind. (early/late 1990s?)
Graphics were grid-based and "8-bit-seeming". Locations included plains and caves.
Movement was ...
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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 ...