Questions tagged [identify-this-game]
For use when seeking identification of a game played on a retrocomputer.
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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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1980's 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 ...
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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 macos
I'm looking to find the name of a (purportedly) educational mac game I purchased from a bookfair 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 ...
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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 ...
