Questions tagged [identify-this-game]
For use when seeking identification of a game played on a retrocomputer.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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-...
