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Help Finding Old PC Game, early 90s

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SpoR
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States1542 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-10 02:44:57
January 09 2011 01:33 GMT
#1
FOUND! Page 2

It may have been titled 'genome' something like that. I can't find anything via google myself.

It was possibly a first person shooter with puzzles, or it might have been just an overhead view. It had different rooms and It was set in the future/space. It had bright colors mostly teal and purple if I remember correctly, but it was obviously only on a limited color palette (like 24 or 36 colors).

You basically went around picking up keycards, doing things in the correct order, timing movements between attackers, rigging traps?, bouncing lazers off walls, etc.

I played it a lot and I think the goal was to get up through the levels of a bldg to do something (save someone/ stop evil plot/crazy scientist). I don't think I ever actually beat the game, but I got close. I must've played it when I was like 8-10 years old which would make it 1992-1994 (but the game could have been even earlier of course).

Anyone played it?

*
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
deconduo
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Ireland4122 Posts
January 09 2011 01:45 GMT
#2
I remember playing a game thats sounds very similar to that. It was an overhead view, rather than first person, and each level was layed out in a sort of grid format. There was outside levels as well as inside levels. I remember robots and lasers as well as sort of plant like villages?
Kogu
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada83 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-09 01:50:27
January 09 2011 01:48 GMT
#3
one of my first pc games was this, so il give it a shot!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Caves


(probably not the game you looking for)

green.at
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Austria1459 Posts
January 09 2011 01:51 GMT
#4
thought of crystal caves too at first. but i kinda doubt its what he has in mind
Inputting special characters into chat should no longer cause the game to crash.
SpoR
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States1542 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-09 01:55:21
January 09 2011 01:53 GMT
#5
yea I dunno if that's it, but I lol'd at this
On October 24, 2005, 3D Realms (formerly Apogee) released a maintenance patch to fix a bug in the game which set the player's computer's clock backwards 100 years after playing on Windows XP. As the game was released 14 years and one day earlier, 3D Realms may now hold the record for longest time between an initial game release and a maintenance patch. [3]


On January 09 2011 10:45 deconduo wrote:
I remember playing a game thats sounds very similar to that. It was an overhead view, rather than first person, and each level was layed out in a sort of grid format. There was outside levels as well as inside levels. I remember robots and lasers as well as sort of plant like villages?


definitely was thinking a grid format, like move in 1 direction U,R,L,D at a time. I think there were outside rooftop levels, don't remember plant levels though. I could be wrong though.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
deconduo
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Ireland4122 Posts
January 09 2011 01:57 GMT
#6
On January 09 2011 10:53 SpoR wrote:
yea I dunno if that's it, but I lol'd at this
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On October 24, 2005, 3D Realms (formerly Apogee) released a maintenance patch to fix a bug in the game which set the player's computer's clock backwards 100 years after playing on Windows XP. As the game was released 14 years and one day earlier, 3D Realms may now hold the record for longest time between an initial game release and a maintenance patch. [3]


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On January 09 2011 10:45 deconduo wrote:
I remember playing a game thats sounds very similar to that. It was an overhead view, rather than first person, and each level was layed out in a sort of grid format. There was outside levels as well as inside levels. I remember robots and lasers as well as sort of plant like villages?


definitely was thinking a grid format, like move in 1 direction U,R,L,D at a time. I think there were outside rooftop levels, don't remember plant levels though. I could be wrong though.


The game I'm thinking of definitely had an evil scientist type enemy. It was a kids type game, and I remember my dad got it for me at the same time with Carmen Sandiego. Gah, can't think of the name of it though.
SpoR
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States1542 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-09 02:03:03
January 09 2011 02:00 GMT
#7
Was it Secret Agent? Apogee game? That's kinda more like crystal though


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Apogee_games

edit- I wonder if I'm thinking of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Stone:_Aliens_of_Gold or i'm thinking of another game and getting it mixed up with this one.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
deconduo
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Ireland4122 Posts
January 09 2011 02:01 GMT
#8
Aha, Dr. Brain?

[image loading]
SpoR
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States1542 Posts
January 09 2011 02:03 GMT
#9
naw, graphics weren't that good.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
deconduo
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Ireland4122 Posts
January 09 2011 02:04 GMT
#10
On January 09 2011 11:03 SpoR wrote:
naw, graphics weren't that good.


Ah well, that was the one I was thinking of. I'm gonna have to go play it again now though
Suspense
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States500 Posts
January 09 2011 02:05 GMT
#11
If it's an early 90s released it may be legally available online on an abandonware site.. Many games of that era have been released by the publisher for free distribution.. so I would start with a search of those sites.

Just kind of search the genre you think it's in until something looks familiar.
Call me Mr. Tripped-Fell-Landed-On-1-A
SpoR
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States1542 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-09 02:16:23
January 09 2011 02:09 GMT
#12
On January 09 2011 11:05 Suspense wrote:
If it's an early 90s released it may be legally available online on an abandonware site.. Many games of that era have been released by the publisher for free distribution.. so I would start with a search of those sites.

Just kind of search the genre you think it's in until something looks familiar.

yea i searched a couple I came up short. got any good sites you know of?

I don't think it was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Quest
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
munchmunch
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada789 Posts
January 09 2011 02:31 GMT
#13
Definitely not Space Quest from your description, since that was an adventure game. I thought of Bio Menace, which is another Apogee/3D Realms game. But it is a side scroller, not a grid game.
iPlaY.NettleS
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Australia4338 Posts
January 09 2011 02:49 GMT
#14
bioforge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7PvoI6gvQs
Xeofreestyler
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
Belgium6771 Posts
January 09 2011 02:56 GMT
#15
im thinking thats a bit too 3D for early 90s
Graphics
FataLe
Profile Joined November 2010
New Zealand4507 Posts
January 09 2011 02:57 GMT
#16
Duke Nukem 1 or 2?
hi. big fan.
Weasel-
Profile Joined June 2009
Canada1556 Posts
January 09 2011 03:06 GMT
#17
Chip's Challenge?
FataLe
Profile Joined November 2010
New Zealand4507 Posts
January 09 2011 03:23 GMT
#18
On January 09 2011 12:06 Weasel- wrote:
Chip's Challenge?

oooooo Nostalgiaaaa
hi. big fan.
]343[
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States10328 Posts
January 09 2011 03:45 GMT
#19
On January 09 2011 11:01 deconduo wrote:
Aha, Dr. Brain?

[image loading]


lol, I was thinking this
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McDonalds
Profile Joined March 2010
Liechtenstein2244 Posts
January 09 2011 03:47 GMT
#20
If your memory of the colours is right then it's probably Chip's Challenge.
High five :---)
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