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Velouria
Profile Joined May 2013
United States78 Posts
September 21 2013 19:38 GMT
#1
So, the purpose of this thread is to try and find or remember old friggen games that you cant quite put a name to.

My game that eludes me is an old knights and castle game, where you could build your castle walls and towers and defend them. Now, this is fucking old as hell, like it came with a floppy disk I think, and I must have had the demo... because there was a section grayed out. Essentially you tried to make a kingdom, against different factions of Europe or something. (Once you were attacked the game pre played the battle out, until one team fell.) I remember buying Knights or Archers at the end of each turn, and Knights took on like 3 or 4 footmen at a time. The graphics were pretty terrible, but not quite stick figures. Anyways snowballs chance in hell, but It was my first "RTS."



And I just found the other game I was looking for... Descent. Man that game. I played that for so long!


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Svetz
Profile Joined April 2010
Australia311 Posts
September 21 2013 23:56 GMT
#2
Hmm, maybe Defenders of the Crown or Joan of Arc, they sound kind of similar to what you describe and are from around the same time (floppy disk games!).

http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/130211-joan-of-arc-siege-and-the-sword-atari-st-screenshot-the-battle.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defender_of_the_Crown

I used to love the Joan of Arc game, but damn it was hard for a kid, stupid bishops kept burning me at the stake!
When I grow up I want to be Harry Dresden ;(
Z-BosoN
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Brazil2590 Posts
September 22 2013 00:11 GMT
#3
Descent!!!! holy shit!!
I loved that game. Thank you so much

I'll contribute with Dune II:

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TheOneWhoKnocks
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
160 Posts
September 22 2013 00:24 GMT
#4
Had this old NES game, it was set up sort of like a chess board, and when you attacked with something, it would go into this battlescreen where these creatures would fight and shoot each other and stuff. What the hell was that?
I did it for myself.
Steemer
Profile Joined July 2011
Canada98 Posts
September 22 2013 00:27 GMT
#5
Not one I forgot the name of, but this game right here, Hovercraft. I think it came on a disk the guy threw in when we bought our first Windows 95 PC

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Steemer
Profile Joined July 2011
Canada98 Posts
September 22 2013 00:28 GMT
#6
On September 22 2013 09:24 TheOneWhoKnocks wrote:
Had this old NES game, it was set up sort of like a chess board, and when you attacked with something, it would go into this battlescreen where these creatures would fight and shoot each other and stuff. What the hell was that?


Game was called Archon

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WightyCity
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada887 Posts
September 22 2013 00:30 GMT
#7
nice! i once played a video game on snes. it was like contra but with planes. it was soo addicting. it was a upward scroll game
90% watching it 8% talking about it and 2% playing it - sc2
ninjafetus
Profile Joined December 2008
United States231 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-09-22 00:30:40
September 22 2013 00:30 GMT
#8
On September 22 2013 09:24 TheOneWhoKnocks wrote:
Had this old NES game, it was set up sort of like a chess board, and when you attacked with something, it would go into this battlescreen where these creatures would fight and shoot each other and stuff. What the hell was that?


Probably Archon. There were versions for quite a few systems.

edit: BEATEN! Oh well :p
TripseT
Profile Joined November 2011
United States15 Posts
September 22 2013 00:33 GMT
#9
whoa those are insanely old school, i used to love these games growing up:

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Keep on keepin' on
TheOneWhoKnocks
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
160 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-09-22 00:48:47
September 22 2013 00:43 GMT
#10
On September 22 2013 09:28 Steemer wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 22 2013 09:24 TheOneWhoKnocks wrote:
Had this old NES game, it was set up sort of like a chess board, and when you attacked with something, it would go into this battlescreen where these creatures would fight and shoot each other and stuff. What the hell was that?


Game was called Archon

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Nice!

I'll contribute some random personal nostalgia. Most are well known but whatev
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I did it for myself.
AM
Profile Joined September 2011
50 Posts
September 22 2013 01:00 GMT
#11
On September 22 2013 04:38 Velouria wrote:


My game that eludes me is an old knights and castle game, where you could build your castle walls and towers and defend them. Now, this is fucking old as hell, like it came with a floppy disk I think, and I must have had the demo... because there was a section grayed out. Essentially you tried to make a kingdom, against different factions of Europe or something. (Once you were attacked the game pre played the battle out, until one team fell.) I remember buying Knights or Archers at the end of each turn, and Knights took on like 3 or 4 footmen at a time. The graphics were pretty terrible, but not quite stick figures. Anyways snowballs chance in hell, but It was my first "RTS."




Perhaps it was one of these
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/402/Castles.html
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/190/Castles II - Siege and Conquest.html
MinscandBoo
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
252 Posts
September 22 2013 01:20 GMT
#12
On September 22 2013 09:43 TheOneWhoKnocks wrote:
Nice!

I'll contribute some random personal nostalgia. Most are well known but whatev
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"We'll be cut to pieces!" played so much Lords of the Realm (2) back in the day
Swords! Not words!
FaCE_1
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Canada6184 Posts
September 22 2013 01:31 GMT
#13
Hocus Pocus
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Tapper
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n_n
DDie
Profile Joined April 2010
Brazil2369 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-09-22 02:07:51
September 22 2013 01:59 GMT
#14
Its a game that came with the soundblaster kit (it was a demo actually). It had an aerial view similiar to diablo, and you controlled a red tropper inside a ship/base or something, i think it had a number on the name (1000 or 2000) but no sure.

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''Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.''
PrinceXizor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States17713 Posts
September 22 2013 02:05 GMT
#15
On September 22 2013 09:27 Steemer wrote:
Not one I forgot the name of, but this game right here, Hovercraft. I think it came on a disk the guy threw in when we bought our first Windows 95 PC

[image loading]

Yeah that came with the win95 install disc. i played the hell out of it
Peeano
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Netherlands5701 Posts
September 22 2013 02:09 GMT
#16
I played this on PC, I believe around 1994-1997.
Quite toony, platform game where you play a sort of roundish ninja like character.
In terms of graphics it was most comparable with sonic the hedgehog.
I think there were 2 versions of the game, 1 with a boy ninja and 1 with a girl ninja,
it could have been that I had a version demo though...
In my memory the characters look a bit like LoL's Kennen:
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FBH #1!
rd
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States2586 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-09-22 02:48:04
September 22 2013 02:45 GMT
#17
This thread is a really cool idea. I have two games to identify if anyone could help:

The first game I'm 80% sure was from the SNES. You played some guy that could transform into a pool of slime, and the goal of the game was to haunt and scare the crap out of some family living in a house by sneaking around. Every now and then you'd fall through a crack or something? and would have to do some mini-game collecting slime.

The other game I think was snes too, but I can vaguely recall any of the details about it. All I remember is that you played some abstract, cartoonish alien character, and were on the moon or somewhere in space pushing around a shopping cart, and either you threw tomatoes, or other things in space threw tomatoes at you. It was kinda sandboxy.
Silentness
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States2821 Posts
September 22 2013 11:21 GMT
#18
On September 22 2013 09:11 Z-BosoN wrote:
Descent!!!! holy shit!!
I loved that game. Thank you so much

I'll contribute with Dune II:

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I have played too much Salty bet. I thought that game was called Duane II
GL HF... YOLO..lololollol.
UmberBane
Profile Joined March 2013
Germany5450 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-09-22 11:35:32
September 22 2013 11:34 GMT
#19
On September 22 2013 04:38 Velouria wrote:
So, the purpose of this thread is to try and find or remember old friggen games that you cant quite put a name to.

My game that eludes me is an old knights and castle game, where you could build your castle walls and towers and defend them. Now, this is fucking old as hell, like it came with a floppy disk I think, and I must have had the demo... because there was a section grayed out. Essentially you tried to make a kingdom, against different factions of Europe or something. (Once you were attacked the game pre played the battle out, until one team fell.) I remember buying Knights or Archers at the end of each turn, and Knights took on like 3 or 4 footmen at a time. The graphics were pretty terrible, but not quite stick figures. Anyways snowballs chance in hell, but It was my first "RTS."


Mh I don't really think it's the game you're looking for, but maybe Conqueror 1086 A.D.? I loved that game as a kid. You basically have a turn based world map where you build your own kingdom and castles, but it's also half RPG since you can buy items for yourself and fight in your own battles in first person and participate in jousting tournaments and what not . Kind of like Mount and Blade.

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Hoender
Profile Joined March 2011
South Africa382 Posts
September 22 2013 12:10 GMT
#20
On September 22 2013 10:20 MinscandBoo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 22 2013 09:43 TheOneWhoKnocks wrote:
Nice!

I'll contribute some random personal nostalgia. Most are well known but whatev
[image loading]

"We'll be cut to pieces!" played so much Lords of the Realm (2) back in the day

My brother and I still play regularly. We've sortof become quite good at using all the exploits :D
We have just one rule: no scorched earth policy.
Die ou swepe sê: "daar's 'n raat vir elke kwaal," maar watse pil kou jy as die donker jou kom haal?
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