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Does anyone remember a MS-DOS game where one could select different characters to battle (there were a lot of them). They all had strange names (strange to me a
by bg4 7y ago
Does anyone remember a MS-DOS game where one could select different characters to battle (there were a lot of them). They all had strange names (strange to me at 10 years old), maybe Greek-like? I played this a friends house late 1980s, have been looking to find it again without much luck.
- ulkesh 7y agoCan you tell us anything else about the game? Was it a sidescroller? A fighting game (1v1)? Isometric? Any other details about the gameplay?
- bg4 7y agoMy memory is pretty fuzzy unfortunately. I recall that one would choose their fighter, which would have different abilities (magic or fighting etc). Then both would enter the screen from opposite sides to battle. The graphics were not the best. That's about all I remember. Not much to go on!
- yrro 7y agoShamelessly hijacking your question because I too am trying to find a pair of games. They were text adventures that had some primitive graphics running in a low res mode. One was set on Mars exploring an abandoned(?) Base in a sci fi setting. The other was exploring an underground(?) Goblin city in a fantasy setting. Both games were probably made by the same developer because the UI was very similar between the two. They were distributed on the cover disks of a British magazine called What Personal Computer in the early 90s.
- cestith 7y agoThe first one sounds like a few different games. Did it happen to be "Monuments of Mars"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monuments_of_Mars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monuments_of_Mars If you like games like that, this one's not Mars but you might also enjoy Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sentinel+worlds+future+magic https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sentinel+worlds+future+magic
- yrro 7y agoNah, it was much more of a text adventure, just rendered in a low resolution graphics mode with some primitive graphics. Sentinel Worlds looks cool, I'll check it out!
- pwg 7y agoGiven nothing more than your descriptions, the first game sounds like a description that could be somewhat applied to Infocom's Leather Goddess of Phobos, and the second sounds similar to a description that could be applied to Infocom's Zork series. Both are pure text adventures however, no graphics.
- genpfault 7y agoArchon: The Light and the Dark[1]? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon:_The_Light_and_the_Dark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon:_The_Light_and_the_Dark
- bg4 7y agoThat may very well be it, thanks! I watched a video and the battle scene looks very familiar.