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Some of the games I remember playing were: - Chessmaster 2000 - nz.exe which took me decades to find to be "Saboteur 2", - digger, a game similar to digdug,
by lxe 3y ago
Some of the games I remember playing were:
- Chessmaster 2000
- nz.exe which took me decades to find to be "Saboteur 2",
- digger, a game similar to digdug, as you can see in the video
- moon patrol
- kicks.exe -- I still can't find what the actual title was. It was a game where balls bounce around an area and your job is to slice sections of the area closing off the balls, once you capture the balls in a small enough area, you move to the next level.
- akersten 3y ago> - kicks.exe -- I still can't find what the actual title was. It was a game where balls bounce around an area and your job is to slice sections of the area closing off the balls, once you capture the balls in a small enough area, you move to the next level. JezzBall - https://www.myabandonware.com/game/jezzball-fkh https://www.myabandonware.com/game/jezzball-fkh
- lxe 3y agoThanks! Yeah it was something similar to it, except probably from the 80s and for IBM DOS.
- bennysaurus 3y agoGiven the name, it'll be Qix, I had a copy as well! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qix https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qix
- lxe 3y agoBingo. This is it. One of the variants for sure! Thank you so much!
- SupremumLimit 3y agoThanks! I used to play it as a kid and have been trying to remember the name of the game for years.
- mbreese 3y agoAs soon as I read the description, that was my guess too. It was such a simple game and I spent a lot of time playing it. If you wanted to be patient, it was almost impossible to lose. But if you hurried, it was anlmost impossible to win.
- lloeki 3y agoCompletely forgot about this one, yet I spent so much time playing it! Absolutely true that pacing is key. The version I had had cycle-based speed so it became unplayable when I changed computers for a faster clocked one, which prompted me to attempt coding a clone.
- geye1234 3y agoYou're thinking of Xonix. I just tried it on DosBox, and it works: https://archive.org/details/Xonix1984IlanRavAction https://archive.org/details/Xonix1984IlanRavAction
- VincentEvans 3y agoAnyone knows what “fly.com” game was properly called? It featured a side-scroller airplane that was controlled with 2 buttons - pitch up and pitch down, making it loop de loop if the button was held. It could fire at air targets and drop bombs and ground targets. Always wanted it for my arcade console. Another one I was wondering about was an Infogrames (i remember the name and logo of the publisher for some reason featuring an ant eater i think) police? game featuring a sniper element where you have to scan windows in telescopic sight and shoot before you are shot at. And lastly there was a Prince of Persia / Another World like game that featured similar control mechanics, but also had guns.
- VincentEvans 3y agoActually, makes me wonder - is there a place on internet to ask such questions? To locate old games one barely remember a few details of?
- romanhn 3y agoChatGPT is pretty decent at it.
- thaumasiotes 3y agoI believe there is a reddit called TipOfMyTongue.
- justsomehnguy 3y agohttps://www.mobygames.com/search/?q=infogrames&page=0&type=company https://www.mobygames.com/search/?q=infogrames&page=0&type=c... https://www.old-games.ru/search/ https://www.old-games.ru/search/ change to English in the top right corner and select Inforgrames in Developer or Publisher https://www.old-games.ru/forum/forums/international-zone.54/ https://www.old-games.ru/forum/forums/international-zone.54/
- Stagnant 3y agoSomeone already mentioned TipOfMyTongue but there is a similar subreddit specifically for games called r/TipOfMyJoyStick. ChatGPT (specifically GPT4) is also very good at these kinds of tasks. I pasted your original comment verbatim to GPT4 and these were the suggestions it gave: 1. Sopwith 2. Hostage: Rescue Mission (Originally titled "Hostages") 3. Flashback: The Quest for Identity
- vikingerik 3y agoThat last could be Xonix, which was a clone of Qix for DOS. The Wikipedia article for Xonix mentions a Soviet clone of it called Antix, which seems likely for a Soviet computer, although that seems to be too generic a name to find anything related by searching.