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    • lilbudL
      lilbud
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      This game I loved playing in computer class, It was a math game. Took place in a theme park of sorts. The center was a western saloon where you could drag shapes and make designs. And the other games were like, riding a train by clicking numbers. It also ran on Windows XP. Any help is welcome

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        VictimRLSH @sophinazzz
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        @sophinazzz Sounds like a take on Gyruss.

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          VictimRLSH
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          When I was an arcade operator we had this one Indiana Jones style adventure game in a 3-player cabinet. Each player had a different primary weapon, then there was a Dynamite button you could press to throw dynamite. EXCEPT, when I would play the game through, we would NEVER find ANY dynamite. Ever. The attract mode would even speak "Use the dynamite button to blow them up with dynamite!", yet there was none to be found. I also completely forgot the name of this game.

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          • MapleStoryM
            MapleStory @VictimRLSH
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            @VictimRLSH

            Dark Adventure!

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              VictimRLSH @MapleStory
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              @maplestory Ah, thanks! I'll have to dig through my roms and find that one. Maybe see if there is a dipswitch setting for dynamite. LOL...

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              • SanoS
                Sano @sophinazzz
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                @sophinazzz Operation Inner Space maybe?
                Edit : no, no earth on screen...

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                  Cybrasty
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                  I have another one I can't find. Outside of pinball machines, it is the last of the games my local arcade had back in late 90s that I can't trace.

                  It was a standup driving game (wheel + 2 pedals I think, there might have been a gear lever). The game was sprite based, and was played from 1st person (inside the car).

                  The first level was driving in the city. I remember it being pretty grey, so probably driving during the night. There were grey metal (?) panels (like the ones you might see on highways in Europe) on the side of the road. When you drove fast they looked like a single wall, but when you run into them you would see each sprite/texture and gaps between them.

                  The only other in game thing I remember that at one point, if you drove into the panels and kept driving into them there was a secret shortcut that would take you to something like level 4.

                  I vaguely remember the arcade machine having white and blue, so it might have been a Sega game (superscaler maybe?).

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                  • SanoS
                    Sano @Cybrasty
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                    @cybrasty Rad Mobile ?

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                      Cybrasty @Sano
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                      @sano Yes! That's it! Thanks Sano!

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                      • KN4THXK
                        KN4THX
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                        So here goes...

                        I'm looking for a space game, probably early 90s. It was a 3D dos game where you could take on different missions like space races, dog fights ( i think) but I don't remember it being a Space Quest type of game. I am pretty sure it was a spaceship cockpit (maybe view toggle options) and not much else, you really kind of felt alone out there in space, only with high quality 3D imaging. I don't remember it being super fast paced but I remember having the demo and loved it so much. If I can think of any other details I will add them.

                        "If you're gonna play the Game Boy, You gotta learn to play it right" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYLGl92ETNQ

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                        • KN4THXK
                          KN4THX @KN4THX
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                          @thedatacereal So it's Star Quest I. Stumbled on it by accident :/.

                          "If you're gonna play the Game Boy, You gotta learn to play it right" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYLGl92ETNQ

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                            Liv4life200 @Macaque
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                            There was this math Computer game that I loved playing when I was little. That game was on a cd and it had monsters in it and it had a mini games it it that you could play and one of the mini games was a factory with pubbles and it was a skip counting by tens and you had to put the right amount of pebbles on the conveyor belt that equala the answer. I loved the game lots but I have no idea what it is called

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                              quicksilver @Liv4life200
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                              @Liv4life200 can you estimate about when this game was released?

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                                nunyabizniss
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                                Oh man, here we go. This one's been nagging at me for a while. All I can remember is that it was puzzler on the PSP. It had something to do with moving multi-colored blocks around an area with a black background. This was probably 12-15 years ago.

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                                • quicksilverQ
                                  quicksilver @nunyabizniss
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                                  @nunyabizniss lumines?

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                                    nunyabizniss
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                                    I actually just found it by rooting around on emuparadise. It's just called 'Cube'. No wonder I couldn't remember it.

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                                      VictimRLSH
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                                      I'm trying to remember the name of a space flyer that had REALLY blocky looking robots to shoot, asteroids, cats, vampire bats, flying saucers, and you had to pick up astronauts that were floating around. You could recharge shields by running into these giant glowing letter "E"s.

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                                        2L8ULUZ
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                                        There was a Pirate game for Sega Genesis back in the day that allowed you to trade goods port to port, build ship aramdas and take over over vesells... Can anyone remeber this??

                                        Appreciate it!!

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                                          nunyabizniss @VictimRLSH
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                                          @VictimRLSH What system was it on?

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                                          • quicksilverQ
                                            quicksilver @2L8ULUZ
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                                            @2L8ULUZ Pirates gold?

                                            As a side note, pirates! (2004) is a remake of this game and plays well on psp on raspberry pi 3 and has enhanced graphics and gameplay

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