Post here if you can't remember the name of a game!

BillyH

One game I played as a kid, somewhere early nineties (maybe mid-nineties), which I played for one fun afternoon at a friend's place and then forgot about until years later.

It's a car racing game, a bit futuristic. I think there were weapons in the game, I don't recall if they could be turned off. In between the tracks, there were live action clips of an older male actor, among the statements he made were things you could win with the next race, like a dinner in a restaurant "with... yourself!" and he also said about something "I hate it when that happens" or "I hate it when I have to say that" or something along those lines.

Most games that I've played, I still know the names of (or have since figured out about what their names were, like Dinosaur Predators) but the one above is the one game I'd like to try again some time that has me completely stumped.

ClassicGMR

@BillyH Is this the guy you remember?

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Mega Race is the name of this game if it is.

BillyH

@ClassicGMR said in Post here if you can't remember the name of a game!:

@BillyH Is this the guy you remember?

Mega Race is the name of this game if it is.

Oh damn, that was quick! Checked a bit on youtube and that's it, thanks!

Many thanks @ClassicGMR! Guess I know which old game disc I'll hunt down next!

ClassicGMR

@BillyH It was a favorite of mine on the 3DO that's why I recognized it so quickly. :)

I bought it on GoG last year. They have the Mega Race 1+2 pack for like $5. Was worth the nostalgia. :)

BillyH

@ClassicGMR I see there's also apparently a third game, and a reboot coming up...

Didn't know they were available online. I see they are on Steam too, I think I still have a bit of cash on my account there even though I haven't played on Steam since 2016 or so. Think I'll sponsor them there, and then actually play it through RetroPie since apparently the first game was on Sega CD as well.

meatcat

your a dog ghost and you try and make your owners happy

xwons

Ok, I have one game I have not been able to find.

When I was a kid, at a friends house, we used to play a game in an Amstrad computer with a monochrome black and green screen, that we loaded with a cassette. The game was a side scroller / shooter in which you piloted a small submarine. It had different levels in which you ended up fighting a boss. I know, it sounds pretty generic.

Any ideas?

ClassicGMR

@xwons Was that Sub Hunter?

ClassicGMR

@meatcat

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simpleethat

@meatcat said in Post here if you can't remember the name of a game!:

your a dog ghost and you try and make your owners happy

I have absolutely no idea what game you're talking about but you have me intrigued. Do you have any more information to go on? Was it console or pc? Generation? Arcade? Anything at all?

VictimRLSH

@xwons This sounds like an Apple game I used to play, but I can't remember the name either. Did you have to stop and kill underwater gates for your sub to proceed too? Was there an oxygen gauge that you had to fight your way to the top to fill up before you ran out?

xwons

@ClassicGMR said in Post here if you can't remember the name of a game!:

@xwons Was that Sub Hunter?

I don't know... It could be, but I remember it a bit different. I'll try it later.

@VictimRLSH said in Post here if you can't remember the name of a game!:

@xwons This sounds like an Apple game I used to play, but I can't remember the name either. Did you have to stop and kill underwater gates for your sub to proceed too? Was there an oxygen gauge that you had to fight your way to the top to fill up before you ran out?

The Sub Hunter game that @ClassicGMR mentioned has an oxygen gauge. But I am still not sure if that was the game.

xwons

Ok, no, it definitely wasn't Sub Hunter. Any other suggestions?

Kookamunga

There was a game that I once played on the Apple IIe in school, and you had a certain number of batteries in your inventory that you had to connect correctly throughout the level with correct polarity and the voltages had to add up correctly. I think the character might have had an oxygen limit too, as the I think game was set underground. It's been so long since I've even seen or heard of the game, but I have fond memories of playing it on the old green and black display.

VictimRLSH

@Kookamunga That sounds like a game The Learning Company would make, something similar to Rocky's Boots or Robot Odyssey.

VictimRLSH

@xwons Sea Dragon?

xwons

@VictimRLSH said in Post here if you can't remember the name of a game!:

@xwons Sea Dragon?

Mmm, no. Similar in style, but it's not the one I'm looking for. And I couldn't find an Amstrad version.

VictimRLSH

@xwons My periwinkle belt in Google-Fu is coming up with Oceana for the Amstrad. Doesn't quite look like the Apple game I remember (Sea Dragon wasn't it for that one either...)

gamesfan

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Rockys boots?

xwons

@VictimRLSH said in Post here if you can't remember the name of a game!:

@xwons My periwinkle belt in Google-Fu is coming up with Oceana for the Amstrad. Doesn't quite look like the Apple game I remember (Sea Dragon wasn't it for that one either...)

Sorry, but I don't think that's it. The one I remember had several levels which ended figthing a boss. I remember one of them being some kind of sea serpent or eel in which you had to shoot its head.