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

vasquez109

Hi.

Looking for an arcade game I used to play on the way to school in the early 90s. Brawler game like Golden Axe, but a boss or other character was called 'Yamato' or 'Yamamoto' or something like that would cut you in half with his sword, rendering your credit gone in the blink of an eye. Any ideas?

Thanks.

quicksilver

@vasquez109 captain commando?

vasquez109

@quicksilver Will download and let you know! Thank you for helping!

top-specci

@vasquez109 said in Post here if you can't remember the name of a game!:

@quicksilver Will download and let you know! Thank you for helping!

Just a hint:
Search in

for the game first, is much quicker ;-)

dankcushions

@vasquez109 said in Post here if you can't remember the name of a game!:

Hi.

Looking for an arcade game I used to play on the way to school in the early 90s. Brawler game like Golden Axe, but a boss or other character was called 'Yamato' or 'Yamamoto' or something like that would cut you in half with his sword, rendering your credit gone in the blink of an eye. Any ideas?

Thanks.

streets of rage 3 has a boss called yamato, but that wasn't an arcade game, but on the sega home console: megadrive/genesis:

final fight's second boss is called sodom and has a couple of swords:

vasquez109

Thanks everyone. Yes! It was captain commando! During the character selection I remembered 'Mack The Knife'. Fantastic work everyone. Now to lose the next hour or two on it...

VictimRLSH

@dankcushions Sodom?!? WHERE DOES HE TRY AND STICK THOSE SWORDS?!? :O

vasquez109

@top-specci Just seen this post! I used to love Scorched Earth, upgraded to that from a game called VGA Tanks. Awesome!

top-specci

@vasquez109 said in Post here if you can't remember the name of a game!:

@top-specci Just seen this post! I used to love Scorched Earth, upgraded to that from a game called VGA Tanks. Awesome!

Do you have a link to the game; I can't find anything about this game ...
Searching for "Scorched Earth" like game running under MAME or (S)NES.

vasquez109

@top-specci Hmm...I'm not sure about MAME as i'm new to retro gaming. But how odd! The game VGA Tanks that I remembered on my 486 is a top down tank game, not like the one I remembered.

Would be interested though if there was one on MAME!

VictimRLSH

@vasquez109 LOVED that game so much, I made a clone of it for the old Model 100 Laptop!

http://www.club100.org/library/libups.html

TigerMask

This is driving me crazy for decades at this point!
It's either a Sega Master System of Mega Drive/Genesis game. It was a platformer and the only level I can remember is an underwater one. The main things I remember were having to avoid sharp obstacles (Maybe sea anemone?) and the boss of the level was an lantern fish. You had to hit the lantern on the fish's head to do damage to him and his colour palette would change as he took damage.

I distinctly remember my mum playing it but doesn't remember. Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you

Impman66

Not sure if I can help but could it be this one

Although this might be a bit too new.

One game that had me racking my brains for literally weeks was one where you controlled a guy in an arctic location, and had to avoid lightening. I couldn't remember if it was for Atari 800XL, or Amiga 1200 as I had both of them. He had to raise flags or something. But the main thing was you could design your own levels, and play them, which I thought was a fantastic idea. I was sure character was called Pierre.

I finally found out what it was after searching the net for arctic games, ski games, pierre games, Atari games, Amiga games. It just popped up in my head.

Polar Pierre!

ClassicGMR

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

This is driving me crazy for decades at this point!
It's either a Sega Master System of Mega Drive/Genesis game. It was a platformer and the only level I can remember is an underwater one. The main things I remember were having to avoid sharp obstacles (Maybe sea anemone?) and the boss of the level was an lantern fish. You had to hit the lantern on the fish's head to do damage to him and his colour palette would change as he took damage.

I distinctly remember my mum playing it but doesn't remember. Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you

Sagaia?

https://darius.fandom.com/wiki/Alloy_Lantern

Pallante

Hi Im new to this site but im looking for a soccer game on the pc that i played when i was a teenager around 2000s but this game was around in the 90s and mid 2000s and the players looks like the prisoners from Metal Slug and the game had national teams to select for example the swedes had beards i really want to know the name of this game so i can play it on the computer please help me find it

BuZz

@pallante I know Wild Cup Soccer, but don't think that was released on the PC, so not sure. But something like that ?

Pallante

@buzz its close but i played on a emulator and the camera was on the side of the pitch and the graphic was more cartoony and thats best i can describe to you

Thorr69

@jorabbit That narrows it down to about 8000-10,000 games...
System?
Rough release date?
SOMETHING?

wesbish

@jorabbit rogue trooper??

VictimRLSH

When I was in Vegas a few years ago there was a 2-person wide cabinet shooter with a steampunk theme. The player characters were women and you both had magical golden guns. In the first round you were hired as mercenaries to protect a sailing ship from zombie pirates and other undead. If both players focused fire on one point for long enough, a powerful beam attack would result.