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    • ClassicGMRC
      ClassicGMR @TigerMask
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      @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

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        Pallante
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        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

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

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            Pallante @BuZz
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            @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

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            • Thorr69T
              Thorr69
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              @jorabbit That narrows it down to about 8000-10,000 games...
              System?
              Rough release date?
              SOMETHING?

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                wesbish
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                @jorabbit rogue trooper??

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                  VictimRLSH
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                  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.

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                    theretroprince @VictimRLSH
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                    @victimrlsh Could it be "Sega Golden Gun"?

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                      VictimRLSH @theretroprince
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                      @theretroprince Nope, had a different theme. The guns looked familiar, maybe a sequel?

                      Edit: YouTube videos for Sega's Golden Gun show the gun firing and reloading with bullets, but the game we played fired continously without reloading because it was magical. The first round was on a ship, not a city.

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                        KN4THX @VictimRLSH
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                        @victimrlsh Deadstorm Pirates?

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                          VictimRLSH @KN4THX
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                          @kn4thx YES! Thank you!

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                            LandyVlad
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                            So - it's a 2D fighting game, but isnt streetfighter.

                            Its is set against a Japanese backdrop.

                            I've searched shogun, ninja and samurai games on google images with no success.

                            It's most likely to be from the early PC era. (486 or earlier) but ,may also have been an Apple game or maybe even an arcade one.'

                            I know this is really vague but perhaps someone has an inkling....

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                              sirhenrythe5th @LandyVlad
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                              @landyvlad
                              when the 486 was en vogue there were only a handful of fighting games for the PC.
                              Street Fighter was surely the most popular.
                              The most impressive one was indeed Mortal-Kombat for the PC as one of the first with Vesa-Local-Bus-Support.

                              I guess it was not the PC ;)
                              SNK was the King of Fighting-Games in the early 90s (and propably still is concerning 2D Fighting) with their NEOGEO-System.
                              Did you have a look into "Samurai Shodown", "Art of Fighting", "Kabuki Klash" and other titles for this system?

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                                LandyVlad @sirhenrythe5th
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                                Thanks but it would have predated those games - was simpler graphics no background / foreground etc all on one plane really (IIRC) My memory is awful but It would be pre 1990 possibly a fair way pre...

                                edit: after an exhaustive search it was probably Karateka

                                The others I found, but which weren't what I was looking for were Bushido, and Budokan: The Martial Spirit

                                Thanks for your help peoples :)

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                                • sirhenrythe5thS
                                  sirhenrythe5th @LandyVlad
                                  last edited by sirhenrythe5th

                                  @landyvlad i did not mention Karetaka because it was released years before the 486-aera ;)
                                  I know that game very well, played it a lot on my Apple //e (in yellow :D).
                                  Those were the days of XTs and ATs and IBM-Commercials with Charlie Chaplin.

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                                    kounabi22 @LandyVlad
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                                    @landyvlad

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                                      VictimRLSH @LandyVlad
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                                      @landyvlad It could also be Karate Champ, but it was more of a one-touch tournament than an actual fight.

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                                        LandyVlad @sirhenrythe5th
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                                        @sirhenrythe5th
                                        We had an Apple ][ so its very likely I recall it from that, yes.

                                        Thank you all!

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                                          VictimRLSH
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                                          Here is another steampunk themed arcade game I vaguely remember playing a long time ago. This was an airship race with combat elements, you were not firing at the other racing airships, but at other targets in your path.

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                                          • Thorr69T
                                            Thorr69
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                                            Ok, here is my long shot hoping that someone remembers...

                                            8-bit era or older game (though there is a slim chance it could have been an Amiga game)
                                            Driving or other type of car/vehicle game
                                            *Every once in a while a vehicle would get in your way, and when this vehicle spawned the tune for "See the USA in your Chevrolet" would play.

                                            I hear that sound in my head all the time and I just can't figure out where the hell it came from. I know it was a game I played a lot, but my collection was so vast back then that I just can't remember where it might be from.

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