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

VictimRLSH · 24 Apr 2021, 00:42

@kn4thx YES! Thank you!

LandyVlad · 29 Apr 2021, 10:09

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....

sirhenrythe5th · 29 Apr 2021, 11:25

@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?

LandyVlad · 30 Apr 2021, 12:08

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 :)

sirhenrythe5th · 3 May 2021, 08:39

@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.

kounabi22 · 30 Apr 2021, 20:16

@landyvlad

One must fall?

VictimRLSH · 2 May 2021, 00:55

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

LandyVlad · 3 May 2021, 08:39

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

Thank you all!

VictimRLSH · 22 May 2021, 03:05

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.

Thorr69 · 13 Jun 2021, 15:05

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.

VictimRLSH · 15 Jul 2021, 03:29

I played a Commodore 64 game as a teen where you were a wizard trying to keep your castle from being overrun by invading monsters. You could look down onto the courtyard from the top of the castle and blast monsters from up there with your staff. BUT, your staff had limited charges and your would have to fight your way to a witch stirring a cauldron full of whatever you needed to recharge your staff. By the time you got your staff recharged, the monsters have filled the halls and you have to clear them out and fight your way back to where you had the most advantage to repeat the cycle. There was no end, you were eventually overrun.

ClassicGMR · 15 Jul 2021, 03:52

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

I played a Commodore 64 game as a teen where you were a wizard trying to keep your castle from being overrun by invading monsters. You could look down onto the courtyard from the top of the castle and blast monsters from up there with your staff. BUT, your staff had limited charges and your would have to fight your way to a witch stirring a cauldron full of whatever you needed to recharge your staff. By the time you got your staff recharged, the monsters have filled the halls and you have to clear them out and fight your way back to where you had the most advantage to repeat the cycle. There was no end, you were eventually overrun.

http://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.com/2014/02/gandalf-sorcerer-commodore-64.html?

Clyde · 16 Jul 2021, 12:39

@classicgmr It still amazes me just how many C64 were (and are) out there. I had a C64 for many years in my teens, and emulated it now and then in the years since then, but I never stumbled upon this Gandalf game.

VictimRLSH · 17 Jul 2021, 04:02

@classicgmr YES!!! That was it, thanks!

VictimRLSH · 17 Jul 2021, 04:03

@clyde I've hopped on the vic-20 revival bandwagon and have actually started coding my first vic-20 game in 35+ years!

tfgrf · 14 Aug 2021, 15:02

@macaque
Hi , it's been a while since i was looking for a breakout-clone game that i forgot it's name , but , i remember it's details it looked like (Breakout Invaders) game but a bit more realistic 3d , and instead of just a normal ball you release it's and a ball of lightning or electricity you produce by clicking on the right mouse button (and the more you hold the more it gets bigger) and you release it by clicking on the left mouse button , and you gain this electricity by breaking all the walls in front of you .

So please anybody who remembers it name please write it down below . Thanks .