Nostalgia: Guess this old game thread

[JamesV]

Platform : PC
Decade : Early 90's

A mix of choose your adventure and RTS, situated in Germany with German myths like lizard men. Beware attacking the potion salesman or the robber baron's castles.

 

[SMOGZINN]

Platform: Apple II (but got ported many times)
Decade: early 1980s
Description: Avoid Nazis, gain ranks, and find the secret documents.

 

[Possessed Freak]

Platform: Apple II (but got ported many times)
Decade: early 1980s
Description: Avoid Nazis, gain ranks, and find the secret documents.

Castle Wolfenstein?

Platform: DOS
Decade: 80s
Description: alternating pressing of keys to make your character run faster, jump higher, throw farther than Bruce Jenner.

 

[Geosurface]

Platform: PC
Decade: Mid 90's
Description:The king has been enchanted by the witch. Kill the witch and save the king!

Is it a King's Quest game?

 

[Olikan]

Platform: PC
Decade: late 1990s
Description: isometric, futuristic and aliens....NOT X-COM

 

[SMOGZINN]

Castle Wolfenstein?

Platform: DOS
Decade: 80s
Description: alternating pressing of keys to make your character run faster, jump higher, throw farther than Bruce Jenner.

Correct!

As for yours, I I think you are refering to: Track & Field but I think it came out for the Atari 2600 long before it was out for DOS.

 

[Wyndru]

Platform: DOS, Amiga, Atari, Macintosh, 3DO, SNES, Genesis
Decade: Early 90's
Description: Action-adventure game which thrusts the player into the role of a red-headed physicist trapped on an alien planet.

 

[JTsyo]

Where's LessThanDan?

Probably pulling up all the games from his chest

Platform: PC
Decade: late p0s
Description: RTS, planet is about to be destroyed you must relocate your colonies to avoid disasters while building a spaceship to escape.

Answer:

Spoiler

Outpost 2

 

[spittledip]

Platform: DOS, Amiga, Atari, Macintosh, 3DO, SNES, Genesis
Decade: Early 90's
Description: Action-adventure game which thrusts the player into the role of a red-headed physicist trapped on an alien planet.

Out of this World. *That game was a blast

Platform:
NEC PC-8801, DOS
Dates released: 1987, 1990

Description:
The good knight Duke Garland must save both the princess who has been turned to stone, and of course, the entire kingdom, by defeating the demon Jashiin.

 

[jimrawr]

Is it a King's Quest game?

Nope it's not.. I'll give another hint.. Don't forget gifts for the oracle in the caves!

 

[Jeffg010]

Platform: PC
Decade: mid 80's
Description: shoot 3 pointers and break backboards, one on one

 

[Slew Foot]

PC-late 1980s
Description- Relieve the gas pressure in the space station to prevent it from blowing up.
Hint: Gem themes

 

[irishScott]

Heheh, no one's gotten mine yet.

 

[drebo]

Platform: Mac
Decade: Mid 90s
Description: Early FPS, set in the future played as a "space marine" type character. One of the first to feature "free look". Widely considered to be the granddaddy of one of the most successful current generation franchises.

MDK?

 

[mryellow]

Platform : PC
Decade : Early 90's

A mix of choose your adventure and RTS, situated in Germany with German myths like lizard men. Beware attacking the potion salesman or the robber baron's castles.

Darklands. I spent far too much time playing that gem.

 

[damocles]

Platform : Amiga and others
Decade : later 80s

Whales....in space. nuff said

 

[EDUSAN]

Nope it's not.. I'll give another hint.. Don't forget gifts for the oracle in the caves!

NOT sure if i got this one... but i have a name just in the tip of my... fingers... and i cant remember!

it was 2 2d graphic adventure in which you could die?

 

[jimrawr]

NOT sure if i got this one... but i have a name just in the tip of my... fingers... and i cant remember!

it was 2 2d graphic adventure in which you could die?

It was a RPG, 3D but not free roaming, had to move in blocks. You definitely could die

 

[mryellow]

It was a RPG, 3D but not free roaming, had to move in blocks. You definitely could die

Lands of Lore?

 

[jimrawr]

Lands of Lore?

Yessir!

 

[Tweak155]

sokoban?

Super easy... and i recall the game was GREAT

Platform: PC
Decade: Mid 90s
Description: Fighting game with robots

Forgot about this thread :biggrin:

But yeah

 

[Wyndru]

Out of this World. *That game was a blast

You got it.

 

[EDUSAN]

While thinking the solution to one of the games another game came to my mind... and its this one:

Platform: PC
Decade: 90s
Description: humorous graphical adventure with FPS parts in which you had to shot at some enemies

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Castle Wolfenstein?

Platform: DOS
Decade: 80s
Description: alternating pressing of keys to make your character run faster, jump higher, throw farther than Bruce Jenner.

Summer games.

I'm going to date myself here.

Platform: C64
Decade: 1980s
Description: You, a lowborn character, are tasked with destroying an evil scroll.
Hint: RPG - code wheel copy protection.

 

[damocles]

Summer games.

I'm going to date myself here.

Platform: C64
Decade: 1980s
Description: You, a lowborn character, are tasked with destroying an evil scroll.
Hint: RPG - code wheel copy protection.

Legacy of Ancients? (something like that)