Trying to remember title of oooold PC game.

[bluemax]

It was an early 3D game from the 386-era... it was a complete blast to play!

It was all about speeding through 3D tunnels that would twist and turn, occasionally left/right fork, you could run out of room real quick when you had to squeeze through a tiny square hole after a tight turn.
You had a simple blaster for taking out turrets along the way and there were two powerups you could get:
purple gave you a shot from top as well as bottom and could take out moving walls
red gave you a more powerful shot that would blow through turrets with a single shot.


Any clue of the title? Trying to find via abandonware.

 

[SaturnX]

Star Goose?

--Mark

 

[fatbaby]

megarace?

 

[DanJ]

Duck Hunt?

 

[bluemax]

Star Goose was the XT era and was a 2D top-down scroller.

MegaRace was a little later... CD-ROM stuff. You can't actually see the spacey-type thingy you're driving, and you're not racing against competitors, only trying to desperately beat the clock.

Duck Hunt was the post of a complete moron.

 

[DanJ]

Originally posted by: bluemax
Duck Hunt was the post of a complete moron.

:brokenheart:

 

[Binar]

Pac Man?

 

[Willoughbyva]

Mr DO?

 

[DanJ]

Dr. Sbaitso; now there was a great game.

 

[Binar]

Originally posted by: Binar
Pac Man?

 

[bluemax]

Should I have a "No Silliness" sign up??? C'mon... I'm serious here.
Drop the Pac-Man, Duck Hunt crap. :Q


If it helps, it had a loader screen that played kind of a jazzed-up version of Tocatta and Fugue... similar to Gyruss if I remember right.

It was a 3D game but it was almost pure "straight ahead" view from your eyes. Just tunnels, nothing else. REAL simple graphics, no 3D objects, just lines/boxes as you whizzed through them.

 

[notfred]

a very early build of Descent?

 

[Schadenfreude]

Originally posted by: Tharyn
Star Goose?

--Mark

OMG! That game was kickass! One of the first games I've ever played . . ..

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: bluemax
It was an early 3D game from the 386-era... it was a complete blast to play!

It was all about speeding through 3D tunnels that would twist and turn, occasionally left/right fork, you could run out of room real quick when you had to squeeze through a tiny square hole after a tight turn.
You had a simple blaster for taking out turrets along the way and there were two powerups you could get:
purple gave you a shot from top as well as bottom and could take out moving walls
red gave you a more powerful shot that would blow through turrets with a single shot.


Any clue of the title? Trying to find via abandonware.

The powerups remind me of a game at ChuckeCheese. If you go there trying to find out what it is, its not a game where people are around a lot. You sit inside it and it has a "roof" ontop as well and you insert the coins outside, not where you sit down. Oh yeah, and the blasters too, sounds like that.

EDIT: After a level or two, it had people on the sides shoting at you.

 

[bluemax]

Originally posted by: notfred
a very early build of Descent?

It was never quite THAT 3D.... you were moving FORWARD so fast, you never really went side-to-side or up/down more than a big dip in the tunnel. If you were shot by a turret or just plain hit the tunnel walls at high speed you damaged your "ship".

 

[bluemax]

HAAAAAAAAA!!!! I found it!!!

Tunnels of Armageddon!
May not look like much in the screenshot and it was simple even back then when Prince of Persia was brand new... but it was so incredibly fast, even on a 386! I remember it being a lot of fun....

 

[Schadenfreude]

So, you mean to say that it wasn't polygons, but vector graphics instead?

 

[ViRGE]

I know this isn't what you're after, but by the sounds of it, you might be interested in Ballistics, which is a very similar game to what you described.

 

[bluemax]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
I know this isn't what you're after, but by the sounds of it, you might be interested in Ballistics, which is a very similar game to what you described.

Looks neat!

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: bluemax
HAAAAAAAAA!!!! I found it!!!

Tunnels of Armageddon!
May not look like much in the screenshot and it was simple even back then when Prince of Persia was brand new... but it was so incredibly fast, even on a 386! I remember it being a lot of fun....

I can't download it...

 

[Walleye]

Originally posted by: bluemax
HAAAAAAAAA!!!! I found it!!!

Tunnels of Armageddon!
May not look like much in the screenshot and it was simple even back then when Prince of Persia was brand new... but it was so incredibly fast, even on a 386! I remember it being a lot of fun....

i knew what you were talking about... i had that game too. i think they had a mac version, cause i dont remember playing it on PC. i did play it in color, and at the time my only color computer was an apple IIGS.

that is such an awesome game! i was gonna guess silpheed, but then i remembered silpheed was a side(well, up and down) scroller. 2d.

 

[ApacheXMD]

holy crap, i remember playing Tunnels on my 386. I instantly knew what game you were talking about as soon as I read your description. Pretty awesome game.

-patchy

 

[murphy55d]

you sure it wasn't duck hunt?

 

[bluemax]

Originally posted by: murphy55d
you sure it wasn't duck hunt?

[aims his light gun at a certain paper bag with eye holes.....] *crack!* [music]doodle-dee-doot-dee-doo!
Yaay!

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Easy - Tunnels of Armageddon. I played that on an old Apple IIgs in second grade.

Edit - Beaten to it. Damn.

And btw, that link seems to be describing a totally different game. "Bumping objects off walls ... racing game"? WTF?

Last time I played it, you were trying to speed through alien ships/corridors in order to stop their fusion core thingamajig from coming online and vaporizing the earth. The tunnels were colour-coded (green was long but easy, grey was moderate, and red was short but hard). There was a life bar and a time bar ... time bar was green when it was stopped (by destroying generators as you flew by) and red when it was normal speed.

"You have failed. The earth will be destroyed."

Never did win that game.

- M4H