Name that Game

[Lonemagpie]

Swiv?

No...

 

[cheeseyfatmonkey]

Yes! Finally got one!

Super SWIV (or Mega SWIV). Not sure if you had a Mega Drive or SNES back in the day.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Correct! (The screenshot is actually Mega Swiv, but I'd accept Super Swiv as well...)

 

[cheeseyfatmonkey]

Yay for me!

One of my old favourites:

Sorry, photobucket won't let me make it any bigger.

 

[eastman23]

Total Annihilation!

 

[cheeseyfatmonkey]

Too easy!

 

[eastman23]

Woo hoo! Finally, someone posted one I knew.

Okay, this one's probably an easy one too...

 

[Geck]

Blades of Steel, if I'm remembering my 80s hockey games correctly?

 

[Timby]

I'm guessing it was a SNES game? Got a safe source for a rom, by any chance? The graphics there look very similar to Seiken Densetsu 3, which I love.

Of course. I'll upload it to my rapidshare.

(5 minutes later).

Here you go, one ZNES compatible ROM.

(link deleted)

Any questions, just PM me.

Don't post links to copyrighted material, please.

 

[eastman23]

Blades of Steel, if I'm remembering my 80s hockey games correctly?

Yup, that's the one. The one where you go to the penalty box if you lose a fight.

 

[Geck]

Yup, that's the one. The one where you go to the penalty box if you lose a fight.

Classic Haven't played that in probably 20 years.

Not sure how obscure this one is or not:

 

[Rett Mikhal]

Yup, that's the one. The one where you go to the penalty box if you lose a fight.

If real sports were like that, I'd watch them and maybe even participate during school. Rules like being kicked out of the game for fighting are for big sissies.

 

[Canadave]

Yup, that's the one. The one where you go to the penalty box if you lose a fight.

If real sports were like that, I'd watch them and maybe even participate during school. Rules like being kicked out of the game for fighting are for big sissies.

To be fair, in hockey you generally don't get kicked out of the game for fighting... you just have to serve a five-minute penalty.

 

[Rett Mikhal]

To quote Hans Moleman:

"You stole Five minutes of my life and I want them back."

Anyways, I'm stumped on this one. Could we get a clue like a year, or a genre?

 

[Geck]

Sure: 1989, sci-fi graphical adventure, with some arcade elements. My brother and I tried several times over the years to play through it, but even with a walkthrough we never managed to finish it.

 

[Rett Mikhal]

My only guess that comes close is Neuromancer, but the graphics look completely different. I do know it was on multiple systems, though.

 

[Canadave]

Another hint would be great; I've been trolling through adventure games but haven't come close to a match.

 

[Geck]

- it was one of the last Cinemaware releases
- released on Amiga, Atari, and PC
- it's on Home of the Underdogs
- main character is named after a famous explorer
- use your skringles to buy froodle and frandanas

It was really an awful game all around

 

[Timby]

I think we're getting a bit far away from something that Rii had:

- Try and avoid either extreme of the difficulty curve.

This thread isn't about testing folks' Google-Fu (I swear, I thought Strike Fleet was more popular!) or ability to use TinEye -- it's a fun game.

Christ, I don't even know what Cinemaware is.

 

[Geck]

Heh, sorry. I really didn't know how obscure it would be. I assume anything I had and played 20 years ago that likely at least some others did too. I've only even recognised like 5 games from the whole thread so far.

I thought Cinemaware was a pretty well known studio from the 80s too - mostly for Defender of the Crown. If no one has it by the time I go to bed then I'll fold, apologise again, and pass the reins over to someone new.