Name that Game

[Robert Maxwell]

Damn, dude, is there anything you haven't played? Yes. I fucking hated that game. It made me want to destroy my Nintendo, it was so hard.

 

[Timby]

Damn, dude, is there anything you haven't played?

Keep in mind that I've been a voracious reader of magazines and books since I was about 4 (so I've seen screenshots of just about everything), and ever since my publishing deal fell through, I've had my manuscript of Sonic Boom: The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Sega sitting around, waiting for a white knight. I have a bit of a ridiculous memory for this industry.

Here's one that shouldn't be terribly obscure, but was ridiculously fun (and challenging). I still have the password for the last level memorized:

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Damn, dude, is there anything you haven't played?

Keep in mind that I've been a voracious reader of magazines and books since I was about 4 (so I've seen screenshots of just about everything), and ever since my publishing deal fell through, I've had my manuscript of Sonic Boom: The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Sega sitting around, waiting for a white knight. I have a bit of a ridiculous memory for this industry.

Here's one that shouldn't be terribly obscure, but was ridiculously fun (and challenging). I still have the password for the last level memorized:

AIR FORTRESS!!!!!

I think that might be my single most favorite NES theme song, too.

 

[Timby]

Yep. SUGA as the password for the 8th fortress will always be imprinted upon my memory.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Here we go.

 

[clint g]

Top Gun?

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Nope. This is a DOS flight simulation game.

 

[Canadave]

F-15 Strike Eagle III, maybe?

/ random guess

 

[Evil Twin]

F-19 Stealth Fighter

 

[Robert Maxwell]

F-19 Stealth Fighter

We have a winner!

 

[Evil Twin]

 

[clint g]

Jade Empire!

 

[Evil Twin]

Correct!

 

[Timby]

Wait, the same Jade Empire that was on the Xbox? Because I have a new, sealed copy of that, and if it has 2D shooter sequences, I might need to open it.

 

[Canadave]

F-19 Stealth Fighter

We have a winner!

Bah! MicroProse game and everything, I just chose the wrong horse.

 

[clint g]

Here it is

Wait, the same Jade Empire that was on the Xbox? Because I have a new, sealed copy of that, and if it has 2D shooter sequences, I might need to open it.

Yup, the same game. And yeah, it has 2d shooter sequences...which was random but it worked

 

[Rett Mikhal]

Aion? My buddy plays that and it looks familiar in passing glance only.

 

[clint g]

Nopers

 

[Rett Mikhal]

Woah, apparently I missed like four pages and I was guessing for a game that was already guessed. I need to get used to this forum format where 'last page' takes you to 'first response you haven't seen.' Boy, is my face red.

That almost looks like Mission Impossible, but I don't remember an M60 in that game at t'all.

 

[clint g]

It happens to the best of us It's not mission impossible