Old Games you played that nobody else did

[tbm1986]

There's also this game I found on the web years ago but there was a matter of paying for the full version. I wish I had in retrospect because it was a good game. It was within the years 2005-2007 that I found it, I think. I doubt it was 2008 but I could be wrong.

It was episodic and the gameplay was entirely made up of dialogue trees. This might sound really tedious, boring and easy but it was anything but. Only one sequence would land you at the end, with about 3-5 choices every time and 10-20 of these in an episode, it was tough. The storyline was gripping, even if the graphics were very Flash.

The first episode is taken from the point of view of a man who has this videotape to give to his boss but he leaves it in a bar, where this blonde woman picks it up. She's a very clever femme fatale. Tall, slim, busty, well-dressed, razor-sharp tongue, hard as nails. Only by agreeing to a slow dance with her do you end up with the tape. Nearly all the other options result in you empty-handed and/or dead.

The other episode I played featured this same woman on trial for murder. The prosecutor, jury and...well...everybody except her lawyer are convinced she did it. She was set up and it's very compelling evidence but with the right answers from the witness box, you can slowly and dramatically shift the tide. The lady's boyfriend, a portly businessman/perhaps-baron with a monacle, maybe in his 50s, is involved in the conspiracy.

If anybody else has played this game and can give me any information at all so that I may track it down and buy it, I'd be very grateful.

If my memory serves correctly, the first episode was in a Flash window but the court scene was full-screen, albeit all with Flash graphics.

[corruptbiggins]

Originally Posted by crfh

Did any of you guys ever played Gorilla.bas? It was pretty good.

The best part about that game for me was looking through the code and seeing what did what. It was what started my interesting in coding, played around with QuickBASIC a lot after that. Was also a book which got you to make BASIC programs while reading it. Can't remember what it was called though. Think it had Million Dollars in there somewhere but I could be completely wrong.

[RetroVortex]

I must find out where that silly choose-your-own-adventure website is.

I remember me and my friend at school had loads of fun, going to that site and adding to the sillyness.

[tbm1986]

Also, does anyone have a copy of Erotica Island 2? I have the first one somewhere and mildly enjoyed some of it, mainly the fact it was an adventure game rather than every girl looking pretty much the same or the humour that only a 12yo boy would snigger at.

[ted12]

Definitely not old, but everyone gives me a bizzare look whenever I so much as mention the excellent freeware game Barkley: Shut up and Jam Gaiden.

...

Oh, not you, too!!!

[Johro]

Castle/Island of Dr.Brain

stupid games making you learn stuff. Bah.

[Krohn]

Eco on the Amiga

[harrisonpink]

How about Spectre?

The only game I remember owning on my Macintosh Quadra 640(?)

[corruptbiggins]

Just follow up my last post, I've remembered what that book was called - Million Dollar Gamble, part of the Micro Adventure series.

[Comrade Pants]

[coolsome]

[doodinthemood]

How bout some of dis:


or dis:



Absolutely love old games. Was half considering rebuying all my old consoles, but am settling waiting for a handheld emulator.

[Friar]

Me and my sister had tons of fun playing Goof Troop on the SNES growing up. Back when disney games were awesome. It's a fantastic co-op game, which I guess could be seen as a bit similair to zelda. Only with levels instead of dungeons.

[Alex IDV]

Originally Posted by coolsome

I love Claymates <3

I didn't buy it (and an SNES) until very recently, but I played it a lot with my friend when I was 6 or so.

[DAISHI]

Originally Posted by Friar

Me and my sister had tons of fun playing Goof Troop on the SNES growing up. Back when disney games were awesome. It's a fantastic co-op game, which I guess could be seen as a bit similair to zelda. Only with levels instead of dungeons.

The game upon which all of Resident Evil is based.

[tbm1986]

I've been playing Kudos Rock Legend and Euro Truck Simulator for the past few days. I'm sorry to say that both are extremely limited in gameplay possibilities and are immensely predictable.

KRL has a most unrealistic songwriting feature that requires a unique theme to each part of a song. These songs all have the same structure. The main character you play is always the vocalist and can't double for another role. You can only have one guitarist. The list goes on. The CDs you can buy for inspiration will only unlock 1 theme each and there is only 1 CD per genre. The same goes for watching other bands at gigs. Nobody like potential managers or band bookers approach you. There's a glitch where sometimes if you have bought items higher than eg. grade 1 and subsequently sold your grade 1 stuff, the band members complain that they don't have an item of that type at all.

ETS has a small (<4) cities per country to visit, they all look the same, you aren't reminded if you forgot to pick up the trailer for your current job, the trucks all look and sound similar. There are no NPCs, campaign storylines, special challenges, nothing.

All that said, I would welcome a worthwhile expansion pack or sequel to either if most of these issues were fixed.

[ShaggE]

^ Ugh, yes. Kudos RL is infuriating because it could have been so amazing. At least it's not as incredibly depressing as the first Kudos. (something about the way it presents life is just unbearable to me)

[Chyron8472]

CyberWar, sequel to The Lawnmower Man: the video game.

It actually was a really fun game.

[Remolay]

Apparently Ghost Master, No one else knows what that game is. Seriously, that game is fun.

[DAISHI]

Has anyone mentioned "Harvester" ?