"What was that game?" - For the games in your memories without a name

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I'm sure many of us have played games during out childhood that we never found out or don't remember the name of, so perhaps this could be a fun thread to see if some know what others forgot.

For my case I remember playing on my cousin's laptop when I was little and he had a bunch of ROMs downloaded on it. One in particular was what I think was an NES platformer where you play as some hooded figure who's only attack is an incredibly short ranged knife. The theming was all spooky with zombies, grave crosses with spikes that went up and down, a werewolf that would break into multiple parts and keep attacking after being hit, and a vampire boss that I never managed to get past. And when you died the game over screen was a black void except for the silhouette of a man in a white doorway before he closes it on you.
 
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I'm looking for an PS1 or PS2 game that started with some guy mugging you on a mountain road. Some local villagers took you in and sent you to an abandoned castle for something. I know it's an RPG, but I never finished because it was an rental.
 
I keep forgetting the name of an SNES game where you play as some blue cartoon character going around collecting torches. It was a game based of the Olympics I believe.
 
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LullerDerbyRollin said:
I keep forgetting the name of an SNES game where you play as some blue cartoon character going around collecting torches. It was a game based of the Olympics I believe.
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Izzy for the snes

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I'm looking for an PS1 or PS2 game that started with some guy mugging you on a mountain road. Some local villagers took you in and sent you to an abandoned castle for something. I know it's an RPG, but I never finished because it was an rental.
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Might be Koudelka
 
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I have vague memories of a videogame trailer that I want to see again.

First one was for the PS2, I think. On one of the demo discs. All I remember is you played as a woman and it was set in a post-apocalyptic/very grimey world. You had a companion who gave you orders and he was a dwarf or something. All I remember him saying is "At least you're here to protect me. Thank goodness for that."
 
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I have vague memories of a videogame trailer that I want to see again.

First one was for the PS2, I think. On one of the demo discs. All I remember is you played as a woman and it was set in a post-apocalyptic/very grimey world. You had a companion who gave you orders and he was a dwarf or something. All I remember him saying is "At least you're here to protect me. Thank goodness for that."
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Is it Primal?

 
When I was a kid there used to be this creature fighting game for PC (late 90s, probably). You bought several discs that each contained one character's data, and had to fucking swap discs to "unlock" more characters in the selection screen. I can't for the life of me figure out what this shitty game was called. Basically, you played as lizards and weird monsters each having their own unique abilities.
 
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I’m 99.99% sure no one else played this, but there was this old computer game that I can only remember as “inner tube annie” where you play as a girl navigating a maze to get to the beach, and you have an inner tube. There were a ton of levels that gradually got more complex, and the game was top-down and on a grid. I know some of the puzzles involved even bouncing over walls with trampolines.

That’s about all I remember of it. And I probably played it on a Windows 98/95 machine.
 
Oh my god. I was looking for this RTS since forever. I can’t believe I just found it again. Live or Die/Live or Dead. It was kinda Starcraft-like, in that it featured combat on space platforms, but it actually came out the year before. My dad was into the warez scene in the 90s, and he used to find some really wild shit back then.

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There’s one other game I’m thinking of that I can’t remember the title to, though. It was a shareware isometric top-down shooter where you had a hover tank thing with dual miniguns or whatever. Dammit, I spent hours looking through MobyGames but I still couldn’t find the title. It was like late 90s, early 00s. Right around then.
 
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Played this demo if a game on the PS1 once it May have been blasto. It was a guy in a red space suit like outfit with a laser gun that quipped Everytime he shot someone
 
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Mine was already solved tonight but just thought I'd mention it

when I was 13-14 I used to read japanese game articles on wikipedia. Just cause. Read about a really cool vampire game, where at the end you got to play as the vampire and could kill everyone.

DYKGaming just made a video about it today. game finally got an english patch this year. so maybe I'll finally play it.
 
There's so many weird games I remember seeing reviews of on X-Play but can't remember the name, I think every single one of them were PC games.

There's one game that I remember nothing about other than voice clips of a guy saying "Ohhhhhh, mama mia!" and "ohhhhhhh, Santa Maria!" in really bad voice acting, I think it was some kind of strategy sci fi game, but the voice acting clips is all I can remember for sure, good luck figuring that one out.

There's also a game I managed to somehow figure out what it was once, but have already forgot the name, but it was a PC game with isometric graphics where you're a 1930s adventurer in Tibet, this would have been from 2003 fyi.

And finally another isometric PC game where you're a disgraced SWAT team member, with a CG cutscene prologue where the character is told not to take the shot when having a criminal in his scope but takes the shot anyway and I guess kills a hostage or something.

And finally on X-Play's precursor Extended Play I saw a review of a game that was basically an online MMO version of Deus Ex from 2002, this was a game I used to remember the name of and even watched clips on Youtube of it, but have since forgotten what the name was.

All of these games were probably "Eurojank" I'm guessing.
 
It won't be the first time I've asked for help identifying this game, and I doubt it'll be the last.
>Flash game
>Rail shooter
>Took place in weird underground tunnels
>Apparently a dream of some sort, because your character was referred to as the Dreamer
>Enemies included mutant rats, bats and zombies(?)
>The game switched "themes" every three levels, so for example, first you had just "normal" tunnels, then a green "poison" theme, then something "technological", then it was straight up something like Hell
>You earned cash from killing enemies, which you could use to buy new weapons and upgrades for your character (more HP, more damage, a shield aura, etc.)
I remember playing this game on one of those "flash game hacks" websites (yeah, I never played it legitimately)
 
When I was a kid at my friend's house his dad was playing this game on his computer. It was some kinda fantasy strategy game with an isometric view and I've never figured out what the fuck it was. You'd move units around on a large turn-based overworld map and then engage baddies in smaller real time combat maps. At first, looking back, I thought it might've been Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic, but AoW is all turn-based so no. I remember distinctly that one of the units was like a nymph or something; it looked like a naked lady with strategically censored naughty bits.
It might be Lords of Magic, come to think of it, but my only knowledge of Lords of Magic is Sseth's review of it, so I'm not sure.
 
There was a game my neighbors played on their computer. It was a top down shooter/action game. Kinda the same perspective as Binding Of Isaac, it took place in something like a haunted mansion. Graphics were kinda like Zombies Ate My Neighbors and had a bullet hell feel to it but you played as a kid going through the mansion. I think the last boss was a big floating head. Haven't been able to find anything about it for years.
 
I got one it was a Macintosh game I played around 93-94ish it was a number puzzle game called the mystery/secret of the (number)'s I just remember the beginning being being of a guy coding on his computer and a number in the line of code on his monitor falls off and lands in this underworld of numbers where you have to solve various puzzles that were math related.
 
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When I was a kid at my friend's house his dad was playing this game on his computer. It was some kinda fantasy strategy game with an isometric view and I've never figured out what the fuck it was. You'd move units around on a large turn-based overworld map and then engage baddies in smaller real time combat maps. At first, looking back, I thought it might've been Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic, but AoW is all turn-based so no. I remember distinctly that one of the units was like a nymph or something; it looked like a naked lady with strategically censored naughty bits.
It might be Lords of Magic, come to think of it, but my only knowledge of Lords of Magic is Sseth's review of it, so I'm not sure.
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Total War, possibly Warhammer?
 
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