Hello!

Do any of you have something in your past that only you remember? Cause I’ve got a ****-ton, most of which are video games. If any of you could help me figure out what these games are, that’d be awesome. Also, if any of you have something obscure that you can’t find anymore, feel free to post it in this thread so that others can do your hard work for you.

I have three things that come to mind, so I may as well make a numerical list. Poorly worded ramblings ahead!

EDIT: FOUND!

1. This first person giant deathtank sim. You drove around in an arena and shot guys, whereupon they died in a gruesome fashion. You could also get out of your tank and shoot guys with your chaingun, until you got beck into your tank or found a new one. The world was grimy and dark, and I couldn’t get past the first level. I think the name was ‘necro’ something, but I’m not sure. It came on a ‘50 greatest’ shareware disc which was sponsored by some PC magazine, possibly computer shopper or PC gamer.

EDIT: FOUND!

2. This game was on the same disc, and was about a man who was possibly a robot. You walked around in first person and shot things, possibly aliens or robots. Interestingly, the screen was designed to look like a robot’s POV, with weird readouts and a kinda bluish tint. It was called ‘dominion’ or ‘domination’ or something. It definitely began with a ‘D’ at least. Actually, finding the name of the shareware disc may be best, as it had some cool things on there, like the exile series and a game where you were a driller in a dinosaur land.

EDIT: FOUND!

3. This is the kicker, and the one that really stands out despite me knowing next to nothing about it. It was an early-ish 3d game, kinda like MDK. You could chose your character form a fairly small selection of guys, which included a big, burly man, a lizard-man, and a cat-woman. This made me think Batman when I went searching, but I couldn’t find any game where you could play as Batman villains. Very occasionally you shot at things, including one enemy that I remember looking kinda like a lobster. Each character had a specific level. I also remember that the lizard-man could whip things with his tail, which was useful for breaking glbum in his level.

Anyway, any bumistance would be appreciated. Thanks, and good luck!

Thanks, but that’s not it.

No. 3 was a third person shooter reminiscent of MDK, with the camera behind the player. I looked up a gameplay video, and Gridrunner is a top-down CTF game.

Other things I remember: the player select screen had a kind of machine/gears aesthetic, and characters you couldn’t select had a red stamp saying Not/Unavailable.

also, the first time I played Unreal I was struck by how much it reminded me of this mystery game, especially the first level on the crashed spaceship, which makes me think that the first/demo levels of the game were set in a grimy futuristic area.

Thanks anyway!

megazeroexe Posted:

Battletoads.

Yes. All three of the games are, in fact, Battletoads.

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Oh, they were all on PC too. Forgot to mention that.

swine Posted:

All I can think of is Descent.

I strongly suspect that’s the answer, but Descent is very different from the vague description KK gave. If the others are as far removed from their source material, I’m skeptical if we can figure the other ones out.

I might still have my “50 Top PC Games Ever Made” Shareware disc somewhere, although it’s unlikely as most of those games disappeared with Windows 3.1. I still have all of my ‘95 stuff for sure though.

I’ve go one to add though…

It was a FPS PC Game, based off of a modified Doom engine. It was dark, and one ran around shooting various mutants. I distinctly remember killing giant rats. I thought the name was “The Island of Dr. Moreau” but that’s the name of a clbumic book, I think the “Dr.” part is right, although it could be Professor, but the last name started with M for sure.

The CD case had a picture of a robot on it, and I think there was a brain in a jar on top of the robot.

Any luck with number three yet?

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Thanks in advance!

EDIT: I have found the game! It was called Eradicator. I can’t wait to download it and play it again, to see how it holds up today.

mterek Posted:

OTL

When my eyes skimmed over that title, a gloriously warm and bright portal to heaven opened in my ceiling, and lovey angels descended to gently lift me up to paradise, my life finally complete.

Sadly…I don’t think heaven has a weight training program, those angels had small weak arms and couldn’t hold me up. They let go…

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It’s weird that this isn’t your game though, as it’s damn near identical to the description you gave, including a Doom based engine, mutant rats, a robobrain and a Doctor. The only difference that I (a guy who never played the game in question) can see is the lack of a Dr “M”. Weird.