Name that old game!

furrypedro · Post by **furrypedro** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:38 am

Ha, wrong! the grey one in the background. duh

GlennCase · Post by **GlennCase** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:31 pm

There's actually a game that I DON'T know the name of, and I wondered if it was familiar to anyone.

All I remember is:

* I played it at school. Probably on an Apple IIe.
* I seem to remember a magic carpet theme, but I'm not certain.
* You rolled two dice. Let's say that you rolled two fives. You then had a list of numbers, I want to say it was from 1 to 10. So with the roll of 10, I could eliminate the 10 from the list, or the 6 and the 4. Or any other combination of numbers as long as they added up to the roll of the dice with nothing left over.
* Play continued until you either cleared the list of 1-10, or until your roll of the die could no longer fit in the list.

Familiar to anyone?

EDIT: It appears to be a variation on the dice game "Shut the box". I even found a playable version of "Shut the Box" online <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/games2/ShutBox ... l">here</a>.

ROCK!

Glenn (DR FUNK)

furrypedro · Post by **furrypedro** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 6:24 am

Sounds like a simplified version of Yahtzee.
which is also a bloody good dice game

Egg · Post by **Egg** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:08 am

If a tree falls in a forest and nobody's there to see it, what color is it?

You can name that game or answer the question correctly.

jute gyte · Post by **jute gyte** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 2:00 pm

Okay, back to the fun. This is probably really easy to "guess" if you google the characters' names but that's no fun.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:25 pm

Well, not quite that obviously easy since there's a lot of stuff out there about, say, bioremediation of environmental contamination due to nuclear waste and refrigerant. I'm actually surprised that every other hit on the first page of Google results is for this game!

WeaselSlayer · Post by **WeaselSlayer** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:57 pm

Blood Storm, I remember playing that a while ago, on SEGA maybe?

edit: here's mine suckas.

jute gyte · Post by **jute gyte** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:21 pm

Eternal Champions: Challenge From the Dark Side

A good follow-up to Bloodstorm, for sure.

Hold on while I find a shot.

Edit: Here you go. One of my favorites.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:05 pm

Ultima Underworld: Abyss? (or some combination of those words)

Wait, no, that had that weird ornate HUD which took up like 2/3 of the screen for no good reason.

jute gyte · Post by **jute gyte** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:34 pm

fluffy wrote:Ultima Underworld: Abyss? (or some combination of those words)

Wait, no, that had that weird ornate HUD which took up like 2/3 of the screen for no good reason.

No, although interestingly I almost posted that. I couldn't find a very interesting shot of it (the name is Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss, by the way) on Mobygames so I chose a different game. That's also one of my all-time favorites, though. And the HUD (and in fact the interface in general) was a drag, I agree.

Hint: The current game-to-be-named is known for its extreme non-linearity.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:47 pm

The fact that it's apparently a female protagonist narrows it down a lot, to the extent that I have no idea what it could be since the first FPS I'm aware of which had a female protagonist was Unreal, and she wasn't visible in the HUD, just in reflections. Plus the graphics were purely polygonal.

I wonder why nobody ever made any stink at all about that facet of the game, by the way, what with it being back in the days when Lara Croft was still a big deal because she was a positive female role model slash lame objectified sexual pandering tool, depending on who you asked. Maybe it's because it wasn't in-your-face? Nobody seemed to care about it in Metroid either, at least not after it Samus was revealed to be such in the "twist" ending of the original.

jute gyte · Post by **jute gyte** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:18 pm

fluffy wrote:The fact that it's apparently a female protagonist narrows it down a lot...

You can create your own character of either gender and of the (hint!) human, elfin, or even reptilian or feline variety. Also this whole very successful series of games, which is still continuing and of which this is the second installment, is reknowned for very open-ended gameplay.

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:37 pm

Given all that info, I assume it is The Elder Scrolls: Arena, then?

jute gyte · Post by **jute gyte** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:51 pm

Well, Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall. Close enough.

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:58 pm

WeaselSlayer · Post by **WeaselSlayer** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:13 pm

Beneath a Steel Sky.

BWAH:

j$ · Post by j$ » Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:49 am

jute gyte wrote:Well, Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall. Close enough.

I loved that game - first of the "inhabit/wander around a pocket universe with no fixed targets" style that we were all crying out for at the time. (Well, I was crying out for it. But I was young and misguided.)

Crashed all the fricking time though.

WeaselSlayer · Post by **WeaselSlayer** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:27 pm

This game was designed by the same company that did Xenogears.

catch · Post by **catch** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 7:38 am

Timid Swordsman Miyamoto

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:46 pm

sausage boy wrote:

I never played this game, but I'm willing to believe the Wachowski Brothers did. Doesn't it look like Zion, and doesn't the protagonist look like Neo? Scary.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 7:18 pm

Because two different things can't both be inspired by Ghost In The Shell and Bladerunner.

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:42 am

TouchÃ©.