80's CGA sidescrolling exploration game? [StarQuake]

justanotherfool · Post by **justanotherfool** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 12:00 pm

Looking for a long lost game that my dad downloaded off the BBS at work and brought home on a floppy for our home computer.

You started off on top of an alien mountain and explored downward/sideways picking up weird items? I think you were some kind of alien too.

I don't think there were any enemies, but I do remember us getting stuck in holes that you couldn't climb back out of.

There were teleporter rooms (?) that had buttons in alien writing or something that would teleport you if you hit them in the right combination.

The ground was all organic and quite detailed (for just using black and magenta)

Here's a super-quick mock up of 3 screens that I somewhat remember. Note that some of this might be a little off since last time I played it I must have been around 6 years old.

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Quadko · Post by **Quadko** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 10:41 pm

StarQuake?

Available on lots of platforms.

justanotherfool · Post by **justanotherfool** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 9:09 am

Oh. My. God.

Thank you so much, I was so terribly wrong with most of my memories and you still found it!

Quadko · Post by **Quadko** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 3:10 pm

Got to tell you, that was the most awesome "I don't remember much" post that hit all the right neurons in my memory, too! Screen mockups were perfect.

justanotherfool · Post by **justanotherfool** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 10:45 pm

I've spent a lot of time trying to think of it and always coming up with a couple more clues every time and finally just gathered it all up and decided that it was time to get serious and find it =P