Guess The Game

Post by **Wally** » Sat Dec 13, 2014 4:01 pm

Yeah you're fired

Hint 2: Side Scrolling game where the idea is to collect a trophy and go through a door.

dr_st · Post by **dr_st** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 8:07 am

Well, this is Dangerous Dave for sure.

Post by **Wally** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 5:16 pm

dr_st wrote:Well, this is Dangerous Dave for sure.

FINALLY! Please take the reigns and post a game

dr_st · Post by **dr_st** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 9:35 am

OK. Well, this one won't be too difficult, I hope.

Hint 1: The DOS port of this game supported the full soundtrack (music, not just sound effects) being played through the PC speaker.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 3:21 pm

Wild guess: Captain Blood?
(I recall it did play some of J-M Jarre's music on the Atari speakers, and I'd think it could do it on PC too.)

dr_st · Post by **dr_st** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 4:15 pm

Captain Blood --> Nope

From a quick check, the DOS version does seem to have some PC speaker music (e.g. title screen), but not during most of the gameplay. In any case, it's not the game I had in mind.

Post by **MrFlibble** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 4:39 pm

dr_st wrote:Hint 1: The DOS port of this game supported the full soundtrack (music, not just sound effects) being played through the PC speaker.

Guess: Hmm, for some reason I think that it could be Wolfenstein 3-D, but this is originally a DOS game, so no "DOS port"? I do vaguely remember something about the soundtrack being playable through the PC speaker.

dr_st · Post by **dr_st** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 5:15 pm

Wolf3D --> Nope

It can only play sound effects, not music, through the PC speaker.

Plus, you are also right that it's not a port, per se, because it was originally developed for DOS (even though it was not developed under DOS, but rather on NeXT machines).

Post by **wardrich** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 2:02 am

Man, just thinking about that much PC Speaker is making my ears bleed.

Was there a DOS version of Moon Patrol? I hope so, 'cause that's my guess.

Post by **Wally** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 5:06 am

Street Rod?

dr_st · Post by **dr_st** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 5:35 pm

Moon Patrol --> Nope
Street Rod --> Nope (although in principle - it is a possible answer, as far as I know!)

It's been a few days, so another clue is necessary.

Hint 2: In the DOS version of the game, in low memory situations, some characters will be replaced with other characters, to reduce the total size of the graphics that need to be loaded.

Post by **wardrich** » Thu Dec 25, 2014 2:51 am

These hints aren't helping. lol. In before Hint 3: Pallet swapping was used to reserve system memory.

Aldeb · Post by **Aldeb** » Thu Dec 25, 2014 3:01 pm

I've had this idea for some time and thought of butting in and giving it a go. The idea is that someone (me, myself in this case) presents half a game magazine add... the eternal question lingering - can you guess the game? When someone guesses the game in question correctly, I could post the full advert.

Here's the first one

Clues: * It's a shooter from around the late 90s
* It gained quite a lot of popularity
* It had a shotgun for a weapon, among other available guns

{also, if the resolution of the image is too high, i can reduce it from now on} cheers

Good luck to you all

Post by **MrFlibble** » Thu Dec 25, 2014 4:14 pm

Clicking on the image (I hoped to get higher resolution to read the text in small font) lead to another page showing the full ad. With the game title.

Also the URL itself is a straight giveaway.

Nice idea though.

Aldeb · Post by **Aldeb** » Thu Dec 25, 2014 4:28 pm

Good points. MrFibble.

Fixed the issues you brought up.

Thanks

Post by **wardrich** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 1:10 pm

Hold up, we can't have 2 games going on at the same time... this is just madness.

Aldeb: is it Warhammer?

Aldeb · Post by **Aldeb** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 1:30 pm

wardrich wrote: Aldeb: is it Warhammer?

Nope. It's a shooter.

wardrich wrote:Hold up, we can't have 2 games going on at the same time... this is just madness.

Didn't follow the thread from the beginning to think it might be a problem. Sorry.

dr_st · Post by **dr_st** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 6:10 am

wardrich wrote:These hints aren't helping. lol.

Well, I thought the idea was to try the less obvious things first, then move to the more obvious.

Point taken. So let's try the next hint.

Hint 3: In this game there is a plot twist, wherein upon defeating the final enemy, it is revealed that he was not in fact the final enemy, and the game continues for two more levels.

Post by **MrFlibble** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 11:27 am

dr_st wrote:Hint 3: In this game there is a plot twist, wherein upon defeating the final enemy, it is revealed that he was not in fact the final enemy, and the game continues for two more levels.

I'm starting to suspect that this is some kind of a fighting game.

Guess: Street Fighter II?

dr_st · Post by **dr_st** » Mon Dec 29, 2014 5:12 am

Street Fighter II --> Nope