Hasa - An lost 2D Platformer [Cold Dreams]

Bartjaah · Post by **Bartjaah** » Mon Mar 28, 2016 7:37 am

Alright there we go:
- Name was HASA or HAZE or HAZA. I really think it was called HASA

- Style of Prince of Persia and Black Thorne
- Somesort of shooter in 2D Platformer
- Maybe it had an Egyptian-theme? (Really not sure!)

EDIT 01:
- It's definately a 1990/1995 game.
- It's for MS-DOS.
- I think that he shot guns, handgun or machine gun. But I'm not sure.
- The color-pallete was somewhat more brown-ish/yellow-is/dark-reddish. I think there were more colors though, but these were used most.

EDIT 02:
- The game went screen-by-screen. Like Black Thorne, when you exit a screen, you enter a new one. And there are ladders, so it wasn't from left to right only, you could go up and down too.

Can't find anything on this game

Post by **MrFlibble** » Mon Mar 28, 2016 1:13 pm

Some more details would help - like when, and on what system did you play it? Do you remember the title from a title screen, or a Windows icon, or it's what you would type in the DOS prompt to start the game?

Bartjaah wrote:- Style of Prince of Persia and Black Thorne
- Somesort of shooter in 2D Platformer

Flashback and Bermuda Syndrome come to mind, but those are relatively well known. At least, tell if your game looked anything like these.

Also what exactly did the character shoot? A gun, arrows, magic? WHat were the enemies?

Also there's Eye of Horus, which is sort of Prince of Persia, is set in Ancient Egypt, and contains a word beginning with an H.

Bartjaah · Post by **Bartjaah** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 9:36 am

Sorry for being so short.

- It's definately a 1990/1995 game
- It's for MS-DOS
- I think that he shot guns, handgun or machine gun. But I'm not sure.
- The colorpalete was somewhat more brown-ish/yellow-is/dark-reddish. I think there were more colors though, but these were used most.

I didn't play it much, I remember having it on 2 floppy disks ofwich I only recovered one, which doesn't work anymore. This game is still in my head for twenty years now.

I don't remember the executable name, icons nor something else. If I had to guess the executable it was HASA.exe or HASA.bat.

Quadko · Post by **Quadko** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 10:29 am

Any chance it was Abuse?

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 10:48 am

Well, maybe you could look through this list of cinematic platformer games in the PoP vein:
http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/gen ... platformer

Fantasy (orcs/trolls) or horror (zombie/mummies) themed game or more realistic (soldiers/thugs) enemies?

Bartjaah · Post by **Bartjaah** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 5:37 pm

- Bermuda Syndrome looks too new.

- Flashback looks to futuristic. I'm not sure about the guns in HASA.

- Eye of Horus comes closest to what I'm looking for, but absolutely isn't it.

- Nope, it wasn't Abuse.

- I've been looking around in the list Rwolf gave me, but it isn't in there.

- I can't really say what your enemies look like, I'd figure some tombs/mummie like, but I'm not 100% sure about the Egyptian theme.

- What I do remember now is that the game went screen-by-screen. Like Black Thorne, when you exit a screen, you enter a new one. And there are ladders, so it wasn't from left to right only, you could go up and down too.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 6:55 pm

Guessing:

Alien Rampage (looks brown, can climb ladders, not egyptian though)
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/alien ... creenshots

Stalker (old series, red/brown looks, mutants instead of mummies)
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/stalk ... creenshots

Another list:
http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/d ... /platform/

Bartjaah · Post by **Bartjaah** » Sat Apr 02, 2016 5:22 am

I found the floppy disk it once was on, at least, the first one. I think (my dad) who put this game on this disk didn't know what the game was called so he called it HASAGAME. Before this game I'm looking for was placed on this floppy there was somesort of software named HaSa on there (see bottom diskette). I think he made-up this name himself. So this is really a long shot

The game got replaced by Cartooners. Too bad.

Keetie · Post by **Keetie** » Sat Apr 02, 2016 5:33 am

Can't you try an undelete program? Maybe parts of the game are left.

Moby Games writes about HaSa applications about 3 games:

Games
Teen Agent (1995)
Cold Dreams (1995)
Wolfenstein 3D (1994)

Post by **MrFlibble** » Sat Apr 02, 2016 6:34 am

Keetie wrote:Cold Dreams (1995)

Actually Cold Dreams fits the description pretty well! Here's a gameplay video.

There should be a playable demo of it somewhere BTW.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Sat Apr 02, 2016 8:47 am

Very likely Cold Dreams, the screenshots have an egyptian theme to them.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/cold- ... creenshots

Edit:
Looking up 'HaSa Software Applications' itself, they show up as a Dutch software distributor for shareware utility software prior to the internet era.

They are listed in several such order forms for The Netherlands and nearby countries, and had a local BBS to download the software from.

Post by **MrFlibble** » Sat Apr 02, 2016 9:59 am

It seems that there indeed exists a shareware version, found on several magazine cover CDs. Here's an installer, presumably unpacked from a downloadable archive:
http://www.kultcds.com/Catalog/index.ph ... 2FColdream

And here's a couple of pre-installed versions:
http://www.kultcds.com/Catalog/index.ph ... oldream&o=
http://www.kultcds.com/Catalog/index.ph ... 2FColddrea

Judging by the presence of files like Order.txt, Order1.scr and Sharewar.scr, this must be a shareware version.

[Edit] Here's a different installer (seems like v1.0):
http://kultcds.com/Catalog/index.php?n= ... re$2FColdd

Bartjaah · Post by **Bartjaah** » Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:07 am

WOW - COLD DREAMS! THAT'S IT! THANK YOU GUYS! I'm going to play this real soon!

Post by **MrFlibble** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 11:21 am

I've just uploaded two shareware versions mentioned above for anyone interested. Links are here.