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Help Me Find an Old PC Game 2017-01-24 05:03:58 Post No. 3756775
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I'm looking for a top-down shooter that I played when I was five in a day-care somewhere near the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas. I only have vague memories, but a screenshot would probably be more than sufficient to jar my memory. There was a candyland sort of level and either the loading or gameover screen had some sort of scene with the level depicted. Very cartoon-y in style. It at least had EGA or VGA graphics, definitely more color than just Cyan and Purple. I can't remember the PC itself all that well, so it may have been an early Mac for all I know.
tl;dr: basically the only childhood PC game that I can't find.
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Not flying tigers, I suppose.
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>>3756775
>so it may have been an early Mac for all I know
Or maybe an Amiga or Atari ST?
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>>3756775
It would be helpful to start with an actual year, OP. What year were you five? :P
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>>3756815
No, but thanks for the screenshot. You could move in all four directions independently.
>>3756825
Possible, but I'd be dammed if I could remember. I'm pretty sure it wasn't a case of "whole PC in the keyboard."
>>3756853
My bad, that year would be 1995. I'd say 1996 or 1997 as the latest release year, but pre-1995 is probably more likely.
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>>3756878
So it was a lot like Fantasy Zone?
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>>3756912
No, top-down, not side-scroller. I wish it was easy to find as Fantasy Zone. I can't remember much about the main playable character, but they weren't a ship. They were a person, probably too generic to make them memorable.
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>>3756916
Top down? You seemed to say it was like Solar Winds/Fire Fight/Zone 66, except without implying rotation based movement.
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>>3756919
That's been part of the challenge with this, 21 years is a lot of time for memories to go to shit. This better not be some Mandella Effect-style craziness.
That said, I'm pretty sure you could just face the four cardinal directions and you were not a ship, no diagonals/isometrics. I really want to say the dude was borderline generic attitudinal army dude and possibly a Duke Nukem ripoff, but I really can't remember much about the dude himself. I can say for sure that if I saw the loading/game over screen then I would immediately recognize it, it's the only thing I know I could remember for sure.
I almost want to say that the computers were all-in-ones in the classic Apple Macintosh sense, but I'd be damned if I can really remember that well.
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>>3756775
nice Wolfenstein 3-D!
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