I know there’s a thread around here somewhere about “Gamers’ Lost and Found,” wherein we were doing the exact thing I’m asking about here, but I can’t find it and I think that even if I did it might be a zombie at this point. My apologies if this conclusion is just a result of awful search-fu.
I’ve been trying to remember a couple of games from my younger years recently, and for the life of me I cannot come up with a few of the titles. In no particular order, they are:
I believe this one was on Sega CD, perhaps on Sega Saturn. This was some sort of shooter set in a western themed place, and the inhabitants had been brainwashed or were aliens masquerading as humans or something. Anyway, the point was to shoot them. The odd thing was that all the shooting scenes were acted out – the screen would switch to a small movie of a live-acted man or woman with a gun, and your little cross hairs. When you got the reticule over them and fired, they would fly backwards into haystacks or a saloon or whatnot. The live-action nature of the shootouts was the really strange part of this game.
This was one of my favorite games eeeeever, and it was on Sega CD. It was a racing game with airplanes, and you had to shoot down other planes or just beat them in a standard sort of race. I remember one guy was named Tex, and if you shot down an enemy plane in one race the pilot would sometimes spend the entirety of the next race not worrying about trying to win but instead focusing on killing you over and over.
This is the oldest one. I think it was for the Apple II C or II E. The premise was that you were a fish, and you had to survive and thrive as a fish. I know this is really ridiculously vague, but it’s the best I can remember.
These three are killing me, but I’ve been playing video games for years and I have a rather impressive library stuck in my head. I guess a few were bound to be shoved out, but I’m happy to put the rest of my brain to work on this if anyone has any reciprocal questions.
I’m guessing no… that was released in '96, when the Apple II was already a dinosaur.
I do remember the mystery fish game, though. No idea what the name was.
You nailed it, yeah! That’s it! I could have sworn there was some strange brainwashing thing going on, but looking over the screenshots for Mad Dog McCree and the copious notes that the game is almost totally without music, this is definitely it. +10 points to you!
Palooka, this is so tantalizingly close. I remember my parents buying Odell Down Under for me because I loved the game I’m thinking of so much. Odell was released on CD, but the game I’m thinking of was available only on the old old old giant floppy format, and was nearly monochromatic. In fact…wait a second…
Yes! Odell Down Under was the sequel to the game I was looking for, Odell Lake! The Wikipedia page for Odell Down Under directs to their developer, MECC, and I’ll be damned if they didn’t make it. You guys rock, you have no idea how much sleep this is going to save me.
And a three-part mystery of weeks in length is solved in less than 24 hours on the SDMB. I love you guys! Now I just have to find where my Sega CD has gotten off to
Me next? I have two that I’ve been trying to identify for years:
An Apple II game that was in the form of a knight-themed board game, with various mini-games when you landed on some spaces, like a Mario Party game. I clearly recall an animation of giant dice rolling. If I was going to guess at the name, I’d say Dark Castle, but that wasn’t it.
An arcade game with the same type of power-up system as Gradius, but with a vertically-scrolling playfield instead of horizontally-scrolling.
