Guess the game

[Ameena]

Recognised

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Xenon

- remember playing that one on the Atari. Never got very far, lol. Soph got mine -

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Spyro the Dragon

.

Okay, how about this one...

[oh_brother]

Something about

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zombies and Jamaicans

it seems. Not

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Plants vs. Zombies

? Or something similar?


A second screen from my game:

[Saumun]

Ah.... From the blue shaded polygons oh_brother's looks like

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Midwinter

. I never played it, but it looks similar to screenshots i remember from magazines (though i thought the playing area was goggle-shaped).

[Saumun]

Okay, here's another.....

[Ameena]

Don't know any of the current ones. Mine was a Flash game called

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Infectonator (World Edition)

.

[Saumun]

My game had a nice idea, but wasn't all that great to play. I only thought of it because it was published by the same house as oh_brother's game (if i'm right about that one).

[Gambit37]

I never played it Saumun, but I recognise the screen shot.

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Weird Dreams

[Bit]

oh_brother's I played for a little bit too - if it's that one where you played different people with seperate time.
And lurking into Saumun's spoiler, I think he's right.

After all I'm pretty surprised about this wide palette of gametypes that those few people here are used to!

[Saumun]

I never played it Saumun, but I recognise the screen shot.

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Weird Dreams

Spot on!

Here's another:

[Sophia]

A bit of a DM-like game, I wonder if anyone else played it back in the day...

[Saumun]

I don't know Sophia's, and since there are no takers for my last one... it's

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Future Wars

.

How about this one?

[oh_brother]

@ Saumun - yeah, that was

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Midwinter

. The playing area is a circle in that shot because you are using a rifle. It is google-shaped when you are skiing. It really was a fantastic game, with a huge world to explore (and you could ski, drive, hang glide or cable-car pretty much anywhere). Also you could recruit and take control of a large number of characters. Very much ahead of its time.

I don't know either of the current ones, so here is another:

[Saumun]

Well now... I considered posting oh_brother's latest myself, as i absolutely loved it. In fact i played it very recently in WinUAE. It's

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Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker

.

[Gambit37]

Saumun's last one is the classic

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Xevious

. I played it a lot but was terrible at it. In fact, I don't think I was ever very good at vertical shooters (except maybe Slap Fight, but that gave you so much weaponry it became easy )

[Saumun]

That's right....

and talking of vertical shooters, i always liked this one:

[Gambit37]

Looks very familiar, but I don't recall the name at all

I don't know Sophia's one, but I'm guessing it's from an early console based on the font and screen size.

[Bit]

Or it's DSB with a nice interface

[Ameena]

Thought up another game that's not been posted yet, as far as I can remember...

[Gambit37]

I don't know Ameena's new one, though I sort of recognise the screenshot. An Amiga game?

[Gambit37]

Here's a more diffcult one:

[Saumun]

The character on top of the 'garage' sign looks familiar in Ameena's game, but i can't think of a name.

Don't know Gambit's.

My last one is from

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Terra Cresta

.

[Gambit37]

My last one is from

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Terra Cresta

.

Weird, I recognised the graphics but that name doesn't ring any bells at all!

[Saumun]

Do you remember

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Moon Cresta

? (like Galaxian meets Galaga... released after Galaxian, but before Galaga) This is the sequel (at least i always assumed it to be, given the name and the fact that it's by the same company - Nichibutsu).

[Sophia]

I don't know Sophia's one, but I'm guessing it's from an early console based on the font and screen size.

Yes, it's for the SNES.

It was

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Arcana

, also known in Japan as

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Card Master: Rimsalia no Fuuin

.

[Saumun]

Anyone recognise this one?

It had three different names (Japan, US, Europe), so whichever you fancy....

[Gambit37]

Yes! The one I played was called something like

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Xain Sleena

which always struck me as rather odd.

[Saumun]

Yes indeed...

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Xain'd Sleena

, which is the original. It was renamed

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Solar Warrior

for the US, and

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Soldier of Light

for Europe. I personally knew it as the latter.

[Gambit37]

Ah, random apostrophes! The mark of a hack fantasy writer

So no one knows the one I posted yesterday?

[Ameena]

None of my games will be Amiga games (unless they came out on the Atari as well, I suppose), because I've never even seen an Amiga IRL, let alone played on one . The image I linked is from a game we had on the PC, which came as part of a larger game collection (but presumably was released on its own at some point prior to that - this is the only form in which I've seen it, though), some of which I may also post up later .

[oh_brother]

@Saumun - exactly, you're on fire! It was the fantastic

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Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker

.

I never played Gambit's. Ameena's looks vaguely familiar, but that could be because I am mixing it up with something like Fire & Ice.

I just realised that all of my games have been Atari/Amiga or PC. Time to change that: