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NESGamer24
08-26-2009, 02:16 PM
Hey Everyone,

I was wondering if anyone could help me with the name of this PC game.

The time frame was late 1990s and it came as a packin game with my friends Gateway computer.

I remember it being a Doom like first person.

You play as a character that needs to collect things throughout a mansion all the while being attached by ghosts, ghouls, skeltons, among other baddies. The levels were through the house and outside into a graveyad/maze type thing.

You attacked the bad guys with a variety of weapons but the one I remember you get later on in the game was a magic wand.

I remember that the mojority of the things you needed to get werent in plan sight and you actually had to find secret passages in the walls to get to the other items.

I always remembered I got to the last level and needed one item and couldn't find it.

Any suggestions? Sorry for the vague description.
StetsonGraves
08-26-2009, 02:23 PM
Maybe Clive Barker's Undying? I'm not really sure, I never played many PC Games.
BetaWolf47
08-26-2009, 02:29 PM
The maze and horror description sounds kind of like Hexen or Heretic, but I'm sure you'd have guessed those already...
Kitsune Sniper
08-26-2009, 02:31 PM
I think know this game! I sold it a while back, it came out for the 3DO too...

Is it Killing Time (http://www.mobygames.com/game/killing-time)?
NESGamer24
08-26-2009, 02:51 PM
Hmm,

Graphics are more on the end of Heretic. I believe it may have been packaged with a Gateway 2000 running Windows 98.

I dont believe it was a popular game because I remember looking for info on the internet about walkthroughs back then and I couldn't find anything.

Just a pre-installed game that you got the disc with your new PC. I remember him having a disk and I installed it on my PC since I was that addicted to it.

Its killing me thinking about it. I guess this is what I get for thinking about it while I'm at work. Been 10+ years and I just had a memory of it and now its killing me.

I hate when stuff like that happens.
BetaWolf47
08-26-2009, 03:13 PM
So the graphics were polygonal, and not sprite-based?
jb143
08-26-2009, 03:16 PM
Sounds vaguely familiar to me too. Was there a mad scientist character as well? That keeps popping up in my mind.

Edit--
Come to think of it...I'm almost positive that the game I'm thinking of is on an old shareware disk I have lying around somewhere. If no one figures it out by the time I get home tonight I'll check it out and see if it's the same. I seem to remember this one having Wolfenstein 3D style graphics though...either way, there's sure to be 100's of games like these that are pretty similar so there's no telling if the one I'm thinking of is the same or not.
dao2
08-26-2009, 03:27 PM
vampire the masquearde :S?

probably too new though ><
CDiablo
08-26-2009, 05:16 PM
Sounds like Killing Time......but I played it on the 3DO, not sure if it came out on PC
Game Freak
08-26-2009, 05:23 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Time_(video_game)

>_>, it says it came out for PC as well...in 1996
todesengel
08-26-2009, 05:29 PM
Rise of the Triad? http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/rise-of-the-triad-dark-war
Kitsune Sniper
08-26-2009, 05:51 PM
Sounds like Killing Time......but I played it on the 3DO, not sure if it came out on PC


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Time_(video_game)

>_>, it says it came out for PC as well...in 1996

Yes, I linked to it earlier in the thread. :P
jb143
08-26-2009, 08:35 PM
OK, this probably isn't it but it's the game that came into my mind when I heard your description...


"NITEMARE-3D - (Episode 1) A House of Horrors (1994)
A captivating 3-D perspective graphics adventure. As Hugo, enter the house of the evil Dr. Hamerstein in search of Penelope and a mystical mirror which leads to the "other side"."

http://www.dgray.com/images/photos/n3d_1.png
Ed Oscuro
08-26-2009, 08:51 PM
Almost positive it's Nitemare 3D; this game got wide release on shareware discs (good thing I picked one of those up because I saw it had DOOM and DOOM II listed on the back, COOL! False advertising but this game was worth it).

In the first few levels, shareware even, you go from the interior mansion to garden maze areas, all on the same map. I'm thinking that happens as early as 1-2 or 1-3, not sure though.

Also of note is that there are actually two totally different versions of the graphics, at least for enemies / the player character's portrait.

There's some pretty cool stuff that happens in the shareware episode (zomg, Thriller dance puzzle); no idea how the last two episodes play.

It's very hard too - you really have to make good use of the corners, and the powerups to keep the map / enemy finder going help prevent surprises like witches zapping you to half health on sight.

Check out the original Hugo trilogy too; they're adventure games, and pretty awesome.
jb143
08-26-2009, 08:55 PM
It has a magic wand as a weapon too. I never played it much so I'm pretty fuzzy on all the details but I remember my brother playing it all the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitemare_3D
Ed Oscuro
08-26-2009, 09:01 PM
Regular plasma pistol = good on most things, takes too many shots for some enemies however. I think the little clock-like orb crystal sphere things add 20 shots. Weapon 4 is an auto-fire version of this, hilariously overpowered

Pistol = used on vampires, I believe.

Wand = used on witches and magical enemies (makes short work of the fat monsters that come out of wall-mounted crypt things in the middle of the first episode, AFAIK)
NESGamer24
08-26-2009, 10:38 PM
OK, this probably isn't it but it's the game that came into my mind when I heard your description...


"NITEMARE-3D - (Episode 1) A House of Horrors (1994)
A captivating 3-D perspective graphics adventure. As Hugo, enter the house of the evil Dr. Hamerstein in search of Penelope and a mystical mirror which leads to the "other side"."

http://www.dgray.com/images/photos/n3d_1.png

YES! THATS IT. Thanks a lot. It was a fun game.

Wow, the memories. Now I ca stop wondering.

Thanks again
Jehusephat
08-27-2009, 12:45 AM
Haha... I played the original Hugo's House of Horrors adventure games on my friend's 286 PC growing up, and I even remember buying a few of them myself at the local drug store on giant floppy disks. I can't believe they actually tried to take that character and insert him into a first-person shooter. That's like making an FPS out of Jill of the Jungle or something.
ScourDX
08-27-2009, 02:06 AM
Man those graphics brings back old memories. Too bad my 64-bit can't even run those game. I love to play Blood again.
Ed Oscuro
08-27-2009, 02:12 AM
I need to scan the cover of the shareware floppy I got for the game recently, it's even sillier than the ingame graphics.

Turns out the artstyle changed because of a disagreement with the first artist.

ALSO, I never realized it until I saw Ghostbusters for the first time on Youtube last week, BUT THE MONSTER (frankenstein and mummy for example) YELLS ARE TAKEN FROM SLIMER FULL STOP.

That's awesome.
Push Upstairs
08-27-2009, 02:50 AM
You've never seen "Ghostbusters"?

Were you imprisoned by Mole people until last week?
Kitsune Sniper
08-27-2009, 03:43 AM
Man those graphics brings back old memories. Too bad my 64-bit can't even run those game. I love to play Blood again.

You can't set up DOSBox?
jb143
08-27-2009, 09:45 AM
It ran on my XP machine. I couldn't get sound though but I didn't try very hard. Most of the games on the shareware disk ran fine but Doom for some reason ran really slow at times. Strange considering how much faster my computer is than what the game was programmed for. I didn't try them os DOSBox though. I'm sure that would have fixed it.