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GetImOliver
05-12-2006, 02:30 AM
Please and thank you!
This was an old PC game, birds-eye and set in outer space. Most of the game involded moving blocks around and through teleporters, with a lot of blue mesh floors if I remember correctly... lots like Chip's Challenge.

Along the same lines, there was a bland 3-d racing game where the most significant thing I remember is that bugs and rain could hit the windshield and you'd have to use the wipers to get ridda the distraction.

Well, thanks for the help!
lurpak
05-12-2006, 04:31 AM
the racing game sounds familiar...it wasnt an early colin mcrea was it ?
FullCircle
05-12-2006, 08:02 AM
I believe it's Top Gear Rally 2 (link) (http://ign64.ign.com/articles/071/071487p1.html)
I have no idea what the puzzle game is.
hydr0x
05-12-2006, 08:23 AM
Please and thank you!
This was an old PC game, birds-eye and set in outer space. Most of the game involded moving blocks around and through teleporters, with a lot of blue mesh floors if I remember correctly... lots like Chip's Challenge.

well that's very generic as basically every space themed sokoban clone with teleporters fits that description :D

seriously, you might want to give us an estimate on when you played both and maybe a system for the racing game
GetImOliver
05-12-2006, 11:56 AM
Well, I remember them both being on a Windows 95 PC, and I must have been around 8 or 9, so... 1993-5? The racing game wasn't nearly that new -- it was all flat-shaded and done in a first person perspective. Thanks again.
hydr0x
05-12-2006, 01:09 PM
Well, I remember them both being on a Windows 95 PC, and I must have been around 8 or 9, so... 1993-5? The racing game wasn't nearly that new -- it was all flat-shaded and done in a first person perspective. Thanks again.

ugh, Win95 and 93-95? that's not possible :D

flat shaded polygons definately sounds like DOS though... do you have any idea what kind of racing it was (f1/indy/nascar/rally/street....) ???
hydr0x
05-12-2006, 01:15 PM
ok, i thought about it for a while and all i could come up with are these

- Test Drive series (Part II??)
- Car & Driver
- Hard Drivin 1/2 (bugs? not sure)
InsaneDavid
05-12-2006, 01:20 PM
Perhaps the driving game is Network Q Rally.
Cirrus
05-12-2006, 02:01 PM
Actually, I think I'm remembering the game you're talking about. Does it involve some kid getting his dog to the exit? Turning mirrors, etc?

I think it might be an apogee game. Let me know if this rings any bells.

Edit:

Rescue Rover. This it?

http://usera.imagecave.com/Cirrus/rover.gif
hydr0x
05-12-2006, 02:05 PM
Perhaps the driving game is Network Q Rally.

that one uses bitmaps though, not flat-shaded polygons
GetImOliver
05-12-2006, 10:49 PM
ugh, all good guesses but I don't think we've hit them yet ><
Thanks for tryint, though
Jean-Luc Picard
05-13-2006, 08:19 AM
The racing game must have been Test Drive III : The Passion.

I have such fond memories of that game. I remember I had to switch off the "turbo" mode of my 486 to play it at a reasonable speed. The freedom in that game was amazing : you could leave the road (that was easy, the controls were horrible), turn on the radio, use the wipers...

http://www.gry-online.pl/.%5CGaleria%5CGaleria%5C677993812.jpg
hydr0x
05-13-2006, 04:27 PM
The racing game must have been Test Drive III : The Passion.


mhhh deja vu LOL if it's that i've got to kill somebody as i already mentioned it :D
Towlie2110
05-14-2006, 08:23 PM
How about a nes game where you were some kid going on an adventure. It looked alot like Zelda in the style you played. You had a yo yo as a weapon I think. And I remmeber Amazon chicks in it at one point or another. skeletons too. this was like 1994 or so.
Cirrus
05-14-2006, 08:24 PM
How about a nes game where you were some kid going on an adventure. It looked alot like Zelda in the style you played. You had a yo yo as a weapon I think. And I remmeber Amazon chicks in it at one point or another. skeletons too. this was like 1994 or so.

That's StarTropics. :P
GetImOliver
05-14-2006, 09:29 PM
The racing game must have been Test Drive III : The Passion.

I have such fond memories of that game. I remember I had to switch off the "turbo" mode of my 486 to play it at a reasonable speed. The freedom in that game was amazing : you could leave the road (that was easy, the controls were horrible), turn on the radio, use the wipers...

http://www.gry-online.pl/.%5CGaleria%5CGaleria%5C677993812.jpg

Totally the game I remember! Thanks a bunch XD
hydr0x
05-15-2006, 02:58 AM
Totally the game I remember! Thanks a bunch XD

dude *imagine a slap*. Read my first post again, didn't i say Test Drive series?? and you responded "no" :angry:

oh well, glad you found it