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[ink.inc]

There was this one game I found a year or two ago where you had to play as this stick figure man who tried to chase after this stick figure girl but could never catch up to her... it's kind of eating away at my thought processes right now...

[AuthenticKaizen]

i remember a top down tank game with comical colorful top down 3d graphics.
i have seen it here in the forums somewhere and remember watching the trailer.
(i have searched for tanks but havent found it yet... maybe the game hasnt tank in the title?)
do you guys have an idea? 

Normal tanks? Digitanks?

no it was another game...

hmm... moreover it had similarities to battle city.
(in the trailer there was also sand and water).

[Noyb]

There was this one game I found a year or two ago where you had to play as this stick figure man who tried to chase after this stick figure girl but could never catch up to her... it's kind of eating away at my thought processes right now...

Chaser?

[ink.inc]

There was this one game I found a year or two ago where you had to play as this stick figure man who tried to chase after this stick figure girl but could never catch up to her... it's kind of eating away at my thought processes right now...

Chaser?

Thanks man!

Downloading... now.

[Paint by Numbers]

I forgot the names of several games I used to play frequently. Two of these are because the games portal Bonus.com went down (did anyone else here ever play stuff over there?).

The first game was a platformer. You were a skeleton wearing boots. The very first level was this sort of castle-like place with lava. I recall a moving platformer going across lava, small trampolines set into the ground, and that you collected bones like coins in a Mario game. The story had something to do with the protagonist being turned into a skeleton and needing to get back to normal.

The second was a top-down game that I can only barely remember. The plot was that in the future robots had revolted and you were some random guy they left alive by accident. The thing that intrigues me about it is that there were some kind of hacking parts, where you could capture robots and reprogram them. When I played the game, I was too young to comprehend what I had to do to pull this off, and the game quickly faded in obscurity. Every couple of years I would take a day to find it and play it, but it was always too complex. Now I'm fairly sure that I could figure it out, but bonus.com is down and, predictably, searching for "robots flash game" gets me nowhere.

A third game was a shmup, not on Bonus.com. It was loaded with body horror and the bosses were mostly these hideous combinations of naked women and giant brains and shells and stuff. It was ridiculously over the top and had a name that sounded like a parody of violent games - something like "THE BLEEDENING".

edit: Whoops, I just got this after I posted. I was mixing up two games. "Psyche Metal: The Bleeding" is the really gory game from the developers of War Machine and "Galshell" is the really scary and body-horror game with the naked chicks. Both are awesome, go play them!

Oh yeah, there's one more game that was on Bonus.com. I remember that it was called "Crypt Crawlers", or alternately, some combination of random letters like "SQRTKZ". You played as this little bug and ran around a platformer-graveyard type of level. I only put this in this thread in the hope that someone else might know where to play it again. Everywhere that I look, the only references to it I can find are people asking where they can find it.

I don't know how I'm so bad at names. It was a long time ago.

[Tanner]

Skullboy in Lavaland, I think it was. Bonus was the shit.


EDIT: google reveals that there is nothing by this title.
frig. i remember this game!

[Paint by Numbers]

Oh, damn. Now that you mention it, I am fairly certain that is the name.

Welp.

Why did Bonus have to die?!

[PleasingFungus]

A request for a friend:

A somewhat open-ended, turn-based RPG PC shareware game from the early 90s (I think). The stuff you can do for free involved one scenario where you had to go to the ruins of a buried city. That's all I can remember about the scenario. Otherwise, you were able to just explore the world and do small sidequests and stuff. A few sidequests I remember:

- On old lady in the city you start off in (by the way, its name is Water... something. I'm gonna go with Waterford) is hassled by some kids, you can either help her or steal the dagger she dropped. If you steal the dagger, you get a really good weapon that deals ice damage, but the old lady won't open up her shop of enchanted weapons. If you help her, you don't get the dagger, but she will open up a shop that sells the dagger in question, along with other really good items.

- There's a tiny orc village with a pregnant orc that is missing. You can either kill the entire village or help find the pregnant orc. If you walk around for a few, you will encounter a band of goblins (I think?) who kidnapped the pregnant orc. Anyway, she dies anyway and you deliver the baby back to the village. You are rewarded by the chief with a really, really good throwing axe (which I found out can only be used by the Marksman class, which made my Marksman character ridiculously broken).

The battle is system is a lot like the Exile series, where each character has action points you can spend to move around the battle field, attack, or cast spells.

Like standard RPG's of this type, you can create your own character and determine their class and race. Instead of specifying their stats, you "roll a die" to get random stats within the bounds of the race and class. I remember there were some obscure races and classes, such as Leprechaun or Crusader.

[AuthenticKaizen]

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Oh yeah, there's one more game that was on Bonus.com. I remember that it was called "Crypt Crawlers", or alternately, some combination of random letters like "SQRTKZ". You played as this little bug and ran around a platformer-graveyard type of level. I only put this in this thread in the hope that someone else might know where to play it again. Everywhere that I look, the only references to it I can find are people asking where they can find it.

I don't know how I'm so bad at names. It was a long time ago.

the game you are searching for is called sqrxz.
the developers of gianas return have just made a great remake of it that i have featured on PP.
i have also recorded a playthrough...
http://www.pixelprospector.com/2010/06/sqrxz/

[Fifth]

Oh my goodness, I know that game, but only from a TI-86 calculator version...
That was one weirdly hard little game.  And the solution to every level always seemed to be some sort of platforming technicality.

But it sure got me through some boring classes.

[s0]

@Pleasingfungus: Sounds like Realmz.

[PleasingFungus]

@Pleasingfungus: Sounds like Realmz.

That does look plausible! I've sent some links to my friend; we'll see if that was it.

EDIT:

Michael: #$*&(#$Y#( you found it!!

Thanks!

[Paint by Numbers]

the game you are searching for is called sqrxz.
the developers of gianas return have just made a great remake of it that i have featured on PP.
i have also recorded a playthrough...
http://www.pixelprospector.com/2010/06/sqrxz/

Awesome, thank you so much! Just mentioning the original name allowed me to find the original Java applet that was on Bonus. Thank you.

[Noyb]

The first is a Myst-style point and click adventure game about robot dinosaurs living under the earth. Can't remember much more than that.

Dug through my old CDs and found it. It's called The Day the World Broke. Seems pretty obscure. No gameplay videos on Youtube even.

[ink.inc]

The first is a Myst-style point and click adventure game about robot dinosaurs living under the earth. Can't remember much more than that.

Dug through my old CDs and found it. It's called The Day the World Broke. Seems pretty obscure. No gameplay videos on Youtube even.

Hey, I had that game! Unfortunately, I was never able to play it. My PC was a piece of shit.

[Nix]

The first is a Myst-style point and click adventure game about robot dinosaurs living under the earth. Can't remember much more than that.

Dug through my old CDs and found it. It's called The Day the World Broke. Seems pretty obscure. No gameplay videos on Youtube even.
screenie: I remember playing this part

Hey, I had that game! Unfortunately, I was never able to play it. My PC was a piece of shit.

This was probably my favorite game when I was younger! I was able to play a ways into it, but, either because of my PC or the disc, it would crash quite often and I would lose my progress. This happened so many times that I finally just gave up. I wish I was able to finish it. 

Great game.

[player2]

I'm pretty sure this game still exists... It's a turn-based strategy browser game that I *think* is based on an old PC game. You and another player take turns moving your character around a grid-based map, which has randomly generated towns and strongholds and places where you can create more troops, leave garrisons behind, take garrisons with you, and so on. The graphics are retro and pixelated, mostly using white, purple, and black. Your view is first-person, and you have a limited number of steps and actions you can take each "day," with movement over mountains and through forests taking more steps than on plains. You have something like 24 or 48 hours to make your next move, so it's super casual, and it reminds you over email when it's your turn and gives you email summaries of your opponent's turn and any battles that took place. The object of the game is pretty simple - destroy your opponent. Any guesses? I've been scouring the internet like mad the past two days and just cannot find it.

[X3N]

A flash game - not on one of the "real popular" flash sites. You played a fire - maybe water.. every turn of a puzzle, fire would spread. You had to deploy your water (maybe dirt) tiles/tokens/resources to the right locations to block the spread of fire. Or maybe you were burning the island down, I can't recall. Anyways, it inspired me but I only played a few levels a while ago. Cheers if you can remember

[player2]

I'm pretty sure this game still exists... It's a turn-based strategy browser game that I *think* is based on an old PC game. You and another player take turns moving your character around a grid-based map, ...

Found it! It's called Midnight/Mu (http://www.midnightmu.com/games_home.php), and it's based on a game called Lords of Midnight for the ZX Spectrum, if anyone's interested in playing it.

[Lon]

There was this old game some friends of mine used to have for DOS.
It took place in space.  First person perspective for the most part.
You would wander aboard a ship.  Land on the moon (or earth?).
Shoot off invading ships in some kinda of tanks in the streets of
a town.
It wasn't scary or very violent.  Most of the game occurred in first person if I recall correctly.

I wanna say it is called Lunar, or Lunar Base, or Lunas, or something to that effect.

EDIT: Point and clickly like when you are on the ship, if I recall correctly.