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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tnOMcxdBLE <-- Judging by this, definitely the one :) thanks!

So I'm thinking of an RTS of some sort on pc, played it back around 2005 or so. It was an older game, very similar to the first two Age of Empires games, with resources to collect, buildings to store...

Looks like that's the one, thanks :)

The game I'm thinking of was an old PC game where you played as a tank, the display was entirely composed of green wireframe (vector?) graphics against a black background, and the point was to...

Just a shot in the dark but, Suikoden 4?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRE49npOHTU

Streets of Rage? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz-Y9jtkuiw

That looks like it. Thanks :)

I remember playing this game on the NES when I was like 3 years old so excuse the lack of details but here we go;

All I remember is it was an overhead space shooter (same sort of system as 1942)....