Forgot the name of a game? Post here.

[Sh00p]

I got one for you guys.

I remember when I was a kid, there was a game on the NES that I loved to play.

It was set in the sort of jarrasic era, it was a kind of an adventure shooter, you were this man that could shoot out of his mouth or something, the powerups included Ladders, other shots, and potions. the music was very nice. It was sidescrolling, back and forth. You could only go up so far without a ladder, but you can jump. Never beat it, and ive never played it since I was a kid. Oh, and you had to press SELECT to use a ladder. Good luck.

[GigamanPL]

you may be thinking of zoids legacy for gba. That's the only US portable release for zoids, anyway.

That's the point. I'm sure it was GBC game. I think that I was lucky kid and got fan hacked game. It happend to me once, I got Tomba 2 in my native language (Polish), when it was never officialy released.
Well, too bad. Mayble I try with dictionary in hand...

[Zazzles]

Hm, anyone recall this game?

I remember reading about it in one of the big Playstation magazines in the late 90s.
I -believe- it was an RPG. The main feature they talked about was how you had the ability to craft your own weapons and armor. If I recall correctly, the catch was that you could also fuse items together somehow, like mixing a sword and a shield to get defensive and offensive properties.
It was definitely a dungeon-crawler of some sort. I think the pictures showed it being 3D, and it might have had a party system? Not sure. Definitely shopkeepers and other RPG elements, though. I also think it came out around the same time as Majora's Mask.

Any ideas?

[Cookie Monster]

Hm, anyone recall this game?

I remember reading about it in one of the big Playstation magazines in the late 90s.
I -believe- it was an RPG. The main feature they talked about was how you had the ability to craft your own weapons and armor. If I recall correctly, the catch was that you could also fuse items together somehow, like mixing a sword and a shield to get defensive and offensive properties.
It was definitely a dungeon-crawler of some sort. I think the pictures showed it being 3D, and it might have had a party system? Not sure. Definitely shopkeepers and other RPG elements, though. I also think it came out around the same time as Majora's Mask.

Any ideas?

Could it be Vagrant Story?

[Zazzles]

Could it be Vagrant Story?

After reading a little bit about it, this could very well be the one I'm looking for! I'll give it a try and find out.

[Cookie Monster]

After reading a little bit about it, this could very well be the one I'm looking for! I'll give it a try and find out.

Even if it's not, give it a try cos it's a superb game, highly recommended

[The Almighty MegaMan]

I played the game on the PC, I guess it was only for the PC

I dont know when it came out, but I played it around like 2002(Really not sure about this)

I do remember there was A LOT of green in the game, it was about you, controlling your car, Which you could customize, or even change the whole car,, with guns and rocket ish stuff, when you are at the choose the map part there is this rlly weird guy, like some brown blob or such, in the bottom right corner of the screen, he was talking all random and stuff. ( I dont think they were even words)
It was only with cars and for as far as I can remember there was no racing involved, just battles on a fairly large map, and you would look at your car from top-down view, there is no behind-the-steering wheel look or something
Also, the maps were fairly large, but I could be wrong.
I have this feeling the title was like, an four lettr word . . . . But that I just an guess, it could just as well be longer
Can someone please help me? I would really appreciate it

And it is not Death rally or spyhunter 2

That sounds quite a bit like the Vigilante 8 series. Even if it's not the one you're looking for, if you have not played it, absolutely give it a shot. You'll love it. I know I do

Old Dos game, only things i remember about it was that it was a top down space shooter, and it had a power up system similar to Gradius.

Lifeforce/Salamander maybe?
If it isn't that then I'm totally adding that game to my "must find and play list".

[battousai]

That sounds quite a bit like the Vigilante 8 series. Even if it's not the one you're looking for, if you have not played it, absolutely give it a shot. You'll love it. I know I do

Oh Vigilante 8, the hours I spent blowing up other cars in that game was ridiculous. V8 came out on PSX though.

[The Almighty MegaMan]

Oh Vigilante 8, the hours I spent blowing up other cars in that game was ridiculous. V8 came out on PSX though.

Also on N64 and PC, IIRC.
I got the baddies though. Lots of issues with corrupted game files fudging my memory cards.
And how were you supposed to grab the magically floating suitcases as the coyotes, anyway?

Fucking awesome series anyway. Easily spent 40+ hours just with the second.

[Meltdown]

Did it look anything like this?

"The Interstate '76 Arsenal"

No, the world was dark and Green, also, for as far as I can remember, the topdown view was somewhat higher than this wich made the cars look a bit smaller. Also, if im correct, there was no horizon, the camera was to high-ish for that

[gezegond]

No, the world was dark and Green, also, for as far as I can remember, the topdown view was somewhat higher than this wich made the cars look a bit smaller. Also, if im correct, there was no horizon, the camera was to high-ish for that

How about this, then?

"Ignition" - 1997



Edit: I forgot you said there's no racing involved, this is the only other top down, greenish, dark game that I could find, but it doesn't have any angle, pure top down:

"Vangers" - 1998

That sounds quite a bit like the Vigilante 8 series. Even if it's not the one you're looking for, if you have not played it, absolutely give it a shot. You'll love it. I know I do

Twisted Metal and Vigilante 8 are the first things that come to my mind when I hear "Car Combat". But unfortunately Vigilante 8 didn't have a top down perspective and it was never released for the PC.

[Darklinky]

Carmageddon?

After reading a little bit about it, this could very well be the one I'm looking for! I'll give it a try and find out.

I posted a vid for this game a page or two back .

[c29o]

looking for a game for sega saturn where you can catch ur opponents, something heroes...i remember being on a ship when u first start it

While I don't know anything about this game, the only Saturn game I know with heroes in the name other than Guardian Heroes (which is not what you're looking for) is Blazing Heroes.

[Meltdown]

How about this, then?

"Ignition" - 1997



Edit: I forgot you said there's no racing involved, this is the only other top down, greenish, dark game that I could find, but it doesn't have any angle, pure top down:

"Vangers" - 1998



Twisted Metal and Vigilante 8 are the first things that come to my mind when I hear "Car Combat". But unfortunately Vigilante 8 didn't have a top down perspective and it was never released for the PC.

............The shock that went through me. The game is Vangers. DDDDD Thats a thanks for you bor, definately. And for the angled topdown view....yea srry, it was so long ago Xp

[gezegond]

Okay, since I could help a few people around here find the games they were looking for, given the fact that I answered one of them without having any idea what the game he was talking about could be, I decided to write this guide so people can use my methods to find the game they're looking for. If you find it helpful you can attach this to the first post so people can find it more easily.

Guide: How to find out the name of a game you have forgotten using game databases:

Before asking others, you might wanna try to find the game you're looking for on your own. You probably remember something about the game, like the console you played it on, or the game's genre. Maybe you can guess the time it was released. Or maybe you remember the game's perspective (first person, third person, top down, etc.) This information could be enough for you to be able to find the game you're looking for with the help of searchable game databases.

1-Gamerankings:


GameRankings is not really a "Game Database", it's actually a review database. However, it has a user-friendly yet highly effective advanced search function which makes me use it on most occasions when I'm looking for a particular game or am trying to find some information about a group of games. However, this site does not index games older than 5th gen, so if the game you're looking for was released in SNES era or before, you should try the other database.

How to:
Click this link to go to the advanced search page. On top of the page, you see the parameters:


Let's say you're looking for an FPS (First-Person Shooter) game, which was released exclusively for the PS2 in 2006.
In the "Platform" section choose Playstation 2, and choose "Action>>Shooter>>First Person" in the category box. As you can see, the good thing about GameRankings is that it has a highly detailed category selection. As an example, if you knew that it was a shooter game, but you weren't sure if it was FPS, you could choose "Action>>Shooter". Or if you knew more about the game, like you knew the game was based on modern settings, you would choose "Action>>Shooter>>First Person>>Modern".
Now in the "Released" section choose "2006". Leave the rest untouched and hit "Browse/Search".
The search results shows 9 games that match our descriptions. Since there are just a few of them, we can view screenshots for each and find out which is the game we're looking for.
Clicking on each game will bring you to a page with some general info about the game. Under the game's name there are several tabs, (Home-Reviews-Cheats-Images-Check Prices) clicking on the Image tab will show you some screenshots of the game. If the first game wasn't the one you were looking for, go back and try the other ones.
In this case the game I was looking for was "Black" which is the second result.
Another tool that can help you is the "Search:" field. This is a basic name search, and it's good for when you know a part of the name of your game. As an example if you know the game you're looking for was called "Heroes of something", or "Something Racers", you can fill in the search section with "Heroes of" or "Racers" respectively.

2-MobyGames:


MobyGames is the most famous game database around the net. It has a huge amount of user contributed information, coupled with a rather complex and powerful search function called "Game Browser". If you couldn't find the game you were looking for with GameRankings, you can use MobyGame's search function to narrow down or widen up your search to your liking.

How to:
Visit Game Browser. On the left side you can see several sections such as "Sports Themes", "Non-Sports Themes", "Year", "Genre", "Platform", and others. On the right you can see the game list, which contains the games that match your description.
Let's say you're looking for the same game in this database, which was an FPS game that was released exclusively for the PS2 in 2006.
The thing about Moby games browser is, it "unlocks" new sections as you narrow down your search. As an example, if you choose Playstation 2 as your platform, you can then specify some PS2 only options like "Multi-Tap Support"
So for now let's choose our platform and year. Clicking on "Playstation 2" in the "Platform" sections brings you to a new page that doesn't feature platform selection anymore. On top of the page you can see this text: ">Game Browser : PlayStation 2 [x] (2217 games)" This means that you have chosen PS2 as your platform. If you click on "[x]", PS2 will be removed from you specifications, and you can specify other parameters for your search.
For now click on "2006" in the "Year" section. This narrows down your search to 400 game that were released for PS2 in 2006.

Now this part can be a bit tricky. MobyGames doesn't have a detailed category selection like GameRankings. Instead, it shows each category with a mix of specifications. Here we're searching for an FPS. FPS is an action game, so we choose "Action" in "Genre". Since it's a shooter, we can choose "Shooter" from "Non-Sports Themes" section and then we choose "1st-Person Perspective" from "Perspective" section. This defines FPS on GameRankings.
Some genre's can be defined using a mix of two genres. As an example, "Car Combat" (which looked like "Driving>>Car Combat" in GameRankings), is "Racing / Driving [x] > Action [x]" in MobyGames, with "Racing / Driving" chosen as "Genre" and "Action" chosen as "2nd Genre".
Now that we have narrowed down our search to"PlayStation 2 [x] > 2006 [x] > Action [x] > Shooter [x] > 1st-Person Perspective [x]" We can go on and try each of 24 games and see if it's the game we're looking for. Selecting each game from "Game List" will show us the game's page with a section on the right side of the new page titled "Selected Shots" which shows you some screenshots of the game. Clicking one of them will show you more screenshots. Try each game to see if you can find the game you're looking for. In this case, "Black" is the 3rd result.

As you can see, MobyGames has more games in it's database than GameRankings (Which found 9 games). This can be both good and bad. The game you're looking for might not be one of the 9 games GameRankings found, here you have more options. On the other hand, MobyGames might show some irrelevant games, maybe showing too many games and making screenshot searching a pain in the ***. As an example, one of the games that is shown in our search is "SpyHunter: Nowhere to Run", which is a racing game.
This is why I encourage you to search GameRankings first, and if you couldn't find the game you were looking for, try MobyGames.

3-Google:


If you couldn't find your game using any of the above databases, searching google might yield you some results. Someone else could be looking for the exact game you're looking for, asking about it in one of the ask sites or game related forums. Here, if we search for "2006 FPS PS2", the very first result, "Black", is actually the game we're looking for.
Searching google can be quite time consuming as it can make you browse hundreds of irrelevant pages (You know how google is). I recommend searching the databases first and if you couldn't find what you're looking for, try searching google.

4-This Thread!

If the game you're looking for can't be found anywhere, you can ask here and someone might have played the game before and know the name. Don't get your hopes too high though.