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Posted: 2/3/2006 6:06 PM

Post subject: Can anyone help me think of the name of a game?

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I played this game back in the day at my aunt's house. I don't know if the name would even be familiar, but any suggestions that I'm not sure aren't it, I'll check out. Here's what I remember about the game: It's a side-scrolling platformer for the NES. The main character can jump quite high, and I think the main character can shoot. The "level" I started at was a very repetitive outside scene where the floors were made of pillars of seemingly random heights (this is why I think you could jump high). I think the platforms were brown or tan colored. You could walk left or right, but it didn't matter because you could go in either direction for what seemed like FOREVER. Once I somehow made it to some other scene that might have been like a stone castle or something, and it also had the property of seeming to extend forever in both directions. I don't remember much else (it's been 12-15 years since I played this). If anyone has any ideas of what this game might be, please let me know. Thanks!

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Posted: 2/3/2006 6:19 PM

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Wow, this is like how I couldn't get anyone to identify this one Atari 2600 game where you're flying around left and right, and there's a white city and a black city you can bomb...

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Posted: 2/3/2006 6:21 PM

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jxq was it some ninja? weapons? western game? high tech? what? that was pretty vague...

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Posted: 2/3/2006 6:23 PM

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I'm sorry it's so vague...this is really the best I can remember. I think the guy was wearing some kind of space-suit type deal? The main character I think reminded me of the one from Clash at Demonhead.

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Posted: 2/3/2006 8:28 PM

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Hum maybe Section Z ?

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Posted: 2/3/2006 8:57 PM

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Section-Z, while awesome, doesn't involve any walking or jumping. It's a shooter.

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Posted: 2/3/2006 8:58 PM

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Hum if i remember well the chars can walk in the game.

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Posted: 2/3/2006 9:02 PM

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It sounds much like Legend of Kage.

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Posted: 2/3/2006 9:11 PM

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I just tried Section Z but that isn't it. I know it isn't Legend of Kage...this game is more colorful than LOK if I remember correctly. I always thought the word "Castle" was part of the title, but it seems like I've tried every game with that word in the title and none were what I was looking for. Edit: I tried to draw a picture of what my brain remembers. It accomplished nothing, but I thought I'd post it to let everyone get a good laugh from my lack of visual ability. (The red path is the player's jump path)

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Posted: 2/3/2006 9:36 PM

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Adventures of Captain Comic, The (U) ?

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Posted: 2/3/2006 10:01 PM

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I wasn't sure at first, but then I got to this second level:

This was the crappy image I was attempting to draw above, minus 10 years of memory loss. FODA, you are my Dad. Thank you for solving this mystery for me!!

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Posted: 2/3/2006 10:55 PM

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I tried a timeattack of this, i think it goes to the moon stage. i love this game. It is 3 minutes in the game, and i measured the complete run without any sequence breaking would be 12-13 minutes big. There are many places in the game that you must come back to, so if a sequence could be broken then several minutes could be cut from this... edit: i think you should change the title of the thread now that you knwo which game it is.

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Posted: 2/4/2006 1:07 AM

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Actually, there's a completely different game I've been wondering about, might as well ask about it here... It's an RPG with an overhead view, an overworld map, save game capability, turn-based menu-driven combat, and multiple party members (I'm pretty sure the party could have as many as 6 characters in it at once). The intro involves going down the stairs of a tower with 2 characters, one of which wields a club, and after some random battles in there, encountering a boss that completely destroys the party as a scripted part of the storyline. There is one part much later in the game where the characters are inside (a castle?) and they split up into 6 people that each have to place an item on a pedestal to unlock some door. I can't remember what system, but it's probably either a SNES or Genesis game. I thought it had "Gaia" or something like that in the title but I could be wrong about that, and it's definitely not Illusion of Gaia.

Posted: 2/4/2006 1:11 AM

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Hmm... along a similar vein, there was a game, for the Genesis I believe, where you played four different character's quests (no particular order). And all I remember is the yellow character's quest involved a boss battle with a machine/tank that had an antenna on its top and when you broke it he started shooting enormous lasers out of its front. Anyone know what game it is?

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Posted: 2/4/2006 1:49 AM

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OmnipotentEntity wrote:

Hmm... along a similar vein, there was a game, for the Genesis I believe, where you played four different character's quests (no particular order). And all I remember is the yellow character's quest involved a boss battle with a machine/tank that had an antenna on its top and when you broke it he started shooting enormous lasers out of its front. Anyone know what game it is?

I don't know, gunstar heroes? nitsuja: i never played such a rpg maybe it's one of the Ultima series?

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Posted: 2/4/2006 2:46 AM

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FODA wrote:

I don't know, gunstar heroes?

I don't believe so.

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Posted: 2/4/2006 2:51 AM

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FODA wrote:

i never played such a rpg maybe it's one of the Ultima series?

I don't think it's an Ultima game, I thought those have real-time combat and this is turn-based. Something else I remembered is that the characters are on the bottom and the enemy at the top in the battle screen, kind of like in FFMQ. And that first tower I said is a building in the bottom-right area of the town you start the game in. And I'm not 100% sure it couldn't be a NES game, I remember the graphics being better than that but that's an easy thing to misremember.

Posted: 2/4/2006 3:30 AM

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nitsuja wrote:

The intro involves going down the stairs of a tower with 2 characters, one of which wields a club, and after some random battles in there, encountering a boss that completely destroys the party as a scripted part of the storyline.

This sounds very much like Paladin's Quest (on SNES) to me:

Posted: 2/4/2006 3:38 AM

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FODA wrote:

i think you should change the title of the thread now that you knwo which game it is.

I can't think of what to change it to. This could stay as a thread for anyone with the same problem I had (it seems to be becoming that anyway).

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Posted: 2/4/2006 4:01 AM
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Acmlm wrote:

This sounds very much like Paladin's Quest (on SNES) to me:

Wow, thanks. That's definitely it. I'm surprised I correctly remembered things like what that character had equipped, considering I never had or played the game and only saw it at a friend's house one day. Although, what little I remembered of the title was completely wrong.

Posted: 2/4/2006 4:02 AM

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It seems that you were so impressed then that the main character was probably a paladin but only had a club that you kept that memory for a long time.

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Posted: 2/4/2006 4:12 AM

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Well I doubt that, since I didn't have a clue what a paladin was at the time, and obviously I didn't remember that paladins were related to the game or its title. I tried to rent the game a few years after I saw it and ended up renting Illusion of Gaia (for $1) instead and being very confused with it.

Posted: 2/4/2006 2:51 PM

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Hmm.. I have another game mystery also. I think that it was a SNES game and all i remember that you could transform in to diffrent forms (animals?) by a strange ball. Map was a top-view with some objects to destroy. IIRC the way to destroy was some walking robots (not sure) and few worlds later there would be a giant cannon to shoot you to a ship. its been over 10 years i think. Been thinking about this for a long time now.

Posted: 2/4/2006 4:32 PM

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