Remember the Game but not the Name

[Elomin Sha]

Maybe a thread to help people find games they cannot remember the name but remember playing.

There is one game for the life of me I cannot remember the name of and hope someone else may know it. Not sure if it was more played in Britain or not. Last time I played this was 9.

Info:

Educational/Puzzle game where you have to find gems/crystals.

You're in the amazon to stop loggers (?) first puzzle is getting into a pyramid. You go on an adventure into the rain forest. You navigate on a boat top-down. You have to fix a bridge knowing angles and the distance rope has to go. The end of the game you use a machine to make your own crystals.
I'm think it was on Windows 3.1.

[auberginequeen]

I know you posted this probably intending for someone who played the game to recognize it and go "Oh, it's x."

Instead I spent half an hour looking it up because darn it, I can't resist a challenge like that. I had fun though, no worries.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure you're talking about The Crystal Rain Forest. Here's a page detailing as much about the game as I could find.

For example, this looks like the bridge-angle thing you mentioned:

[Elomin Sha]

Yep that's it. Never knew they updated it. Back in my day it was all pixellated and stuff. Thanks, I spent over an hour trying to find it. Just had a look but can't find Version 1. Only Version 2 seems to exist.

If anyone else has games they're looking for we'll find it.

[Geoff_B]

There is one game that I played once when I was little. Wasn't even on my computer (we didn't have one) instead it was on my uncle's laptop.

It was a pirate game with the usual sail-around-attack-forts etc similar to Sid Meier's Pirates, only there are a few differences - the map was styled like a paper map that had been unrolled on the table with compass points and wind directions etc. And combat was performed via dice rolls and you could see the rolls on the screen.

It ran in a window on Windows 3.1 I believe.

Not much to go on but it occasionally nags at me.

[Valkyrie-Lemons]

Is it Pirates of the Barbary coast?

[DirgeNovak]

I doubt I'll get an answer since my memory of this game is the sketchiest (it was over twenty years ago and my NES barely worked), but I'll try. It's a NES game in which you play as a dude with a sword and the first level was in front of a purple cliff.

That's all remember. Go nuts.

[Mums]

I'll throw in a game I've been thinking about for a long time. Last time I played it I was about 8, so 1998. It was a PC game, a top-down racing game. From what I remember there were quite a lot of different cars, So I will name the cars I do remember. There was a truck, a police car, an ambulance (I think) and a monster truck. You could do speed boosts which made the cars do different sounds (police car turned sirens on). I remember one track was on a bridge and one I think were in a mounty/deserty place. That's all I can remember for now.

Except that I played that game when I first started listening to The Beastie Boys so I connect the game with Sabotage and Intergalactic, though I don't think that will help anyone.

[My pseudonym is Ix]

Were there pedestrians, and if so were they programmed to always jump out of the way if you tried to run them over?

[ch3m1kal]

I'll throw in a game I've been thinking about for a long time. Last time I played it I was about 8, so 1998. It was a PC game, a top-down racing game. From what I remember there were quite a lot of different cars, So I will name the cars I do remember. There was a truck, a police car, an ambulance (I think) and a monster truck. You could do speed boosts which made the cars do different sounds (police car turned sirens on). I remember one track was on a bridge and one I think were in a mounty/deserty place. That's all I can remember for now.

Except that I played that game when I first started listening to The Beastie Boys so I connect the game with Sabotage and Intergalactic, though I don't think that will help anyone.

I'm guessing it was Ignition.

[Jamfalcon]

I doubt I'll get an answer since my memory of this game is the sketchiest (it was over twenty years ago and my NES barely worked), but I'll try. It's a NES game in which you play as a dude with a sword and the first level was in front of a purple cliff.

That's all remember. Go nuts.

Doesn't ring any bells... do remember what the perspective was? (Top down or side scrolling, I'd assume?)

[Mums]

I'll throw in a game I've been thinking about for a long time. Last time I played it I was about 8, so 1998. It was a PC game, a top-down racing game. From what I remember there were quite a lot of different cars, So I will name the cars I do remember. There was a truck, a police car, an ambulance (I think) and a monster truck. You could do speed boosts which made the cars do different sounds (police car turned sirens on). I remember one track was on a bridge and one I think were in a mounty/deserty place. That's all I can remember for now.

Except that I played that game when I first started listening to The Beastie Boys so I connect the game with Sabotage and Intergalactic, though I don't think that will help anyone.

I'm guessing it was Ignition.

<3!!!

Wow, that game had way better graphics in my head!
When I wrote the post I was thinking that the game had quite awesome graphics for 1998...

Thank you Ch3m1kal!!


edit: Oh god, the memories!!!

[Mums]

If this is the wrong thread for this just scream at me. I didn't know where to put it and it felt natural. I found this http://www.bestoldgames.net/eng/old-games/ignition.phpfor the game ch3m1kal found for me, but I'm so bad with computors that I have no idea how to get it to work if it's possible to get it to work. I know you guys are awesome and maybe could figure out how to get it to work.

[Mums]

I doubt I'll get an answer since my memory of this game is the sketchiest (it was over twenty years ago and my NES barely worked), but I'll try. It's a NES game in which you play as a dude with a sword and the first level was in front of a purple cliff.

That's all remember. Go nuts.

Rygar?
No sword but purple cliff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCkTZoDbnTw

[ch3m1kal]

If this is the wrong thread for this just scream at me. I didn't know where to put it and it felt natural. I found this http://www.bestoldgames.net/eng/old-games/ignition.phpfor the game ch3m1kal found for me, but I'm so bad with computors that I have no idea how to get it to work if it's possible to get it to work. I know you guys are awesome and maybe could figure out how to get it to work.

Alright, I messed around with it for a bit. That version is missing the 3Dfx files and I could only get it to run with DOSbox and with some issues.

However Abandonia has a version with full 3Dfx support so go get that one from here:
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/107/Ignition.htm

Then install Nglide which adds emulated Glide support (works with any of the old Glide enabled games). Oh 3Dfx, how I miss thee:
http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide

Then just run IGN_3DFX.EXE and you should be good to go. It seems to even support controllers though I only tried it with keyboard.

[Mums]

Thank you!!! Thank you!!!

I've been looking for this game for ages, a friend was going to make a copy of the game to a floppy disk and broke the game. I've been thinking about this game a few times a year since then! Thank you so much!

[Smeghead]

There was a game from like the early 1990s, and I believe it was a kind of point and click adventure, where you played a mage (I think) of some kind, and I mostly remember there being a part in the game where you had to do a transformation battle against another mage; tricking him into turning himself into a worm that you could then capture.
There were also 2 brothers(?) in the game who looked like Einstein.

Now its been like 20 years since I saw the game so my memory can be very unreliable on this matter

[Genghis Ares]

Kings Quest 5 had a transformation battle at the end. Don't know if that's what you're thinking of.

[Smeghead]

No, it was much older then that

[ch3m1kal]

Hmm I don't remember the bits of gameplay you describe, but...
Simon the Sorcerer maybe?




Or maybe something from the Legend of Kyrandia series?

[Smeghead]

No older then that

[Darkobra]

[DirgeNovak]

I doubt I'll get an answer since my memory of this game is the sketchiest (it was over twenty years ago and my NES barely worked), but I'll try. It's a NES game in which you play as a dude with a sword and the first level was in front of a purple cliff.

That's all remember. Go nuts.

Doesn't ring any bells... do remember what the perspective was? (Top down or side scrolling, I'd assume?)

It was a side scroller.

I doubt I'll get an answer since my memory of this game is the sketchiest (it was over twenty years ago and my NES barely worked), but I'll try. It's a NES game in which you play as a dude with a sword and the first level was in front of a purple cliff.

That's all remember. Go nuts.

Rygar?
No sword but purple cliff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCkTZoDbnTw

That's not it. The cliff took up the entire screen, it wasn't far in the background. And it was about this shade of purple... I think.

[Genghis Ares]

Maybe this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwf3eLlfxAM

[DirgeNovak]

Oh my fucking god. That's the one.
Gonna go play it now.