Let's take a stroll down memory lane! : )

Morvak wrote:
> Tell us what you're favorite gaming memories are, no matter how old or
> recent!

Responding to this very old thread as I have been trying to figure out
the name of a PC game that I really enjoyed.

It was 3D, very pretty. You start the game by entering an empty
village and immediately get assaulted by a werewolf (I think it was
that). There'a also a satyr playing some instrument, dancing around a
lake. And a witch (princess?) asleep on a stone slab down in a dungeon
somewhere. Does anyone know the game I am trying to describe?

Also, I noticed that no one mentioned the best digging game ever,
Boulderdash. Countless hours were spent playing that and its sequels
on C64. And Battlecars for Spectrum was a superb game. It was fun to
build your own car and duel with your friend.

//Naw

Back in high school, we got to play games on the PET computers at
breaks and lunch. Usually the teacher would first close up after
class to get coffee or something, so we would try to run in before she
left and start the tapes to load. (only one PET had a disk drive).

At one point they removed the game tapes from the tape rack of
educational software (no problem for some of us who carted around our
own tapes). My brother made a convincing label for a tape he hid
there, "Two-Dimensional Spatial Dissemination" a fancy term for Space
Invaders.

The games weather War, Artillery, Flash Attack were always popular for
competition. For single players it was usually Space invaders, Rat Run
and then later Tunnel Vision, though Dungeon (from Cursor) had an
appeal to the D&D players.

On Sep 17, 6:55 am, Naw <nwelli....RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Morvak wrote:
> > Tell us what you're favorite gaming memories are, no matter how old or
> > recent!
>
> Responding to this very old thread as I have been trying to figure out
> the name of a PC game that I really enjoyed.
>
> It was 3D, very pretty. You start the game by entering an empty
> village and immediately get assaulted by a werewolf (I think it was
> that). There'a also a satyr playing some instrument, dancing around a
> lake. And a witch (princess?) asleep on a stone slab down in a dungeon
> somewhere. Does anyone know the game I am trying to describe?
That sounds more like a very bad LSD trip

> It was 3D, very pretty. You start the game by entering an empty
> village and immediately get assaulted by a werewolf (I think it was
> that). There'a also a satyr playing some instrument, dancing around a
> lake. And a witch (princess?) asleep on a stone slab down in a dungeon
> somewhere. Does anyone know the game I am trying to describe?

Probably one of the king's quest games!

rms

On Sep 17, 3:55 am, Naw <nwelli....DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Morvak wrote:
> > Tell us what you're favorite gaming memories are, no matter how old or
> > recent!
>
> Responding to this very old thread as I have been trying to figure out
> the name of a PC game that I really enjoyed.
>
> It was 3D, very pretty. You start the game by entering an empty
> village and immediately get assaulted by a werewolf (I think it was
> that). There'a also a satyr playing some instrument, dancing around a
> lake. And a witch (princess?) asleep on a stone slab down in a dungeon
> somewhere. Does anyone know the game I am trying to describe?
>

Vaguely sounds like "Lands of Lore", but it's been a long time since I
played that, so probably wrong.

- Justisaur

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:45:28 -0700 (PDT), Wolfing <wolfing1.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sep 17, 6:55 am, Naw <nwelli....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Morvak wrote:
>> > Tell us what you're favorite gaming memories are, no matter how old or
>> > recent!
>>
>> Responding to this very old thread as I have been trying to figure out
>> the name of a PC game that I really enjoyed.
>>
>> It was 3D, very pretty. You start the game by entering an empty
>> village and immediately get assaulted by a werewolf (I think it was
>> that). There'a also a satyr playing some instrument, dancing around a
>> lake. And a witch (princess?) asleep on a stone slab down in a dungeon
>> somewhere. Does anyone know the game I am trying to describe?
>That sounds more like a very bad LSD trip

Or a good one, depending on your point of view.

Memnoch wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:45:28 -0700 (PDT), Wolfing <wolfing1.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sep 17, 6:55 am, Naw <nwelli....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Morvak wrote:
>>>> Tell us what you're favorite gaming memories are, no matter how old or
>>>> recent!
>>> Responding to this very old thread as I have been trying to figure out
>>> the name of a PC game that I really enjoyed.
>>>
>>> It was 3D, very pretty. You start the game by entering an empty
>>> village and immediately get assaulted by a werewolf (I think it was
>>> that). There'a also a satyr playing some instrument, dancing around a
>>> lake. And a witch (princess?) asleep on a stone slab down in a dungeon
>>> somewhere. Does anyone know the game I am trying to describe?
>> That sounds more like a very bad LSD trip
>
> Or a good one, depending on your point of view.

Reminds me of our last family reunion.

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:42:58 -0700 (PDT), larry.RemoveThis@portcommodore.com wrote:

>Back in high school, we got to play games on the PET computers at
>breaks and lunch. Usually the teacher would first close up after
>class to get coffee or something, so we would try to run in before she
>left and start the tapes to load. (only one PET had a disk drive).
>
>At one point they removed the game tapes from the tape rack of
>educational software (no problem for some of us who carted around our
>own tapes). My brother made a convincing label for a tape he hid
>there, "Two-Dimensional Spatial Dissemination" a fancy term for Space
>Invaders.
>
>The games weather War, Artillery, Flash Attack were always popular for
>competition. For single players it was usually Space invaders, Rat Run
>and then later Tunnel Vision, though Dungeon (from Cursor) had an
>appeal to the D&D players.

We had a 5 1/4" games disk for our BBC Micros at school, which had both Elite
and Defender on. Out teacher used to let us play during lunch.

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:43:27 -0700 (PDT), Justisaur
<justisaur.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It was 3D, very pretty. You start the game by entering an empty
>> village and immediately get assaulted by a werewolf (I think it was
>> that). There'a also a satyr playing some instrument, dancing around a
>> lake. And a witch (princess?) asleep on a stone slab down in a dungeon
>> somewhere. Does anyone know the game I am trying to describe?
>>
>
>Vaguely sounds like "Lands of Lore", but it's been a long time since I
>played that, so probably wrong.

Nope, I don't think LoL fits this description. I think I know what the
OP may have in mind: Game starts with a plane in storm, plane crashes
somewhere in Carpathia(/Transsylvania/whatever) and the hero gets
rescued from the wreck by the town mayor's daugher, waking up in their
guestroom.

The story unfolds bit by bit and it involves werewolfs, vampires,
hanged undead etc.
+ there is a very irritating "dungeon" with skeletons to fight thru,
but all in all, it was in fact quite entertaining and "smart" horror
story.

The view was not 3D but instead isometric- again, blocky but quite
nice-looking and practical. One nice touch was that Health meter was
displayed as a coffin and level of health was how large part of the
man in coffin had turned into a skeleton

OK, now I must confess that I can't remember the title at all, must
have stared at the ceiling for last 5 minutes just trying to grasp it
but I hope that someone could catch my drift from here

Cheers !
Rudi.

Rudi schrieb:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:43:27 -0700 (PDT), Justisaur
> <justisaur.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> It was 3D, very pretty. You start the game by entering an empty
>>> village and immediately get assaulted by a werewolf (I think it was
>>> that). There'a also a satyr playing some instrument, dancing around a
>>> lake. And a witch (princess?) asleep on a stone slab down in a dungeon
>>> somewhere. Does anyone know the game I am trying to describe?
>>>
>> Vaguely sounds like "Lands of Lore", but it's been a long time since I
>> played that, so probably wrong.
>
> Nope, I don't think LoL fits this description. I think I know what the
> OP may have in mind: Game starts with a plane in storm, plane crashes
> somewhere in Carpathia(/Transsylvania/whatever) and the hero gets
> rescued from the wreck by the town mayor's daugher, waking up in their
> guestroom.
>
> The story unfolds bit by bit and it involves werewolfs, vampires,
> hanged undead etc.
> + there is a very irritating "dungeon" with skeletons to fight thru,
> but all in all, it was in fact quite entertaining and "smart" horror
> story.
>
> The view was not 3D but instead isometric- again, blocky but quite
> nice-looking and practical. One nice touch was that Health meter was
> displayed as a coffin and level of health was how large part of the
> man in coffin had turned into a skeleton
>
> OK, now I must confess that I can't remember the title at all, must
> have stared at the ceiling for last 5 minutes just trying to grasp it
> but I hope that someone could catch my drift from here

Ravenloft?

Correcting myself guys;
after about half an hour googling around I found it;
this title I'm talking about iis "Veil of Darkness".

Drum roll !

Cheers,
Rudi.



On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:58:38 +0300, Rudi <Rudi.TakeThisOut@iki.fi> wrote:

>On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:43:27 -0700 (PDT), Justisaur
><justisaur.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> It was 3D, very pretty. You start the game by entering an empty
>>> village and immediately get assaulted by a werewolf (I think it was
>>> that). There'a also a satyr playing some instrument, dancing around a
>>> lake. And a witch (princess?) asleep on a stone slab down in a dungeon
>>> somewhere. Does anyone know the game I am trying to describe?
>>>
>>
>>Vaguely sounds like "Lands of Lore", but it's been a long time since I
>>played that, so probably wrong.
>
>Nope, I don't think LoL fits this description. I think I know what the
>OP may have in mind: Game starts with a plane in storm, plane crashes
>somewhere in Carpathia(/Transsylvania/whatever) and the hero gets
>rescued from the wreck by the town mayor's daugher, waking up in their
>guestroom.
>
>The story unfolds bit by bit and it involves werewolfs, vampires,
>hanged undead etc.
>+ there is a very irritating "dungeon" with skeletons to fight thru,
>but all in all, it was in fact quite entertaining and "smart" horror
>story.
>
>The view was not 3D but instead isometric- again, blocky but quite
>nice-looking and practical. One nice touch was that Health meter was
>displayed as a coffin and level of health was how large part of the
>man in coffin had turned into a skeleton
>
>OK, now I must confess that I can't remember the title at all, must
>have stared at the ceiling for last 5 minutes just trying to grasp it
> but I hope that someone could catch my drift from here
>
>Cheers !
>Rudi.

On Aug 7, 8:35 am, Morvak <meat... RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 6, 10:36 pm, Raymond Martineau <bk... RemoveThis @ncf.ca> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:08:54 -0700 (PDT), Morvak <meat... RemoveThis @gmail.com>
> > wrote:
>
> > >Tell us what you're favorite gaming memories are, no matter how old or
> > >recent!
>
> > The very old ones:
>
> > - Gyruss
> > - Impossible Mission
> > - Jumpman + Junior
> > - Matrix (a.k.a. Attack of the Mutant Camels, unless you played the
> > other AMC)
> > - P.O.D. (Proof of Destruction)
> > - Puzzle Panic
> > - Space Taxi
> > - Zepplin
>
> > All for the Commodore 64. I only understood what to do if the game
> > was "obvious" - something like Impossible Misison was fun to play, but
> > I never knew why there were these squares that could be coloured,
> > turned, flipped, etc until much later.
>
> > Of course, since the games are that old, there's a few that I remember
> > but don't know the title or how to get them. Basically, I'm looking
> > for:
> > - The game which I forgot the title, and can only really describe the
> > actual gameplay itself...
> > - A Q-Bopper compliation pack released by Accelerated Software (not
> > exactly Q-Bopper, but contains many subgames using the same engine.)
>
> > >Another World aka Out of This World
> > >----------------------------
> > >Another C64 game and one of the best I ever played. The graphics and
> > >story were simply amazing for their time. Still revisit it today.
>
> > There's an official remake, with a better framerate and resolution.
> > (The download is a demo version, you have to purchase the full
> > version.)
>
> Yes! I remember Gyruss and Jumpman!

My favoirte games of all time for the Commodore have to be...

1. Pirates!

I would be playing this game and suddenly realize that I had been
playing all the way through to the next day.

2. Winter Games

My friends and I would compete on this over and over. We even kept
records of how many gold medals we had for our "careers".

3. Neuromancer

Since this game used "real time" for the passing of time in the game,
I used to leave it on when I went to school so that my character would
have collected 3 paychecks by the time I got home. If only work were
that easy in real life...

4. Autoduel

There are days when I have to drive to the West suburbs of Chicago and
I wish that I had some of the weapons my guy on Autoduel had at his
disposal. What an awesome game this was, especially since my friends
and I had discovered the table top version of this (Car Wars) first
and really liked that.

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