BDR
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Registered: 10-03-2006
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Need help finding a couple games... (0)
I remember the way they played, but I can't for the life of me remember what their names were (and I don't have access to them, either), which makes tracking them down difficult. They're both rather old (somewhere around 10-15 years old, though possibly older), and they're probably on the obscure side, but I'm pretty sure I'd know them if I saw them.
The first is an adventure styled sort of like Abe's Oddysee [sic], but the art is more realistic-ish (the protagonist is human, and as I recall he got kidnapped by aliens). I remember only being able to reach three screens of the game, one where IIRC you started, one where there was a large beam of electricity that would kill you when you ran through it, and another which IIRC had an alien that would shoot me as I tried to run past it. In terms of lighting, it was very dark, though it wasn't unplayably so (though I suppose now I might close the blinds before getting into it). Unfortunately this was not a game I owned but rather one I played at a friend's house, which makes coming up with more detail a bit difficult. :/ *Also, now that I think about it, there *may* also be two humans you take care of, but I remember that too vaguely to be sure.
The other is a very different sort of game (also a more recent, yet still old game); basically a hex-based strategy game where you had peasants, knights, and a few other units with which you had to take other units and land. Your land size determined how much gold you could get, and the only pieces of your color land that counted were the ones connected to little houses with flags. IIRC, if your income couldn't match or beat your unit pay, all of your units would die next turn. Also fun to exploit yet nasty to suffer was the fact that if your unit got their land line cut off from all houses, your unit would die as well. There were rules for how you could move your units, but I can't remember them as well as the basics; it was played in Windows and all I had was the shareware version, now that I can't find the shareware version it's gone for good unless I can get some help.
[Last edited by BDR at 10-21-2007 11:02 PM]
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