mrimer
Level: Legendary Smitemaster

Rank Points: 5056
Registered: 02-04-2003
IP: Logged

Radiant wrote:
TIM was a very original concept, I really liked it. If you enjoy that kind of game, you should check HOTU for a game named Marble Drop. It's cute.

Yeah, I just went through that! It was fun. Took some Gerry rigging to get it working on WinXP.

How about something that predates TIM -- Rocky's Boots on the Apple II!

____________________________
Gandalf? Yes... That's what they used to call me.
Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
I am Gandalf the White.
And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.

---

[Last edited by mrimer at 03-31-2006 10:28 PM]

lakibuk
Level: Delver

Rank Points: 93
Registered: 03-26-2006
IP: Logged

I liked Blast Corps,too. Drifting into a row of houses rocked.
Not sure what this thread is about -
but anyone know Space Station Silicon Valley (N64)? Now this masterpiece is underappreciated.

____________________________
Karl
Blueskied Games (main site) - Gratis Spiele (german site)

gamer_extreme_101
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 1939
Registered: 03-07-2004
IP: Logged

Just to let you know, Radiant, Underdogs is down at the moment. Well, the actual site isn't, but the domain is gone, and because so many things on the site require the domain usage, it's best to think of it as gone.

Of course, you can check out the Wikipedia article on the site and get the backup domain or the IP address, but I won't link to either.

____________________________
--That guy with a million different aliases since he doesn't like this name anymore.

coppro
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 1308
Registered: 11-24-2005
IP: Logged

Got both. Very enjoyable puzzles. Still haven't beat all of them. TIM is actually one of the most innovative games I've ever seen, and Marble Drop is a game that loves an excellent hybrid of thinking and timing, while still being an intellectual game as opposed to an action one.

Jacob
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 3746
Registered: 10-01-2004
IP: Logged

I posted this a while back, but this seems like a good thread to ask again:
Can anyone identify the following game. It's a pretty old PC puzzle/platformer and I'm sure the file was galactix.com or .exe, but searching for "galactix" never gets me the right game. You play a little green alien thing whose spaceship has crashed and you need to fix it. You can pick up/drop/eat/use things, and have an energy bar that's running out. I never completed it, and would like to.


____________________________
New to DROD? You may want to read this.
My Holds and Levels:

mrimer
Level: Legendary Smitemaster

Rank Points: 5056
Registered: 02-04-2003
IP: Logged

Jacob wrote:
I posted this a while back, but this seems like a good thread to ask again:
Can anyone identify the following game. It's a pretty old PC puzzle/platformer and I'm sure the file was galactix.com or .exe, but searching for "galactix" never gets me the right game. You play a little green alien thing whose spaceship has crashed and you need to fix it. You can pick up/drop/eat/use things, and have an energy bar that's running out. I never completed it, and would like to.

Rings a bell. I saw a game like this a couple of times. I think it was on some console unit...like an Atari or Colecovision or something...

____________________________
Gandalf? Yes... That's what they used to call me.
Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
I am Gandalf the White.
And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.

---

[Last edited by mrimer at 04-08-2006 07:24 PM]

bdwing
Level: Master Delver
Rank Points: 288
Registered: 02-16-2003
IP: Logged

Jacob wrote:
You play a little green alien thing whose spaceship has crashed and you need to fix it.

This part sounds like Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure.

____________________________
In the words of Cyndi Lauper:

"Until it ends, there is no end."

Radiant
Level: Moderator

Rank Points: 142
Registered: 02-05-2003
IP: Logged

Galactix is an old (and rather bland) shmup, probably not what you mean.

Green alien... let's see... there's Cosmo, indeed, and Norp the Yorp. Neither has pick up / put down options, though. Maybe some Dizzy clone?


____________________________
= Radiant =

Syntax
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 1218
Registered: 05-12-2005
IP: Logged

Jacob wrote:
I posted this a while back, but this seems like a good thread to ask again:
Can anyone identify the following game. It's a pretty old PC puzzle/platformer and I'm sure the file was galactix.com or .exe, but searching for "galactix" never gets me the right game. You play a little green alien thing whose spaceship has crashed and you need to fix it. You can pick up/drop/eat/use things, and have an energy bar that's running out. I never completed it, and would like to.

That could be a lot of games... If you give me which games platform and which year roughly, I should be able to work it out. Did it have a spanner in a phonebox and was there an issue with gravity? Sounds like that could be it, but I only played it on the Atari ST and can't work out the name at the moment. Or was it the old Amstrad game where you were stuck on a spaceship which needed fixing? This was mostly robot based (with text involved for commands) - though there were tiled gfx.

Eat things? How? If it's using the space bar, and it was on the Amiga, then I may have played it too. Or was it on the old Philips game system circa 1982? That was more of a maze game, but involved the time bar (as did the Atari version). In fact, if the time bar contnued between screens, I'm certain it's the Atari one.

Unless it was a point and click one such as "Space Quest" with Roger Wilko. I believe the start of SQ1 was involved with fixing it.... but so was "Beneath a steel sky". Then again, you weren't a green alien thingy in either.

But you mention platforms...

Hmmm...

I think the most telling info would be:
Platform
Res
Controls
Genre (style inc)
Primary colour
Year

---

[Last edited by Syntax at 04-08-2006 04:10 PM]

mrimer
Level: Legendary Smitemaster

Rank Points: 5056
Registered: 02-04-2003
IP: Logged

The game I was thinking of does have a constantly decreasing time/energy meter, but actually I think you fly a (working?) spaceship (with momentum, iirc) around to different planets on a map, maybe navigating a side-view maze to get to the planet's surface, where then your man can exit the ship and walk along on the surface to pick up parts or something. I'm guessing it was released in the early 80's. In fact, it might have had a name like "Cosmic Adventure", but it definitely isn't the Cosmo one.

edit: I wonder if that game is Thrust.

____________________________
Gandalf? Yes... That's what they used to call me.
Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
I am Gandalf the White.
And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.

---

[Last edited by mrimer at 04-08-2006 08:10 PM]

gamer_extreme_101
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 1939
Registered: 03-07-2004
IP: Logged

Jacob wrote:
You play a little green alien thing whose spaceship has crashed and you need to fix it. You can pick up/drop/eat/use things, and have an energy bar that's running out. I never completed it, and would like to.

Well, in that game you can pick up and drop bombs, eat food and other things to gain points to your score.

I don't know about the use thing, but I do know that the storyline to that game was about the alien finding his parents, not fixing his ship. Although that might have been a secondary cause as well.

____________________________
--That guy with a million different aliases since he doesn't like this name anymore.

lakibuk
Level: Delver

Rank Points: 93
Registered: 03-26-2006
IP: Logged

Could that game be Cosmic Tunnels?
http://www.thelegacy.de/Museum/1859/

____________________________
Karl
Blueskied Games (main site) - Gratis Spiele (german site)

---

[Last edited by lakibuk at 04-09-2006 09:51 AM]

Jacob
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 3746
Registered: 10-01-2004
IP: Logged

Nope none of those games. It was on my old Amstrad PC. I seem to remember the controls being left and right shifts and space to move and jump, with the arrow keys selecting your actions (eat, use etc). It was a definitely a green alien with antennae, not any spaceship (or human). Green was the main colour of everything. I'm pretty sure that there was a shoot button, but it you could only shoot one shot at a time. I'm also pretty sure the game had a sequel, but they seem to have disappeared into te mists of time.

____________________________
New to DROD? You may want to read this.
My Holds and Levels:

John259
Level: Delver
Rank Points: 57
Registered: 11-18-2005
IP: Logged

mrimer wrote:

Radiant wrote:
you should check HOTU for a game named Marble Drop. It's cute.

Yeah, I just went through that! It was fun. Took some Gerry rigging to get it working on WinXP.

Could you explain what needs to be done to get Marble Drop running on WinXP please? It says "not installed properly" no matter what I try (various screen resolutions/numbers of colours and compatibility options; and I ran its registry install.bat file).

Much thanks in advance for any info,

John

____________________________
2006 A DROD Odyssey: "Open the pod bay doors Halph" - "Not possible!"

Mattcrampy
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2388
Registered: 05-29-2003
IP: Logged

Oh, man, the amount of work it took to get Marble Drop to work. There's a patch, I believe, that you need to use to make it work in Windows XP.

____________________________
What do you call an elephant at the North Pole?

John259
Level: Delver
Rank Points: 57
Registered: 11-18-2005
IP: Logged

Mattcrampy wrote:
Oh, man, the amount of work it took to get Marble Drop to work. There's a patch, I believe, that you need to use to make it work in Windows XP.

Matt, Many thanks for the reply even it was bad news! - John

____________________________
2006 A DROD Odyssey: "Open the pod bay doors Halph" - "Not possible!"

mrimer
Level: Legendary Smitemaster

Rank Points: 5056
Registered: 02-04-2003
IP: Logged

File: howToInstallMarbleDropOnWinXP.txt (724 bytes)
Downloaded 86 times.
License: Public Domain

I found some instructions of how to get Marble Drop working on Windows XP and copied the directions here, with some modifications by me (attached).

____________________________
Gandalf? Yes... That's what they used to call me.
Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
I am Gandalf the White.
And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.

---

[Last edited by mrimer at 04-21-2006 07:12 PM]

coppro
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 1308
Registered: 11-24-2005
IP: Logged

I just tried compatibility mode. It worked.

Znirk
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 613
Registered: 07-28-2005
IP: Logged

coppro wrote:
I just tried compatibility mode. It worked.

Compatibility mode! Of course!

Reading this thread made me dig up my old Marble Drop CD earlier this week, but the installer refused to install on this new-fangled equipment ... but of course it's a different matter once your system pretends to be Windows 95. Just make sure to select "no" when you're prompted to install DirectX version 3

John259
Level: Delver
Rank Points: 57
Registered: 11-18-2005
IP: Logged

mrimer,

Wonderful, that fixed it, deep joy. Many thanks.

John

____________________________
2006 A DROD Odyssey: "Open the pod bay doors Halph" - "Not possible!"

gamer_extreme_101
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 1939
Registered: 03-07-2004
IP: Logged

I remember Marble Drop. Heck, I'm probably one fo the few people who actually own the CD for it. I need to find how to get it running on Win2K now, or else I'm going to feel horribly left out.

But that game is wonderful. Such a simple premise, yet so fun and so challenging that you can't help being addicted.

____________________________
--That guy with a million different aliases since he doesn't like this name anymore.

Krishh
Level: Master Delver
Rank Points: 282
Registered: 06-05-2004
IP: Logged

Meh. After all this hype, I just had to try it out, but I was a bit dissapointed. I guess I expected something more like TIM, but this game, while looking nice, was pretty dull as far as gameplay is concerned. Maybe it'll pick up the pace at later levels, but right now it seems too much like just checking the path from a funnel to see which bin the ball'll end up in, and drop that ball in. You rarely need to take into account the larger picture of the whole contraption. Not to mention that most of your time, even at gamespeed 9, is spent just watching the balls as they keep on rolling for what seems like an eternity. (especially the elevators)

---

[Last edited by Krishh at 04-24-2006 04:16 PM]

BeefontheBone
Level: Master Delver

Rank Points: 184
Registered: 05-11-2006
IP: Logged

Could Syntax's game be Atic Atac? Mobygames thinks it was only released on the ZX Spectrum (which is where I played it) but it has some similarities - my overriding memory of it was falling through bloomin' trapdoors every 5 minutes.

____________________________
Braindead's Mordor Site - Dungeon crawling having nothing whatsoever to do with LotR. Plus a freeware remake in-progress, featuring descriptive text written by yours truly!

Beef Row wrote: Actually, it doesn't really matter because the soap is a lye.

Syntax
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 1218
Registered: 05-12-2005
IP: Logged

Not sure... didn't have a game

mrimer
Level: Legendary Smitemaster

Rank Points: 5056
Registered: 02-04-2003
IP: Logged

A Jumpman clone, Hap Hazard has been released on http://www.raptisoft.com/. This isn't a spam...I just noticed the game, and people who like Jumpman would probably appreciate this "facelifted" version.

____________________________
Gandalf? Yes... That's what they used to call me.
Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
I am Gandalf the White.
And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.

DGM
Level: Master Delver
Rank Points: 202
Registered: 06-16-2006
IP: Logged

mrimer wrote:
How about something that predates TIM -- Rocky's Boots on the Apple II!

Wow. That brought back memories... One of the first computer games I ever remember playing.

____________________________
My gaming blog is at http://dungeon-games.com/blog/

BDR
Level: Master Delver

Rank Points: 106
Registered: 10-03-2006
IP: Logged

gamer_extreme_101 wrote:
Just to let you know, Radiant, Underdogs is down at the moment. Well, the actual site isn't, but the domain is gone, and because so many things on the site require the domain usage, it's best to think of it as gone.

Underdogs isn't dead AFAICS.. I just downloaded something from there like a day or two ago, too.

TripleM
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 1373
Registered: 02-05-2003
IP: Logged

Seeing as the post was from around 10 months ago, I'm not surprised

NiroZ
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 1302
Registered: 02-12-2006
IP: Logged

BDR wrote:

gamer_extreme_101 wrote:
Just to let you know, Radiant, Underdogs is down at the moment. Well, the actual site isn't, but the domain is gone, and because so many things on the site require the domain usage, it's best to think of it as gone.

Underdogs isn't dead AFAICS.. I just downloaded something from there like a day or two ago, too.

It was at the time of Patrick's post.
Post collision FTW!

---

[Last edited by NiroZ at 02-05-2007 08:12 AM]