Author Topic: Name This Game? From a cab I played in a hotel when i was a kid... (Read 3087 times)

allroy1975 · « **on:** January 07, 2004, 11:45:15 am »

Man...I remember NOTHING about this game except that it had a little thing in the middle of the screen that looked like R2D2 from Star Wars. It wasn't a Star Wars game, it just looked like that.

I don't really remember anything else about the game...except that I liked playing it for like the week we stayed at that hotel when I was probably 7. That would be 21 years ago. I'm surprised I remember anything...

Anyone have any idea? there might have been elevators around in it...

Allroy

unclet · « **Reply #1 on:** January 07, 2004, 12:58:34 pm »

No idea....... did you search through every snapshot of Mame supported games yet? Might take a while to go through all of them, but you might get lucky..

Tiger-Heli · « **Reply #2 on:** January 07, 2004, 01:01:38 pm »

Quote from: allroy1975 on January 07, 2004, 11:45:15 am

Man...I remember NOTHING about this game except that it had a little thing in the middle of the screen that looked like R2D2 from Star Wars. It wasn't a Star Wars game, it just looked like that.

I don't really remember anything else about the game...except that I liked playing it for like the week we stayed at that hotel when I was probably 7. That would be 21 years ago. I'm surprised I remember anything...

Anyone have any idea? there might have been elevators around in it...

Allroy

Star Castle ? http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=S&game_id=9754

I was graduating high school about that time so should know that era.

Anything else about it - Vector or raster, controls types, looking down on R2D2, or sideways?

Thanks!

b3atmania · « **Reply #3 on:** January 07, 2004, 01:13:34 pm »

Phoenix?

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=9004

allroy1975 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 07, 2004, 01:29:21 pm »

na, it wasn't vector, that's for sure.

and it wasn't a space game per say. Not like Phoenix or Galaxian or anything like that..... It was more like...something where you had to run around a level or a building. The monitor was vertical mount. uh....man I wish I could remember more....the R2D2 might have been a trash can with legs, but it was right in the middle of the screen. I'll go to KLOV.com and just refresh until it comes up as the game of the second.

Allroy

Tiger-Heli · « **Reply #5 on:** January 07, 2004, 01:36:08 pm »

Quote from: allroy1975 on January 07, 2004, 01:29:21 pm

na, it wasn't vector, that's for sure.

and it wasn't a space game per say. Not like Phoenix or Galaxian or anything like that..... It was more like...something where you had to run around a level or a building. The monitor was vertical mount. uh....man I wish I could remember more....the R2D2 might have been a trash can with legs, but it was right in the middle of the screen. I'll go to KLOV.com and just refresh until it comes up as the game of the second.

Allroy

Used a joystick?

There's Elevator Action or Rolling Thunder, but not vertical, and no R2D2 or legged trash can?

APFelon · « **Reply #6 on:** January 07, 2004, 01:51:43 pm »

It sounds like DROL, an old computer game by Broderbund. Could it be that your memories are mixed a bit? (Mine do that to me sometimes). Here is a screenie:

ErikRuud · « **Reply #7 on:** January 07, 2004, 02:31:06 pm »

Drol was kind of fun. i remeber first playing it on someones Apple IIe.

As for the Mystery Game

Try Hopper Robo

JamIt · « **Reply #8 on:** January 07, 2004, 02:34:36 pm »

Cloak and Dagger?

allroy1975 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 07, 2004, 02:41:59 pm »

now that everyone is giving me all these ideas of these colorful games, it occurs to me that it wasn't NEARLY that colorful ...if it was color at all. The R2D2 figure in the middle was white. All white if I remember correctly....
I'm pathetic..

Jakobud · « **Reply #10 on:** January 07, 2004, 04:47:33 pm »

What did you do in the game? Just run around the big trash can the whole time? Shooting things?

etumor · « **Reply #11 on:** January 07, 2004, 05:20:01 pm »

"Time Limit" fits the bill (colors are wrong in the screenshot, but you get the idea):

-Jeff "etumor" Allen

allroy1975 · « **Reply #12 on:** January 07, 2004, 10:06:29 pm »

Quote from: Jakobud on January 07, 2004, 04:47:33 pm

What did you do in the game? Just run around the big trash can the whole time? Shooting things?

I have no idea!!! Man, I wish I couldn't remember anything of it! Then I wouldn't be bugging you guys with it.

Sorry....

APFelon · « **Reply #13 on:** January 07, 2004, 10:12:13 pm »

Isn't a problem. I like the "name the game" competitions. Fun.

APf

crsdawg · « **Reply #14 on:** January 08, 2004, 01:00:44 am »

space zap maybe? not much of an r2 d2, but it does have a box always located in the middle and doesn't have many colors going on.

klov- space zap

Jakobud · « **Reply #15 on:** January 08, 2004, 01:09:00 pm »

Quote from: etumor on January 07, 2004, 05:20:01 pm

"Time Limit" fits the bill (colors are wrong in the screenshot, but you get the idea):

-Jeff "etumor" Allen

So where is the R2D2 in that picture?

Stingray · « **Reply #16 on:** January 08, 2004, 01:12:22 pm »

Quote from: APFelon on January 07, 2004, 10:12:13 pm

Isn't a problem. I like the "name the game" competitions. Fun.

So do I. Sorry, I don't have a clue what this game might be, but I've been following the investigation with interest.

-S

etumor · « **Reply #17 on:** January 08, 2004, 01:19:48 pm »

Quote from: Jakobud on January 08, 2004, 01:09:00 pm

Quote from: etumor on January 07, 2004, 05:20:01 pm
"Time Limit" fits the bill (colors are wrong in the screenshot, but you get the idea):

-Jeff "etumor" Allen

So where is the R2D2 in that picture?

The elevator is sort of R2D2-like.

-Jeff

Procyon · « **Reply #18 on:** January 08, 2004, 04:06:06 pm »

Could it have been I, Robot? The character in that game sort of looks like R2D2...

ErikRuud · « **Reply #19 on:** January 08, 2004, 11:00:49 pm »

Here is the KLOV link for I, Robot

The robot is mostly white, and he does have something of an R2D2 look.

CitznFish · « **Reply #20 on:** January 08, 2004, 11:25:10 pm »

I loved I,robot when it first came out. I remember about 10 of those washing up on shore at the local beach when I was a kid....

only kidding! (if you know the back story you'll 'get it')

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #21 on:** January 08, 2004, 11:31:38 pm »

i have no idea what it could be as a lot of what i thought it could be has already been said. but im interested in finding out what game this is! man and looking back on these old games, im glad i was born a little later then most people on here. i just cant see having fun with those horrible graphics =P i remember when i was really really young the first game i played was in a caesers casino arcade, my grandpa took me there while my parents were gambling, and i played rampage! i needed to stand on a crate to play......... but anyway thats my era these weird polygonal and B&W games make me shudder

alphasqorner · « **Reply #22 on:** January 09, 2004, 12:15:53 am »

Quote from: Sephroth57 on January 08, 2004, 11:31:38 pm

i have no idea what it could be as a lot of what i thought it could be has already been said. but im interested in finding out what game this is! man and looking back on these old games, im glad i was born a little later then most people on here. i just cant see having fun with those horrible graphics =P i remember when i was really really young the first game i played was in a caesers casino arcade, my grandpa took me there while my parents were gambling, and i played rampage! i needed to stand on a crate to play......... but anyway thats my era these weird polygonal and B&W games make me shudder

Hehe, i respect that. The "classics" may look "ugly". But they were still fun and very addiciting (at the time at least). I must've spent a few hundred dollars on galaga, robotron, tempest, and moon patrol (in Reno when my parents go gambling

, seriously!).

JamesS · « **Reply #23 on:** January 09, 2004, 08:08:23 am »

But Seph you have fallen for that graphics weakness.

The merit of a game is playability not graphics.

Pacman, I still love it, what is that 16 colors, Galaga great, Joust oh my goodness, Donkey Kong one of my all time favorites, and others oh my.

Heck I still like playing Asteroids and it is black and white.

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #24 on:** January 09, 2004, 08:53:22 am »

well dont get me wrong i still play older games like pacman & joust. but atari kind of games with boxes and triangles are just a little too horrible looking for me. 8 bit NES type stuff is about where i start

SirPeale · « **Reply #25 on:** January 09, 2004, 12:44:18 pm »

Quote from: Sephroth57 on January 09, 2004, 08:53:22 am

well dont get me wrong i still play older games like pacman & joust. but atari kind of games with boxes and triangles are just a little too horrible looking for me. 8 bit NES type stuff is about where i start

I gotta agree. Although I still love to play 'Yars Revenge' for the 2600.

NoOne=NBA= · « **Reply #26 on:** January 09, 2004, 01:47:11 pm »

I still believe that Yar's Revenge is the best arcade game that was never in the arcade.

allroy1975 · « **Reply #27 on:** January 09, 2004, 04:34:29 pm »

My thread has Derailed.

it had Intrepid Type Details from what I remember
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8197

it had graphics of about that calibur and it was maybe a maze game or maybe an elevator. Like I said I have no idea. I'm gonna go through all my roms this weekend and play all of them until I find it.

Allroy

CitznFish · « **Reply #28 on:** January 09, 2004, 07:36:34 pm »

check out Route16 on KLOV

allroy1975 · « **Reply #29 on:** January 10, 2004, 12:57:13 am »

geez...
I'm ready to say it was this game:
http://klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=7894
Galaxy Rescue
or it looks like there was a clone called Destination Earth.

It doesn't look like what I remember..but at least the main charachter thing looks like R2D2.

I swear it just sat in the middle...like a pac Man Ghost box..but it was R2D2
i'm tired of worrying about it though...

Allroy

Rahzel · « **Reply #30 on:** January 10, 2004, 07:03:39 am »

Hard Hat?

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=H&game_id=8075

The screenshots there look different than the one in Mame, the guy white with a big hat..kinda looks like R2D2

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #31 on:** January 11, 2004, 11:43:57 pm »

maybe it was a dream

allroy1975 · « **Reply #32 on:** January 12, 2004, 10:41:00 am »

either that or i'm crazy....both are very possible....

DarkKobold · « **Reply #33 on:** January 12, 2004, 10:47:42 am »

Actually, you may just be remembering it wrong. I took a physiology class last summer. The teacher talked about that. You often can "remember" things, and have them completely different then they actually were. It is the reason that you can have 2 eye witnesses have totally different accounts of what happened. Neither is lying, they just have a different memory.

Tommy Boy · « **Reply #34 on:** January 12, 2004, 12:04:18 pm »

Quote from: allroy1975 on January 10, 2004, 12:57:13 am

geez...
I'm ready to say it was this game:
http://klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=7894
Galaxy Rescue
or it looks like there was a clone called Destination Earth.

It doesn't look like what I remember..but at least the main charachter thing looks like R2D2.

I swear it just sat in the middle...like a pac Man Ghost box..but it was R2D2
i'm tired of worrying about it though...

Allroy

I have a similar memory of that game. I played it like mad at an all-weekend-long bowling tournament that my dad dragged me to when I was a kid. The version I played was called Lunar Rescue - I fire it up once in a while on my cab...I love MAME.


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