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Underrated.
Fucking loved this game, played the crap out of it.
The SNES version was superior to the PC one. There were a few weird changes to how you could command the hive that worked better in the SNES one.
The large scale colony land ownership system was just crazy, though. Each time would devolve into full 300 to zero for colonies and it was tough to grind control back one way or another.
You mean Sim Ants my dude
I don’t mean SimAnts.
Microsoft Ants came out a few years later, on the Microsoft Gaming Zone.
It died when they pulled the plug on the platform, and part of me wishes they’d release it on Steam. But that’s probably the nostalgia talking.
I was going to say, I don’t remember a Microsoft Ants but I sure as hell remember SimAnts.
I never figured out if bringing a piece of food next to an egg made it hatch faster but omg as I’m typing this right now I realize that makes absolutely no sense. Why the hell would an egg hatch faster if it has no mouth. Wtf was I thinking as a kid, loool.
Worse when it’s a flash game, as I understand they’re all dead now.
I just want to play the unknown snowboarding game with all the little hills to jump on again. Well that and the ever classic Kitten Cannon.
Worse when it’s a flash game, as I understand they’re all dead now.
You can still play every flash game ever through the Flashpoint Archive
Gonna try this but one of the games I really liked was actually delisted from popular flash sites back in the day and I forgot the name because it was a fictional fantasy single word title.
Lost it long before flash died, and I can only assume it was because the creator had requested a takedown which is really weird.
Dude awesome thanks! Looks like running it on linux is a whole thing but doable, now I just neef to find out what the game was.
Try r/tipofmyjoystick on Reddit. This is one case where a larger audience definitely helps.
Try describing it to AI. From my experience, AI chats are pretty good in finding games, movies etc based on poor description, just ask for short list of game names so it will not write you essay about how old games are better. You can also describe it here
But be ready for disappointment, because at least ChatGPT is bad with obscure media, and even makes stuff up regularly.
There’s a few I remember which aren’t on here. Nicktrolpolis is one of them. But it’s consider all the other obscure games which did get preserved it’s amazing.
Flash is actually coming back to life via WebAssembly of all things.
Emulating Flash in HTML tech wasn’t a problem for a long time already, but from what I can tell there are no tools for creating such animation that could rival Flash’s popularity from back in the day. People are probably just using dedicated game engines that can target browsers.
No you can literally run Flash games on your browser again, thanks to ruffle.rs
this, there was a flash game where you are an evil genius. you have a base which you can later upgrade to a volcano or a moon base. you send agents to kidnap politicians or other villanous schemes. there were segments where your base was attacked and you had to use your resources to defend it.
overall an amazing game. never found it again :(
I’ll have to check the details but, could that be Mastermind: World Conqueror? It’s still on newgrounds
YOU FOUND IT!!! THANKS, SO MUCH
tried search engines, tried AI, and nothing worked. but you did, you proven yourself better than the trillion AI investments.
a few months ago on a nostalgia trip I found a playable kitten cannon, I don’t remember where. I think I was looking up new grounds or addicting games and found the website through a Wikipedia link.
Septerra core legacy of the creator, a pc turn based rpg i got in the early 2000s in some multi game pack at walmart or something. took forever for me to find it using the early internet. Its a unique title, but highly forgettable.
Still on my list of games I wanna finish
A puzzle game where each (2D) map spawns with lasers and corresponding targets, and sometimes mirrors etc. You get to place some mirrors, T pieces, beam splitters etc. and have to fulfill each target.
There are so many clones of this out now it’s nigh impossible to find, especially as the game is literally just called Laser. This one’s also a clone I think but I just love this particular one.
I did recently finally find it again after more than a decade of looking.
Syndicate, by bullfrog
R.I.P. Bullfrog…
The Dungeon Keeper games will forever be among my top 10.
Magic Carpet and Genewars were such weird games.
I loved that game. Only for to play for a few weeks in Germany back in 1995.
Ran into it again years later somewhere and finally made it much further through the missions. Great game.
I never beat the final mission.
They got frakin’ hard! Especially the mechanics of the trains and when the baddies started shooting further. Tracking where the action was got tough when you had to split the team.
Yeah I had figure I out a strategy using the persuedatron, where it would get stronger the more people you persueded. If you started with civilians and got a bunch, you could then do security guards, then the police, then other syndicate agents. I still think this is the only way to beat that final level, but there are nothing but agents on that level.
That was my favorite game as a kid. Too bad the only remake is a stupid FPS.
‘Satellite Reign’ is the spiritual successor, released in 2015 and started by the producer and lead programmer for ‘Syndicate Wars’.
I played it for couple of hours and it seems pretty good. Thank you again.
I’ll check it out, thanks.
Yeah the remake totally misunderstood what the game was about.
I remember the sound effects and one level… but not the name. Classic.
And not the gameplay or the system?
I remember years ago I went looking for a game I used to play as a child where you start at a manhole cover and open it to reveal a beanstalk.
The game was called “the manhole”
I learned a lot about the internet that day.
🤣
Anyone else think of Another World / Out of this world?
Mikearuba
Agusta… Agusta Agusta laser fires
It came as a demo with so many games. Finally played it a decade or so ago. It was pretty good.
Those godly laser gun sound effects and visuals.
It took me FOREVER to find, but I was determined to find my old games. I assumed they were Sega Master System games, so I started watching videos like “best master system games” and such.
Then when I finally came across them, the memories all came rushing back like it was the 80s again! It’s so frustrating but when you finally find it, it’s such a good feeling.
I had to try and find it for the sake of this meme! I thought it was a PS1 game all these years, just found it.
Buck Bumble. An N64 game I played when I was a kid, flew around as a bee and shot down other bugs. Its was a good time, glad I was inspired to try and find it’s name again!
I love that game’s title music.
Me too man, it’s stuck in my head now!
There’s two edutainment games I remember playing on school PCs back in the early 2000s (either 2000 or 2001) and I’ve found nothing about them since. Asking about them on the TOMT and TOMJ subreddits got me nowhere.
One was set in a castle and had an intro where the main character crosses a moat. I remember it for a particular minigame where you operate a catapult and have to launch cabbages at people hiding in barrels, following instructions like “90 degrees clockwise”, “125 degrees anticlockwise”, etc. If you successfully hit all 8 targets without fail, the victory message was “You cabbage head!”
The other was more like a loose collection of minigames and several different CD collections were released. I used to own one that I found in a supermarket bargain bin. The minigame I remember on this collection involved moving a pin to pop balloons. The background music was some kind of weirdly upbeat jazz song.
I got you fam, it’s called NewZealand Story. https://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-new-zealand-story-679
It turned out that star wars supremacy which I had long since lost the disc for was digitally released as rebellion.
Arseholes
It was only called Supremacy in the UK. I played Rebellion back in the late 90s
On this side of the pond it’s called Star Wars Overlord
For the engagement. I could literally google this or ask any of the half dozen AI search agents I have access to and likely get an immediate answer. I don’t really care one way or the other.
But having said that…
Back in the day of the original Playstation, circa mid to late 1990s, there was a really intriguing robot battle game where you essentially implemented a visual program to run your battle robot then let it loose in a “3D” arena to run its course with the program you designed. You literally had no direct control over the real time action IIRC, the game was won or lost on how well you programmed your bot to fight.
The actual game was probably pretty shit by modern standards, but for the time it was unique and good enough to be intriguing. It was certainly not the kind of game that would have wide support, then or now. A bit nerdy, definitely complicated for the era.
My stupid fucked up brain remembers it as Armored Core, but that’s definitely not the name of the game or even the right genre. I’ll literally forget any correct response and likely end up asking this same question again in 10 years, so don’t feel compelled to answer. Not like I’m going to fire it up again any time soon. My PS was stolen more than 2 decades ago and I’m pretty sure it was a game I rented a half dozen times but never owned anyway.
Also Merry Fucking Christmas
Carnage Heart. OK, bye.
Oh shit I remember playing this, it was more like a sim with tanks, right? I remember cheesing it by constantly driving in a circle and shooting enemies when the barrel aligned with them.
ChatGPT was really hit-and-miss for me in this regard, and really more miss. Idk about other LLMs.
Instead, in this case I’d rather find the category for such games on Wikipedia, which seems to be Programming games, then click through the games to see which of them are on PS1 (or use a script I have for pulling such data from a category), then look at YouTube clips of the gameplay.
