Competition: Name the game

[SCG]

Originally posted by Static Universe


Is this an FPS as we think of it now, or as we would have thought of it then, where you are in a static position and shoot things, but the view is "first person"?

you can move over terrain as well as fight in that mode. (or if you have no clue as to what you're doing, you can let the AI take over and you can watch a rather corny fight scene with motion pictures and closeups )

[Static Universe]

I probably don't know what this game is but do you have any more clues?

[CapTVK]

SCG,

I'll give it a shot: TWILIGHT 2000

[FrustratedPoet]

Wow, this one is tough. I've got no idea.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Complete shot in the dark. Blake Stone? (AFAIK, it's an FPS released around that time. No clue about its plot, though.)

[SCG]

Originally posted by CapTVK
SCG,

I'll give it a shot: TWILIGHT 2000

We've got a winner

I was introduced to it by one of my college friends when he played it with his ROTC buddies, and found it pretty cool, being RT part of the time (well all the time outside of the various game pauses for and the individual combat). He actually played the pencil and paper RPG and had to get it when it came out for the computer.

btw, he's also the one who introduced me to Civ I the year before

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by CapTVK



All right all right....here's another one from the 80's


In my line of work you visit me to distant worlds.
But on this job things did not go to their accords...
My ship lies in tatters
But not that it matters...
There is a craft that will get me back
But at a price that makes me crack...
With a hostile situation in the city
There's need for work and not mere pity.
Places to go and stuff to find
You'll be rewarded well in kind...

? Platform? nice riddle.....

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by child of Thor


? Platform? nice riddle.....

Another clue, another riddle:

It's not so much the city that I mind
But the view that made it one of a kind...
Neither the fact that I can fight
But more to do with my line of sight...

As I said it's an 80's game. What game am i?

[child of Thor]

CapTVK, could you narrow it down to the year and computer(s) it was released on?I got a feeling it's a text adventure

[SCG]

i wish i still had all the games my brother and i played back in the 80's with me - it sounds rather familiar, but i've got mechwarrior stuck in my head, so am going to have to think on this a bit more

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by child of Thor
CapTVK, could you narrow it down to the year and computer(s) it was released on?I got a feeling it's a text adventure

The game came initially was released for 8-bit homecomputers. It got high ratings at the time. Later on 16-bit versions were also released.

A third clue

Needless to say a man should be dedicated in my profession
But I will take money as a concession...

[child of Thor]

Elite?

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by child of Thor
Elite?

Aha, starting to see things in perspective!? No it's not Elite but you're getting warmer.

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by CapTVK


Aha, starting to see things in perspective!? No it's not Elite but you're getting warmer.

Ah! the hint above was a real hint I think i know what it is now, but i'll give it a little time to see if others(?) have got it or want to answer

[Adagio]

...still aint go no idea about this one...