Name the game - part 2

[Ljube]

Originally posted by child of Thor


and i thought you were just being off-topic - too cryptic for me

Ah this cost me another post so I’m warlord now. I wanted to avoid that. I’m not a spammer.

OK
Here’s another one of my favourites.
C64 game from 1986.
There are four of you.
Your group is supposed to free all scientists; you must evade the robot guards, electric fences, booby traps, etc.
To make things a little bit more complicated, the clock is ticking.

I believe this is enough to guess.

[Dale]

AHHHHH! I know this one, but can't think of the name!

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Shoot, I remember some of that from my C64 heydays but my brain has rewritten data over those braincells...........

Kinda sounds like Impossible Mission II though..........

[child of Thor]

But there were 'four'? unless it means four lives....i cant remember how many lives you had in Mission Impossible?
I was thinking along the lines of one of those early 'spec ops' type games....so i'll guess for 'Special Forces' by microprose.(but i think its wrong!)

Ha it just could be a fair few games! More clues please

[Ljube]

You are wrong guys. I thought this would be an easy score.
Doc, where are you? This game had Spectrum release too.
Are my hints not enough?

Well, let's make it clearer.

In the beginning, you are selecting your team of four crack commandos (out of eight if I remember correctly). You pick your crew comparing their physical and mental capabilities (although I never saw any difference regardless of whom I picked). One of them was called Kowalski.

Your mission is to save the world. The clock that is ticking is actually a bomb of immense power capable of destroying the world. In the beginning you shoot all the alarms first. You have to walk on the thin line to avoid all obstacles. Sometimes, one of your commandos has to jump on the shoulders of another one to pass through and open the way for the others.

Each scientist knows one digit of a code which you need to enter the room in which the powerful bomb is located. The bomb is in the fourth level below ground.

The game was exceptionally difficult and I must admit I haven’t been able to finish it.

If this is still not enough, I’ll post a screenshot later.

[child of Thor]

hey post a screenie anyway I'd like to see it
I knew i was in the ball park....... but this game may have escaped me unless it was the famous one, also by microprose i think?

[Ljube]

Not Microprose.

Piranha.

Here's a screenshot at the beginning of the game (timer 997 out of 999). The guy with the helmet is Kowalski.

[child of Thor]

Spectrum graphics! (IMHO although it did have a high resolution its colour schemes mostly sucked - American 8bits had overall better graphics i felt?)

i dont know now although i'm sure Dr.Spike will have a good guess. And i'll know it as soon as he gets it and kick myself

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by child of Thor
Spectrum graphics!

i dont know now although i'm sure Dr.Spike will have a good guess

The description means nothing to me...............but that screenie is starting to dredge up some long forgotten memories. This is bugging me now.

[Ljube]

If nobody of you played this game some of you might remember the ad.

Also, the game has a three word title.
The words begin with S F C.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Btw ADG you should add up the correct answers from the previous thread so I can see how much I won by.

Check out first post, then you'll see previous games... and winners


Haven't edited the looks of it yet, and have only taken games from first thread...

[Nikolai]

I was the one to get the honour of giving the game to guess after "The Day of the Tentacle", but it was Frustrated Poet that made it. He did give me the opportunity to win, nevertheless. I don't know if you want to count him or me as the winner in the overview? On one side, he was the one with the right answer, on the other side, I took over after him. What a mess...

[FrustratedPoet]

Something tells me that the person who guesses the right answer should be the winner. Call me old fashioned....

[Asmodean]

I know this one...may I guess??

Asmodean

[Ljube]

By all means!
This is an open forum.

And please stop your spam like questions that are in turn forcing me to spam.