Name the game - part 2

[Buck Birdseed]

*shrug*

I was just curious as to what it was and had run out of ideas, I wouldn't have posted the name if I hadn't had the say-so.

So do you want a new game or not? I could refuse the "victory" if you want.

[child of Thor]

Yep its Hard Nova , a game i enjoyed a number of years ago - it had a lot of detail in all aspects of the game and just had a good 'feel' to it.......... it looks a little dated now, but here is a link for some more info on it.

ok Buck [bidi bidi -shameless Buck Rogers reference! ] your go

Hard Nova

which part of the clues helped your er...cough....search?

[Buck Birdseed]

Quite simple really, looked for unique words and did a search for "Automagnum".

New game coming up.

[DrSpike]

Hehe, go ahead, I realise you were scrupulously honest about the searching and didn't immediately post the answer.

However, this is a guess the game competition, not a "who is best with a search engine" competition.

Preferably games should be well known enough that eventually people will get them as the clues become more blatant, like BB's earlier long set of clues that eventually reached the point I remembered the game.

I have to say for CoT's last one I wouldn't have got it even with the most blatant of clues, but someone might have.

[Buck Birdseed]

Platform: DOS

Release Year: 1993

Genre: Unique

Clue #1: The shareware version of the game contained levels 2, 10, 11, 13, 18 and 25 from the final game. These could be played in any order.

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
Quite simple really, looked for unique words and did a search for "Automagnum".

New game coming up.

Ah........i should have stuck to the origonal small pic, ok noted for future use

Is the new game a shoot em up?..............unique?

[Buck Birdseed]

If I gave a fuller description of the genre (in the style of, say, Action/RPG or Sports/Simulation or whatever) it'd be quite a bit easier to guess.

Clue #2: There are two common ways to die: Either you run, high-speed, into an object or you quite simply fall off the level. In some levels you can also die when your supplies run out.

[Asmodean]

Hmmm.....Prince of Persia??

Asmodean

[Buck Birdseed]

Clue #3: A sound sample. This is me starting the game up, pressing enter twice to go into the menu select screen, pressing enter again to go into the first level, then pressing escape twice to quit.

http://www.snapcase.f2s.com/Sample.mp3

[DrSpike]

Silly Putty?

[FrostyBoy]

Reminds me of Superfrog, but that can't be it right?

[FrostyBoy]

Flashback

[Buck Birdseed]

Flashback was the "next game" alluded to in my last set of clues, you're behind the times.

edit: wait, no, it wasn't. I was alluding to Another World, D'oh. Still, nothing to do with this game.

Clue #4: The Estonian developers of this game spent the rest of the nineties trying (and failing) to become big-time game developers, nearly going bankrupt in the provess when a deal with struggling Interactive Magic fell through. At around the same time they decided that they'd try their hands at application design, first coding a backbone for an internet portal with limited success. Then, suddenly and dramatically, they reached the coveted success-story status by being the main development team behind FastTrack, the premier P2P architecture used by KaZaA, Grokster and others.

[FrostyBoy]

It can't be Fade to Black, that came out in 95

[Buck Birdseed]

It's not a 2D platformer at all.