Name the Game - Part 8

[ZargonX]

Game rules:
- If you guess a game correctly you provide the next game.
- Please check the list below before doing so.
- Games are not allowed to be newer than 1997, but anything before that is allowed.
- Usually a good clue is to write information about which computer you played it on. Also the time period and genre can be narrowed down.
- Use vague clues at first and if nobody can guess, write progressively more useful clues later.
- Shotgunning is not allowed. 1 guess is your limit until you are told it is incorrect.
- The answer is not Grim Fandango, except when it is.
- Googling invalidates your guess, and should be declared if used as a last resort in a difficult game.

Alternate Reality ljcvetko
Amaurote child of Thor
Apidya DrSpike
Archon Static Universe
Bard's tale III Static Universe
Beach Head II Sn00py
Behind Closed Doors tri(zenobi) -
Birthright: Gordans Alliance Dale
Board of the Rings duke o’york
BoulderDash Buck Birdseed
CJ’s Elephant Antics duke o’ york
Cannon Fodder DrSpike
Castles Kropotkin
Cauldron II ljcvetko
Clash of Steel Drogue
Columns duke o’york
Comix Zone Vlad Antlerkov
Congo and Amazon SCG
Cruise for a Corpse DrSpike
Crusade in Europe Buck Birdseed
D/Generation DrSpike
Darklands ZargonX
Day of the Tentacle Frustrated Poet
Deathwish III CapTVK
Desert Strike ADG
Defenders of the Crown DrSpike
Discworld Noir Buck Birdseed
Double Dragon DrSpike
Down in the Dumps -
Dragon Wars GhengisFarb
Dynamite Headdy CygnusZ
Dyna Blaster Buck Birdseed
Eidolon CapTVK
Elf Kropotkin
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark duke o' York
Emperor of the fading Sun Spaced Cowboy
Evo-search for eden duke o'york
Fairlight CapTVK
Firepower CapTVK
Fiendish Freddy Dale
Fire and Ice DrSpike
First Samurai child of Thor
FlashBack Child of Thor
Flood CapTVK
Floor 13 CapTVK
Fort Apocalypse CapTVK
Future Wars CapTVK
Gearheads –
Grand Monster Slam -
Grim Fandango Buck Birdseed
Hard Nova Buck BirdseedGoogled
Heart of China Standup
Heimdall Duke o' York
Hexen Static Universe
Historyline 1914-1918 Standup
Hunter child of Thor
Ignition -
Imperium Galactum CapTVK
Impossible Mission Static Universe
Jet Set Willy Buckbirdseed
Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninjas CapTVK
Joust SCG
Knight Lore Child of Thor
Kult Dale
Labyrinth Buck Birdseed
Landstalker Doc(Dr.Spike)
Law of the West Dr.Spike
Leaderboard Spaced Cowboy
Lemmings Guynemer
Lemmings 2: Tribes DrSpike
Lord of Conquests Kropotkin
Lufia 2: Rise of the Sinistrals Buck Birdseed
Lure of the Temptress FrustratedPoet
M.U.L.E. Child of Thor
Manhunter: New York Spaced Cowboy
Mars Saga Zarga X
MDK Buck Birdseed
Mega-lo-Mania Frustrated Poet
Mercenary Child of Thor
Megaman Buck Birdseed
Megaman and Bass Guynemer(Googled)
Midwinter2 Child of Thor
Mindshadow Zargon X
MonkeyIsland2 Buck Birdseed
Necromancer DrSpike
Neuromancer CapTVK
Night Breed Spaced Cowboy
Nitro ADG
Normality Buck Birdseed
North and South Child of Thor
Nuclear War ADG
Panzer Dragoon FrustratedPoet
Paperboy Buck Birdseed
Phantasy Star Dr.Spike
Pinball Dreams DrSpike
Pole Position MrBaggins
Portal Dale
Powermonger child of Thor
Pssst Dr Spike
Push Over ADG
Questron CapTVK
Rampage Tuberski
Rainbow Island Kropotkin
Raid over Moscow Dr.Spike
Rampart ADG
Red Storm Rising Spaced Cowboy
Reunion -
Rise of Dragon duke o'york
Robot War Ghengisfarb
Save New York Asmodean
Scorched Earth DrSpike
Seek and Destroy Buck Birdseed
Sensible Soccer 92/93 Child of Thor
Sensible World of Soccer Buck Birdseed
Sentinel DrSpike
Seven cities of gold -
SexGames CapTVK
Sherlock Holmes FrustratedPoet
Short Circuit Ghengisfarb
Silkworm Standup
Silly Putty DrSpike
Skate or Die! ADG
Skool Daze DrSpike
SkyRoads CapTVK
Sleepwalker Standup
Speedball II ADG
Speedball child of Thor
Spelunker Dr.Spike
Spy vs Spy Big Crunch
Spyhunter Standup
Stunt Car Racer DrSpike
Street Sports Basketball CapTVK
Strike Force Cobra Asmodean
Sundog CapTVK
Super Mario Bros 2 Zargon X
Supercars Sn00py
Sword of Aragon duke o' york
SWIV Fulby
Syndicate Dr.Spike
The four crystals of Trazere Dale
The Lost Vikings ADG
Theatre Europe DrSpike
Tombstone City SCG
Turrican Dr.Spike !
TV Sports Basketball Spaced Cowboy
Twilight 2000 CapTVK
War of the Lance CapTVK
Wing Commander CapTVK
Xenon 2 Buck Birdseed
Yie Ar Kung Fu Spaced Cowboy
Zak McCracken Guynemer
Zelda: Link's Awakening DrSpike
Zool child of Thor
Zork Zero CapTVK
1830 duke o’ york
1942 Dr.Spike

Score so far (after thread 7):

DrSpike 28
CapTVK 20
Buck Birdseed 15
Child of Thor 13
bADGer 9
Spaced Cowboy 10
Duke o York 9
Zargon X 5
Frustrated Poet 5
Dale 5
Standup 4
Kropotkin 4
Static Universe 4
Asmodean 3
SCG 3
Ghengis Farb 3
Ljcvetko 2
Sn00py 2
Guynemer 2
CygnusZ 1
MrBaggins 1
Tuberski 1
Big Crunch 1
Drogue 1
Standup 1
Vlad Antlerkov 1
Fulby 1

Fully updated ...

[Arnelos]

*waits*

(not that I'll have any chance to get it, seeing as my old school gaming experiences seem to be different than many on the site )

[Nikolai]

This game could be much more fun if I had been a bit older, or got a computer a bit earlier... I have guessed the right game once when I have checked in, but then the right answer was taken...

[DrSpike]

Well we have extended the period to include some more recent games, but yes, this is predominantly aimed at those with a long history of gaming. It's more challenging to dig up memories of games that you haven't thought about for 10 or even 20 years (well for the old fogies like CoT anyway).

[duke o' york]

I'm glad for the cut-off point, because I was pretty terrible in my teenage years - spending every night playing on my Amiga and going to bed at midnight each night, but then I stopped playing when I went to university and have only recently started playing again. I know very little about more recent games too. I'm still trying to catch up on those I missed out on.

[child of Thor]

[spits into his spitoon - and misses]
yep us old codgers get a small thrill when we actually remember the name of a game from our youth! or the name of our first girlfriend.............[gazes of into the distance all misty eyed]
not that i've got that one yet - still i got a good 30 years left in me to figure it out

[Kassiopeia]

Ludd's pic in "Name the Image" is from Uplink, of course. I wonder if that was a joke or something, though, too easy.

[ZargonX]

Clue 1: A racing game with a twist

[Adagio]

With a twist? Super Cars is probably too easy (and I believe we already had that one), but I'll guess that anyway... even though I believe there's more to the "twist" than armed cars

[duke o' york]

Micro Machines

[child of Thor]

darn - i was going to say that one........

er ok.......crazy cars? - the twist being it was well...crazy!

[mrmitchell]

May I barge in?

Streets of SimCity, was that before 1997? It's been a while...

[Spaced Cowboy]

Carmagedon?

[Buck Birdseed]

Stunts/4D Sports Driver? That had corkscrew loops in it, pretty twisty I'd say!

[ZargonX]

Nope, not yet

Clue 2: For a race, you might say it had some increidbly colorful, patterned backgrounds...