04-10-2003 00:51									#121
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quote: Originally posted by Buck Birdseed Elite? Wing Commander: Privateer?

Hogger! He hasn't even said no to your last guess yet.

	04-10-2003 00:58									#122
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I was just sparing you the trouble of making them 'cause they're both blatantly wrong.

	04-10-2003 01:00									#123
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er no.........your not trying to emulate my 'style' of wildly guessing are you

EliteII could have been it, but you didn't upgrade your character really, just the ships you flew.....

Wing Commander is not a bad guess for the clues given, but as with Elite2 you didnt really improve your self in an rpg sense.......

Buck Birdseed - i dont know that game well enough to comment, but er no its not it



ok Clue3: there was a lot of blue in this game - graphically speaking.

Clue4(cause it looks like you need it!): You could choose to be either male or female at the begining

	04-10-2003 01:04									#124
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quote: Originally posted by Buck Birdseed I was just sparing you the trouble of making them 'cause they're both blatantly wrong.

Maybe. Or perhaps you are just a master of the method, that, when applied to attracting members of the opposite sex is known as the "shotgun technique".

	04-10-2003 01:19									#125
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Starflight:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/gameId,115/

could have been it...

	04-10-2003 04:09									#126
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Traveller ? Although can't remember if you had a spaceship but there was a RPG element and space travel was involved somewhere.

	04-10-2003 14:06									#127
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Well Standup, i know the games you mean, but its not either of them.

Buck Birdseed, thanks for the link
I think the game i'm on about was trying to emulate this classic game, Starflight sounds like the kinda game i would like to have in my growing retro collection

ok time to raise the stakes with a screen shot
Like i said it was very blue!

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	04-10-2003 14:15									#128
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hmm tried to get it bigger so you could read the text.....

Attachment: sound1.png
This has been downloaded 46 time(s).

	04-10-2003 17:57									#129
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I have apparently never seen this game before in my life. Although the graphics are somewhat similiear to the Bard's Tale.


Wild Guess: Blue Moon over Andor?

	04-10-2003 18:02									#130
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Is it Space Rogue?

	04-10-2003 19:04									#131
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Well, I've figured it out using some creative Googling, does that count as cheating?

	04-10-2003 19:21									#132
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go on then.......what is it? (i cant seem to see the pic now but could earlier??:shrugs: )

oh and no one has got the right game yet........

	04-10-2003 19:26									#133
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quote: Originally posted by Buck Birdseed Well, I've figured it out using some creative Googling, does that count as cheating?

It's called cheating if that's the first thing you did... but in this case where nobody knows the answer, then why not...

	04-10-2003 19:30									#134
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With the information first given I couldn't have found out.

It's called Hard Nova.

	04-10-2003 19:34									#135
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'Creative googling' should not be encouraged.

However I've never even heard of that game, and it doesn't look like anyone was going to get it.

	04-10-2003 19:39									#136
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*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.

	04-10-2003 19:47									#137
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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?

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	04-10-2003 20:06									#138
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Quite simple really, looked for unique words and did a search for "Automagnum".

New game coming up.

	04-10-2003 20:12									#139
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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.

	04-10-2003 20:22									#140
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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.

	04-10-2003 20:40									#141
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quote: 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?

	04-10-2003 20:54									#142
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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.

	04-10-2003 22:41									#143
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Hmmm.....Prince of Persia??

Asmodean

	04-10-2003 23:19									#144
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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

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Silly Putty?

	05-10-2003 00:45									#146
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Reminds me of Superfrog, but that can't be it right?

	05-10-2003 00:47									#147
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Flashback

	05-10-2003 00:56									#148
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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.

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	05-10-2003 01:38									#149
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It can't be Fade to Black, that came out in 95

	05-10-2003 02:02									#150
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It's not a 2D platformer at all.