05-10-2003 02:05									#151
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(not that Fade to Black was)

	05-10-2003 02:07									#152
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well I'm lost now

	05-10-2003 02:15									#153
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Oh I'll give away the Genre then.

Clue #6: 3D (arguably 2.5 D) Platform/Driving.

	05-10-2003 02:36									#154
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Micro machines?

	05-10-2003 12:10									#155
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Alas, no. Though that was an excellent game. I suppose I shoud have said (Clue #7!) 3rd person perspective, camera behind the vehicle jumping/accelerating/deccelerating/sliding sideways game.

	05-10-2003 16:06									#156
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I am pretty sure that I haven't played this one.

These clues mean nothing to me.

Asmodean

	05-10-2003 16:10									#157
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It was massivley popular at the time in Swedein at least. Probably my favourite of the "limited levels" shareware games that we used to pass around on floppies.

	05-10-2003 16:16									#158
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Using only Clue #6:
Whacky Wheels?
;=)

	05-10-2003 16:24									#159
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Hang on, when was Skidmarks released? Is it that?

	05-10-2003 18:56									#160
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Stunt Car Racer? (wild stab in the dark, not really concentrating)

-Jam

	05-10-2003 19:12									#161
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I thought that at first, but it was well before 1993.

	05-10-2003 19:15									#162
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Right, I'm gonna start making it real easy now. First a full game description, then a screenshot of the action. If you're not getting it at that point I shall authorise creative googling.

The game is set on a long, straight horizontal surface mystically suspended in space. This is coloured in lush 256-colour VGA and perforated full of holes, meaning most of the time the surface exists only as a number of panels or platforms. There are also tunnels, raised blocks and a number of special squares to make gameplay varied and interesting.

Your craft is viewed from above and behind, and you have to steer this craft using acceleration, decceleration, sideways movement and carefully judged jumps to a tunnel at the end of every level. Thre levels can be played in any order, and there are no lives as such, meaning you end up trying again, and again and again until you finish it.

	05-10-2003 19:33									#163
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I remember this now.............but not the name.

Tbh (at least for the UK) if it's the game I'm thinking of it's quite obscure. That's not a bad thing, but this one is certainly not as easy as is claimed IMO.

	05-10-2003 19:45									#164
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Did I claim it was easy? I jsut said it was popular with me and my fellow pre-teens when it came out, and still is one of my favourite games of all time to this day.

	05-10-2003 23:31									#165
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Actually, come to think of it, that's not literally (or indeed metaphorically) what I said at all. But it's what I meant!

Right, final clue people! After that I shall have to drop some pretty major hints.

I took this screenshot when I wrote a review of the game on counterglow about a year ago.

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This has been downloaded 84 time(s).

	05-10-2003 23:36									#166
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The graphics is wonderful!

Unfortunately, I haven't played this one.

	05-10-2003 23:44									#167
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Once someone gets it you'll get a chance to- it was made freeware some years ago.

	06-10-2003 00:30									#168
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Yes, it was the freeware version I played IIRC. I still don't remember the name, even with the screenshot. I don't have it, but I know my mate still has it. Probably the game will be over before I speak to him and get the name.

	06-10-2003 01:09									#169
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a game that i missed in my ill spent youth! but then i usually got my hands on the main commercial releases - pocket money had its uses

reminds me of a game released on a few of the 8bits a number of years earlier..............i'll guess 'Star sled' ?

	06-10-2003 01:41									#170
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I remember playing that game but the name escapes me.


Errr.....star road or something

	06-10-2003 01:46									#171
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ummm.....'Star skimmer'?

i have to offer a on this one.

	06-10-2003 02:05									#172
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quote: Originally posted by CapTVK I remember playing that game but the name escapes me. Errr.....star road or something

Very, very, very close. A plural, a deleted space and a similar-sounding, similarly evocative word and you've got it. In fact, I'm tempted to give it to you anyway 'cause I'm going to bed in a minute.

	06-10-2003 02:33									#173
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Okay, fine, I'm giving it to Cap on the "oh **** it I need to sleep, close enough" principle.

The name of the game is "SkyRoads".

Here's a review I wrote of the game about a year ago (alluded to earlier). http://www.counterglow.com/article.php?id=skyroads

If you want to play the game or the excellent "XMas Edition" add-on pack, both with 30 levels (yes, 30, I found out the "repeated" level had one, small, devilish difference), you can download them from the Blue Moon Interactive site: http://www.bluemoon.ee/history/skyroads/index.html

	06-10-2003 02:34									#174
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(BTW this was an "emergency" game, I had stocked up on clues for Archon before realising you'd already done it, you bastards.)

	06-10-2003 02:55									#175
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It's a good one. I had heard of it, but only through the freeware version I'm sure I played a while back.

	06-10-2003 14:23									#176
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Damn it! Skyroads! I thought about that game but I couldn't for the sake of my puny life remember much about it, least of all its name.

	06-10-2003 16:12									#177
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Do another Buck or hand it over to someone else to do

	06-10-2003 17:21									#178
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I thought I'd already given it to CapTVK.

	07-10-2003 00:29									#179
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Yeah I thought it was Cap's turn.

	07-10-2003 00:43									#180
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You two aren't familiar with Cap's goes...........he is the Milton of Name the Game. He'll be back with some wonderful rhyming couplets, which will understandably take a while.