Help finding games

[welmoed]

DosGuy, thank you SO much!!! I'm printing off the order form and will be sending my money off tomorrow. Here's to wasting more precious hours...

--Welmoed

[DOSGuy]

I haven't gotten a response from Digital Workshop yet, but I am communicating with Maciej Miasik. He's quite a nice fellow and has a website at www.miasik.net. I particularly like his cat.

I don't want to reveal anything too detailed about our conversation without his permission, but I hope to have good news to share in the coming days or weeks.

Incidentally, does anyone speak Polish?

[welmoed]

Gosh, I'd forgotten a few things:
1) how SLOW games were way back when!!
2) it's possible to play games without using a mouse
3) I suck at Robbo just as badly now as I did the first time I played!!

Yep, it's the same game I remember... thank you SO much for helping me find it.

--Welmoed

[DOSGuy]

Well, here's a special treat. Maciej Miasik recompiled the unreleased shareware version and sent it to me, so now you can find out what you would have been able to play if Epic had released it.

[SpellSword]

Unreleased Shareware! Now I 'must' try this demo.

A major thumbs up to Maciej Miasik for taking the time to compile the demo.
(I love it when programmers hang onto all their old source code. )

[DOSGuy]

Okay, here's the good news that I didn't want to leak until it was finalized. Maciej Miasik got permission from all of the copyright holders to re-compile the registered versions of the entire Epic Puzzle Pack (Adventures of Robbo, Electro Man, and Heartlight PC) under a Creative Commons License. All three are now freeware, and can be downloaded from the site.

[SpellSword]

This is great!
These are three games everyone should play. 8)

[Smarticus]

Looking for two games, early 80's. In school, so I believe I was using an Apple of some sort:

1. I believe it was called "Miner" - typical "press play on tape 1" kind of dos game. Consisted of a little miner dude (asterisk character - *) that took an elevator down a mine shaft, then would have to pick his way through the minefield. I remember water being represented by the @ sign. Could find gold ($ sign) and bombs (I think represented by the # sign). Would earn money or lose it. Distinct "tink tink tink tink" sound when using his little pick-axe.

2. Another game, I can't remember the name of it to save my life. Also a DOS game. Seemed like a treasure hunt in a house or you had to rescue someone, can't remember which. No pictures. Would have to use a two word phrase to give commands after the program gave you a brief narrative describing your surroundings. Two word commands such as "get key" or "go stairs" would help you maneuver your way through the house. I distinctly remember a pool filled with mercury in the backyard. If you typed in the wrong command, I believe it would come back with "does not compute" or something similar.

Any help is appreciated

[DOSGuy]

The first one is definitely not a DOS game because Apples didn't run DOS. They also didn't use tape cassettes, so you're probably thinking of a VIC 20 or a Commodore 64. Commodore computers also didn't use DOS. All computers have a Disk Operating System, many of which were command driven, such as CP/M, but DOS is unique to the PC.

The second game is a text adventure. Thousands of text adventures were written, of which I have played a small fraction. That particular one isn't familiar to me, but maybe we have a text adventure expert who can help. There are also a number of fantastic websites and online communities for adventure gamers, and I bet someone on one of those sites would be able to answer immediately.

[mikestr2]

Growing up i had this Educational type game for my Commodore 64. It ran DOS. Below are things I remember about the game.

1. From the command prompt you typed SOS to get into the game.
2. The game was about some mad scientist or something that took over this TV studio. The point of the game was to go through the studio and solve a bunch of stuff and ultimately stop the guy. While walking through the hallways an occasional robot would come out and if you didn't jump and summersault over him, he would zap you. then you'd have to answer the questions inside him correctly or else he would take away some of your life(the questions were usually if not always math related)
3. The main character wore baggy type clothing, and a hat. His face was not showing.
4. I remember the colors being some what bright, like the main character i think was like cyan and magenta.
5. At the end of the game, you would see the mad scientist on the TV station Tower, and there would be like a thermometer that showed what your score was for the game

Any help on the title of the game would be great

[DOSGuy]

I played that game, too. It was called Super Solvers: OutNumbered! and it was from The Learning Company. Released in 1990, there were versions for DOS, Windows 3.x and Macintosh, but not for Commodore 64, which did not run DOS.

The game was actually EGA, meaning that it had 16 colors. The hero wears a red hat and a light blue jacket, but it may have been rendered in cyan and magenta if you had a CGA graphics card and a color monitor.

I picked up a copy at a Salvation Army Thrift Store last year. If you keep your eyes open at thrift stores, you may be able to pick up a copy, too.

[Vindicar]

Hi guys,

well, looks like i found the right forum ^^ i've been looking for a game i used to play when i was 8 or so, for quite a while now.. I've got very little info about it, heres a little description

What i remember about the title is something with "Joe" and "seven magical (realms?)"
Basicaly your this guy who has to find his way through platform levels, alot of jumping and blasting enemies with yellow, purple and (i think) green power balls.

If anyone ever played, then what would probably refresh your memory was the fact that you could hit the ground 3 times with your magic hammer and gold might pop out ^^

Ahh thats a lousy description i know :p its all i got though. I hope someone knows what i'm on about
Its pretty old.. probably around 1990 or so

~Vindi

[Foolster41]

I remember super solvers series, including outnumbered. That was a great series

Smarticus: Unfortunitly that isn't much information and so I have no idea. I vaigly remember a mystery game in a house for the Apple II, but I can't remember what it was called and think that's probibly not it anyway.

I'm not really a text adventure "expert", but I've played a fre text adventure games, and might know it with a little more information.

[Flat Mike]

This looks like the right place to start my search. Big up for this forum btw.

I'm looking for a game that I used to play on my dad's 286, I was around 8 years old at that time... Must have been roughly between 1988 and 1992 (but offcourse the game could be older).

Don't remember the name, but the game showed a 3d environment in which one controlled a sports ball (I remember a soccer ball and a basket ball, each with it's own speed, flexibility, etc.). The ball was placed in some sort of maze and one needed to roll it around the maze, bump into buttons, fall through holes, to succeed/end a level. The ball was kept sort of centered while the background scrolled. Just for your information, there was no controller visible, just the ball (so no figure kicking it around or sth.).

Does anyone know this game?

[DOSGuy]

It sounds a lot like Marble Madness, except that you don't have a choice of balls.