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[Farce]

I managed to make the beginnings of a SWAT Kats mod with "selectable weapons" in one glovatrix.

D:

Yes please.

[Sean Mirrsen]

I managed to make the beginnings of a SWAT Kats mod with "selectable weapons" in one glovatrix.

D:

Yes please.

http://forums.datarealms.com/download/file.php?id=29247
Other than a few weapons for the 'trix and the above, it hasn't gotten far.

[DeKaFu]

There was this game back in the 1990's (early to mid) wich was basically a science game about going back in time to photograph (and movies) various creatures and showed the creatures in a clade relationship format. I really don't remember the name of it, but all I can remember is that one of the companies was Cryo. Edit: It also had a saurosapien for some reason as the character you usually interact with.

!!
Dinosaur Safari. When I was a kid that game ruled my world. I played it for years until it suddenly stopped working. Seriously, this game was like half my childhood. I cried when it broke.

The other half was another pretty obscure game I guess: Fin Fin.
It was touted as a virtual pet, though it wasn't really much of a pet. It wasn't much of a game either, since it had almost no interactiveness whatsoever. It starred a half-bird, half-dolphin creature named Fin Fin on an alien planet called Teo. You could choose between a few single-screen locations on the planet, and basically watch Fin Fin as he flew around and hunted and foraged and otherwise interacted with the world. The only "interaction" you could do was pretty much limited to talking into the included microphone, but I never got any sense that it detected anything but volume (you could scare him with loud noises). I think you could also offer him a fruit to eat in one of the locations. That was it.

The thing that obsessed me with the program was the fact that the world changed in real time. You could watch the sun rise and set at appropriate times of day, the weather changed periodically, but things also changed throughout the year. Different plants grew in different months, foliage changed with the seasons, and there were even things like eclipses that only happened once per real-life year. There were also a bunch of alien animals that could randomly appear, and a lot of my time with the game I spent trying to photograph them all with the in-game screenshot feature.

I still have the discs for both hanging around somewhere, but I've never managed to get them working again. I suspect if I ever did they'd lose some of their nostalgic shine.

[Neonivek]

I played Dinosaur Safari and while I liked it while I was younger there was a reason why I didn't play it for very long.

The underwater portions FREEKED ME OUT! Honestly I am surprised I never got nightmares. It is secondary to falling into the Lake in "Lands of Lore Guardian of Destiny" where a giant lake fish would eat you in the dark murky waters.

That and the difficulty of the game was actually pretty high. It was easy to lose simply by running out of resources.

[BradB]

Captain Claw. Best game Monolith has ever made (including NOLF).

[Vester]

There was this game back in the 1990's (early to mid) wich was basically a science game about going back in time to photograph (and movies) various creatures and showed the creatures in a clade relationship format. I really don't remember the name of it, but all I can remember is that one of the companies was Cryo. Edit: It also had a saurosapien for some reason as the character you usually interact with.

!!
Dinosaur Safari. When I was a kid that game ruled my world. I played it for years until it suddenly stopped working. Seriously, this game was like half my childhood. I cried when it broke.

The other half was another pretty obscure game I guess: Fin Fin.
It was touted as a virtual pet, though it wasn't really much of a pet. It wasn't much of a game either, since it had almost no interactiveness whatsoever. It starred a half-bird, half-dolphin creature named Fin Fin on an alien planet called Teo. You could choose between a few single-screen locations on the planet, and basically watch Fin Fin as he flew around and hunted and foraged and otherwise interacted with the world. The only "interaction" you could do was pretty much limited to talking into the included microphone, but I never got any sense that it detected anything but volume (you could scare him with loud noises). I think you could also offer him a fruit to eat in one of the locations. That was it.

The thing that obsessed me with the program was the fact that the world changed in real time. You could watch the sun rise and set at appropriate times of day, the weather changed periodically, but things also changed throughout the year. Different plants grew in different months, foliage changed with the seasons, and there were even things like eclipses that only happened once per real-life year. There were also a bunch of alien animals that could randomly appear, and a lot of my time with the game I spent trying to photograph them all with the in-game screenshot feature.

I still have the discs for both hanging around somewhere, but I've never managed to get them working again. I suspect if I ever did they'd lose some of their nostalgic shine.

DINOSAUR SAFARI YES.

Kronosaurus. The beast from hell.

[Obsidean_00]

Apparently Lords of Magic, Starsiege, and Creatures 2 are rather obscure according to the people I know.

Then again I still have my cd copy of Lemmings for dos.  Used to have a game called Battle Beasts by 7th Level, nice graphics but the controls were horrible.

[smjjames]

There was this game back in the 1990's (early to mid) wich was basically a science game about going back in time to photograph (and movies) various creatures and showed the creatures in a clade relationship format. I really don't remember the name of it, but all I can remember is that one of the companies was Cryo. Edit: It also had a saurosapien for some reason as the character you usually interact with.

!!
Dinosaur Safari. When I was a kid that game ruled my world. I played it for years until it suddenly stopped working. Seriously, this game was like half my childhood. I cried when it broke.

The other half was another pretty obscure game I guess: Fin Fin.
It was touted as a virtual pet, though it wasn't really much of a pet. It wasn't much of a game either, since it had almost no interactiveness whatsoever. It starred a half-bird, half-dolphin creature named Fin Fin on an alien planet called Teo. You could choose between a few single-screen locations on the planet, and basically watch Fin Fin as he flew around and hunted and foraged and otherwise interacted with the world. The only "interaction" you could do was pretty much limited to talking into the included microphone, but I never got any sense that it detected anything but volume (you could scare him with loud noises). I think you could also offer him a fruit to eat in one of the locations. That was it.

The thing that obsessed me with the program was the fact that the world changed in real time. You could watch the sun rise and set at appropriate times of day, the weather changed periodically, but things also changed throughout the year. Different plants grew in different months, foliage changed with the seasons, and there were even things like eclipses that only happened once per real-life year. There were also a bunch of alien animals that could randomly appear, and a lot of my time with the game I spent trying to photograph them all with the in-game screenshot feature.

I still have the discs for both hanging around somewhere, but I've never managed to get them working again. I suspect if I ever did they'd lose some of their nostalgic shine.

DINOSAUR SAFARI YES.

Kronosaurus. The beast from hell.

Yea thats the one, I just googled it and the screenshots are definetly familiar.

[Farce]

I think I remember Lords of Magic.  I used to keep doing some glitch when creating my beginning party so I could afford all the cool artifacts it showed you, but were ridiculously out-of-range.  Like, twice your total points and more.


Then I would lose anyway, because I am bad at games.  Kitting dudes out was fun, though.

[RantingRodent]

Omega. You designed tanks and wrote AI for them, then pitted them against the game's stock tanks. I was young at the time so I don't know first hand how popular it was, but the gameplay involves actual programming so it couldn't have gone too far. It was for the Amiga.

[Greiger]

I never played Omega but that reminds me quite a bit of an old PS1 game called Carnage Heart that I played alot back in the day.

You designed giant robots, bodytypes, guns missiles, arms, engines, cooling, secondary weapons, whole works.  You had two leg walkers, tank types, spider types, and if you really dumped alotta money into a company you got flying types. 

And there were a number of large weapons manufacturers companies that you invested money into different design blueprints as a way to research.  Most of those designs like a design for a laser weapon everybody would have their own variant of, but even those weapons seemed unique, with one companies lasers having a really high output or a low cost and high efficency, they even had brand names to give them a little more detail.  But the companies usually had specialisations too, one company making very good CPUs or engines while another company makes high tech mech bodytypes.

But the game's big thing was it's AI.  You made it from almost scratch.  You had a number of 'chips' that you would place on the CPU in a flowchart fasion.  Each chip was one command, such as "If projectile 0 degrees forward in 180 degree cone within 50 meters" and "Jump left" "Duck" "move forward" "fire primary 3 times".  And all the numeric values could be changed on the chip.  For example the check projectile one could be set to look in a narrower cone at 90 degrees for 200 meters if you wanted.  The system was rather powerful.

And then you would mass produce the things into squads of 3 in your factories in a big turn based strategy game.  And when opposing forces met they would go into a combat screen where they would duke it out using the AI you made.  There was a cheat code that allowed you to directly control bots too, and the cheat code didn't really make the game any easier. But you were meant to let the AI do all the work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Vk7u2Niu0 <- Youtube vid of a versus fight between 2 player made designs.  You can see in the large grid in the top left a representation of the AI and how it's executing things, each little block is a command.  It dosn't show you the exact commands but you see how it's structured.

EDIT: I was unaware they made a PSP port of this, must not be as obscure as I thought.

[kilakan]

LORDS OF MAGIC FTW!!!  Man they were so awesome, it's what sparked my love for dwarves, they were the best at everything.

[HonkyPunch]

Anyone ever play Phantom Dust, for the xbox? Amazing game.

[RantingRodent]

I never played Omega but that reminds me quite a bit of an old PS1 game called Carnage Heart..[snip]

I was also a huge fan of Carnage Heart for much the same reasons as Omega,  although Omega had you writing your AI in a text editor, and therefore gave you a lot more control.

[kg333]

Apparently Lords of Magic, Starsiege, and Creatures 2 are rather obscure according to the people I know.

Creatures 2 was a game that didn't seem to catch on much in North America...from what I've heard, it was more popular in England.

Lemme see, obscure stuff I've played...the original Lords of the Realm for DOS is up there, and no one I know seems to have played some of Sid Meier's old stuff, like M1A1 Tank Platoon and the original Railroad Tycoon.  I'd probably also put Rise of The Dragon by Sierra up there, too.

KG