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[Talfryn]

Darwin pond, found it

[mothra]

yeah requiem , that was it. thanks

[vettefan]

I am looking for the name of a game a friend of mine desribed to me. Appearantly you play as a blob on a balancing board, and the goal is to get the other blob to the ground by jumping on the board.
My friend seems to recall another quite specific detail about the game in question, namely that you could hang on to some sort of lamp post for a short period of time if you timed your jump well but he also said that he may be wrong about that.

[Jopax]

Gish, and that's the duel mode, there is also a campaigin where you try to rescue your girl

[vettefan]

Ah, after confirmation from my friend you are spot on, sir! The warmest of thanks to you.

[EagleV]

Gish, and that's the duel mode, there is also a campaigin where you try to rescue your girl

I knew I played that before! Thanks!

[Kagus]

Ah yes, Gish...  The game with fresh ideas and great style, and that handles like an alcoholic sandwich with Parkinson's.

Alright, I got one for ya...  It was an old RTS game with aliens fighting against humans.  Each side had one main base that they could upgrade and add buildings onto in order to unlock new units.  The aliens used mostly biological technology, with giant exploding beetles and huge worm-like critters with legs that served as artillery by launching exploding dung balls at their enemies.  The main resource was harvested from volcanoes or something like that.  The game had some cool sounds in it, and I think the title had 'Dark' in it, although I'm not sure.

I have a few vivid images from that game, like how the primary alien base would essentially give birth to the main alien footsoldiers, complete with t-shirt and laser rifle.  Incredibly disturbing.

Yes, I played this game as a young child, why do you ask?

[Neyvn]

Dark Reign...
Dark Storm...
Dark Stories...
Dark Rights.
Dark Rites

Actually I think it was Dark Reign...

[Neyvn]

EDIT:: DAMN SHITTY NETCAFE PCS!!!

[Sowelu]

the title had 'Dark' in it

Not Dark Reign; that one didn't have horrifying biological monstrosities (though it -was- very cool and complex).

[olemars]

Dark Colony

[Kagus]

No, not Dark Reign...  Although I have played DR, I remember the harvesters, the very nice graphical style, and some mission I could never beat.  I also remember some half-assed hacking trying to turn a jungle mission into a tundra environment.

Heh...  I'd originally just mentioned that game since it was the only thing I could think of off-hand that would actually give me an excuse to post in here about the drunk sandwich.  But now this confusion got me downright curious, so I started poking around on my own and, well...  I'll be darned if I didn't find it.

The game was Dark Colony, and I remember spending quite a large amount of time enjoying myself by just messing around with the alien units and seeing how they walked, sounded, that sort of thing.  Eventually the AI would just steamroll on in and wipe out my whole base because I was preoccupied with looking at my troops (this, unfortunately, seems to be my one resounding weakness when it comes to such games...).  At my young age (probably wasn't even ten yet, the game came out in 1997 and I was born in 1990.  Even then I was browsing around for game demos), I was repeatedly beaten back by the competitive nature of the game until I finally gave up in frustration.

Eventually, after several years had passed, I came back to it to muck around again.  A couple defeats later and I was forced to learn how to actually play the game just so I could curb-stomp the AI into a state where I could freely tool around with my units.


While it's a remarkably simplistic game, it does have an interesting setting and style.  And, again...  You get to see a giant blob of flesh pooping out little gray dudes with t-shirts and laser rifles.


EDIT:  Dammit, in the time it took me to type that up Olemars managed to find the dang old thing...  Well, congratulations Ole.  I was wondering if anyone would find it.

EDIT2:  Hell, we even linked to the same site as a reference.

[Virex]

the title had 'Dark' in it

Not Dark Reign; that one didn't have horrifying biological monstrosities (though it -was- very cool and complex).

Heh I remember making my enemy go "wait where did that tree come fr... OH GODS ARTILLERY!" in that game.

[Pakhawaj]

This might be a little tricky since my memory is so vague.

I had a game when I was young where you played as a pink knight, he could jump and (I think) he had a little yellow sword, the goal was to get to the door without dying.
I can't remember what console this was for, and I've tried looking for the name of it but to no avail, I just called it "my computer".
The console consisted of a keyboard and a monitor, in the top right-hand side of the keyboard was a place to put your cassette game. It was able to display a few colours, but not many, all of my games had black backgrounds and objects in the game were always one colour.

Here's a bad picture of what I can recall (casse= =place where one would put the cassette). :S

edit: man it's making me nostalgic just looking at that picture, please help!

[Sean Mirrsen]

Well, the "console", from what you're describing, sure sounds like a Spectrum, or one of its contemporaries.

Good luck finding a specific platformer game for that. There were metric giga-shit-tons of those on the speccy.