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[quinnr]

I found it. The game is Conquer on Contact if anyone else cares.

[Crazy Cow]

I've been searching for this old (1999-2000) 4x space exploration game that I remember having lots of fun with. It was the standard research technology, colonize planets deal, but I want to find it to see what it was really like. I do remember it had a name starting with an 'A,' and I could have sworn it was Ascension, but it isn't. I also remember always playing as a race that could steal technology from another race, and a particular insect-like race that would never, ever go to war and bugged you to no end for peace. Sound familiar to anyone?

[Il Palazzo]

Ascendancy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascendancy_%28video_game%29

The years don't match(1995), and I don't remember much about the races, but it's the only one that comes to mind.

[Crazy Cow]

There we go, that's it. Thank you!

[Akura]

I don't remember any of the races trying to ask for peace, except that rodent-like(Baliflids) one whose racial power causes everyone at war with them to go to peace(without telling you, if I remember correctly). Of course, that's not exactly asking for peace. Most just go to war invariably at some point, since diplomacy with a computer player is always worthless in most any game. This game could have used a multiplayer function though.

The Chamachies(lizardmen-like things) are grossly overpowered in this game, simply because of their racial power(instant research).

[a1s]

I'm looking for  a sim-city like game, that focused on traffic policies (where to run busses, which traffic lights to make asymmetrical, how to make people favor public transport, wether to buy cheap or clean transports- that sort of thing). I saw it on this very forum about half a year ago.
Here's what I remember:
The graphics weren't very good, but practical.
The game was made by some europeans (I think it was a university of some sort)
The game was either free, or had an overly full demo (I don't remember whether they wanted you to buy something, or wanted a donation...)
you could lay roads, plan bus routes, set speed limits, and chnage the duration of traffic lights.
you could do all sorts of sim-city like stuff, like zoning land, setting taxes (there were definitely taxes on cars and gasoline), as well as building 'special' buildings like malls, parks, and stadiums.
also, if you didn't set low speed limits in front of schools, the game (citizens?) would be upset with you.

[Cheese]

Cities in motion?

It sounds like what you're saying.

[a1s]

no, the graphics were not 3d (or at least they might have been simple pre rendered-3d).

Also, I don't think you can do city planning in Cities in Motion...

[Virtz]

Mobility?

[a1s]

I think that might be it. thanks!

[SquidgyB]

I gave myself a jolt of nostalgia by looking through the archived Your Sinclair magazines from the late eighties, but through that I've remembered something else that I want to try and find out what it was.

It's an old text adventure game, no graphics whatsoever as I recall. It's set in a modern day home, and all I remember was exploring an attic, where there was some sort of door to another world/universe... It's pretty vague, but some Infocom fan here might know

I think I played it on the Acorn Archimedes, but I could be wrong. In any case, if it was made for the Infocom parser it could've been on any platform really.

[Sowelu]

It's an old text adventure game, no graphics whatsoever as I recall. It's set in a modern day home, and all I remember was exploring an attic, where there was some sort of door to another world/universe... It's pretty vague, but some Infocom fan here might know

I know I've played that!

I need to dig up the name, though...

Edit:  Aha!  Was it Curses?  It came out in '93.

[SquidgyB]

Crikey, nice work there!

I doubt I'll ever get around to playing it at any length, but I remember playing this back in, ooh, must've been 1995 or thereabouts...

[Servant Corps]

Please help me find this game! I know little about it other than this:
1)It was a game on the Super Nintendo.
2) The story was this: that terrorists united together into an organization and took over the world. They then encountered an alien race and is now at war with the aliens. You control as a member of the Terrorists' space navy, and your goal is to destroy aliens.
3) It's a standard shoot-them-up, you control a ship and shoot down enemy alien units.

[Domenique]

I'll give a shot. I was searching for this game for centuries. Here's what I know it:
It's  a fantasy isometric rts, with different cultures/races, the only I can remember are humans and giants. It reminded me of Age of Empires.
It was for windows 98, i don't think xp was out by then. So 1996-2003 are possible release dates.