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Posted May 18, 2009
I just thought of a game that I can't remember the name of. Can anyone help?
You play a gigantic robot, running around a city and battling other giant robots. The robots are huge, like eight stories tall. The city is full of people, which look tiny. In battles, innocent bystanders fly in all directions. The point of the game isn't hurting innocent people though, they're just collateral damage. I'll be damned if I can remember the name of the game, but it was pretty hyped when it came out, as I recall. My best guess is that it was around 2001, but I really don't know. The game is mission based (I think), in that you have to fight your way to the end of each level to advance.
So far, Google hasn't turned up an answer, so if anyone can remember the game, please let me know. I hate not being able to remember stuff like that.
Posted May 18, 2009
Wasn't it Mechwarrior 4 or some its clone?
Posted May 18, 2009
Not Mechwarrior related in any way, I'm pretty sure. Like I said, it takes place inside a city, a teeming metropolis. Also, it's not a battlemech, it's a giant robot. It is also third person, IIRC.
[EDIT] Ah, I managed to find it after all (different search words). It is called Slave Zero.
Post edited May 18, 2009 by Wishbone
Posted May 18, 2009
Cool name. :)
Posted May 18, 2009
What was that game where you were in the green suit and you shot a whole bunch of screaming nine year olds that looked like aliens, throwing about words they didn't know the definition of?
Posted May 18, 2009
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Wishbone: Not Mechwarrior related in any way, I'm pretty sure. Like I said, it takes place inside a city, a teeming metropolis. Also, it's not a battlemech, it's a giant robot. It is also third person, IIRC.
[EDIT] Ah, I managed to find it after all (different search words). It is called Slave Zero.

Holy shit, that game is awesome!
Got the original big cardboard box of it actually.
Posted May 18, 2009
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Wishbone: [EDIT] Ah, I managed to find it after all (different search words). It is called Slave Zero.
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sheepdragon: Holy shit, that game is awesome!
Got the original big cardboard box of it actually.

Yes it is. Go vote for it :-D
I remember being very impressed by it at the time. I wonder how well it has aged.
Posted May 18, 2009
From the screens, the scale of Slave Zero reminds me of Robotech Battlecry, must play that again one of these days
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Raneman25: What was that game where you were in the green suit and you shot a whole bunch of screaming nine year olds that looked like aliens, throwing about words they didn't know the definition of?

I called it primary school...
Post edited May 18, 2009 by Aliasalpha
Posted May 18, 2009
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Aliasalpha: Nothing stylistically like Lords Of Midnight or The Hobbit was it?

Btw now that you mentioned the two:
Remake of Lords of Midnight (and sequel Doomdark's Revenge) available here.
Remake of The Hobbit is available here.
Posted September 08, 2009
Dear Chautemoc,
You are absolutely right. The game was called "The Village," it was a Mac game, it apparently was built with world builder and I have also played it. You could get lost on the moors (or eaten), there was some guard with an axe you had to kill to get inside the castle, and there was that horrifying thing called The Nightmare. I have clear memories of limbo, but not the miser.
Unless you figured out a way to beat it, I'm convinced they never actually finished the game and there was no way to beat it.
Old Mac games are difficult enough to reconvert, but, sad to say, your post is the most detailed one I've found after extensive searching (another post suggested it may have been a British game?), so, unless you're somehow able to contact the game's creator, it's probably gone.
if you don't mind, I'd love to hear about what you remember from the game: gregmachlin@gmail.com.
Posted September 08, 2009
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gmachlin: Dear Chautemoc,
You are absolutely right. The game was called "The Village," it was a Mac game, it apparently was built with world builder and I have also played it. You could get lost on the moors (or eaten), there was some guard with an axe you had to kill to get inside the castle, and there was that horrifying thing called The Nightmare. I have clear memories of limbo, but not the miser.
Unless you figured out a way to beat it, I'm convinced they never actually finished the game and there was no way to beat it.
Old Mac games are difficult enough to reconvert, but, sad to say, your post is the most detailed one I've found after extensive searching (another post suggested it may have been a British game?), so, unless you're somehow able to contact the game's creator, it's probably gone.
if you don't mind, I'd love to hear about what you remember from the game: gregmachlin@gmail.com.

Nooooooo. :(
Thanks tons for confirming though! And I'm surprised I got the name correct.
That's all I remember, however.
Posted September 08, 2009
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gmachlin: Dear Chautemoc,
You are absolutely right. The game was called "The Village," it was a Mac game, it apparently was built with world builder and I have also played it. You could get lost on the moors (or eaten), there was some guard with an axe you had to kill to get inside the castle, and there was that horrifying thing called The Nightmare. I have clear memories of limbo, but not the miser.
Unless you figured out a way to beat it, I'm convinced they never actually finished the game and there was no way to beat it.
Old Mac games are difficult enough to reconvert, but, sad to say, your post is the most detailed one I've found after extensive searching (another post suggested it may have been a British game?), so, unless you're somehow able to contact the game's creator, it's probably gone.
if you don't mind, I'd love to hear about what you remember from the game: gregmachlin@gmail.com.
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chautemoc: Nooooooo. :(
Thanks tons for confirming though! And I'm surprised I got the name correct.
That's all I remember, however.

If you manage to find the game, and want to play it again... use Executor, it should be able to run really old Mac software without actually emulating a whole mac (and needing to find a copy of Mac OS).
Posted September 09, 2009
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Miaghstir: If you manage to find the game, and want to play it again... use Executor, it should be able to run really old Mac software without actually emulating a whole mac (and needing to find a copy of Mac OS).

Awesome, thanks. :D
Posted September 15, 2009
I'm looking for a very late 90s PC Windows game :
3DFX
Desert Strike-esque
Vietnam based story.
Helichoppers - 2 or 3 to choose from.
Missions involved shooting up VC convoys, rescuing POWs, fire-support missions...
I played it a couple of times, and now memory fails on what it was called :(
It was released around the same time as the FPS "Nam '67" which was a very bad Doom/Duke Nukem 3D clone.
Any ideas?
Edit : Okay, I've been reliably informed, on another forum, that the game I'm looking for is "MIA : Missing In Action" from October 1998. It does look like what I remember from back then...although I'm not too sure about the "embassy compund" pic...
Thanks anyway.
L3W
Edit 2 : Any chance of GOG.com chasing this beauty down for the site?
It's by GT Interactive publisher
Glass Ghost developer
Post edited September 16, 2009 by Lone3wolf
Posted September 29, 2009
It has arriveds!!
Installing now.
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