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2014/12/11 19:51:12
Subject: Re:Things you were positive existed but may not.
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Ferocious Black Templar Castellan
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 gunslingerpro wrote:
You know how many hours of my life I wasted playing this game? Well, this and Whacky Wheels (Mario-Kart style PC racer also distributed by 3D Realms. Came with Duke Nukem 3D).
YES! THANK YOU!
You have no idea how long I've been trying to remember what that game was called!
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2014/12/11 21:06:44
Subject: Re:Things you were positive existed but may not.
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The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar
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 Bromsy wrote: Grey Templar wrote: Bromsy wrote:I have one. It was a game from my early days of PC gaming - It was a strategy game and you were some sort of evil tyrant guy. There was a strategic map with your giant evil tower in the middle, and groups of enemies would move towards it with the intent of defeating you. You would go into tactical level battles and take them out. The mechanic that stuck with me was being able to capture the enemies and warp two or more of them together into monsters of your own. You would, if I remember correctly, research spells and stuff in different rooms of your tower in between battles.
The only enemies I distinctly remember were weird parrot faced dudes.
Well there are a lot of Tower Defense games. Might try searching for that.
As far as I recall this predated the genre. Talking late nineties or turn of the century. It was a full on strategy game.
Dungeon Keeper?
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2014/12/12 04:54:06
Subject: Re:Things you were positive existed but may not.
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Posts with Authority
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 Nevelon wrote: Bromsy wrote: Grey Templar wrote: Bromsy wrote:I have one. It was a game from my early days of PC gaming - It was a strategy game and you were some sort of evil tyrant guy. There was a strategic map with your giant evil tower in the middle, and groups of enemies would move towards it with the intent of defeating you. You would go into tactical level battles and take them out. The mechanic that stuck with me was being able to capture the enemies and warp two or more of them together into monsters of your own. You would, if I remember correctly, research spells and stuff in different rooms of your tower in between battles.
The only enemies I distinctly remember were weird parrot faced dudes.
Well there are a lot of Tower Defense games. Might try searching for that.
As far as I recall this predated the genre. Talking late nineties or turn of the century. It was a full on strategy game.
Dungeon Keeper?
Nah. If the game indeed exists and isn't a product of my fevered imagination, it's got to be fairly obscure as my normally robust google fu has failed me time and again.
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2014/12/12 05:52:11
Subject: Re:Things you were positive existed but may not.
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Towering Hierophant Bio-Titan
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 Hanskrampf wrote:
I'm still searching that specific book full of "fairy" tales I had as a kid. Most tales were more brutal than Hänsel&Gretel and the like, but I loved it. Only remember that "The Tinderbox" and possibly "Jack and the Beanstalk" were in it. I know we never sold the book and search through my parents attic a few times a year and have yet to find it. I would already have bought it, but can't find it anywhere^
Was the book Max and Maurice?
There was also Struwwel Peter.
Max and Maurice blew off their teacher's head by swapping pipe tobacco for gun powder, among other things and Strudel Peter's hair and fingernails grew so long that he strangled himself and gouged his own eyes out.
Who says Germans don't have a sense of humour.
There's a reason I grew up like I did.
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Oli: Can I be an orc?
Everyone: No.
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2014/12/12 06:03:48
Subject: Re:Things you were positive existed but may not.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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They are great books.
Eat your soup or die!
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2014/12/12 06:55:08
Subject: Re:Things you were positive existed but may not.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Bromsy wrote: Nevelon wrote: Bromsy wrote: Grey Templar wrote: Bromsy wrote:I have one. It was a game from my early days of PC gaming - It was a strategy game and you were some sort of evil tyrant guy. There was a strategic map with your giant evil tower in the middle, and groups of enemies would move towards it with the intent of defeating you. You would go into tactical level battles and take them out. The mechanic that stuck with me was being able to capture the enemies and warp two or more of them together into monsters of your own. You would, if I remember correctly, research spells and stuff in different rooms of your tower in between battles.
The only enemies I distinctly remember were weird parrot faced dudes.
Well there are a lot of Tower Defense games. Might try searching for that.
As far as I recall this predated the genre. Talking late nineties or turn of the century. It was a full on strategy game.
Dungeon Keeper?
Nah. If the game indeed exists and isn't a product of my fevered imagination, it's got to be fairly obscure as my normally robust google fu has failed me time and again.
Is there anything else at all you remember, however insignificant it might seem? The closest I can find is Master of Magic, but it doesn't exactly meet a lot of what you said, and I can't find a thing anywhere about capturing enemies and turning them into monsters, regardless of the game; is there anything in MoM, or any other strategy game like it, that you remember being in the game you're looking for (obviously excepting the basic stuff like settlements and tactical battles), or could jog your memory?
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Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
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2014/12/12 06:55:58
Subject: Things you were positive existed but may not.
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Towering Hierophant Bio-Titan
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That's what's wrong with kids today, I prescribe less I phones and more fear tactics.
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Oli: Can I be an orc?
Everyone: No.
Oli: But it fits through the doors, Look! |
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2014/12/12 07:29:24
Subject: Things you were positive existed but may not.
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Storm Trooper with Maglight
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Tibbsy wrote: Lord Bingo wrote:There was a cartoon that was on when I was younger about teams of 5 people in mechs that competed against each other. There was the blue team who were the good guys and the reds who were the bad (I think). I periodically try to search for the name of it but have never managed to find it. Don't think i've watched it in 10-15 years, its really annoying as I swear I should remember the name.
Was it Heavy Gear?
Never watched it really so I can't confirm on the colours thing; but it sounds right.
It was! Thanks! Been looking for it for years.
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2014/12/12 07:34:31
Subject: Re:Things you were positive existed but may not.
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Experienced Maneater
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 Alex Kolodotschko wrote:
Was the book Max and Maurice?
There was also Struwwel Peter.
Max and Maurice blew off their teacher's head by swapping pipe tobacco for gun powder, among other things and Strudel Peter's hair and fingernails grew so long that he strangled himself and gouged his own eyes out.
Who says Germans don't have a sense of humour.
There's a reason I grew up like I did.
"Max & Moritz" and "Struwwelpeter" are still extremly popular in Germany, but not the books I'm looking for 
Oh man, I just googled again and found it! Holy feth, I'm so happy right now.
For anyone interested:
http://www.amazon.de/Das-grosse-M%C3%A4rchenbuch-hundert-sch%C3%B6nsten/dp/3257006853/ref=sr_1_17?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1418369412&sr=1-17&keywords=m%C3%A4rchen
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2014/12/12 12:51:29
Subject: Re:Things you were positive existed but may not.
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Wraith
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 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
YES! THANK YOU!
You have no idea how long I've been trying to remember what that game was called!
And my good deed of the holiday season is done! Nothing beats a game where you shoot hedge hogs at anthropomorphic animals riding in go carts.
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2014/12/12 13:11:20
Subject: Re:Things you were positive existed but may not.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
Squatting with the squigs
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I had a lionel riutchie song that was a combination of "hellO" an somehting else. at that age my spelling was as poor as my comprehension
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