Can't remember the name of that game from your past?

[Soma_Shotgun]

Not sure what exactly you mean by the statue comment but my first guess is Alien Syndrome

Edit: Others found the game. Also ALien Syndrome is also in English so yeah...

 

[irkella irkella]

Sounds like Zunzunkyou no Yabou

 

[icecreamshampoo]

Sounds like Zunzunkyou no Yabou

How do you play these Japanese arcade games on PC? I've never dived into Arcade emulation. There are so many games I remember playing in the arcades that I would love to replay. ty <3

 

[Deleted member 660650]

How do you play these Japanese arcade games on PC? I've never dived into Arcade emulation. There are so many games I remember playing in the arcades that I would love to replay. ty <3

MAME emulator is overall arcade emulator on PC but the actual question is "how to find decent rom that actually MAME emulator is satisfed to run the game". Back then when I looked for decent roms the MAME emulator kept saying "the game lack this file and that" until I basically downloaded the whole internet and some roms worked and some didn't. To this day I fear trying to find more roms and I'm satisfied with few roms I found and it works lol.

 

[Dew Prism]

Just update to the latest MAME and then go here: https://mdk.cab/

Every rom file you download has a list in the description of the bios files and other dependencies you need to run it. It makes it very easy to do. I'm a huge arcade shmup player so i'm kinda obsessed with arcade titles.

 

[DJPlace]

Sounds like Zunzunkyou no Yabou

that's what it was. thank you so much.

 

[icecreamshampoo]

MAME emulator is overall arcade emulator on PC but the actual question is "how to find decent rom that actually MAME emulator is satisfed to run the game". Back then when I looked for decent roms the MAME emulator kept saying "the game lack this file and that" until I basically downloaded the whole internet and some roms worked and some didn't. To this day I fear trying to find more roms and I'm satisfied with few roms I found and it works lol.

Oh boy MAME is like the worst UI ever lol. From my memory. I remember getting FBNEO? I believe set up. My problem was either the BIOS just didn't match or the game version I had was invalid. Ive mastered all emulators besides arcade because of this looool. also thank you @

Dew Prism for the info <3. You both rock.​

 

[irkella irkella]

Oh boy MAME is like the worst UI ever lol. From my memory. I remember getting FBNEO? I believe set up. My problem was either the BIOS just didn't match or the game version I had was invalid. Ive mastered all emulators besides arcade because of this looool. also thank you @

Dew Prism for the info <3. You both rock.​

I've been using RetroBat as a solution for MAME and other emulators with relatively little issues, but I have definitely had to test each game in my collection and sometimes manually select which version of MAME to open with in the ES frontend.

AFAIK, MAME is more actively developed and aims for accuracy first, whereas FBNeo is a smaller project that aims for compatibility before accuracy. I haven't looked into FBNeo in a while however, so things may have shifted.

 

[White Ashe]

I wanted to ask about a mobile game. Made maybe between 2005-2010. It was one of those catapult games I think where you are scored based on how much damage you caused or distance travelled. I remember it was based on texas and there were hot air ballons ,storm clouds, eagles and oil rigs in it. If I remember correctly the place and game name contained Texas. Pls help i have thought about it for about 3 days and still couldn't remember or found it.

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Just found out what game it was from a reddit post. It was "Jhonny Crash does Texas".

 

[030079AR]

I wanted to ask about a mobile game. Made maybe between 2005-2010. It was one of those catapult games I think where you are scored based on how much damage you caused or distance travelled. I remember it was based on texas and there were hot air ballons ,storm clouds, eagles and oil rigs in it. If I remember correctly the place and game name contained Texas. Pls help i have thought about it for about 3 days and still couldn't remember or found it.

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Just found out what game it was from a reddit post. It was "Jhonny Crash does Texas".

mobile game at the time are hard to find, good You alrready got it

 

[Aeriththeflowergirl]

There was this PC game on Windows where you drive these military vehicles around a beach or something. It kind of looked A.S.P. Air Strike Patrol or Command and Conquer.

Now I know what game it was. Return Fire on PC

 

[_-_AceDragon_-_]

Now I know what game it was. Return Fire on PC

Just googled this. Looks great. Apparently on PS1 too, and a decent looking 2 player mode.

 

[thetwaz]

Not to promote other websites here too much - but if you're struggling to find an answer here, www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyjoystick is quite good for quite obscure games, not sure how they do on romhacks.

 

[GenoCL]

There's this game that's been in my mind since I was kid and I'm sure it's not a dream.
I remember seeing it in a magazine AND in real life.

It's an arcade game, apparently a fighting game, with two guys who look like Prince Addam not transformed into He-Man but had similar clothes and hairstyle. The sprites of the two fighters were HUGE almost using the whole screen, you looked at the back of the fighter in the left and the front of the fighter in the right.

The game vaguely looked like this incredibly crude drawing from my mind.

That vague memory is still super clear in my mind, clear enough to think I didn't dream it.

 

[RetroLaw]

There's this game that's been in my mind since I was kid and I'm sure it's not a dream.
I remember seeing it in a magazine AND in real life.

It's an arcade game, apparently a fighting game, with two guys who look like Prince Addam not transformed into He-Man but had similar clothes and hairstyle. The sprites of the two fighters were HUGE almost using the whole screen, you looked at the back of the fighter in the left and the front of the fighter in the right.

The game vaguely looked like this incredibly crude drawing from my mind.
View attachment 113576

That vague memory is still super clear in my mind, clear enough to think I didn't dream it.

Only game I know that is like that is Dark edge but it wasn't that zoomed in.

 

[fbnaulin]

OK. I'm looking for the name of this one:

It's an arcade game, probably from the 1990s.

PAC-MAN like, but SciFi theme: top-down perspective, gameplay occurs inside a labyrinth with doors, and you control a vehicle piloted by a cool guy (similar to Blaster Master).

 

[DreamCPS]

I'm looking for a game that is probably an old point-and-click for computers. What I remember about it:

• The game seemed sci-fi/futuristic.
• It started (?) with the player having to clean the windows of a building. I’m not sure if the player actually had to do this, but that’s how it looked visually…
• The game’s cover showed only the player’s feet, wearing sneakers, standing on what seems to be a platform.

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^
SOLVED.

It is Future Wars by Delphine Soft.

 

[Anoobis]

OK. I'm looking for the name of this one:

It's an arcade game, probably from the 1990s.

PAC-MAN like, but SciFi theme: top-down perspective, gameplay occurs inside a labyrinth with doors, and you control a vehicle piloted by a cool guy (similar to Blaster Master).

Fantasy Zone: The Maze?

 

[water_kooler]

OK. I'm looking for the name of this one:

It's an arcade game, probably from the 1990s.

PAC-MAN like, but SciFi theme: top-down perspective, gameplay occurs inside a labyrinth with doors, and you control a vehicle piloted by a cool guy (similar to Blaster Master).

Was it Aurial or Crack Down by Sega?

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There's this game that's been in my mind since I was kid and I'm sure it's not a dream.
I remember seeing it in a magazine AND in real life.

It's an arcade game, apparently a fighting game, with two guys who look like Prince Addam not transformed into He-Man but had similar clothes and hairstyle. The sprites of the two fighters were HUGE almost using the whole screen, you looked at the back of the fighter in the left and the front of the fighter in the right.

The game vaguely looked like this incredibly crude drawing from my mind.
View attachment 113576

That vague memory is still super clear in my mind, clear enough to think I didn't dream it.

There's this game that's been in my mind since I was kid and I'm sure it's not a dream.
I remember seeing it in a magazine AND in real life.

It's an arcade game, apparently a fighting game, with two guys who look like Prince Addam not transformed into He-Man but had similar clothes and hairstyle. The sprites of the two fighters were HUGE almost using the whole screen, you looked at the back of the fighter in the left and the front of the fighter in the right.

The game vaguely looked like this incredibly crude drawing from my mind.
View attachment 113576

That vague memory is still super clear in my mind, clear enough to think I didn't dream it.

Heavyweight Champ by Sega 1987
Mocap Boxing by Konami
I am stumped. About what year was it made?

 

[Deleted member 887798]

I remember playing on PC a low poly rail shooter with a plane (like Star Fox) and I remember that one of the bosses I got stuck in (perhaps the third level) was a train where you had to destroy each sections individually and they were armed.

I also need to remember if it was a PC game or an emulated PSX title but I doubt that old computers could emulate it well to begin with.

Is there any chance that it might be Einhänder?

 

[ismaeldosramos]

I’m trying to remember the name of a game I played as a kid. It had a similar style to River City Ransom — side-scrolling beat ‘em up with simple graphics and fun combat. What I remember most is that the final battle was against two opponents, and the game could be played in 2-player co-op.

I’ve been trying to find it for years but can’t recall the title. Does anyone know which game this might be? Any clue or suggestion would be super helpful!

 

[Zerpina]

Dunno, Double Dragon

 

[ismaeldosramos]

Dunno, Double Dragon

No, and I also remember that there were stores to buy things.

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

Maybe one of the other Kunio Kun games like:
Downtown special Kunio kun( Edo period oriented )
Or the later snes: Shodai Nekketsu Kouha Kunio kun

 

[UnDubious]

Not enough information. You might want to look into Technos in general, they made River City and many other beat-'em-ups (they invented the genre). The Combatribes, the Kunio series, Double Dragon series, etc.
Most games like these don't have shops. But your memories are so vague that maybe you're mixing different games together.