Guess the Video Game from the Screenshot

[Smacktard]

 

[shortkut]

Open the pic in a new window and read the title for a cute lil surprise...

...you're shortkut now btw

 

[Fool's Requiem]

There was an NES game that was initially intended to be a Terminator game, but license expired before it got released, so the dev/publisher chose to make some alterations and release it with a different name.

I think it was called Alien Syndrome.

that's my guess

Edit: Nope, Alien Syndrome was a Sega game that also got a release on the NES (via Tengen). Not the game I'm thinking of and not the answer here either.

 

[Smacktard]

Alright nerds, here's your hint: it's a sequel

 

[shortkut]

Alright nerds, here's your hint: it's a sequel

Duke Nukem 2D

 

[canadaguy]

Duke Nukem 2D 2

 

[shortkut]

Duke Nukem 2D 2

2 Flat 2 Nuke

 

[Ben]

Actually, I should clarify that Alien Soldier was also released in PAL, and was released in the US only as a Sega Channel limited-time offering. The JP version of the game is just more expensive than the PAL version because who wants to play vidya with a PAL refresh rate?

Game:
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Could be a DOS game, so it must be Dostoevsky.

Alright nerds, here's your hint: it's a sequel

Dostoevsky 2.

 

[canadaguy]

Looking at the player UI, I am actually convinced it is just some AI slop and not actually a real game at all

 

[Ben]

Looking at the player UI, I am actually convinced it is just some AI slop and not actually a real game at all

It's actually difficult to get AI to make that level of garbled wtf.

 

[Smacktard]

I dunno, I think the graphics are kinda cool and impressively detailed for an NES game.
(That should give you a hint about when it life cycle of the NES it came out?

 

[VashTheStampede]

Oh it looks cool as all hell

 

[shortkut]

Mega Man: Human

 

[Smacktard]

Oh it looks cool as all hell

It's impossibly unforgiving! You don't know which level to start on! The bosses are bullshit! Until you realize that there are SECRET SUPER SUITS in each level that sort of trivialize subsequent levels and bosses.

Most people like the first game a lot more since it's more approachable and forgiving.

If you have the POWER, maybe you can figure out the name of this game.

 

[shortkut]

It's impossibly unforgiving! You don't know which level to start on! The bosses are bullshit! Until you realize that there are SECRET SUPER SUITS in each level that sort of trivialize subsequent levels and bosses.

Most people like the first game a lot more since it's more approachable and forgiving.

If you have the POWER, maybe you can figure out the name of this game.

Nintendo Power: Editorial

 

[Smacktard]

Nintendo Power: Editorial

Really expected you to go with "SECRET SUPER SUITS POWER." You're unpredictable, I'll give you that.

 

[VashTheStampede]

Really expected you to go with "SECRET SUPER SUITS POWER." You're unpredictable, I'll give you that.

*deletes draft*

 

[Ben]

If you have the POWER, maybe you can figure out the name of this game.

Powerman 5000.2

 

[shortkut]

Really expected you to go with "SECRET SUPER SUITS POWER." You're unpredictable, I'll give you that.

That’s my super POWER

 

[canadaguy]

Power guy

 

[Quagmire]

Power guy

Top or bottom?

 

[dimmerwit]

Is it "unnamed.png"?

 

[shortkut]

Is it "unnamed.png"?

The p in png stands for power

 

[Quagmire]

Looks like some B level action movie game

Terminator 2

 

[canadaguy]

The p in png stands for power

Power Nintendo Guy

 

[shortkut]

Looks like some B level action movie game

Terminator 2

Or like robocop as a human

Humancop 2

 

[Fool's Requiem]

This is what T2 on the NES looks like:

 

[Quagmire]

This is what T2 on the NES looks like:
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A simple no would have sufficed

 

[Fool's Requiem]

A simple no would have sufficed

oh, I just wanted to show what T2 on the NES looked like because I was curious myself

no snark intended

could have showed the isometric/Paperboy-ish camera angle of the motorcycle level(s)

 

[Smacktard]

Okay another hint:
You can't see it in the screenshots, but the main character wields a BLADE.

 

[Smacktard]

(also I'm going to bed so if anyone figured it out, just roll with the next game and don't wait on me)

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Power Blade 2???

Edit: well I'll bring damned, that's it. I wish that game wasn't so expensive. I would like to play that one.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Ok, I've got two pretty obscure driving/racing games. First one is the one for the game. Second one is a bonus to see if ANYONE besides me has seen/heard of it.



Hint: Name of the game takes two elements from what you see in this screenshot.

 

[Ben]

Ok, I've got two pretty obscure driving/racing games. First one is the one for the game. Second one is a bonus to see if ANYONE besides me has seen/heard of it.

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Hint: Name of the game takes two elements from what you see in this screenshot.

Crazy Taxi: San Francisco

 

[Fool's Requiem]

sir, doeth that lookth liketh a taxi cab to thou?

 

[Ben]

sir, doeth that lookth liketh a taxi cab to thou?

More so than a cop car, which I'd assume it's trying to be. I'll concede the roof lights are more police than taxi, but the color is more taxi than police.

But fine. Crazy Cop: San Francisco.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

 

[Ben]

Looks like it's Cisco Heat?

 

[shortkut]

Ok, I've got two pretty obscure driving/racing games. First one is the one for the game. Second one is a bonus to see if ANYONE besides me has seen/heard of it.

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Hint: Name of the game takes two elements from what you see in this screenshot.

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The Village People: A Day in the Life

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Looks like it's Cisco Heat?

yup

 

[Ben]

yup

 

[shortkut]

I know this genesis game

Bucky O’Hare: Beach Vacation

 

[shortkut]

I know this genesis game

Bucky O’Hare: Beach Vacation

It was a brutal game to complete

 

[Ben]

It was a brutal game to complete

Subtle, but you got it. I actually thought that one was going to be more obscure but that was pretty fast.

95% sure I had it for Sega Mega-CD.

EDIT: Huh... I didn't even notice that the UK release might have just been called "Paws of Fury" without using the "Brutal" title. You still got it though.

 

[Jawneh]

Reminds me of Bloody Roar. Those were all fun.

 

[Ben]

Reminds me of Bloody Roar. Those were all fun.

I literally was googling Bloody Roar gameplay screenshots when I thought that'd be too easy and pivoted to Brutal instead.

Fuckin' loved me some Bloody Roar though.

 

[shortkut]

Subtle, but you got it. I actually thought that one was going to be more obscure but that was pretty fast.

95% sure I had it for Sega Mega-CD.

EDIT: Huh... I didn't even notice that the UK release might have just been called "Paws of Fury" without using the "Brutal" title. You still got it though.

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Because you gave me the win, this game is for you

 

[Ben]

Because you gave me the win, this game is for you

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Word, but I've actually never seen this before in my life. I am now disappointed.

I found it pretty easily with a Google search, but let's see if someone else gets it.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Anyone willing to take a stab at my second game, for fun?

Reminds me of Bloody Roar. Those were all fun.

There is a crummy early fighting game where fighters turn into beasts that predates Bloody Roar. I think it was a Mortal Kombat clone. I'll look for it. (No, I'm not thinking of Primal Fury).

In regards to Brutal Paws of Fury, you're always an animal. It's also supposedly pretty bad.

 

[shortkut]

Word, but I've actually never seen this before in my life. I am now disappointed.

I found it pretty easily with a Google search, but let's see if someone else gets it.

It was on every iMac that I bet almost all of us used in middle school