Guess the Video Game from the Screenshot

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

This is clearly Legend of Zelda: The Lost Levels. Instead of Ganon, you're fighting this Nosferatu ass looking ass.

It does play a little like the original Zelda to be fair.

Also that's a switch that you push, not an enemy.

 

[shortkut]

Also that's a switch that you push, not an enemy

 

[Fool's Requiem]

It does play a little like the original Zelda to be fair.

Also that's a switch that you push, not an enemy.

which is the switch? both things look like game characters...

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

which is the switch? both things look like game characters...

The character is on the left and has red hair (is facing right due to actively moving the switch). The switch is kind of like a torso looking statue thing.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

this game better not be Hydlide

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Ok, good, its not. UI is COMPLETELY different. Would hate to learn that someone only ever liked that awful game.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

Yeah it's not that. This is a game that was only ever released on the NES.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Ok, I found in a video featuring LoZ Clones.

Spoiler

Faria

 

[VashTheStampede]

Spoiler: Pun

so close yet so faria

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Ok, I'll post a screenshot. I feel like someone should know this one.

 

[dimmerwit]

Spoiler

Is that allowed under Faria law?

 

[Fool's Requiem]

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

Later I'll post a game my dad got really into, though he played more than just a single game.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

But yes FR was correct on the game.

 

[shortkut]

Ok, I'll post a screenshot. I feel like someone should know this one.

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Rollercoaster tycoon 2: 2 Roller 2 Coaster

Or

rollercoaster tycoon 3: Boardwalk drift

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

Looks like a weird Cruis'n game that takes place on a roller coaster, but lower res.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

I did some looking on google in the background on my meeting right now and may have found it. Will give others a chance to get it without the googs.

 

[shortkut]

I did some looking on google in the background on my meeting right now and may have found it. Will give others a chance to get it without the googs.

 

[dimmerwit]

It's California Speed. Took me a bit as I've only played the arcade version and forgot it got a console release.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

Spoiler: Probably Answer

California Speed

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

lol yeah. That's why I wanted to wait

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

If you don't want to post another screenshot right now I do have my other one prepped by the way

 

[dimmerwit]

You can post your dad's game now.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

I also loved this game. Didn't get as good at it as my dad did though.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

It's California Speed. Took me a bit as I've only played the arcade version and forgot it got a console release.

yeah, that's it. Only way to make it even more obvious would be if I had found an image of the Mountain Dew truck or Golf Cart driving on the roller coaster.

 

[shortkut]

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I also loved this game. Didn't get as good at it as my dad did though.

It’s a hacked ROM version of Links Awakening with upgraded graphics. @VashTheStampede howndid they get Moldorm outside? At least he can’t knock you off the platform

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Civilization 64

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

It’s a hacked ROM version of Links Awakening with upgraded graphics. @VashTheStampede howndid they get Moldorm outside? At least he can’t knock you off the platform

As close as you will get.

Hopefully other people will get closer.

 

[dimmerwit]

It reminds me of Fury3, which my dad played a lot of. Not it though.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

It reminds me of Fury3, which my dad played a lot of. Not it though.

Some screenshots of that game tell me why you think it's similar. They're from around the same time, this one being a bit older.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

FYI, this was originally a DOS game, and a crazy good one at that.

With updated (but not stupidly so) graphics it would probably do well today as well.

 

[Smacktard]

Is it Centipede (3D)?

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

It is not. Maybe try reading the words and seeing you can decipher the icons at the top.

FYI when the game is named I'd recommend playing it if you can find it.

 

[VashTheStampede]

This thread helped me blow a buddy's mind today when we played the daily Guess the Game...

 

[shortkut]

This thread helped me blow a buddy's mind today when we played the daily Guess the Game...


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[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

Need any more hints?

 

[VashTheStampede]

Pretty sure I could figure it out if you just gave me the name of the game

 

[Jawneh]

Kinda insane to look at as the graphics could pass for early PS1 games.

UI though... Definitely old.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

I don't understand how this is a DOS game. looks like an N64 game.

 

[Jawneh]

Well, actually. Now that I think about it, DOS era PC games had already been pretty damn amazing compared to any consoles. Early Windows ones were too. It's just hard to remember as it all blurs together.

I had played a couple Wing Commander games as a kid and those looked amazing to my tiny little eye balls in my tweens. So much better than anything I had seen on SNES or SEGAs. I remember some StarWars ones being amazing too.

I think our perception of "DOS games" as being something like C64 had. And even c64 had some decent looking ones later on.

 

[VashTheStampede]

Y'all are insane because my first thought when I saw the image was "that is clearly a DOS game"

 

[VashTheStampede]

Although I guess to be fair I was basing that 100% on the font

 

[shortkut]

I know it’s wrong, but I wanted to share how stupid AI responses are:

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

The monster in the picture is called a "worm" in the game. It's only one of many types of monsters you encounter (one of the easiest ones). There's another that looks just like it except it flies and is called a dragon.

Other monsters look more like what they're meant to be. Bees and birds are also common in the early levels. Kraken and Griffins show up a few levels in, and eventually things like Wyverns show up (and look more like what you'd imagine vs. what this game uses as Dragons, which I guess would be more akin to the east asian style of dragon)

 

[Smacktard]

Y'all are insane because my first thought when I saw the image was "that is clearly a DOS game"

Idk, looked like a shitty shovelware N64 game or something to me.

 

[dimmerwit]

I thought either DOS or early Win 95. Fury3 which I mentioned earlier was essentially a Win 95 version of the DOS game Terminal Velocity and they look fairly similar.

 

[Quagmire]

It reminds me of Fury3, which my dad played a lot of. Not it though.

One of the first games I bought on PC, got it at a Big Lots, it was kind of fun. Not sure if was actually a solid game or I didnt know better or have other options

 

[Quagmire]

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I also loved this game. Didn't get as good at it as my dad did though.

I makes me want to think Magic Carpet, but you're not on a carpet, unless you can upgrade what you fly with. Also the UI shows one, so gonna guess that

 

[dimmerwit]

One of the first games I bought on PC, got it at a Big Lots, it was kind of fun. Not sure if was actually a solid game or I didnt know better or have other options

It's a good game. As I said later it's essentially a reworked Win 95 native version of Terminal Velocity which Microsoft published and pushed quite hard in the early 95 era.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

I makes me want to think Magic Carpet, but you're not on a carpet, unless you can upgrade what you fly with. Also the UI shows one, so gonna guess that

Ding Ding! You don't see your own carpet (at least in the original version), but you do see others wizards on carpets when they're also in the world with you.

The DOS mode version of the game is the best version of the game.