Name of game..

dice3344

Bit of a random question, I’ve been trying to remember the name of a PC game we had when we were younger for ages now..

It was a flight simulator game, it was a Trial version we got along with Monster truck madness and some other games Windows 98..

It started off with you flying along in the rain around rocks and cliffs..

Any ideas? I know it's not a lot to go on, but it's been niggling me for a bit!

tailgunner

Assuming it's not one of the MS Flight Sim games... Crimson Skies maybe?

Kiith

Slipstream 5000!

It's probably not Slipstream 5000, but that's always the game i think of when someone mentions flying games when i was younger. That or Strike Commander.

gizmo

Hah, was it Hellbender?

That'd be Windows 95 by the way, things had progressed just a tad by the time '98 was released.

trout

MS Combat Flight Sim?

Dave_The_Sheep

I would have said Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, but I don't remember rain or rocks.

muppetkiller

I'd say Crimson Skies too...Epic game

TerrorFirmer

That would have come out a few years later, Crimson Skies.

I would have thought of Hellbender or Terminal Velocity...used to play that a lot back in the day (both games are really similar and made by the same guys)!

Generic Dreadhead

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Terminal Velocity

Well there's a blast from the past :pac::pac::pac:

Kiith

Descent 1-3 are where it's really at.

SeantheMan

Dude never came back to confirm the game....
Moneys on Chuck Yager

dice3344

It was Hellbender!

Just watched a youtube clip and the music brought it all back.. Thanks for the replies!

Ah.. hours well spent.. (some of them just bashing random commands into the keyboard to see what would happen)

BizzyC

Terminal velocity and descent were great games back in the day.

Here's one for people to help identify...

It was a game late-90's I think.
You were a tank, but it also had bases involved.

The basic purpose would be to capture these points, build a tower and build your own facilities to help defeat the enemy.

You could jump between your tank and these defense towers too.

Kiith

It's probably not Battlezone 2, but Battlezone 2?

I gotta go replay Battlezone 2...

TomCo

BizzyC wrote: »

Here's one for people to help identify...

It was a game late-90's I think.
You were a tank, but it also had bases involved.

The basic purpose would be to capture these points, build a tower and build your own facilities to help defeat the enemy.

You could jump between your tank and these defense towers too.

It was Uprising (or possibly uprising 2, which wasn't as good). I loved that game, I only had the demo but I played it to death.

TomCo

Here's a weird one. I remember playing this game from a PC Gaming World cover disk around about 1997/98.

You flew a ship in 3rd person through a purple cave while some trippy music played, it was very strange and played more like a tech demo. Don't think there was very much actual game play - don't know it was ever released as a full game.

gizmo

TomCo wrote: »

Here's a weird one. I remember playing this game from a PC Gaming World cover disk around about 1997/98.

You flew a ship in 3rd person through a purple cave while some trippy music played, it was very strange and played more like a tech demo. Don't think there was very much actual game play - don't know it was ever released as a full game.

Forsaken? While first person by default, it did have a third person view too.

Granted it was chock-full of Descent-style gameplay so I'm not sure if that's what you're thinking of.

TomCo

Nope, this was before forsaken. The game I'm thinking of was polygonal but didn't even have textures.

BizzyC

TomCo wrote: »

It was Uprising (or possibly uprising 2, which wasn't as good). I loved that game, I only had the demo but I played it to death.

That's the one, Uprising!

Loved that game

barrybones_wx

I tried googling mine but it's not coming up with anything sensible... THX?

Early to mid 1990s PC game involving a helicopter... most of your time was spent on long, uneventful journeys across the desert (probably somewhere in Iraq). Definitely was EGA rather than VGA... any thoughts? I was too young to remember all the controls or be patient enough to play it but I watched my brother play it for hours on end... right craic!

gizmo

barrybones_wx wrote: »

I tried googling mine but it's not coming up with anything sensible... THX?

Early to mid 1990s PC game involving a helicopter... most of your time was spent on long, uneventful journeys across the desert (probably somewhere in Iraq). Definitely was EGA rather than VGA... any thoughts? I was too young to remember all the controls or be patient enough to play it but I watched my brother play it for hours on end... right craic!

LHX?

BizzyC

I think I had that game too, but a fighter jet version.
It looks exactly the same except it's a helicopter

Mr. CooL ICE

I had Fury3 on my P166 w/MMX machine (bought in 1997). A quick google shows this was related to Terminal Velocity.

Ah, memories.

TomCo

Anyone remember Extreme Assault?
I played the demo to death, full game wasn't as much fun.

gizmo

TomCo wrote: »

Anyone remember Extreme Assault?
I played the demo to death, full game wasn't as much fun.

I remember playing the demo back when it only supported software rendering. Had some fun with it if I recall. Then I remember it being bundled with Voodoo cards and hated it because I was stuck with my Riva128 until I finally upgraded to a Voodoo5.

Taylor365

I've had one of these I've asked for years and never found the right game.

I remember playing this game from a PC Gamer cover disk around about 1997/98. (to paraphrase :rolleyes:)

It was an Isometric view, diabo-esque RPG(i assume as it was only a demo). 2D. You played a' balding' dude fighting creatures in a forest. You could change into a bat or werewolf and had potions and spells.

It's not Diablo or Legacy of Kain.

BizzyC

damn, this thread will have me spending my evening playing abandonware...

I have a backlog of new games to get through

gizmo

Taylor365 wrote: »

I've had one of these I've asked for years and never found the right game.

I remember playing this game from a PC Gamer cover disk around about 1997/98. (to paraphrase :rolleyes:)

It was an Isometric view, diabo-esque RPG(i assume as it was only a demo). 2D. You played a' balding' dude fighting creatures in a forest. You could change into a bat or werewolf and had potions and spells.

It's not Diablo or Legacy of Kain.

Magic & Mayhem!

That was one of Julian Gollop's games and his last at Mythos before the catastrophe that was Dreamland Chronicles: Freedom Ridge and their subsequent closure. It got a sequel too but I never played it. Alas, due to the whole Virgin restructuring/sale saga, it's not available for sale these days from any of the online stores.

He's currently working on the awesome looking Chaos sequel, Chaos Reborn.

Taylor365

gizmo wrote: »

Magic & Mayhem!

That was one of Julian Gollop's games and his last at Mythos before the catastrophe that was Dreamland Chronicles: Freedom Ridge and their subsequent closure. It got a sequel too but I never played it. Alas, due to the whole Virgin restructuring/sale saga, it's not available for sale these days from any of the online stores.

He's currently working on the awesome looking Chaos sequel, Chaos Reborn.

You sir.....ARE A GOD! :pac:

I knew magic was in the title but could never find it. Always might and magic, Heros of might and magic, etc.