Name the Game - Part 5 - Page 3

duke o' york · March 5, 2004, 05:41

Jings and crivvens, Thor! Take your point and be glad of it! If you don't take your point then you'll get no dessert. There are people in poorer countries who could really use that point you ungrateful so-and-so.

Oh yeah, and come up with a new game.

child of Thor · March 5, 2004, 16:04

I think maybe its more of an incentive to give an easy game to guess - than what i was doing

I dont want the tainted point - as i provided a link to the game before, so its still kinda fresh in my mind

(its like hunting with a high powered rifle - i'm the kinda guy that would use a bow+arrow, if that makes any sense!), but i can give you all something to guess

Clues 1-3

Game came out mid-late 80's (I can hear the groans

)
8bit home computers(Atari/C64/maybe the british ones)

Like Raid Over Moscow it was a game that comprised many differnet levels of play.

It had some of the finest in game music - moslty of classical music.

Standup · March 5, 2004, 20:42

mmh i can remember a top down helicopter type game for the C64 - similar to Twin Cobra in the arcade and lots of Wagner. No idea what it was called though

child of Thor · March 8, 2004, 19:54

No, but it did involve flying some kind of 'craft'.......

I had forgotten this game, but now after a weekend of, and some frantic web trawling i've found out what i think it is

Clue 4: it had a fiendish difficulty level and it played kinda like a thrust clone.

DrSpike · March 8, 2004, 20:20

Quote:

Originally posted by child of Thor

I had forgotten this game, but now after a weekend of, and some frantic web trawling i've found out what i think it is

You don't know your own game? Is this a plot to take the lead by getting points for guessing your game?

duke o' york · March 9, 2004, 07:22

I'm afraid that since you've changed your title Doc, then you have to forfeit all of the points you had won in previous rounds. Oh, and I'm beating you now!

child of Thor · March 9, 2004, 17:16

yeah! who's this Doc dude

I was going to use this guess to hopefuly find the name of the game

As you're all so good at it

It doesn't say i cant in the rules?

anyway i think i've got it now - so some more clues are in order:

Clue 5: it was by a company that produced a string of decent games through the eighties, and could be accused of having a stiff upper lip(!?).

Clue 6: it was soooo hard - i never even got past the first level! But the atari 8bit music made it all seem worthwhile.........

Guynemer · March 9, 2004, 19:29

Apocalypse Now?

child of Thor · March 9, 2004, 19:52

nope.....

clue 7: you controlled a space craft......with lots of inertia.

clue 8: i guess you could say Scottish people might not have bought the game because of.........[points to last part of clue 5]

duke o' york · March 10, 2004, 06:16

Jock Death Space Shooter?

child of Thor · March 10, 2004, 06:51

No sorry - nice guess

Well it wasn't a mega famous game of the time..........

Clue 9:

'Well if kissin cousins be thy crime
look no further for a company in its prime,
For the year twas around 1985
And all who took the electra glide
Were all agreed that was a great game indeed!

Fire chiefs and arcade shooters were all covered well,
And maye this title your after wasn't that fell.

But if ever trouble between two sides is brewing,
The name of this game is what you'll be needing!'

DrSpike · March 10, 2004, 08:01

I'm stumped.

child of Thor · March 10, 2004, 11:23

one down!

I might have been the only person here to have played it........i guess, not sure if it got a stateside release - but it did come out on the C64.....

I'll do one more clue - No:10 , if no-one has a clue after a bit. Maybe Cap will get it if i give him a bit more time

That last clue was full of give away info to get on the right track

duke o' york · March 10, 2004, 11:59

Mediation? Conciliation? Interceptor?

Standup · March 10, 2004, 18:34

I give up to...and having done that gone straight to google and found a couple of possibles which i couldn't even pretend to have heard of or played.

duke o' york · March 11, 2004, 05:23

PM me them then.

Yes, I give up too.

(Not that I ever really had a chance with this)

child of Thor · March 11, 2004, 07:03

Ok still no sign from CapTVK(I know all games)

Last clue before i give the answer

Clue 10: It was by a company called English Software, a very prolific producer of games, mostly of good quality, in the 1980's and maybe early 1990's.

Some of its Hits which I included in the last clue were:

Elecrta Glide(a graphicaly impressive 3d racer)
Fire Chief(an addictive top down scroller)
Kissin Cousins(the only notable thing about this game was its title!)

And it also made this game i'm after

Think of a Thrust clone - with a few added elements.

DrSpike · March 11, 2004, 07:09

I remember kissing cousins vaguely, but my knowledge from this time period is too patchy. I wont get this one. Cap might.

Adagio · March 11, 2004, 07:14

I have never heard of any of those titles you mentioned...

duke o' york · March 11, 2004, 08:34

Kissing Cousins is namechecked on 3 Feet High and Rising.

I've never played it though.

child of Thor · March 12, 2004, 07:10

Ok i'll put myself out of my misery.......

The game was called 'Mediator' (so close duke

) by English software released in 1985 i think. I couldn't find a review of it anywhere

so all i've got is this link to a screenshot of it + the rest of the companies games

some of you may recognise one or two of them

English software games they were one of the best in buisness at the time.

ok who wants to go next

duke o' york · March 12, 2004, 07:23

I wrote an r. It just looks like an n!

DrSpike · March 12, 2004, 07:46

Wow, obscure. I'm bringing on the text adventures again next time I get a go.

child of Thor · March 12, 2004, 07:57

come on guys - i cant belive no-one here hasn't heard of English software - they were a top producer for many formats, alot of their games won critical accliam in the press and from fans.........unless it was all an 8bit induced dream, some kinda early experiment at subliminal advertiseing - i did live in Wales at the time, so maybe there was a westminster plot to take control of the celtic youth?

please someone tell me they played some of those games........please i beg you!

DrSpike · March 12, 2004, 08:12

The company yes. That game no. However, I was only 7 so some games inevitable slipped through the net.

child of Thor · March 12, 2004, 08:18

Phew!

So who wants to be next

? If you can and if you do that kinda thing, id try to find some of these games to play on an emulator.

Captain Sticky's gold was a classic, as was Jet Boot Jack and Fire chief

I'm lucky i still got my Atari somewhere......so every few years i dig it up and have some retro fun!

Spaced Cowboy · March 12, 2004, 10:26

Actually, I do not remember English Software being in the US. But that goes with this crowd, I'll see games here that were never released in the US.

Buck Birdseed · March 14, 2004, 09:42

So who is going next? I'm up for it if no-one else will.

Adagio · March 14, 2004, 09:46

Go for it...

Buck Birdseed · March 14, 2004, 09:51

This late-second-gen console game (available for the PC too) is most notable for its unique graphical style.