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Ashiette, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

It’s… an old game. Maybe it ran on DOS, but it sure was Windows 95 era.

It was a game for kids where you had to spell words. It took place in Africa I believe, because I remember vividly that there were hippos. You had to solve puzzles before spelling words.

I might be misremembering the following : you played as a boy with a loincloth. When you succeeded in solving a puzzle he rowed upstream on a raft. I think I remember a man with a mask, might have been the kid himself.

That’s about everything I remember about this. If someone knows anything…

kindred,

Sounds like Spelling Jungle. I remember that game had the dumbest ending - something about leaving the hose faucet on.

Edit: it was a faucet

Ashiette,

Of that was it, thanks !

vga, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

Yep, I have one of those. A side-scrolling scifi shooter for C64 from probably late 80s that I just remember a general vibe about. Not Nemesis, something where you fly above a sort of city. I have tried to remember its name for more than a decade probably.

One would think that there weren’t that many of them but oh boy.

RememberTheApollo_,
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Dominion?

vga,

I haven’t heard of that one, but no, wasn’t that.

Also tried figuring this out with an AI but nope. I’m pretty sure I’m not hallucinating this game.

gorkur,

Can’t really tell from that description but have you tried to look for it on Lemon? 🙂

www.lemon64.com/games/list.php?list_year=1985&lis…

vga,

I have.

In fact, once I browsed through all the games in there and didn’t find what I was looking for. It’s so far ago and I was so young that I probably have a very distorted and overly positive view of what the game looked like.

Sv443, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?
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ThatGuy46475, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

There’s a game on the school computers in the late 90s where you choose between 3 numbers for how far you move, you are racing to the bottom of the screen, and some shortcut squares let you drop down.

nandeEbisu, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

There was this side scrolling space themed bullet hell adjacent game they had on the computers when I was in elementary school.

webp,

There was this one with math equations that would fall to the bottom and you had to solve them quickly

nandeEbisu,

This had 0 educational value except for levels being named after metals. That’s where I learned what Tungsten was.

humorlessrepost, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

The Guardian Legend

SLVRDRGN, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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I just remembered Jet Slalom because of this.

DeadDigger, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

A round based strategy game with a hex based grid I think there where generic military units like warships u boots pioneers infantry trucks helicopter destroyers. It had a very rudementry 8 bit graphic and it is not Panther panic

SlurpingPus, (edited )

Perhaps the ‘Battle Isle’ series?

P.S. Or ‘Panzer General’ or another of the dozens wargames made by Strategic Simulations Inc. There were quite a lot of hex wargames back in the nineties.

DeadDigger,

Sadly no. The units whee represented by pictograms from the sideview.

But yeah the problem is that there where so much and so many different ones, even made as shareware slop

SlurpingPus,

You could try looking through Category:Computer wargames as to whether any of the titles click.

If the game wasn’t on DOS or Windows, the choice is smaller, but alas I don’t see a list on Wikipedia with platforms. MobyGames might have it. Alternatively, I had a script somewhere that pulled the platform and other info from all pages in a category, but not sure currently where it is.

altasshet, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

I recently re-discovered Deathtrack.

TropicalDingdong, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

Syndicate, by bullfrog

Rusty,

That was my favorite game as a kid. Too bad the only remake is a stupid FPS.

TropicalDingdong,

Yeah the remake totally misunderstood what the game was about.

SlurpingPus,

‘Satellite Reign’ is the spiritual successor, released in 2015 and started by the producer and lead programmer for ‘Syndicate Wars’.

/cc @TropicalDingdong

Rusty,

I’ll check it out, thanks.

Rusty,

I played it for couple of hours and it seems pretty good. Thank you again.

azimir,

I loved that game. Only for to play for a few weeks in Germany back in 1995.

Ran into it again years later somewhere and finally made it much further through the missions. Great game.

TropicalDingdong,

I never beat the final mission.

azimir,

They got frakin’ hard! Especially the mechanics of the trains and when the baddies started shooting further. Tracking where the action was got tough when you had to split the team.

TropicalDingdong,

Yeah I had figure I out a strategy using the persuedatron, where it would get stronger the more people you persueded. If you started with civilians and got a bunch, you could then do security guards, then the police, then other syndicate agents. I still think this is the only way to beat that final level, but there are nothing but agents on that level.

Lycist,

R.I.P. Bullfrog…

The Dungeon Keeper games will forever be among my top 10.

dubyakay,

Magic Carpet and Genewars were such weird games.

Lushed_Lungfish, (edited ) do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

Here’s hoping:

It was in the 90s. Top down, you could be either an Apache gunship or a tank for each mission.

EDIT: Folks, thank you for all the help and suggestions. Turns out it was “Seek and Destroy”.

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ZoopZeZoop,

I really enjoyed this on GameGear. My brother had it and I remember it being hard, but fair. We did pretty well.

Lushed_Lungfish,

Might be this. I’ll download and play. Though I seem to remember it was in the desert…

dubyakay,

I don’t think it’s jungle strike. Do you remember if it was sprite based or vector?

Lushed_Lungfish,

Sprite based maybe? It was something like thirty years ago so we’re reaching back. I can confirm that it was on PC and I THINK it was on Windows 95.

dubyakay,

Either way, Jungle Strike is the sequel (prequel?) to Desert Strike. Desert Strike definitely has a lot of desert, as you have described.

Blackmist,

SWIV?

Lushed_Lungfish,

Not SWIV, sorry but it looks neat! I’m going to give it a shot!

Ashiette,

Army Men : Air Attack ?

Lushed_Lungfish,

Not Army Men unfortunately. Though that was another series I loved!

Sonotsugipaa, do gaming w Is there a trick to controllers that I'm missing?

It’s been more than a decade since I’ve played a shooter with a controller, so idk how much of a difference this makes.

When you need to make small horizontal adjustments to your aim, try strafing instead; when that isn’t possible, and if you’re using some low-ROF semi-auto weapon, swing your reticle around the enemy, turning a matter of precision into a matter of timing.

Katana314,

Yeah, quite often the games themselves have needed broad changes to account for how people tend to shoot on controllers.

For instance, PC games will typically penalize your accuracy or sway the scope if you strafe around, which is terrible for controller players as you describe. Other times, the “aim down sights” action became very standard in a world of gun-at-corner hipfiring, because it lets them snap aim onto enemies for at least the first shot.

Jela, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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I have one of these! My memory is pretty hazy but he’s everything I remember about it: I played it in about 2003-04, pc rom game, point and click style where you were either trying to help find a series of items in a house or solve a mystery in a house? This was a kids game with a lot of shades of light blue if I remember correctly… Not a scary game, was in the first person, and I don’t remember being in a team of other characters. I remember renting it from my local library a hefty number of times.

SlurpingPus,

Try r/tipofmyjoystick on Reddit. They have a larger userbase.

SlothMama,

We should create an equivalent Lemmy community instead of funneling people to Reddit tbh

Jela,
@Jela@lemmy.today avatar

There’s a reason I’m on Lemmy and not on Reddit anymore 🫣

kindred,

There’s

!TipOfMyJoystick

and I just created !tipofmyjoystick.

slazer2au,

It wasn’t one of the Goosebumps games was it?

Jela,
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No not quite 🫤

thepizzaguy,
Jela,
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Not quite it was less horror and moreso helping a character… it’s possible the characters were animals dressed as humans

bizzle, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?
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