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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”.

Xatolos,
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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,
@Jela@lemmy.today avatar

No not quite 🫤

thepizzaguy,
Jela,
@Jela@lemmy.today avatar

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?
@bizzle@lemmy.world avatar

Super Tux Kart

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

You mean Sim Ants my dude

okmko,

I was going to say, I don’t remember a Microsoft Ants but I sure as hell remember SimAnts.

I never figured out if bringing a piece of food next to an egg made it hatch faster but omg as I’m typing this right now I realize that makes absolutely no sense. Why the hell would an egg hatch faster if it has no mouth. Wtf was I thinking as a kid, loool.

kindred,

I don’t mean SimAnts.

Microsoft Ants came out a few years later, on the Microsoft Gaming Zone.

It died when they pulled the plug on the platform, and part of me wishes they’d release it on Steam. But that’s probably the nostalgia talking.

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

Ok maybe Lemmy can help me. Does anyone remember a cartoon that used a key. A magic key. To draw a door and open to a new dimension? I have been looking for this show for decades and I can’t remember it. It had like care bare characters and children.

AngryPancake,

I only know Pans Labyrinth but it’s certainly not a comic

radiantshackles,
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PissingIntoTheWind,

Nah. Think lte 80’s and early 90’s. I wonder if I dreamed this shit up.

ZoopZeZoop,

I remember that in Beetlejuice, and there was a cartoon version of that.

Ashiette,

Final Fantasy Unlimited ?

burntbacon,

A magic key to draw a door? It’s not the kid with the purple crayon cartoon?

PissingIntoTheWind,

No. Much older. Like lat 80’s early 90’s. I remember a friendly funny dragon with the characters.

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

Night Shift. A DOS game where you keep a factory cranking out toys and it gradually ramps up the difficulty by de-automating the machines that manage colour, materials, etc.

anugeshtu,

Sounds like ChatGPT. The more I’m busy in one session, the messier it gets.

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

I have had a lot over time : Motherload Idk the name anymore, but something like fighter Z, a space invaders like game were enemies scroll in as you blast things away with a super jet. A space discovery game, was in Norwegian. A mystical signal arrives and you need to research it and eventually send out a space ship.

I was reminded of another i missed, Sinjid: Shadow of the Warrior. A ninja fighter flash game.

Last one I guess I might be missing was a 2d like game where the word was blocks like Minecraft but square board levels, angled like a diamond, I think it’s called isometric. sorta like the q*bert games I think. Don’t remember much of the goal, but walk around and collect gems I think. I believe most levels were mostly green grass and water/rivers separating areas. Main character might have been a girl.

arsCynic, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?
@arsCynic@piefed.social avatar

Any Gameboy game with an emulator.

Nintendo doesn’t care about making their old games, nay, works of art like Golden Sun still playable, so I consider them free to play at this point.

missingno,
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Bit of an odd example to cite since both Golden Sun games are officially available on NSO.

Truscape,

Notice how the the NSO platform is not available on the PC? No sale, time to download.

missingno,
@missingno@fedia.io avatar

The person I replied said Nintendo wasn't making their old games playable at all. You're complaining about something else.

arsCynic,
@arsCynic@piefed.social avatar

Seems like it’s a yearly subscription membership only thing. If I can’t buy it and own it I pirate it.

vortexal, (edited ) do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?
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While I’m not sure how much of a difference the CPU and RAM will cause, my current laptop has the same GPU, so I should have a general idea of what games will work on your laptop.

Since you mentioned RuneScape, I do actually have RuneLite (a third party client for OSRS) on this computer and it does run fine. I haven’t tested it yet but I’m pretty RuneScape (RS3) should also work well. The last time I ran RuneScape on Linux was when I had a computer with an Intel HD Graphics 3000 and I was able to get an almost playable frame rate at my usual graphical settings, so I’m curious about how well it’ll run on my current computer, but I currently don’t have any interest in playing RuneScape at the moment.

As for other games, if you’re interested in games similar to quake, I’m not really a fan of these types of games but I know that World of Padman worked pretty well when playing offline, so I don’t see why it wouldn’t work well on your computer. It might seem like a weird choice at first but the levels are quite large and detailed, and the music is also pretty good as well. It started as a mod for Quake 3 before it became it’s own standalone game. This can either be downloaded from their website or from Flathub.

Another game I know of is called Urban Terror. Similar to World of Padman, it also derived from Quake 3 but it looks and plays more like Counter Strike (or at least what I think CS plays like). I personally didn’t care for this one as much but some people might like it more than WoP. This can be downloaded from either their website or from Flathub.

toeblast96, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

do u fw old minecraft? i like the beta version, its free if you use betacraft launcher >:)

Spider89, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?
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