This one will be easy.
This was one of my favorite RPGs. It’s light, fun, and doesn’t take a thousand hours to complete. I swear, when I hear some RPG designers touting the huge number of hours of gameplay their games allegedly have, I just don’t know where I’m going to find the strength…
Name and developer, please. If you win, your reward will be the satisfaction of knowing you are right!
And, with a sickening crunch of metal, we change gears again. I really need to get that transmission looked at.
This screenshot is from a game released during the heyday of graphic adventure games, and is considered very good – but it didn’t break through and become a classic like a lot of its peers did.
Name and developer, please! If you’re right, I’ll use the giant laser I’ve been building in my secret underground lair to write your name on the moon! Or rather, I’ll do the best I can…to be honest, it would be a big help if the first three letters in your name are “CHA”.
And now we’re on a completely different kind of roll – that of British-made games where you build rooms of specific types and have little people live and work in them, whom you must keep happy. I wonder why the British seem to love games like that so much. I wonder if this means I’m secretly British, since I love games like that too.
Name and developer please! Your prize will be as much Phlebotinum as you can carry!
Shock! Gasp! It’s a game released AFTER 1996!
This game was made by a studio that had garnered a bit of a bad reputation after the Ph.D.s who staffed it claimed they could write an infinite polygon engine. Unfortunately their first game didn’t impress anyone with its graphics. This was the second and last game they made.
Name and developer, please!
If you’ll recall, I mentioned that last week’s game failed because it was released before the PC was capable of doing arcade games. Now let’s look at a game from the golden era of PC arcade games!
After the success of Commander Keen the shareware scene was just flooded with platformers, most of which weren’t nearly as good. I really liked this one myself, though.
Name and developer, please! If you win I’ll tell you what the secret game I’m working on is!
Whoa! It’s not a space RPG! Heck, it’s not an RPG at all! Whiplash, dude!
This game was supposed to be a sort of Mario Party-style game, with lots of different minigames. Unfortunately, most of them weren’t very fun – the controls tended to be sluggish. This was possibly due to the developers trying to make arcade-style games on the PC before the PC was really ready for it.
Name and developer, please! If you’re the first to get it right, I’ll give you my Time Magazine “Person of the Year” Award that I won in 2006.
I apologize for the dearth of posts last week…had a couple doctors appointments and some other stuff that kind of threw me off my game.
So let’s start this week off with a rollicking session of Name That Game!
This episode of Name That Game also marks the first time I have had to alter a screenshot before posting it, since yet again the developers of this game felt that they had so much screen space that they could waste some of it telling you what game you were playing.
Name and developer, please! If you’re the first to get it right, I’ll sponsor your entrance to the Illuminati. No, I’m serious, I’m in good with those guys! Really!
Yet another RPG set in the Final Frontier. Where do I keep finding them?
This was actually a good game, and as designed it was intended to be a sequel to a well-known space RPG series, but the developer could not get the rights to the name.
Name and developer, please! Bonus points if you can also tell me what name this game was supposed to have.
