Over fifty people are already playing - how about you? The answer rates are between 86% and 2%.... I hope to help the latter with this post, some titles are (without some classification to assist) once again very tricky.
Well then! Enough talk, here come the last hints:
1) The 19 is a DOS exclusive graphic adventure from the late 90s. 2) Action platformer #12, released only for DOS & Amiga, has two graffiti sprayers as protagonists. 3) Number 9 is a turn-based strategy game with mercenaries. 4) 13, 14 and 15 all have a "Stone Age" setting.
This is the last call, tomorrow the DOS Classics are over. Over 80 people are already playing, including two from this forum. Can we make it over five again?
Hmm, the only one I definitively know is #6. Damn, I loved that game. Think I’ll sit this one out.
If you score just one point, you won't be last in the high score - we have two people that actually landed at zero points this month. That's a first! ^^;
I'm biased of course, I think everyone should participate all the time.
NintendoLife is now at four players, double from yesterday... but still half of the players from April! 🤔
As a DOS baby, I'm ashamed to admit that I only know four (maybe five) of these.
Well, it was the fourth instalment of the "DOS classics" series. Naturally I'd run out of the biggest classics eventually.
This was the first entry: https://i.lensdump.com/i/WC37Qq.png Would you have recognised more on that one?
Though to be fair on me, I did play plenty of more obscure DOS games back in the day, as opposed to the more commercial stuff. I owned relatively few full version/boxed games in my childhood.
"Gee, that's really persuasive. Do you have any actual points to make other than to essentially say 'me Tarzan, physical bad, digital good'?"
@Mr_Horizon From that entry, I could name 23 games from the top of my head... That tops the most I could name immediately for any month I played in (22). Missing only 17 (only DOS platformer I know which has that kind of graphics style would be Commander Keen?) and 25 (hole and kicker clearly make it a pinball game. Should be super easy to find).
Thirty players with 20+ points, and equally thirty people with 5 or less points.... perfectly balanced, as all things should be?
Winners of Commander Keen game vouchers will be contacted separately.
And where are you in the high score table? Scroll down and find out. Let's start with the scoring of the puzzle.... first the names of the games as text, then the pictures, then the award ceremony.
1) Commander Keen 4
Probably the most famous DOS platformer ever (with ports for Game Boy Color and Switch) - but it's slowly being forgotten.
Solution rate: 82%
Other suggestions: -
2) Descent 2
There was a Playstation port of this with new levels.
Solution rate: 69%
Other suggestions: Cybermage, Epic, Forsaken, Star Wars, Titan Wars
3) Jazz Jackrabbit
The most solved game of this round, we see the spin-off "1995 Holiday Hare".
Solving rate: 83%
Other suggestions: Bucky O'Hare, Flood, Banyou Banzai
4) Space Hulk
Any variant of "Star Crusade" or "Warhammer 40k" was accepted as a solution.
Solution rate: 76%
Other suggestions: Chaos Engine, Doom, Wolfenstein 3D
5) SkiFree
Was there a DOS version? Maaaaybe not.
Solution rate: 62%
Other suggestions: Ski or die, Ski Craze, Woodruff
6) Little Big Adventure
The adventures of Twinsen were also available on the Playstation.
Solution rate: 71%
Other suggestions: Little Big Planet, Runescape, Ultima, Zork
7) Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth.
This is not the Gobliiins series, even though the games had a very similar graphic style.
Solution rate: 39%
Other suggestions: 18x Gobliiins, Day of the Tentacle, Adventure's Planet, Bubba n Stix
8.) Star Control 2
Some players had wanted this title for a long time - let's go into battle against the Ur-Quan!
Solution rate: 47%
Other suggestions: Elite, Master of Orion, Space Quest, Star Trek, Starflight 2, Xcom UFO Defense, Xenon
10) Space Quest 2
Solving rate: 55%
Other suggestions: 4x Kings Quest, Leisure suit Larry, Flashback, Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Prince of Persia, space janitor, The Black Cauldron, Wizardry
11) Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Well, where is she? Two thirds of you have found her!
Solution rate: 65%
Other suggestions: Indiana Jones, Indian Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Laura Bow, Sam and Max
12) Yo! Joe!
Solution rate: 35%
Other suggestions: Blues Brothers, Magic Pocket, Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon, Trolls
13) the Humans
Stone Age #1
Solution rate: 48%
Other suggestions: Big Nose the Caveman, Caveman, Caveman Ugh-Lympics, Toki
14) Prehistoric
Stone Age #2
Solution rate: 62%
Other suggestions: Chuck Rock, Caveman, Humans, Joe & Mac, Lemmings
15) Ugh!
Stone Age #3
Solution rate: 40%
Other suggestions: Lemmings, Little Big Adventure, Stone Age
16) Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon
Solution rate: 56%
Other suggestions: 7x Toonstruck, Sam & Max, Moon Mania, Rayman, sega rally
17) D/Generation
Solution rate: 41%
Other suggestions: Space Quest, Star Trek
18.) Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed
Were there any other sci-fi RPGs with the Goldbox engine?
Solution rate: 32%
Other suggestions: Pools of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Dungeons & Dragons, Bio Menace, Ghoul Patrol, Sunset Riders, Tegel's Mercenaries
19) Sign of the Sun
The hardest game of this round, a rather mediocre adventure game from 1997.
Solving rate: 8%
Other suggestions: Quest for Glory, Baldur's Gate, Chronicles of the Sword, Chronomaster, Kings Quest, Bard's Tale, Daggerfall, Defender of the Crown, Dragon Lore 2, Dune, Ecstatica, Fable, Fallout, Hell, I have no mouth and I must scream, Silver, Talisman, Tower of Souls
20) Boppin'
Solution rate: 26%
Other suggestions: Chex Quest, Cool Spot, Gabriel knight 3, Zool
21) Battle Chess
No RPG, just chess.
Solving rate: 50%
Other suggestions: 7x Kings Quest, Ultima, Defender of the Crown
22) Gorillas.bas
Solution rate: 48%
Other suggestions: California games, King Kong, Superman
23) Innocent until Caught
The sequel "Guilty" also gave the full point.
Solution rate: 23%
Other suggestions: 10x Beneath a Steel Sky, Gabriel Knight, Full Throttle, Terminator, Dalek Attack, Dreamweb
24) Ravenloft: Stone Prophet
Solution rate: 26%
Other suggestions: Dune, Albion, Barbarian, Daggerfall, Final Fantasy, Full Throttle, Magic Carpet, Mdk, Might & Magic, Outlaws, Space Harrier, Ultima
25) Test Drive 2 - the duel
The baby from the difficulty setting - not exactly easy!
Solution rate: 10%
Other suggestions: Indy Heat, Chav Racer, Commander Keen, Crystal Caves, Ferrari Formula One, Grand Prix Cricuit, Offroad, Outrun, Pit Stop II, Speed Racer, Superkarts
Here is the quiz picture again, followed by the answers:
With 19 and 20, I missed the two games I didn't know.
Thanks to the clues, 19 should have been findable. I feel like Rocky during the first half of Rocky III. Time to put some motivational tracks on!
Also:
"This is not the Gobliiins series, even though the games had a very similar graphic style."
I wonder if Gobliiins shouldn't give a point... I remember some magazines at the time naming it "Goblins 4".
I'm not on time, normally a new quiz starts on the tenth day of a month at the latest... but here we go: right hand on the mouse, left hand on WASD? Or would you rather use the analogue sticks on the controller?
No matter how you prefer to shoot your pixels at other pixels, this month we're looking at video games in a very particular way - via the barrels & crosshairs of assault rifles, plasma cannons and rocket launchers. Ready, aim, fire?
The first 35 players have sent in their entries to identify the twentyfive games we are looking for.... No doubt a lot of first-person shooters were released between 1988 and 2023, so this round probably won't be a walk in the park. I wonder how high your answer rate will be?
Here are the first clues:
1) In title number 8, there are always four players. 2) Games 4 and 6 were developed by a pioneer of the fps genre. 3) Picture 7 shows a game that was only released for Xbox and Windows. 4) And last, #11 is a "near sci-fi" entry of a well-known series.
Fifty players are already in this round, in a first person shooter that would be a pretty wild death match. The deadline is in a week - don't forget to join in!
Here come the second and final clues:
1) Only 15, 16, 17, 19 and 20 (plus two from the bottom line) are platform exclusive, the rest are available on several devices. 2) Game 14 is the console port of one of the very first multiplayer fps ever. 3) Number 12 is a licensed game based on a movie: you don't just shoot from the fps perspective, you also drive. 4) Numbers 15 and 16 are console games.
Attention folks, there's no weekend this week - the September quiz will be over at midnight on Friday! There are already almost eighty people playing, of which four are from this forum. Can we get it any higher?
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