Can you help me remember the name of this old game ?

Martin007 · Mar 24, 2024

Hi

It was RTS game that released on the age of Windows 95 (or Windows 3 not sure). It has alien army and all I remember is one of the aliens can throw mines. I found the game first with pc magazine disk, It has first couple of levels for free

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Mar 24, 2024

Does this help any?

https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyjoystick/comments/u8q3ki

Martin007 · Mar 25, 2024

CrAsHnBuRnXp said:
Does this help any?

Thanks but not one of them

Hyderz · Mar 25, 2024

KKND? Dark Reign? Dune 2?
I can only remember these titles... also warcraft orcs and humans in 1994

Martin007 · Mar 25, 2024

Hyderz said:
KKND? Dark Reign? Dune 2?
I can only remember these titles... also warcraft orcs and humans in 1994

No not any one of them. I will have to go and will follow replies when I come back

kilo · Mar 25, 2024

Do You recall the demo being a CD or a floppy disk? Also, magazine name and country published would be fantastic for narrowing down.

Many of the PC Gamer magazine disks are on archive[.]org including a large CD collection. Floppies are there too, but would need categorization.

JohH · Mar 25, 2024

Dominion: Storm over Gift 3?

Otherwise try scrolling through this list and checking screenshots

Game Browser - MobyGames

Explore the MobyGames database with the game browser tool.

www.mobygames.com

Martin007 · Mar 25, 2024

JohH said:
Dominion: Storm over Gift 3?

No

JohH said:
Otherwise try scrolling through this list and checking screenshots

I did, I took a week searching but could not find it

kilo said:
Do You recall the demo being a CD or a floppy disk? Also, magazine name and country published would be fantastic for narrowing down.

3.5" floppy disk it was pc magazine US . Once they distributed complete DOOM game over 3 months in three 3.5 disks . Imagine the excitement to wait 3 months for this game and after I had the 3 disks

Sample:

kilo · Mar 27, 2024

After a few searches here and there, it looks like the 3.5" floppy to CD transition for English editions was December 1993. I couldn't find when 5.25" to 3.5" floppy transition was for certain; there was a 5.25" as late as 1988-06-01. That should give you a rough estimate of year the game was made. e.g. 1988 - 1993.

Do you recall the graphics at all: CGA, EGA, or VGA? Sprites? Top-down?

Martin007 · Mar 27, 2024

kilo said:
Do you recall the graphics at all: CGA, EGA, or VGA? Sprites? Top-down?

VGA, top down. Old games was real fun

68Olds · Mar 27, 2024

If the game is prior to 1996, maybe it is on this ISO of PC Mag give-a-ways.

PC Magazine CD Ultimate Archive (1996) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

PC Magazine CD Ultimate Archive (1996)

archive.org

GhostRyder · Mar 27, 2024

Are you sure it wasn't an MS-DOS game?

Martin007 · Mar 27, 2024

GhostRyder said:
Are you sure it wasn't an MS-DOS game?

No. Most games in this time was DOS games

GhostRyder · Mar 27, 2024

Martin007 said:
No. Most games in this time was DOS games

Maybe Fragile Allegiance?

kilo · Mar 27, 2024

VGA means about 1991 - 1993 given the other data points.

I'm not sure the frequency of their bundled diskettes, but there are about 90 ~~articles~~ magazines for that time frame.

https://www.pcmag.com/cover-gallery#covers (keep on scrolling)

Martin007 · Mar 27, 2024

GhostRyder said:
Maybe Fragile Allegiance?

No

kilo said:
VGA means about 1991 - 1993 given the other data points.

I'm not sure the frequency of their bundled diskettes, but there are about 90 articles for that time frame.

https://www.pcmag.com/cover-gallery#covers (keep on scrolling)

This will need some time. I will be back

kilo · Mar 27, 2024

Martin007 said:
No. Most games in this time was DOS games

Most to all 3.1 games were compatible in dos. It's not a good idea to limit yourself to the OS you used if someone else ran on dos.

GhostRyder · Mar 27, 2024

Martin007 said:
No

This will need some time. I will be back

Did it have multi-player? (Just trying to narrow it down by features, I figure it doesn't but wanted to clarify)

Martin007 · Mar 27, 2024

GhostRyder said:
Did it have multi-player?

Dont remember

kilo said:
https://www.pcmag.com/cover-gallery#covers (keep on scrolling)

This list can not help me find which issue

GhostRyder · Mar 27, 2024

Martin007 said:
Dont remember

This list can not help me find which issue

List of real-time strategy video games - Wikipedia
Have you tried looking on the Wiki list by Sci-Fi to see if any of the names ring a bell?

Martin007 · Mar 27, 2024

GhostRyder said:
List of real-time strategy video games - Wikipedia
Have you tried looking on the Wiki list by Sci-Fi to see if any of the names ring a bell?

Wikipedia will be very hard I used games db because each game has list screenshots

Tatty_Two · Mar 27, 2024

Was it turn based?

Jagged Alliance (series) - Wikipedia

QuietBob · Mar 27, 2024

A few more suggestions:

7th Legion
Dark Colony
M.A.X.
Total Annihilation

Martin007 · Mar 27, 2024

Tatty_Two said:
Was it turn based?

Jagged Alliance (series) - Wikipedia

Not sure but what was attracted in this game that it has very good graphics compared to other games in the same generation

SoM6 · Mar 27, 2024

try https://www.old-games.com/

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Can you help me remember the name of this old game ?

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