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Please Help - sketchy memory of a really old game
« on: May 09, 2004, 12:17:15 AM »
I have a really really vague memory of a game I used to play as a little kid. I will be so grateful/damn impressed if any of the following hazy details ring a bell. I'd love to refind it, download it and see if it is as much fun these days.

Right. It's proper crap graphics. It's a fantasy game. The layout is a maze viewed from above. You move a small flasing rectangle around the maze. Very old game.

I can't remember much more! Oh yes, vampires played a part and were pretty evil. And fortune cookies (I think) could be collected for with cool after-effects.

I thought that it was called Larn, but I've found out that's another game that I never understood, but I think that's its from the same time period as Larn.

If any of this rings a bell, please let me know. It's been bugging me for the last week.
 

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Re: Please Help - sketchy memory of a really old game
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2004, 02:03:50 AM »
Sounds kinda like GAUNTLET.
Sounds familiar, what system, or was it a coin op? :afro:
 

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Re: Please Help - sketchy memory of a really old game
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2004, 02:07:30 AM »
Or mabey Adventure for the Atari 2600 by Atari
1978 Atari CX2613
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Re: Please Help - sketchy memory of a really old game
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2004, 04:19:43 AM »
"Adventure" on the Atari 2600 is the first thing that came to my mind too, but I couldn't remember the name.  Thanks for the memory.  But I don't recall any "fortune cookie" type of stuff.
 

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Re: Please Help - sketchy memory of a really old game
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2004, 12:05:26 PM »
Gauntlet! I think that was it. Cheers guys! It was definitely for the amiga500 and not the atari. I'm going to go check it out. I'm new here. Does someone know a good amiga games download sites?
GAUNTLET
 

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Re: Please Help - sketchy memory of a really old game
« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2004, 12:22:06 PM »
No, it wasn't gauntlet. I just checked it out. Same top-down view, but I'm sure the hero was just a flashing dash moving around a maze, controlled with the arrows not the joystick. I wish I could remember more!
 

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Re: Please Help - sketchy memory of a really old game
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2004, 11:02:18 PM »
In a similar vein to Larn:

Nethack and Moria, but neither used the joystick. After those came a cracking PD game with Crystal in the title, but I don't reckon that's it either.

So, I'm really just getting some close ones out of the way. Still no cigar. :/

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