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Offline PinkWizardTopic starter

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What was this game?
« on: July 11, 2010, 02:13:12 PM »
It was the first game I played on the Amiga.  A 2d turn based strategy game.  You took a team of space marine types, with different units having different weapons, and moved gradually from the left to the right, where the aliens were advancing from.  Graphics were simple, terrain was mostly grass, the odd bush and a few buildings and obstacles where one could position snipers.  You had to get your team well set, because when the aliens advanced they came on brutally strong and could wipe you out in a few turns.

Anyone remember this?

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Re: What was this game?
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2010, 03:38:52 PM »
Space Hulk?
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Re: What was this game?
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2010, 03:54:48 PM »
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It was the first game I played on the Amiga.  A 2d turn based strategy game.  You took a team of space marine types, with different units having different weapons, and moved gradually from the left to the right, where the aliens were advancing from.  Graphics were simple, terrain was mostly grass, the odd bush and a few buildings and obstacles where one could position snipers.  You had to get your team well set, because when the aliens advanced they came on brutally strong and could wipe you out in a few turns.

Anyone remember this?

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I think it's X-Com: UFO Enemy unknown
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Re: What was this game?
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2010, 04:36:13 PM »
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I think it's X-Com: UFO Enemy unknown


Do you mean X-Com Defence? UFO: Enemy Unknown was a different game I think.

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Re: What was this game?
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2010, 04:36:57 PM »
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Space Hulk?


Wasn't Space Hulk first person?

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Re: What was this game?
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2010, 04:46:16 PM »
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Wasn't Space Hulk first person?

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Thinking about it now, i may have got it mixed up with another game.
Is it Space Crusade?
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Re: What was this game?
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2010, 04:58:09 PM »
Hilt? Hilt II? Laser Squad? isometric or (almost) top down view?
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Re: What was this game?
« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2010, 05:00:29 PM »
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Do you mean X-Com Defence? UFO: Enemy Unknown was a different game I think.

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Some clarification courtesy of HOL. I had no idea a US Amiga release even existed. The copy I have, bought from a US dealer (probably Softhut or Safe Harbor ages ago), is the European release.
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Re: What was this game?
« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2010, 05:14:48 PM »
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Some clarification courtesy of HOL. I had no idea a US Amiga release even existed. The copy I have, bought from a US dealer (probably Softhut or Safe Harbor ages ago), is the European release.


One of my all time favourite games.  I bought the AGA version when it first came out.  I also bought the PC compilation containing Win95 versions of this and the sequels Terror from the Deep and whatever the crappy third one was.

The PC version has better graphics in that it shades out areas beyond your range of vision, but worse sound.  Terror From the Deep would have been a great sequel if it wasn't so bloody hard (The lobster men are too hard to kill and the lizard-like telepaths take over your men too easily and use them to slaughter your squad with ease).  Forget the third game - total pants.
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Re: What was this game?
« Reply #9 on: July 11, 2010, 05:46:40 PM »
sounds like XCOM / UFO (best game ever made btw)
The correct titles are XCOM UFO Defense for the US release, and UFO Enemy Unknown for the European release. They had different box art too.

It could be Space Crusade but that was all indoors
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Re: What was this game?
« Reply #10 on: July 11, 2010, 06:16:04 PM »
Actually it doesn't sound like any of those games, because in them you're required to explore the area and exterminate any discovered aliens not the other way round...
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Re: What was this game?
« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2010, 12:24:54 PM »
Thanks for all the responses everyone.

xcom - I don`t think it was this, though conceptually its similar.  It definitely didn`t look that nice and was in 2d, set horizontally and vertically rather than on a 3d angle.

Mostly it looked like Laser Squad, but its was played over a huge area and you always started on the left.  I think maps were randomly generated, though I could be wrong.  Colour-wise it looked like xcom, but definitely the graphics were much poorer.  Maybe there were also robots that looked like white or grey dustbins.  You team was white I think.
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Re: What was this game?
« Reply #12 on: July 12, 2010, 01:07:44 PM »
RoboSport?

http://hol.abime.net/1263/screenshot

... not, it seems to not have any space marine in it.
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Re: What was this game?
« Reply #13 on: July 12, 2010, 01:51:05 PM »
Graphically similar, but no.  Thanks though.

Oh, and though it wasn`t Space Hulk either, that was really scary, the speed they moved!  I played that after the other game I`m searching for.
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Re: What was this game?
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