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Title: Help IDing an old PC game Post by: Crabmaster2000 on November 20, 2014, 03:36:34 PM I have a customer hoping to get his wife a game, but we can't figure out what game it is. Its a PC games likely in the 90-95 era that she compares to Spore and it definitely was released on a CD. Any ideas?
Title: Re: Help IDing an old PC game Post by: Shadow Kisuragi on November 20, 2014, 03:44:13 PM SimLife? Creatures?
Title: Re: Help IDing an old PC game Post by: Crabmaster2000 on November 20, 2014, 03:51:35 PM Dont think its Sim Life, I'll run Creatures by him and see. Any other suggestions?
Title: Re: Help IDing an old PC game Post by: Shadow Kisuragi on November 20, 2014, 03:59:49 PM Those were the two that came to mind immediately for 90s. The only other thing that comes to mind is Black & White.
Title: Re: Help IDing an old PC game Post by: tactical_nuke on November 20, 2014, 04:14:26 PM Possibly Starflight. It had alien diplomacy type stuff like Spore.
Title: Re: Help IDing an old PC game Post by: Izret101 on November 20, 2014, 05:16:03 PM Those were the two that came to mind immediately for 90s. The only other thing that comes to mind is Black & White. First thing i thought of. Followed by Creatures. Title: Re: Help IDing an old PC game Post by: Crabmaster2000 on November 20, 2014, 05:24:41 PM Thanks for the suggestions guys. Keep them coming if you have other ideas, it'll be a couple days before I see him again.
Title: Re: Help IDing an old PC game Post by: Shadow Kisuragi on November 20, 2014, 05:38:07 PM Is there a particular portion of the game? Spore is essentially split up by the phases, and I'm thinking of the creation ones...
Title: Re: Help IDing an old PC game Post by: Crabmaster2000 on November 20, 2014, 06:46:30 PM Is there a particular portion of the game? Spore is essentially split up by the phases, and I'm thinking of the creation ones... Its supposed to be a gift and he doesn't want to make it obvious so we are kinda shooting in the dark unfortunately. Title: Re: Help IDing an old PC game Post by: nupoile on November 20, 2014, 08:08:31 PM Though I think the above suggestions are good and likely ones, you might want to look at the gameography lists of these two chaps:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Molyneux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Wright_%28game_designer%29 Title: Re: Help IDing an old PC game Post by: Vectorguy on November 24, 2014, 06:35:49 PM Possibly Starflight. It had alien diplomacy type stuff like Spore. That came out in like '87, and not on cd. I've got it on a 3" floppy. Title: Re: Help IDing an old PC game Post by: techwizard on November 25, 2014, 09:23:25 PM Possibly Starflight. It had alien diplomacy type stuff like Spore. That came out in like '87, and not on cd. I've got it on a 3" floppy. a lot of PC games got re-releases, and many were on both CD and floppy in different variants...not that i know anything about this one specifically, but don't rule anything out with old PC games. Title: Re: Help IDing an old PC game Post by: tactical_nuke on November 26, 2014, 01:26:11 AM Possibly Starflight. It had alien diplomacy type stuff like Spore. That came out in like '87, and not on cd. I've got it on a 3" floppy. a lot of PC games got re-releases, and many were on both CD and floppy in different variants...not that i know anything about this one specifically, but don't rule anything out with old PC games. Yeah the reason I suggested is because it had a 1991 Genesis release so it's worth looking into possibly. Title: Re: Help IDing an old PC game Post by: Crabmaster2000 on December 19, 2014, 02:17:15 AM The game was Creatures. Thanks so much everybody!!
Title: Re: Help IDing an old PC game Post by: gbpxl on December 21, 2014, 12:38:55 PM I immediately thought of creatures when i read the the first post. I had Creatures 2. Never could figure out how to play it. Seemed like a cool game though. Reminded me of Jurassic Park.
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