Looking for an old game

Dicehunter · 28 May 2020 at 05:53

So I'm looking for an old PC game, It's at least 25 years old, It was a fantasy side scroller and you could buy various things ingame from this little shop with coins you collected, The only real visual I can remember is from the games opening publisher/creator credits and it was of this fantasy castle with the name of the dev or publisher underneath, I cannot for the life of me remember the name.

Not much to go on I know but if it rings any bells for anyone I'd really appreciate it.

EDIT

Nevermind, Finally got it, Leander

Guest2 · 28 May 2020 at 07:06

Leander was an Amiga game. I had it and was one of my favourite games.
The artwork on the box was fantastic, as the case with any Psygnosis game

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leander_(video_game)

Dicehunter · 28 May 2020 at 07:08

Guest2 said:
Leander was an Amiga game. I had it and was one of my favourite games.
The artwork on the box was fantastic, as the case with any Psygnosis game

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leander_(video_game)

Played it at my friends house after school, Well I'd watch and marvel at it while we ate chicken nuggets

Guest2 · 28 May 2020 at 07:32

Dicehunter said:
Played it at my friends house after school, Well I'd watch and marvel at it while we ate chicken nuggets

The intros and music is still great. I want an Amiga again. Games had more ‘heart’ or something

d_brennen · 28 May 2020 at 07:51

It was published by Psygnosis but developed by Traveller's Tales. One of the main programmers at TT, Jon Burton, has a fascinating YouTube channel called GameHut. Most of the videos are about how TT extracted the most graphical power from 16bit systems. Don't think they have done a Leander video yet though, he seems to not look back on it so fondly

Craig R · 28 May 2020 at 10:33

Guest2 said:
The intros and music is still great. I want an Amiga again. Games had more ‘heart’ or something

You were just young and more easily pleased. The games are absolute toilet by today's standards.

I downloaded an emulator to play Sensible Soccer a while back (a game I absolutley loved and spent more time playing than any other on the Amiga). It was terrible. Lasted one game before uninstalling and playing Fifa instead.

Guest2 · 28 May 2020 at 10:38

Craig R said:
You were just young and more easily pleased. The games are absolute toilet by today's standards.

I downloaded an emulator to play Sensible Soccer a while back (a game I absolutley loved and spent more time playing than any other on the Amiga). It was terrible. Lasted one game before uninstalling and playing Fifa instead.

You are right in some respects but maybe not 100% rose (child) tinted glasses. I decided to fire up Rainbow islands not long ago, before I knew it I had spent 2 hours on it. More than most single player games in the past few years!

ShiWarrior · 28 May 2020 at 12:45

Really? I'm playing through oblivion at the moment, I spent an entire evening on it, about 4 hours or so

Guest2 · 28 May 2020 at 13:29

Cannon fodder was another I started playing again. Got quite far into it and maybe spent 6 hours on it

suenstar · 28 May 2020 at 14:15

We usually dig out our Amiga around Christmas time and keep it out on the tv unit for a month or two for a few evenings of old school fun, during that time I can quite happily play games like Zool, Superfrog, Another World and Defender of the Crown all day.

I think sometimes you just enjoy a bit of fun with classic games and going down memory lane.

Guest2 · 28 May 2020 at 15:15

I so wish I still had my Amiga 500+ with the 1Mb upgrade. It got sold in a carboot sale when we had a clearout in around 2002 before I left home.
Still had the box (a bit tatty) 1 original zipstick joystick, 1 ofiginal quickshot joystick, mouse, PSU and 30 odd big boxed games not to mention ~50 games in a small cabinet. It sold for either £30 or £40

It was taking up a lot of space in the attic but miss it

Hellsmk2 · 28 May 2020 at 19:08

Guest2 said:
I so wish I still had my Amiga 500+ with the 1Mb upgrade. It got sold in a carboot sale when we had a clearout in around 2002 before I left home.
Still had the box (a bit tatty) 1 original zipstick joystick, 1 ofiginal quickshot joystick, mouse, PSU and 30 odd big boxed games not to mention ~50 games in a small cabinet. It sold for either £30 or £40
It was taking up a lot of space in the attic but miss it

Had the 500 and a 1200. The 1200 was my halycyon gaming days tbh - Hired Guns, Syndicate, Xcom, Cannon Fodder, Sensible Soccer, Championship Manager, Feud, Elite, Chaos Engine, Lemmings, Another World, Monkey Island, Beneath a Steel Sky, Simon the Sorcerer, Gunship 2000... I could go on and on and on. Such an absolute quality system.

BuffetSlayer · 28 May 2020 at 19:47

Flashback is still one one of my favourite games from the Amiga days along with chaos engine and cannon fodder.

I also love 007 The Duel, robocop vs terminator and shadow dancer from the sega megadrive

Also Creatures 2 from c64

Games were much harder back then! Quicksave wasn't a thing!

LoadsaMoney · 28 May 2020 at 19:54

That music, remember it well

Gray2233 · 28 May 2020 at 19:57

The Mega Drive version of Robocop Vs Terminator was amazing.

Games back then were mostly just memorising things.

I remember Revenge of Shinobi on the Mega Drive being hard as balls at times, especially the last boss. There was a really hard jump at the start of one of the later levels too, I think I lost more lives to that jump than I did to any actual enemies.

Great game though, I actually played through it a few months back during a bout of nostalgia. Played through Alien Storm and Streets of Rage 1 too, they might be old but they're still tons of fun imo.

VincentHanna · 28 May 2020 at 20:13

I don't miss the endless disk swapping on the Amiga.

Monkey Island 2 had about 13 disks. It was so annoying.

I even had a second floppy drive in the end. I think some games needed it?

ShiWarrior · 28 May 2020 at 21:34

13 discs was very very annoying !
CD version was better

Guest2 · 28 May 2020 at 22:00

VincentHanna said:
I don't miss the endless disk swapping on the Amiga.

Monkey Island 2 had about 13 disks. It was so annoying.

I even had a second floppy drive in the end. I think some games needed it?

Mortal Kombat II on Amiga was best for this. You would do an uppercut into something like the acid bath and would need to insert disk 2 to load the sequence/movie/sprites. Your opponent would plop in then insert disk 1.

That and entering the valley of the gods playing Moonstone - A hard days knight. About 2 or 3 hours in as a kid beating all the enemies and the dragon. Only to enter the valley and get a Guru Meditation crash memory error. Noooooooo
I didn’t actually complete that game until about 4 years ago. In the valley was just some whirlwind witch enemy

PP Hammer and his pnumatic weapon was also a great platform game