Name that game

NathanT

NathanT

NathanT

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I need your collective help. Me and my brother have gone on some wired nostalgia trip after a few beers this afternoon sitting in front of the PC. We started chatting about all the games we used to play on the computers/consoles over the years and this game cropped up

We had it in Amiga format many many moons ago (15 or so years ago?)

It's a top down shooter, where you can choose from a selection of 4 characters (I think). 2 characters are always on the same screen, either 2 players or 1 player with bot. Each character has a different gun and special ability(s)

You get money throughout the level that you can spend on your characters gun upgrades and buy ammo for your specials.

Its set in a kinda Victorian-esque time with graphics and characters that resemble the sort of extraordinary league of gentlemen.

On one level it has hands as enemies?!

Sorry for the really sketchy description, I've got a picture in my head of what it was like, but to describe it is a little harder.
If anyone could throw some suggestions to any names I'd be very very grateful.

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Putting it in PC games as I hope to obtain a copy via an emulator or it was possibly released on a PC format
 
The Chaos Engine by Bitmap Brothers?




Edit: In fact if it isn't this then I'll eat my hat! (If I had one!)
 
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Awsome game. Google will find you a PC version to download. Haven't tried it myself, not sure my rig would handle it ;)

The minimum amount of BASE memory required to run the game is 604064 bytes (590K)
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You sir, are a god among men.

Thankyou very much.. now to see if I can find a copy to run on the PC, would make a great Christmas pressie :D
 
www.winuae.net should be your starting point for an Amiga emulator (though you will need a kickstart for it to run)

Secondly look into whdload which is basically images of disks which goes onto an Amiga hard-drive. Normally a zip file so you just uncompress it on the hard-drive and job done.

www.whdload.de (it's shareware so you can play for free but it puts up an annoying message - but it's fine for what you want to do).


M.

P.S. There's also a link there for English Amiga Board which is a great resource for Amiga enthusiasts with everything from real Amiga owners to help setting up WinUAE. I personally have a A1200 / A2000 so don't really use emulators that much unless I get tired from walking upstairs - lol
 
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I never did finish this game. It was too hard. I recently watched the whole walkthrough on YouTube. Most enjoyable.

If there was ever a prime candidate for XBLA/PSN it is this. Co-op over the Internet for teh win.
 
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