Forgotten PC games from the 90's (MS-DOS/Windows 95/98)

[Xasthur]

I recently came across an old adventure game whose name I had completely forgotten. For referance, it was "Galador - The Prince and the Coward" (1998). And this event triggered a wave of “ancient memories”.

So please, if you have some time, help grandpa remember the names of the games described below that are lost in his memories so that he can finally sleep peacefully :)

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1) This is a first person shooter. I played it around 1999-2000.

2) The events of the game (or at least the very beginning) take place on an alien spaceship (or alien base?). The shooter was comic and the style was rather closer to cartoonish.

3) When the character ran out of ammo, he used a "magic spoon" that shot telekinetic balls. Or at least it looked like a spoon :)


It's Chex Quest (1996). Thanks to Bing Chilling and Electric Cupcake.

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There is one more game that I would like to find. I played it around 1999-2001.

1) This is a 2D puzzle adventure/platformer, the first levels of which take place in a pyramid (or catacombs) filled with traps, scorpions, snakes and mummies (?).

2) Your character begins each level in a certain place and you had to interact with the environment extremely carefully, since any object had to take its strictly defined place in order to successfully complete the level. Many puzzles revolve around the inability to correct your previous actions. If you jump down from a platform, then quite often you will not be able to return back.

3) The game was in some ways similar to modern "Spelunky", but the levels were much, much smaller. You could literally see the entire level on the screen.


All of a sudden I found it! It's "Challenge of the Ancient Empires!" (1990).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6iMur_awW8

[Caldari Ghost]

I like ascendancy

[Delta]

Sherlock Holmes: The Consulting Detective. It came out in 1991 on MS-DOS. It combines video with point and click.

In my humble opinion, it's better than The Walking Dead, which is also a point and click.

It has suspense and mystery. A brilliant combo.

[Xasthur]

In the meantime, I found the second game I described.

It's "Challenge of the Ancient Empires!" (1990)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6iMur_awW8

[Zilkenian Davenport]

A bit older, but still, classics. They started as arcades, but I think they got a release in PC later on.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/227380/Dragons_Lair/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/240340/Space_Ace/

[Hobbit XIII]

Its me so I will always say the same thing.....

Silent Service : Be a submarine

Sword of the Samurai : Be a samurai and rise in the ranks until you become Shogun

Darklands : Upset Robber Knights and many other folk in medieval Germany.

System Shock (got well cheap on GoG very recently) : I have no idea what is going on, should have paid a little bit of attention.

High Seas Trader : Be a trader some century ago, very addictive.

[Electric Cupcake]

Originally posted by Xasthur:

In the meantime, I found the second game I described.

It's "Challenge of the Ancient Empires!" (1990)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6iMur_awW8

Whoa. A Super Solvers game I missed? Inconceivable!

[N3tRunn3r]

Originally posted by Xasthur:

In the meantime, I found the second game I described.

It's "Challenge of the Ancient Empires!" (1990)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6iMur_awW8

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1330890/Crystal_Caves_HD/

clearly better ^^