Where to find help for a game name

Is there a community on Lemmy that can help finding a game I played years ago.

The year was 1984 or 1985, last year of High School. The computer was an Apple 2e The game was a Raiders rip off with a guy in a fedora looking for treasure. It was monochrome green. I remember you had to place dynamite and run to blow through walls to get deeper inside a pyramid. It was loaded on 5 1/4" floppy disks. I guess it would need an emulator to play now.

35 points · 57 comments · view on lemmy.world

57 Comments

capt_wolf@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y

There's "Tip of my joystick" on .ml, but it's not very active. However, you're already here, may as well ask.

ieatpwns@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Describe the game

osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org · 13 pts · 1y (2 replies)

A self-perpetuating meme where the objective is to forget you're playing it. By remembering it, you have lost the game, and by custom, must announce it aloud.

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I lost.

Redfox8@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 1y

Me too

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y

check my edit for description.

drspod@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Don't ask to ask, just ask.

donuts@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)
villainy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Nice. I'm putting that one right next to
https://nohello.net/

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y

check my edit for description.

catloaf@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Is it battletoads?

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y

No but thanks

donuts@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y (3 replies)
HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y

Okay I've watched a couple of vids and it might be this.

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y

I'm wondering if there was an Aztec2 cause the name rings a bell. Thanks, I'm going to check who developed this but it looks abandoned.

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

In the same genre but must have come after this because it was much better quality.

deegeese@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 1y (2 replies)

It was Duke Nukem Forever

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y

No but I enjoyed that game, although the catch phrases got on my nerves pretty quick.

thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Duke Nukem Sometimes: The Prequel

TootSweet@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Lessee. Username's a reference to Snow Crash, which is a cyberpunk book. Played the game "years ago". The game must have a name not so connected to the content that OP would have already remembered the name before posting.

I'm going to guess Shadowrun for the SNES.

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y

Good catch on the book but the game is from the 80's

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y

check my edit for description.

GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 1y

Are you sure it's not a reference to the tv show Heroes (tm) (R) (CC) (CCP) (CCCP) (littleoldladywho), and thus he has an unhealthy obsession with savior-figures that transcend the physical boundaries set by the unbreakable rules off reality? The game must be Superman 64, known for its trendsetting skyfall imagery and fast gameplay.

icecreamtaco@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Trog

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y

I have never even heard of that one > Trog

Voyajer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Temple of Apshai?

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y

Temple of Apshai? No but thanks.

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I think you've found it. Give us some clues!

How long ago? What platform? Genre?

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y

check my edit for description.

iii@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Could've been minecraft

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y

I have never played Minecraft. I played 7 days to die so close enough?

Redfox8@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Horace goes skiing?

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I live in a snowy place so I never liked winter games. Maybe if they had one about shoveling out your vehicle.

Redfox8@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Well I hit the right era, didn't expect it to be that old! The game you describe does sound very familar, I'msure I've played it...now you've got my aging memory working away!

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Its certainly a very common theme. Can't lose with pyramid treasure hunts.

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Could it be Aztec?

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Yes, someone else suggested that, I think it was. I just remember it being way better than it looks today. Cutting edge in the 80's.

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

That's usually how these things play out.

Same thing happened to me when I tried watching Thundercats again. Oh boy.

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y

Sometimes it better to just keep the memory.

kmartburrito@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Raptor: Call of the Shadows?

Venicon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Second Sight

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Not> Second Sight but I will see if I can get it.

Venicon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I didn’t see the expanded post. Was it Montezumas Revenge? I played it on Atari

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

No it wasn't > Montezumas Revenge Someone suggested Aztec.

Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I was playing on Sinclair spectrum and BBC b computers in the 80s but this kinda rings a vague bell. I'll ask my brother and get back to you if he remembers anything

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Thanks

asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I think there is no specific community for that yet, but I'm pretty sure you can ask it in here or in something like !ask@lemm.ee

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Yes I did thanks.

EbenezerScrew@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Faxanadu, or Castlevania II: Simon's Quest.

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Much earlier. check my edit for description.

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest Not those games but it was an 80's game. I edited my question for description.

Deestan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Xenon 2?

Redfox8@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Megablast!

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Not Megablast. I edited the question to describe the game.

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

No but > Xenon 2 kind of reminds me of Galaga.

Redfox8@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I don't know Gaaga, Xenon & Xenon 2, Megablast was my Atari ST era. I remember the soundtrack/music being very good for that time.

HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

Galaga, it was kind of a fancy Space Invaders.