/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6498578
I played a demo but never heard or saw anything from the full game.

Seems like the developer Optik Software, Inc. went out of business shortly after the release.

Akte Europa, a German RTS depicting a future war between the US and Europe.
features include:
high screen resolutions for the time
unit construction and customization
terrain affects unit speed and sight lines / fog of war
fuel and ammunition management
cheesy FMV cutscenes

>>6498578
Is this a Red Alert clone or use the same engine?

>>6498609
Proprietary engine probably.
C&C Tiberian Dawn and Warcraft II at the end of 1995 were so damn successful that market got absolutely flooded with RTS games for the next 3-4 years.

>>6498593
>war between EU and US
>cheesy FMV cutscenes
How funny were they

I used to love K240, and Amiga-exclusive asteroid mining/colonisation strategy game. Basically you were mining various minerals and ores whilst defending your colonies from alien attacks.

There was a PC sequel Fragile Allegiance but I never played it.

>>6498586
>I played a demo but never heard or saw anything from the full game.

I beat it back in 1997 when it first came out. It was a lot of fun, and pretty difficult until the end of the game where I basically just had maxed helicopters that just ran the train on them.

>>6498638
Not that funny with Z-grade acting.
I doubt it was ever released outside Germany.

Was basically an isometric capture the flag but with Animaniacs characters

>>6498610
And to this day, WC-II/SC/C&C/RA/TS/RA2 are the only good RTS games, everything else is shit.

>>6498715
Your opinion

>>6498715
t. The reason why the genre is dead

>>6498648
Reminds me of Utopia.

>>6498820
It's the sequel to Utopia according to Wikipedia but I never played that game.

I'm clearly not the only one since there are videos on youtube, but I hardly ever heard someone mention Loadstar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKxRmmb2eik

Anyone else? A really bad rts.

>>6498593
>Akte Europa
now that's a good one.

>>6498578
What's OP's game

>>6499296
War Inc.

>>6498578
This means war!

for win 3.1, bit on the trashy side, absurd story and characters(played by the dev team I think)

>>6499315
The fictional game in TMW carrying the virus that ultimately infects all computers, plunging the world into chaos...or something like that.

That logo looks awfully familiar

>>6498578

Similar idea (as in design and build your own units) but in different setting - Mad Max the rts basically.

>>6498715
>No TA or SupCom, or Act of War, or...

plebeian

>>6499324
The name of the game and its publisher are a reference to the novelisation of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. It's a scene not in the movie, but a couple of scientists (I think one of them is Dr March, as in March hare) have programmed a game called Boojum Hunt under the name Mad Rabbit. So it's a kind of Lewis Carroll reference and Easter egg.

>>6498715
Brainlet.

my nan got this for me because she liked the title as it sounded like solid christain stuff.
i liked the game but my copy was bugged and i couldnt get into isometric mode on the last level i was fuckinng furious
saw later that this was super common and that the game sucked ass (like 4% on pc pp) but i liked it and still do

i borrowed this game off a mate of mine in like 2001 and he never wanted it back because it sucked so bad
you play as (or against) aliens from jupiter invadinng earth. cool concept but the ai is shit and controllingn anything is a massive chore. has an interesting tech system though
smashed the disk opening a drawer in 2009, never found another copy, sad!

pickle wars was the shit
if you like shit this is a full meal

>>6498578
I remember that one. Had it on one of those Bulgarian (I think?) pirate CD game compilations.
The trick was to play the crap out of the stock market until you got enough money to by out those corporations which gave you bonuses (like faster research, lower component prices, faster construction time etc). I also remember that using infantry was pretty bad, since it cost money instead of ore, and you wanted to use as little money during a mission as possible. Leftover ore would be converted into cash at the end of the mission, so it was a good idea to take at least one ore sniffer to every objective (a mission could have several objectives, which were separate maps) and build refineries.

C1 Circuit for PSX.

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

Honestly the worst racing game I've ever played. Hooo boy the physics on those wall collisions.

Here's a racing game I would recommend though, Advan Racing:

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

I actually prefer it over the Gran Turismo games.

Machines by Acclaim, loved the soundtrack.

>>6501052
If only the rest wasn't so piss poor...or at least lurk warm.

>>6498961

I happened to play it. I remember the review I read as a kid got me hyped, boy. The game was beyond bad.

>>6498578
>War Inc.
THANK YOU ANON
I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS GAME'S NAME
FOR SO MANY YEARS
THANK YOU AGAIN

>>6501453
Good game, but none of my friends "got" it. It's on GOG for cheap.

I never see any love for Spellcross. It was a damn great unique turn-based game (although repetitive)

family compendium games for playstation

>>6500167
I think I got this game from a bargain bin sometime in the 2000's but never got to experience the gameplay. The game was running too fast. As in, within a fraction of a second after starting a mission, I got wiped out by the enemy army. I figure I didn't miss out on much.

>>6501453
Got this on Steam and played the campaigns for a while. The gameplay felt exceptionally solid for an old 3d rts, especially considering there's three layers to keep track of. I'd love to see a remaster.

>>6501685
Jesus wept, is that the actual cover?! What kind of family games are included?

>'Run Away from Home'
>'We Need to Talk'
>'You Can't Spend Your Whole Life Playing Family Games Compendium'
>'Should We Divorce?'
>'I'll Show You I Can Quit You Patronising D*ck'
>'Solitaire'
>'Not in Front of the Kids'
>'Hidden Vodka Hunt'
>'Bailiff Bovver'
>'Try and Stop Me Leaving'

>>6502013
>'Bailiff Bovver'

>>6498578
Spndizzy. The amstrad version was the one I played though

>Z
http://zod.sourceforge.net

it's on steam and gog but they fucked up the port

>>6498715
"The games I played in my formative years are the only good games" the post.

>>6502317
Z was pretty well known and sold decently

>>6503228
Just like the rest of the Bitmap Brothers catalogue, right anon? (That, Team 17 and Psygnosis are studios that I'd love to see getting the "Sega Ages"-type treatment. Shadow of the Beast never gets old, and Alien Breed or Chaos Engine would make a great top-down twin stick shooter...)

>>6500175
I remember this. Another I played via those shareware discs. The weapon you use was a salad gun correct?

>>6503302
>Just like the rest of the Bitmap Brothers catalogue

Yes. I bet most Amiga or ST owner bought at least one of their games back in the day...and acquired the rest somehow.

>>6503310
>...and acquired the rest somehow
At primary school we swapped football stickers, at secondary school we swapped pirate floppies...

>>6503315
Yeah, same here.

>>6503334
Did anyone ever stick you with a dud or give you the wrong thing as a practical joke? I remember once getting a slideshow of centrefolds labelled as (I think) a shooter...

>>6503808
Mislabeled stuff, occasionally nudes.
8 people in my class managed to brick their disk collections over night because someone altered (tried and shared) a pre existing virus. Can't remember the original name but one of the many boot sector viruses that circulated at the time.