Name the Game

Ben X · Mon 11/11/2013 23:52:25

Gah, I remember this throat-slitting simulator existing, but I can't remember its name. Is it Green Beret? It's something generic like that, I think.

Gribbler · Tue 12/11/2013 08:22:34

Quote from: CaptainDHmm... was this game released by Microprose?

Nope.

Quote from: Ben XI can't remember its name. Is it Green Beret? It's something generic like that, I think.

A sentence "fire is a deadly force of nature" contains all the words of game's title.

kconan · Tue 12/11/2013 08:31:18

Is it P.O.W.?

Edit: I missed the clue...

So...Deadly Fire Force?

CaptainD · Tue 12/11/2013 08:33:49

Green Beret was released in the early 80s I think - I remember it coming out on the Speccy when I was knee-high!

Deadly Force?
Deadly Nature?

Fire Is A?

Gribbler · Tue 12/11/2013 09:52:04

kconan is very close

monkey424 · Tue 12/11/2013 11:55:51

Fire force

Gribbler · Tue 12/11/2013 13:38:51

Quote from: monkey424Fire force

Yes!

monkey424 · Wed 13/11/2013 09:15:00

Phew! Thank God for that!

Babar · Wed 13/11/2013 12:01:06

I spent many weeks on that game. Was great fun. Castle of the Winds!
The author released the game for free later, so while it may be a bit of a problem getting it to run on modern computers, I'd still recommend you try it out:
http://lkbm.ecritters.biz/cotw/download.html

Since there's not really much probability that I'm wrong, here is my screenshot. A bit easy, but I'm in a hurry:

Gribbler · Wed 13/11/2013 12:53:36

Star Trek?

CaptainD · Wed 13/11/2013 13:48:45

Federation of Free Traders?

Gribbler · Wed 13/11/2013 13:57:15

Or maybe Space Quest?

Babar · Wed 13/11/2013 14:50:36

None of those. But...I guess you caught on that it involved space?

CaptainD · Wed 13/11/2013 14:59:15

Quote from: Babar on Wed 13/11/2013 14:50:36
None of those. But...I guess you caught on that it involved space?

It does?!?!?!??!?!

Er... Purple Saturn Days?

(Or are you saying that "Space" is part of the title?

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Babar · Wed 13/11/2013 15:18:31

Space is not part of the title. I suppose in the form of a hint, I could say that the title DOES involve a...spacey thing?
I wasn't expecting this one to be so hard.

And no. Not Purple Saturn Day (was surprised that such a game name actually existed

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CaptainD · Wed 13/11/2013 16:21:30

Purple Saturn Days was actually quite a fun game - although it was more of a cool concept than anything.

No idea about this game though I'm afraid.

festilligambe · Thu 14/11/2013 03:44:48

Protostar Frontiers or something like that

Gribbler · Thu 14/11/2013 08:52:19

It seems you're right, festilligamble. It supposed to be easy guess but I never even heard of that game

CaptainD · Thu 14/11/2013 11:01:33

Quote from: Gribbler on Thu 14/11/2013 08:52:19
It seems you're right, festilligamble. It supposed to be easy guess but I never even heard of that game

Me neither!

Babar · Thu 14/11/2013 11:06:27

I could be anal and ask you to be more exact (Protostar: War on the Frontier), but yeah, you're right, festilligamble!

It wasn't a super-amazing game or anything, but I'm surprised the resident experts didn't know about it

. Was an okay enough first person space exploration trading/fighting (and a small bit of adventure RPG) type sim in the vein of the Star Control series.