Looking for a game

Discuss all your favorite classics and retro style games in this area. The only requirement is the game has to be over 15+ yrs old to be considered a classic. Nice tool for playing these classics is DosBox.
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Gobawoba
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Looking for a game

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Hi, iam looking for the name of a game i played ages ago :D it was a top-view 2d space shooter with little rpg elements afair. You could obtain enemy ships after u beat them in a battle but you could only have like 6 ships at the same time. In battles you controlled one of your ships , the rest was AI handled.I think it was an open-world game in our spacesystem , real names etc.You could land on the planets, there was a shop, you could talk to various people (afair, the game was english and back in that time i didnt understand english lol!)The controls were easy: there was no break, you had to turn in the opposite direction and accelerate.ps: sry for my very bad english ^^
Pinback
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Sound a bit like Starcontrol 2.http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/star-control-ii
Gobawoba
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thx, but it isnt starcontrol 2 :( if i remember correctly it wasnt a dos game.I forgot to mention that the battles happen in an extra area , a not to big and not to small box, sometimes with little asteroids inside the box , the box was visualized by simple lines.The description of starcontrol 2 on mobygames does sound like that game, maybe it was a remake or something -> The Ur-Quan Masters aint it ;)
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Still sounds a like Starcontrol maybe the first one http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/star-control or some sort of version of Space war.
Gobawoba
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hi, sry for the late reply, It isnt one of the games mentioned.It was on a games-cd, my father gave me loads of cds around 2003(or 2004), most of them some years old , so i cant really say in which year the cd came out. I searched for a list of Game-magazines back then in germany, but sadly i cant find a list of games on their cds.I played the game on windows XP if that helps you.
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hmm! Dagger's rage?
Tarkin
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It seems like Escape Velocity Nova. Came out in 2003. It's a great game.
Gobawoba
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Ive Downloaded the trial of EV nova, it seems to be very smiliar to the game, but it aint it.You couldnt shoot outside of a battle and if you flew over a planet you landed directly.Looks like a good game too. Iam searching now for similar games as EV nova, since it is like the game iam searching only some things are not similaredit: The graphics werent pseudo-3d like in ev nova :)
CaptainWill
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The game you mention is almost certainly either Escape Velocity or Escape Velocity: Override. They are two of my favourite games of all time.EV: http://i1-mac.softpedia-static.com/screenshots/9-1183_2.pngOverride: http://www.macupdate.com/images/screens/uploaded/JPG/2307_scr.jpgSeem familiar? They only run on Mac OS 9 but you can download a "classic" mod pack for Escape Velocity: Nova (mentioned earlier in this thread) which allows you to play the old games through Nova.
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