Games you never understood to play (the right way)

[BrooksterMax]

Knights of the Sky,

I worked out how to fly without a manual but had no idea how to complete missions. I knew sometimes you needed to bomb things but I could never complete anything.

I just ended up flying around over into enemy territory and causing havoc then flying back!

[JonSick]

1869. I remember people back in the day saying how much it ruled, but I can't seem to get it to do, well, anything really!

[capehorn]

Originally Posted by jotd

Beast I

You had to punch all the things.

[moijk]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

No manual for my *cough* backup copy back in the day, but the game drew me in real fast. So glad I invested two hours in finding out how to play it

I seem to recall beating it back in my a500 days. Amazing game, however my try in the later years led to certain confusion. Much like my populus trials.

[moijk]

I got a game in the bargin bin. For the Amiga, I was the police and was driving around arresting people. I was told to get to an adress but to get there I needed a map. the bargin copy didn't have one. I spent hours driving around trying to make my own map but I never succeeded.

[Benighted]

Originally Posted by capehorn

You had to punch all the things.

[gilgamesh]

Knights of the Crystallion - collected orbs like heck but never actually found out how to use them, not to mention the business sim part
Drakkhen - loved wandering around, but then?
Midwinter - same here (didn't understand the language )

EDIT: Kult - bought a corruptet floppy back then and didn't play it until recently, but WTF?

[TCD]

Baseball - some friends tried to tell me the rules once while watching it on TV. Didn't get it, but can't say I'm really fussed about it anyway.

[Loedown]

Pool Of Radiance on 4 C64 disks, flipped them for the other 4 sides ( 8 disks worth in total ), never had the code wheel, so changed every password to DRAGON

Two disks on the Amiga version, I loved the game and never finished it.

Something about hours wasted.


Captain Blood I never got and any game that required the utmost skill without save points at frequent intervals were turfed.

Dragon's Lair springs to mind, must go off and track down Knucklebusters / Knuckledusters for C64, hated the game play, loved the music.

[skateblind]

Captain Blood was confusing, but for some reason I loved it and still do.

In the last year I got given Starlord and even with the manuals it is tricky to play, so it must be impossible to play if you have not read the big thick manuals. It looks like a great game though, reminds me of Dune(The book, not the game or film/s.)

Baseball is easy to understand, for me anyway...

[Harry]

Interphase - flying around, but didnt get into the game.

[Anemos]

"The Trap Door"
for ZX and CPC.. never understand this game
who,s help ?

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by gilgamesh

EDIT: Kult - bought a corruptet floppy back then and didn't play it until recently, but WTF?

Really? I completed it It's not that hard, actually. I'd sugest you try again

[s2325]

Flip-it & Magnose http://hol.abime.net/580 Confusing me even today.

[laffer]

Originally Posted by capehorn

You had to punch all the things.

You also had to shoot some of them. And some you just have to avoid.

[capehorn]

Originally Posted by s2325

Flip-it & Magnose http://hol.abime.net/580 Confusing me even today.

Amen. I had the AF coverdisk and spent ages on it but had no idea what to do. Watched the Youtube longplay a while ago too and still didn't get it.

[mjnurney]

erm remember Detroit ? car building thing? utter rubbish , i was selling model T fords in 1978 (game years) lol never knew how to research or fit better stuff!

..It came from the desert!
..Deja Vu

pretty much most Amiga games i failed to complete, except Defender of the crown....i loved that, always wanted Defender of the crown 2 ...but never played it, even i bought a cd32 (the hot new console that was for sale for 32 minutes before commodore died) but never saw Defender2 for it anywhere!

ahhh...

[kriz]

So many games i also struggled with, but one thats not mentioned yet is Megatraveller - http://hol.abime.net/hol_search.php?find=megatraveller

So cool game (looks like) but i never got around understanding.. Would be fun to try that agin now

[TCD]

That one is really a bit different Not the average RPG dungeon crawler for sure. Got there in the end, but you have to spend some time to get into it.

[alkis21]

Originally Posted by killergorilla

I still have no idea how to get out of the graveyard on Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie.

After the initial bite, when you are being chased the secret is not to tap your fire button as fast as possible to run faster, but to tap it only when your arms reach the highest point. That way you will manage to escape from him (and get shot, but that's part of the story).