DOS Games Discussion

The best I can offer is Mobygames database; here is the CPC games list for (Action Platformer, Side view, Commercial releases) https://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/cpc/action/platform/side-view/tic,16/ti,124/ Still, Mobygames database is not complete, and all info is continually updated by it's me...

Hmm...I never had an Amstrad computer, but there are some lists of games for those here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amstrad_CPC_games Some games that may apply: Side Arms, Army Moves, Metal Army An all-black character could imply a Ninja/stealth style game, so maybe it's not a regular arm...

Maybe this youtube channel shows it (Chewit)?

It seems to be titled 'The Muncher Compo' on the title screen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdYWwqMt0wo

Runs on a ZX emulator though...maybe another version.

Could it be one of the 'Spy vs Spy' cartoon based games?

https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/sp ... -licensees

It seems the game was indeed 'Time Gate: Knight's Chase', and there is a screenshot of the catapult in the museum here:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/time ... Id,246463/

Good you found it, it's a freeware game I see, and it was documented on mobygames, but not under the bird groups.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/ ... tled-story

http://gamemakergames.com/archive/an-untitled-story

Was it something like this: https://www.mobygames.com/game/toki-tori

A 2D game, but still shown as a cube? How did that work, did you have a separate world map showing 3D, or did the 2D screen flip one of the X/Y axis into a Z axis?

A classic Geman breakout clone would be 'Bolo' and its variants. It was initially for Atari ST, using a high resolution mode, with a black/white (grey) screen only. There later was a version for PC (DOS) and Mac, with updated playing screens, but mostly grey also, from what I see on Mobygames screen...

There is this group: https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/animals-chickens
or if some other bird species: https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/animals-birds

(note: ducks and penguins also have their own groups)

What genre, like TP or a similar party game?

I'm just guessing - from Mobygames fighting games list: Battle Beast, Brutal:Paws of Fury, Fight'N'Jokes, Tounge of the Fatman. https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/battle-beast https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/fightnjokes https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/brutal-paws-of-fury https://www.mobyga...

Something from the 'Skweek' series?

https://www.mobygames.com/game/fury-of-the-furries

https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/skweek-series

It might help if you stated what the game console/computer you used actually was?

You can probably google for white-haired characters and find long lists online; I'd make a guess at the vampire Alucard from Castlevania or maybe Dante from DMC, or Geralt from The Witcher depending on how long the hair is supposed to be?

Fran Bow?

https://www.mobygames.com/game/fran-bow

Possibly 'Spooky Mall', found at BigFish: https://www.bigfishgames.com/games/7021/spooky-mall/

The images show a superman-like character as a customer and some monsters, but I'm not sure about how the player characters looks.

It seems to be a pac-man variant - there are many of these, but here is a list:
https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/pa ... 100/so,1d/

There is this group of games with a robot protagonist: https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/protagonist-robot/offset,0/so,1d/ I did not immediately see anything that matched your game name fragment,but maybe you can find it there. (There was an older game called Bomb Scare, with a single robot defus...

It could have been released in some other year than you played the demo, if at all.
Anyway, try: https://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/ ... /tbs/2014/

Timeframe? DOS or Windows? Shooter/Hack&Slash/RPG/Horror?

Here is a list of amnesia-themed games: https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/theme-amnesia