Isometric CGA Dos game [CORBA COMMANDO]
Isometric CGA Dos game [CORBA COMMANDO]
Hi all,
I recall it being called cobra command (but it isn't)
it's a DOS game
CGA (Red, Blue and Yellow with black background I recall)
I recall on the main menu (black screen with two options) you use the cursor keys to move the cursor and the left shift (right shift didn't work) to confirm your selection.
it's isometric
You're a man wearing a blue suit with yellow dots.
Your head randomly looks left and right slightly.
from searching these days, it looks similar to head over heels but isn't that game
There were spikes, blocks you could push, blocks that went up and down (You could stand on them) as well as blocks that just move towards you and can eventually trap you in the corner.
Pretty sure it was a .com file.
So... anyone recall this?
I recall it being called cobra command (but it isn't)
it's a DOS game
CGA (Red, Blue and Yellow with black background I recall)
I recall on the main menu (black screen with two options) you use the cursor keys to move the cursor and the left shift (right shift didn't work) to confirm your selection.
it's isometric
You're a man wearing a blue suit with yellow dots.
Your head randomly looks left and right slightly.
from searching these days, it looks similar to head over heels but isn't that game
There were spikes, blocks you could push, blocks that went up and down (You could stand on them) as well as blocks that just move towards you and can eventually trap you in the corner.
Pretty sure it was a .com file.
So... anyone recall this?
Last edited by ChrisM on Sun Aug 17, 2014 1:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I've got one game in mind I can't track down, but looking for it I came across a number of probably-wrong long shots. Figured I'd pass them along rather than throw them away. Lots of ZX Spectrum games match this rough description, so I was looking for ones ported to dos - I remember a puzzle game through isometric rooms, and something about a ghost or haunted mansion, maybe a bubble, but I may be confusing it with nonisometric bubble ghost: http://www.mobygames.com/game/bubble-ghost/screenshots
So, maybe look through the 'cobra' game list on moby?
http://www.mobygames.com/search/quick?q=cobra&x=0&y=0
Possibilities for isometric games
http://www.mobygames.com/game/sweevos-world/screenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/treasure-trap/screenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/cadaver/screenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/mysti ... creenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/chimera/screenshots
Other long shots from my search
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/great ... creenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/isome ... creenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/m ... creenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/knight-lore/screenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/batman_/screenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/alien-8/screenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/starquake/screenshots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Abad%C3%ADa_del_Crimen
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/space ... creenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/magnetik-tank/screenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/alien-8/screenshots
Edit: the game I was trying to remember above was Airball: http://www.mobygames.com/game/airball , just for future reference.
So, maybe look through the 'cobra' game list on moby?
http://www.mobygames.com/search/quick?q=cobra&x=0&y=0
Possibilities for isometric games
http://www.mobygames.com/game/sweevos-world/screenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/treasure-trap/screenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/cadaver/screenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/mysti ... creenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/chimera/screenshots
Other long shots from my search
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/great ... creenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/isome ... creenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/m ... creenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/knight-lore/screenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/batman_/screenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/alien-8/screenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/starquake/screenshots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Abad%C3%ADa_del_Crimen
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/space ... creenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/magnetik-tank/screenshots
http://www.mobygames.com/game/alien-8/screenshots
Edit: the game I was trying to remember above was Airball: http://www.mobygames.com/game/airball , just for future reference.
Last edited by Quadko on Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:24 am, edited 1 time in total.
Sweevo's World looks quite similar to it actually! though the one I am thinking of is much much simpler. Again, Alien 8 looks similar but once again is way more complex looking than the game I remember.
I remember the walls of each screen being a row of brick posts.
Also there were conveyor belt style blocks that could move you around.
I remember the walls of each screen being a row of brick posts.
Also there were conveyor belt style blocks that could move you around.
That's absolutely amazing! :D:D
Thank you so much for finding it Vyothric, that's the one. Quite glad I remember the details (even if I did get the CGA colours wrong!)
It seems quite a few of my early game memories come from the PC Plus Super Disk
Vyothric, I don't suppose there's any chance you can upload it (if you were to see this again?) I'd love to play this game again
Regardless, thank you.
Thank you so much for finding it Vyothric, that's the one. Quite glad I remember the details (even if I did get the CGA colours wrong!)
It seems quite a few of my early game memories come from the PC Plus Super Disk
Vyothric, I don't suppose there's any chance you can upload it (if you were to see this again?) I'd love to play this game again
Regardless, thank you.
Very nice. "Snake, Lake, Weasel" That has a nice ring to it - they obviously had fun trying stuff. And I think we (you? ) tracked down hellfire at another request. I love the enthusiasm and little code snippets they traded around in those days. I wouldn't trade the internet and Sourceforge/codehub/etc., but it doesn't have the same cachet at all. Or maybe it's just I'm a software professional and not an amateur simply doing it for the love of exploration any more.
That's brilliant I remember looking through PC Plus as a kid and flicking through until I found a mention of a game or something. (Seemed like games were only 2% of the magazine back then1)
I see from your disks the mention of the game snake, man that was a great version of the snake game. That's the one with mushrooms and different coloured apples right?
ALSO!!! I see the disk bottom middle mentions Read Guard, that's the game I was looking for in this thread - http://www.dosgames.com/forum/about1974 ... highlight= Tis a real shame that disk doesn't work. I'd love to find out what I was getting wrong in (what I assumed was) the final level.
I see from your disks the mention of the game snake, man that was a great version of the snake game. That's the one with mushrooms and different coloured apples right?
ALSO!!! I see the disk bottom middle mentions Read Guard, that's the game I was looking for in this thread - http://www.dosgames.com/forum/about1974 ... highlight= Tis a real shame that disk doesn't work. I'd love to find out what I was getting wrong in (what I assumed was) the final level.