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Can you help me remember the name of this old game ?

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Hi

It was RTS game that released on the age of Windows 95 (or Windows 3 not sure). It has alien army and all I remember is one of the aliens can throw mines. I found the game first with pc magazine disk, It has first couple of levels for free

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KKND? Dark Reign? Dune 2?
I can only remember these titles... also warcraft orcs and humans in 1994
 
Hyderz said:
KKND? Dark Reign? Dune 2?
I can only remember these titles... also warcraft orcs and humans in 1994
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No not any one of them. I will have to go and will follow replies when I come back
 
Do You recall the demo being a CD or a floppy disk? Also, magazine name and country published would be fantastic for narrowing down.

Many of the PC Gamer magazine disks are on archive[.]org including a large CD collection. Floppies are there too, but would need categorization.
 
JohH said:
Dominion: Storm over Gift 3?
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No

JohH said:
Otherwise try scrolling through this list and checking screenshots
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I did, I took a week searching but could not find it :)

kilo said:
Do You recall the demo being a CD or a floppy disk? Also, magazine name and country published would be fantastic for narrowing down.
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3.5" floppy disk it was pc magazine US . Once they distributed complete DOOM game over 3 months in three 3.5 disks . Imagine the excitement to wait 3 months for this game and after I had the 3 disks
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Sample:
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After a few searches here and there, it looks like the 3.5" floppy to CD transition for English editions was December 1993. I couldn't find when 5.25" to 3.5" floppy transition was for certain; there was a 5.25" as late as 1988-06-01. That should give you a rough estimate of year the game was made. e.g. 1988 - 1993.

Do you recall the graphics at all: CGA, EGA, or VGA? Sprites? Top-down?
 
kilo said:
Do you recall the graphics at all: CGA, EGA, or VGA? Sprites? Top-down?
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VGA, top down. Old games was real fun
 
Are you sure it wasn't an MS-DOS game?
 
VGA means about 1991 - 1993 given the other data points.

I'm not sure the frequency of their bundled diskettes, but there are about 90 articles magazines for that time frame.

https://www.pcmag.com/cover-gallery#covers (keep on scrolling)
 
Martin007 said:
No. Most games in this time was DOS games
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Most to all 3.1 games were compatible in dos. It's not a good idea to limit yourself to the OS you used if someone else ran on dos.
 
Martin007 said:
No


This will need some time. I will be back ;)
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Did it have multi-player? (Just trying to narrow it down by features, I figure it doesn't but wanted to clarify)
 
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A few more suggestions:

7th Legion
Dark Colony
M.A.X.
Total Annihilation
 
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