ID two old games for me!

DoorKnobHandle · Wed 06/09/2006 17:35:21

I have recently gone over several Abandonia-like sites (and Abandonia itself) and found a variety of different old computer games, that I played as a kid, however here are two games that I didn't yet manage to find anywhere - I hope that someone might be able to recall the names:

First game: You played as a paper-plane. It only had five levels as far as I recall, and the where all only made of one room (you saw the scene from the side - it was 2d obviously). I think you had to move over fans to get pushed up again. The goal was to reach some point on the other side of the screen. Also, there were shredding machines (that turned you into a pile of shredded paper if you tried to pass them without turning them off somewhere else first), you could find little rubber bands which you could shoot then and there were ballons in one level (which you had to shot somehow). That's pretty much all, I have no idea about the name and whether it's abandonware now, but I think it ran on Windows already. It might've been some ad-game, because it was really short, but I'm only guessing here.

Second game: You played as a technician/mechanic or something. The name of the guy was in the title and he was called something with the letter 'b', I think (Bobby maybe?). You had to go through levels and solve some puzzles, in the first level you had to make a tv work, I believe, in order to do that you had to align an antenna on the roof of a house and check the tv in the livingroom. The second level was made of a big maze with dark rooms, which the character feared. There were lightswitches as well. I don't remember anything further, I think it ran on Windows as well.

Any ideas?

dasjoe · Wed 06/09/2006 17:57:10

first one is glider.

DoorKnobHandle · Wed 06/09/2006 18:03:00

Ah, you're right. Thanks a lot. What about the other one?

Dr. Scary · Wed 06/09/2006 18:29:08

Hmm... Second game reminds me of Contraption Zach to some degree, but not the entire description fits.

DoorKnobHandle · Wed 06/09/2006 18:48:58

No, that's not it. It's pretty similar however. There is a more top-down-view to it rather than isometric in "Contraption Zack".

DoorKnobHandle · Mon 20/11/2006 20:55:07

I'm warming this old thread up with a new title, because just recently I remembered another fun game from the past.

It was a real-time strategy game taking place completely underwater. You could build submarines and buildings as well as develop technologies. I don't remember a lot more, it was really a standard real-time strategy game, but everything in deep water. I used to love it!

Does anybody remember the game?

EDIT: It was not three-dimensional (this excludes "Submarine Titans" or whatever the game's called you'll find on Google)!

Mr Jake · Mon 20/11/2006 21:24:58

Its not X-COM Terror From The Deep is it? Although that wasn't real time.

DoorKnobHandle · Tue 21/11/2006 09:00:15

Nope, it was completely real-time. Played a lot like StarCraft with technologies and stuff. When you created new units there were cool bubble-effects, I think. If I could only remember more about it... I think the logo before the main menu was displayed showed a small stylized cannon or a tank jumping around on a battlefield or something...

Sorry for not being able to give more information, maybe somebody else has an idea?