Messages

Since  Leprechauns are related to gold, maybe it's some of the metal genre?

* Gilbert looks up metal music from Wikipedia.

Is it:

Spoiler

Pirate Metal

[close]

?

Now, that is fast.
It was supposed to be tricky, because this console version was never released in the west.
This game was the sole reason I decided to have that console instead of the other two competitors (the Super Famicom and the Mega Drive) and it was indeed the best choice.

Anyway, your turn!

Okay.

SLAPSTICK?

* Gilbert went check. It's called Robotrek in the west.

[Dragon Quest VIII]

I never tried the game so I'm not sure, but if you're sure that it's a Windows game that it probably was, or also possibly a hybrid game that contained both DOS and Windows versions on the same disc.

I just don't understand the floppy part. There is no corelation between DOS and floppy disks. A LOT of DOS games came in CDs.

As for the screenshot. Is that Dragon Quest VIII?

Correct! That's fast, in memory of the great Sugiyama Koichi and Toriyama Akira.
Your turn is next.

Also it's a Windows game not a DOS game.

Actually the Korean page (and some Chinese forums) I've found mentioned using a specific launcher build of DOSBOX to run it, so it should be a DOS game (it might have been released also for Windows though).

It is possible that whatever war digital distribution service you got it from already had the game bundled with the launcher so it seemed to work seamlessly as a Windows app.

As I was literally cheating I initially didn't want to take the next turn, but considering how obscure this game was I think it could take forever to move on.

Anyway, next one:

I've cheated and used reverse image search so it doesn't count.
Turn out this game is very very obscure.
The only relevant page was in Korean, it showed a Korean name on the title screen but had an English name inside bracket, which I didn't even know whether it's the correct English title  (or whether the game was released in the west).

BUT the company name was in Chinese, so after further research, I found that this was an old Taiwanese DOS game (and the company is still around doing well), but the original Chinese title was completely different.

Anyway the name I could find are:

Spoiler

恰哥與肥佬 (Original Chinese title, translate to somewhat like "handsome guy and fat guy")
Pocket Runner (Shown from the Korean page)

[close]

Yes. I've seen it now.
The setting is thoughtful enough and I think it's worth a try, especially due to the lack of activities in the recent years.
So, you may start it and see how it goes.

{Ninja'd and edited to remove irrelevant stuff)

Alright, a user hinted me that the "legal" page is linked from the "AGS FAQ" page:
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/ags/faq/

And *that* page is outdated like for 2 decades.

Probably no one cared to update it. Should point to the link on the git instead.

Haven't  looked in detail, but one obvious mistake is, string texts should be enclosed in double quotes ("blah blah blah"), not single quotes ('blah blah blah').

I don't have anything in my mind at the moment.
Maybe later in the day.
If any other people have some ideas, feel free to steal this spot.

Ecstatica
(Don't know whether I spelled it correctly.)

I'm pretty sure it's a SNES game,

No, but the rest of the sentence is correct:

and in it you have to take pictures for a tabloid while moving along the level.

Actually I could see it when using a very old version of the Opera browser (before they ditched their own Presto engine and moved to Chromium) at work.

But it's not showing when I use Chrome at home. I am able to view it if I copy the image URL in a new tab though.

Spoiler

BTW the image link spoiled everything as the game's name is shown in the filename.

[close]

Another nitpicking: The texts are not Kanji. They're Hirakana.

I know what this is because I own this console.
But I'll just wait a bit so other people may have a chance to guess it.

Correct!
A bit nitpicking here. AFAIK this game is indeed based on the movie but it's not really called "The Movie" (maybe a nick name to distinguish it from the original game, or was released somewhere on the globe with that name?), just called Double Dragon like the original game, to create as much confusion as possible. (They're not even the same genre!)

Surprisingly, this game isn't really bad.

Next:

Paper Boy?

Maybe add a toggle key, so that the label is always shown when the toggle is on, no matter whether you are moving an object or the currently active object is stationary?
This way, you can toggle it off so that the label is never shown, as sometimes people may not want to see it for some reasons.

May be try to run it in an emulator?