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In Mark’s absence, and given my status as the avowed office retro nut, I’ve been handed the task of picking today’s game image. Can you guess the game from this fragmentary shot?
Note: I’ll be hanging around my usual haunt at Gizmodo Australia most of the afternoon, so won’t be checking answers every micro-second, so you may have to wait slightly longer than normal for confirmation. If I’ve hit the holy grail of subtle images (highly unlikely based on past Kotaku reader performance — I suspect I’ll be lucky if this lasts two minutes) then I’ll update with another clue later in the afternoon.
Updated: Wow — Given some of the challenges that have tumbled like weeds in the past, I’m surprised that nobody’s picked up this one. So I’ll do another image based on the original shot, to give a bit more of a clue.
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Go to it!
Final Fantasy 7?
Darkseed?
Dino Crisis?
System Shock?
Donkey kong country
Reminds me of an Aliens game
Quake
Metal slug
The Dig?
Oi! You’re the editor! Cut that out!
By the way, I think it’s ‘The Legend of Dragoon.’
And yes, I have a copy of that rare gem.
so do i.
Gosh that game is fantastic. Even with the horrible load times to get into the menu screen.
And the errors in the dialogue (I actually think Rose was talking once but the name said Dart). But you are right. That game is fantastic.
Work cannot finish soon enough as I have a sudden urge to play it now.
LoD is the worst game ever made.
go away Jackson.
Yes, there were lots of typos. Like ‘Fanni’ and ‘Fahni’, same place, different spellings in dialogue/map/menu.
I’ll be Shane today.
LE SIGH
My work here is done.
BOOM!
THE DIG!@
But for a proper guess, Tyrian? Looks kinda like the end screen with the impaled head.
Final Fantasy 8 ?
Star Fox 64 (Lylat wars in EU)?
Wow. Nobody’s anywhere close (and for what it’s worth, Tracey’s not in the office today, so she’s got no idea what I’ve picked). Mostly wrong era, for a start.
Then again, I have been described as a prick in the office based on what it actually is, so I’ll give another clue: Read what I’ve written carefully.
Oh boy I bet it’s a game about nuts!
Only in as much as I may be kicked in the… by some folks when they work out what it is.
Or is it the title screen for Twisted Metal Black?
MDK
hrmm, I’m guessing Descent. Man those games were fun.
Abuse? By Cracke dot com?
I feel like I’ve seen those textures before but I just can’t place them…
It’s not Space Hulk is it?
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – snes
Quake?
Hexen II
Doom 2
master of orion?
master of orion 2?
Alex Kidd
Never heard that gag before — but no, that’s not it.
worth a try
Duke Nukem 3D?
Postal?
Daikatana? If it is Daikatana you had better explain yourself for soiling our eyes.
Alien Breed. On the Amiga.
“Fragmentary shot”, eh? I’ll make a wild guess and say that’s explosion debris from Terminal Velocity.
I like the way you think. I always try to read between the lines with Mark’s offerings, and am disappointed if there isn’t a hidden literary meaning.
I’m leaning on ‘holy grail’ as being a hint, though I can’t put my mind to task on what it might be…
i am thinking ‘holy grail’ too, only thing that stands out so far, but then I was never that good at cryptic crosswords…
Skyrim?
R-type?
Halloween Harry
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Indiana Jone’s and the Last Crusade (on any system in which it was released as a game)
and yes i believe i f&^ked up the grammar
Aye fink yoov gottit.
I love that this is the most difficult it’s been in a long time!
Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness
Duke Nukem 3D
As a pure shot into a very dark room that has almost negative light.
Lancelot?
I think I may be reading too far into the subtle clues.
Deus Ex
Perfect Dark intro scene? With the flying cars through the city?
Ecco the Dolphin
Nobody’s close yet. Will update with a more obvious pic in the next 30 minutes if nobody stumbles upon it.
Tip: 8-Bit.
Mission Impossible on the NES
mario kart 64?
Some Castlevania-ee/Ghosts and Goblins-ee thing on SNES.
8-Bit, folks. 8-bit.
Gah, missed your earlier comment whilst proofreading a comment elsewhere!
Contra. Irresistible Force.
Space Invaders?
Batman The Movie, on NES.
And even if I’m wrong, Alex.. I think you need to do these more often.
I’m thinking some kind of side or top scrolling shmup. The clue may be “Can you guess the game from this fragmentary shot?”, as in, here is a picture of a bullet that breaks into fragment, i.e. a fragmentary shot.
My guess is Sagaia
doh, second image added. Def not Sagaia…
Traffic Department 2192.
battlecruiser 3001?
an adaptation of the novel 3001?
boxart for Roland in Time on the Amstrad.
http://101videogames.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/roland-in-time-amstrad.jpg?w=315
Nice work!
Well done! (I was beginning to think nobody would notice that I never actually said “screenshot”)
Hehe, I used to play that on my dad’s Amstrad CPC464.
It took literally 25 minutes to load the game from the tape deck built into the keyboard.
Also, it was a bit rude having such a pixelated image and expecting us not to think it was a screen shot.
Huzzah! My first win at Remember This. Do I get cake?
Is this box art or a screenshot?