Trying to remember an old game

[RedPillow]

Good morning forum!

Im trying to remember this old, 2D, pretty much sidescrolling game.
I played it when I was very young ~ year 1995+ maybe.

When you started the game, first thing you saw was some kind of medusa or octopus but it looked scary and it was one of the games enemies - there was lots of other enemies in that picture too, if im right.
The player had some kind of jetpacks and maybe blue clothes.
@ first level / demo level or @ some level, there were computers and stuff if you went up, almost like a facility..
I think it was somewhat puzzle game to get out or something.
i think..there was a pistol, but jetpack there was for 80% sure.

Lots of buttons.. you had to go up in one level and there was computers.. buttons?
Cokemachines?

I think the game used level codes, not sure thou..

Please help me remember this!

[skwire]

Metroid, perhaps?  Came out long before 1995, though.  Which system did you play it on? 

[RedPillow]

Metroid, perhaps?  Came out long before 1995, though.  Which system did you play it on?  

Not metroid, I played it on Windows 98 - It might have been DOS-version but not sure thou.
I played it when death rally, supaplex & raptor - Call of the shadows were out too.
I think there were only nintendo and super nintendo out that time also, but the game was not for them.


The game`s levels were build pretty much like super mario, there were these "tiles".
The player was a human, possibly some kind of astronaut or commando or something, not Keen thou.

Don`t get me wrong when I said sidescroller, I meant it to declare that the game was 2D like mario and not 2D like pacman.
The level I played, I sucked at it mostly cause I was too young but you had to go mostly up in that level,  I think there were spikes and stuff but I think the level was inside an office or facility or something like that but the office/facility wasn`t normal, cause of the spikes and stuff.

So frustrating.. what can I remember..

It was funny because there were lots of locked doors or closed doors or paths or walls and I never knew how to open them, I just went up, pushed buttons and used cokemachines and killed people and suddenly some of them were open with items inside them or a buttons.

[Bamse]

H.E.R.O ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GshN8dZcl0Q&feature=player_embedded# If your memory is a bit screwed it could be the one. Great game.

[RedPillow]

H.E.R.O ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GshN8dZcl0Q&feature=player_embedded# If your memory is a bit screwed it could be the one. Great game.

Not that one either  

I think the game had a bit better graphics than in the game you suggested.
It was also a bit more free to move than this one and you went mostly up, not down.

This reminds me thou, that I think there were no bombs in the game...
Oh, I also remembered that this wasn`t really "Arcade" game - I think there were checkpoints...not sure but I think there were to player-lives .. I can be wrong thou.
I think that whewn you play it, you wanted to check places up rather than get scores, assuming there were scores..

More comes... I think there were hostages or something, cause of the aliens or the medusa-thingys??


>>Remember, that the game shows a picture @ startup with some names of makers and there is a octopus / medusa -woman in the picture and some other creeps + the player, im 70% sure of that.<<

[Daleus]

Mission Impossible?

[RedPillow]

Mission Impossible?

Nope, the name was quite independent.

[MerleOne]

JetPac (but that was on ZX Spectrum  )

[RedPillow]

JetPac (but that was on ZX Spectrum  )

Not that one either, cool looking game thou

I didn`t use emulators btw.

[Deozaan]

For some reason I'm reminded of Commander Keen from the description, yet at the same time it doesn't fit.

Another game I know of that prominently features medusa heads is Castlevania, but I didn't know there were any PC versions of the game. And there certainly wouldn't be a jetpack in Castlevania.

Wasn't there a Doom-like game that took place in spaceships? I seem to remember that having a lot of blue and weird aliens/monsters. Ah, but then again, I suppose FPS doesn't really fit the description either.

I guess I'm not helpful.

[MerleOne]

Turrican I or II ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UzC9PM1zHI

[f0dder]

Turrican I or II ?

Turrican was made of awesome and WIN! - played it a lot on the Amiga.

[Shades]

My first introduction with Turrican was on the C64 and it was great on that platform. And then got it on Amiga later on as well...I totally agree with f0dder, a classic of epic proportions in its league.