the name has eluded me for years. it was probably the first videogame i ever saw someone play. some kind of windows 95 / dos game.
it was a samurai / feudal game with pixel graphics. in the years since i remembered it it took upon a VGA palette ,but i don’t think this is reality. i know that part of the game was an overhead battle sim, but another part of the game seemed to be some kind of clunky, high detail samurai fighting game too
Sword of the Samurai?
ho shit yeah that’s the one
i have one gamei never managed to find, that i always eluded me, if i am free to ask here (gonna translate my question to portuguese, because i already asked in another place):
I remembered playing a game on the computer of a member of my family when I was 8 to 10 years old (I’m going to be 27 this year) I remember the PC also having that Windows XP pinball.
The game seemed to be an exploration of a moon where what I remember from the image in my memory was of astronauts in “kind of pixels” trying to imitate a certain realism, with a box below full of options to move, interact and others. the suits looked like today’s astronauts, big and heavy, and the scene really was white and rocky like a moon.
Every time I thought about it, I thought it was “The Dig” because it sounds very familiar, but it wasn’t, people’s sprites are bigger.
Hell yeah, Sword of the Samurai is great.
I have a real soft spot for these types of games where the greater whole (multi-generational feudal ambition towards Shogun in this game) is bound together by a series of mini-games with each in their own engine. Sid Meier’s Pirates is probably the most well-known example, and legend says Sid programmed the (jank) one-on-one sword fights in Sword of the Samurai.
Keep that Honor up!