Post by Mystery on Oct 24, 2012 15:32:33 GMT -5
As part of my research to create a game with the GCS I've been looking for other games that were made using the DOS 3DGCS.
Why? Because I'm sure that other people had good ideas as well.
Especially the technical side is of interest to me. By looking at different games, made by entirely different people/teams, I'm hoping to find creative solutions for technical challenges, ideas on presentation, design and other things.
Most of the games I found used the standard assets, but usually in different ways, so these games are usually still worth a look.
I haven't found a single website that listed all known games made with this engine and I had to collect the games from many different sources.
Now, I'm not sure about the legal issues here, so I'm quite reluctant to put download links here, so right now I'll just list the games I've found.
For now it's just a text list, but I'll expand it with screenshots for each title and maybe a short description.
If anyone has or knows of other games using the DOS GCS that aren't on my list, let me know.
Let's get started:
(*) marked games are just known by name for now. Looking for download links
3D Cyberpuck
Area Demo
Astroreptilio
Attack of the Genetic Bugs (aka Freedom Soldier)
Bark Bark 3D
Castaway
Cavemaze 3D
Chemical Warfare
Chub Gam 3D
Chub Gam 3D: Director's Cut
Comic World
Continuum
Colosso Revenge
Colosso Secret
D-Day (crashes)
Dark World
Deer Napped
Demon (exact title unknown)
Despair 1-3
Duke Screw'em
Dungeon of Terror
Elapse
Eternal Prison
Escape from Dr. Colosso
Escape POW
Gaia
GCS Demo levels (different music)
GCS Xmas Demo
Gore Galore
Graliens
Hover War
Industrial Killers
In her royal Majesty's Intelligence Service
Lethal Tender
La Cosa Nostra
Lost in Zapperstein
Mayhem 3D
Meltdown (Pie in the Sky)
Meltdown (Robert Cureton)
MOD-G (first demo)
Outnumbered (exact title unknown)
Pastor 3D
Pyramid
Red Babe
Return of the Dämons
Santa's Rescue 3D
Sergeant Blood / Sargent Blood: Alien Challenge
Soren 3D
Secret Agent The Escape
Secret Agent Rescue
Sirens' Chamber
Soviet Prisoner (Partially in Dutch)
Space Station Escape
Stop Nick Macki (Lethal Tender Beta)
Swallowed
Terminal Terror
Terrorist Invasion
The Maze
Techno Prison
Terror in Christmas Town
Troubled Tower
Ufo 3D
Ultimate!
Vehicle of Freedom
Vendetta
Wicked Dream
Wing Do
Zone Force
Zoom
Zyr (Partially in Dutch)
Missing games:
Deadly Technology*
Delusions*
Earth Defender*
Gangbusters Deluxe*
Iraqi Scum-Bag*
Max Resistance*
Martial Arts Warriors*
Metalhead*
Murk*
Narc*
North v. Memorial (Beta 2.0)*
Operation: One Level Quickie Demo*
Operation Web*
Power Booster 5000*
Project Thunderbird*
Realms of Evil*
Return to Ghost Manor*
Suburbia Squad*
Terror out of the Deep*
Zombie World*
Update 1:
Included titles from this website: members.tripod.com/vr5_/GCSGames/DOSgames.htm
However, the download links are pretty much dead, so these games aren't archived and confirmed yet.
So I'm looking for download links to all games marked with an asterisk (*).
Update 2:
Added Max Resistance, Area Demo, Earth Defender, Pyramid from wikipedia and gcsgames
Update 3:
Added "Return of the Dämons" and started short informational reviews down below.
Update 4:
Added Lethal Tender Beta "Stop Nick Macki" and created hyperlinks to the game "reviews".
Update 5:
Found a couple of new games, added them to the list and recovered a few "lost" titles as well and made some corrections to the list.
Additions and changes:
New: Attack of the Genetic Bugs
Recovered: Chub Gam 3D Directors Cut
New but no Download: Deadly Technology*
New: Demon (exact title unknown)
New: Duke Screw'em
Changed: Freedom Soldier to Attack of Genetic Bugs
New: GCS XMas Demo
New: MOD-G, first demo
New but no Download: Operation one level quickie demo (same as operation web?)
Removed: Operation Area 51, is the same as "Area Demo"
New but no Download: Prezzie Hunt (there's a torrent with no seeds floating around)
New but no Download: Project Thunderbird
New: Zoom
Current Count: 79 known GCS games, 48 of them archived (at least a demo/shareware version), 31 still missing.
Update 6:
I found 4 "lost" games:
-Hover War
-Pyramid
-Soviet Prisoner
-Zyr
Update 7:
A whole bunch of previously lost or completely unknown games has been recovered!
-Swallowed
-Vehicle of Freedom
-D-Day (not 100% working)
-Elapse
-GCS Demo Levels
-Comic World
-Meltdown (Pie in the Sky Tech Demo)
-Ufo 3D
-Wing Do
-IHRMIS
-Meltdown (Robert Cureton)
-Terrorist Invasion
That brings the current number of known games to 87 with 63 archived and 24 missing.
Update 8 (March 2013):
Splitted the lists so the missing games can be seen more easily.
Two more lost games have been found:
-Siren's Chamber 3D (finally! I've spent SO much time on this until I tracked it down)
-Techno Prison
Update 9 (April 2017!):
Thanks to Technopeasant, we've got a couple of missing games and even entirely new games added to the list. Thanks a lot!
NEW: Dungeon of Terror
NEW: Sergeant Blood / Sargent Blood: Alien Challenge
NEW: Vendetta
Found: Ultimate!
Found: Santa's Rescue 3D
Why? Because I'm sure that other people had good ideas as well.
Especially the technical side is of interest to me. By looking at different games, made by entirely different people/teams, I'm hoping to find creative solutions for technical challenges, ideas on presentation, design and other things.
Most of the games I found used the standard assets, but usually in different ways, so these games are usually still worth a look.
I haven't found a single website that listed all known games made with this engine and I had to collect the games from many different sources.
Now, I'm not sure about the legal issues here, so I'm quite reluctant to put download links here, so right now I'll just list the games I've found.
For now it's just a text list, but I'll expand it with screenshots for each title and maybe a short description.
If anyone has or knows of other games using the DOS GCS that aren't on my list, let me know.
Let's get started:
(*) marked games are just known by name for now. Looking for download links
3D Cyberpuck
Area Demo
Astroreptilio
Attack of the Genetic Bugs (aka Freedom Soldier)
Bark Bark 3D
Castaway
Cavemaze 3D
Chemical Warfare
Chub Gam 3D
Chub Gam 3D: Director's Cut
Comic World
Continuum
Colosso Revenge
Colosso Secret
D-Day (crashes)
Dark World
Deer Napped
Demon (exact title unknown)
Despair 1-3
Duke Screw'em
Dungeon of Terror
Elapse
Eternal Prison
Escape from Dr. Colosso
Escape POW
Gaia
GCS Demo levels (different music)
GCS Xmas Demo
Gore Galore
Graliens
Hover War
Industrial Killers
In her royal Majesty's Intelligence Service
Lethal Tender
La Cosa Nostra
Lost in Zapperstein
Mayhem 3D
Meltdown (Pie in the Sky)
Meltdown (Robert Cureton)
MOD-G (first demo)
Outnumbered (exact title unknown)
Pastor 3D
Pyramid
Red Babe
Return of the Dämons
Santa's Rescue 3D
Sergeant Blood / Sargent Blood: Alien Challenge
Soren 3D
Secret Agent The Escape
Secret Agent Rescue
Sirens' Chamber
Soviet Prisoner (Partially in Dutch)
Space Station Escape
Stop Nick Macki (Lethal Tender Beta)
Swallowed
Terminal Terror
Terrorist Invasion
The Maze
Techno Prison
Terror in Christmas Town
Troubled Tower
Ufo 3D
Ultimate!
Vehicle of Freedom
Vendetta
Wicked Dream
Wing Do
Zone Force
Zoom
Zyr (Partially in Dutch)
Missing games:
Deadly Technology*
Delusions*
Earth Defender*
Gangbusters Deluxe*
Iraqi Scum-Bag*
Max Resistance*
Martial Arts Warriors*
Metalhead*
Murk*
Narc*
North v. Memorial (Beta 2.0)*
Operation: One Level Quickie Demo*
Operation Web*
Power Booster 5000*
Project Thunderbird*
Realms of Evil*
Return to Ghost Manor*
Suburbia Squad*
Terror out of the Deep*
Zombie World*
Update 1:
Included titles from this website: members.tripod.com/vr5_/GCSGames/DOSgames.htm
However, the download links are pretty much dead, so these games aren't archived and confirmed yet.
So I'm looking for download links to all games marked with an asterisk (*).
Update 2:
Added Max Resistance, Area Demo, Earth Defender, Pyramid from wikipedia and gcsgames
Update 3:
Added "Return of the Dämons" and started short informational reviews down below.
Update 4:
Added Lethal Tender Beta "Stop Nick Macki" and created hyperlinks to the game "reviews".
Update 5:
Found a couple of new games, added them to the list and recovered a few "lost" titles as well and made some corrections to the list.
Additions and changes:
New: Attack of the Genetic Bugs
Recovered: Chub Gam 3D Directors Cut
New but no Download: Deadly Technology*
New: Demon (exact title unknown)
New: Duke Screw'em
Changed: Freedom Soldier to Attack of Genetic Bugs
New: GCS XMas Demo
New: MOD-G, first demo
New but no Download: Operation one level quickie demo (same as operation web?)
Removed: Operation Area 51, is the same as "Area Demo"
New but no Download: Prezzie Hunt (there's a torrent with no seeds floating around)
New but no Download: Project Thunderbird
New: Zoom
Current Count: 79 known GCS games, 48 of them archived (at least a demo/shareware version), 31 still missing.
Update 6:
I found 4 "lost" games:
-Hover War
-Pyramid
-Soviet Prisoner
-Zyr
Update 7:
A whole bunch of previously lost or completely unknown games has been recovered!
-Swallowed
-Vehicle of Freedom
-D-Day (not 100% working)
-Elapse
-GCS Demo Levels
-Comic World
-Meltdown (Pie in the Sky Tech Demo)
-Ufo 3D
-Wing Do
-IHRMIS
-Meltdown (Robert Cureton)
-Terrorist Invasion
That brings the current number of known games to 87 with 63 archived and 24 missing.
Update 8 (March 2013):
Splitted the lists so the missing games can be seen more easily.
Two more lost games have been found:
-Siren's Chamber 3D (finally! I've spent SO much time on this until I tracked it down)
-Techno Prison
Update 9 (April 2017!):
Thanks to Technopeasant, we've got a couple of missing games and even entirely new games added to the list. Thanks a lot!
NEW: Dungeon of Terror
NEW: Sergeant Blood / Sargent Blood: Alien Challenge
NEW: Vendetta
Found: Ultimate!
Found: Santa's Rescue 3D