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Blind Ryan
11-10-2004, 12:46 PM
Anyone else remember this classic?
It's surprising how many games you remember when you can ask for them :)
wormpaul
11-10-2004, 06:14 PM
sorry...never heard of!!..
What kind of game is it?
Kon-Tiki
11-10-2004, 08:43 PM
I know it as Catacombs Abyss. It's a 3D game from 'bout same graphical quality as Wolfenstein, where you're going through graveyards and catacombs, fighting off zombies and skeletons. Never really got far in it though. Will see if I can find it :)
Stroggy
11-10-2004, 08:45 PM
Yeah I saw it on the ID site
looks a bit like wolfenstein, like Kon-tiki said
wormpaul
11-10-2004, 08:49 PM
Originally posted by Kon-Tiki@Oct 11 2004, 08:43 PM
I know it as Catacombs Abyss. It's a 3D game from 'bout same graphical quality as Wolfenstein, where you're going through graveyards and catacombs, fighting off zombies and skeletons. Never really got far in it though. Will see if I can find it :)
LOL...i also played a shareware version years ago...
I remembered it all now...i`d never make it far but now (maybe) i can take revenge on the zombie`s :P
Kon-Tiki
11-10-2004, 08:54 PM
Found it. Shareware version, I guess. If HODU's back up, I could check there too for a non-shareware version. Until then... this'll be it :P
Kon-Tiki
11-10-2004, 09:37 PM
Oooh boy. Headache due to bad rendering and serious lack of map-feature. Also terribly slow in turning :huh: I'm going back to Sherlock Holmes or play some Frogger.
wormpaul
12-10-2004, 07:14 AM
Damm..
Why the problems with the game???
Blind Ryan
12-10-2004, 07:29 AM
It runs great for me under dosbox. I just wish I had the whole trilogy. I can't stand that first part cause I've beaten it.
and those mazes were hard as hell too. Better then Wolf3d's
Kon-Tiki
12-10-2004, 03:02 PM
You don't have those flickering green lines over your screen while turning around... like parts of the walls turning into the grass? :huh:
Blind Ryan
12-10-2004, 03:08 PM
Nope. Sure don't. It runs perfect for me. Just too short is all :)
Kon-Tiki
12-10-2004, 05:31 PM
The turning's not at snail-speed and you have to speed it up by walking backwards in the meantime?
Blind Ryan
12-10-2004, 05:39 PM
No. Works as good as it did on my 386
Kon-Tiki
12-10-2004, 08:09 PM
Strange... it's doing that in here, on the latest DosBox. Won't try any version before that, as it usually crashes my comp <_<
Iron_Scarecrow
13-10-2004, 10:24 AM
Wasn't Catacombs a puzzle game where you moved a little black man around a pink level and big black cats chased you around.
wormpaul
13-10-2004, 12:02 PM
Originally posted by Iron_Scarecrow@Oct 13 2004, 10:24 AM
Wasn't Catacombs a puzzle game where you moved a little black man around a pink level and big black cats chased you around.
Nope...read above..
it was a FPS in the style as Castle Wolfenstein 3D, only then in a jungle with zombies and other "things" who are asking to be killed...
Iron_Scarecrow
15-10-2004, 06:11 AM
Well I remember playing a game when I was younger called catacombs and it wasnt a FPS. I been searching for it but i can't find it.
wormpaul
15-10-2004, 03:12 PM
Originally posted by Iron_Scarecrow@Oct 15 2004, 06:11 AM
Well I remember playing a game when I was younger called catacombs and it wasnt a FPS. I been searching for it but i can't find it.
doesn`t know a name of it??
Like a sub titel or something??
Blind Ryan
15-10-2004, 04:10 PM
That was the original catacomb game. The 3d ones came later.
Iron_Scarecrow
16-10-2004, 11:10 AM
Originally posted by wormpaul@Oct 15 2004, 03:12 PM
Like a sub titel or something??
Hmmmmmmm.......That's an interesting point.
Iron_Scarecrow
16-10-2004, 11:16 AM
Originally posted by Blind Ryan@Oct 15 2004, 04:10 PM
That was the original catacomb game. The 3d ones came later.
So you've played it, the one where the walls are pink and giant black things chase you around and you have a gun (I think).
Blind Ryan
16-10-2004, 11:38 AM
Indeed I have. It's on the underdogs I think and I may have it in my collection
Nope don't have it in my collection yet.
It kinda sucked IMO but I'm an fps fan so take that for what it's worth.
Iron_Scarecrow
16-10-2004, 04:52 PM
What's IMO by the way.
Iron_Scarecrow
16-10-2004, 04:55 PM
Well I liked it. I found it in Underdogs, but the site they send you to makes you pay for the download :ranting: , and its 15 bucks I can't believe it. That's probably american as well so it'll probably be 25 bucks. :ranting:
I just saw a daddy long legs spider. First I have seen for years. I thought they went extinct. LOL
Oh no it's comming right for me he must have heard me say that and didn't like it LOL
Stroggy
16-10-2004, 06:56 PM
Originally posted by Iron_Scarecrow@Oct 16 2004, 04:52 PM
What's IMO by the way.
IMO means In My Opinion
IMO people who use IMO a lot are opinionated
but thats just IMO
get it now?
Iron_Scarecrow
17-10-2004, 06:35 AM
LOL LOL LOL Yeah I get it. But why don't you just type in my opinion instead IMO. Its a lot easier for people like me who don't understand internet jargon.
Stroggy
17-10-2004, 08:51 AM
some people just use it a lot, its a habit.
I don't know why, its not as if they are under time pressure.
I sometimes use it when I want to make a quick post (before going to school in the morning)
IMO there are worse abreviations... like LOL
wormpaul
17-10-2004, 10:17 AM
I just love internet jargon...IMO :ok:
Iron_Scarecrow
17-10-2004, 11:25 AM
O I :wub: it 2. There ain't nout like it. Just c-ing it makes me want 2 whip out my :band: then :zzz: , :cry: , then :kiddi: .
Absolute rubbish :rant: :sniper: :wall: :rant: :rant: :rifle: :rifle: :titan:
Stroggy
17-10-2004, 11:40 AM
this is scary...
seriously...
don't EVER do that again
Iron_Scarecrow
17-10-2004, 11:51 AM
LOL LOL LOL Don't worry I wont.
:guns: DANCE! :kiddi: AHAHAHAHA
LOL LOL LOL I forget what it's off.
wormpaul
17-10-2004, 01:20 PM
Uhh....yeah..
Let`s keep talking normally in the future :Titan: :Titan:
Kon-Tiki
17-10-2004, 02:16 PM
And back on topic... more or less...
As Ryan's a FPS fan, maybe I could ask him if he knows that old FPS in some lame space station with plain Chinese vases and robots. Game's called I3D. Got it on one of those collection cds as a kid and it's famous between me and my brothers for being a FPS that gives you a headache within a minute and makes you feel as if your eyeballs're on fire after three minutes, simply because every little line's shaking just that slight little bit. We'd love to play that game again and have that laugh again, but it's totally unknown on the net, nor anybody I know IRL has it (except that friend I borrowed the cd to years ago, but I haven't seen him in two years, I think) If you have it in your collection, be sure to let me know :w00t:
Blind Ryan
17-10-2004, 04:10 PM
I haven't heard of it Tiki. Sounds a little like Blake Stone but everyone knows of that and it don't shake.
Sorry there tiki.
Kon-Tiki
17-10-2004, 04:50 PM
Alrighty, will see if I can get another one of those cds... will see if they still sell it (the compilation cd, that is) Been looking for it long enough.
Professor Oak
28-08-2011, 06:30 PM
Can't find any reference to any buylinks in the thread, so I'm throwing this back up for review.
How about this?
Virtualsoftware (http://www.virtualsoftware.com/ProdPage.cfm?ProdID=302&Catacomb-Abyss-3-D-software-download)
Cluseck
28-08-2011, 07:35 PM
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/catacomb-abyss
Publisher (Softdisk Publishing) and developer (Gamer's Edge) were no ESA members.
Still sold at The Virtual Software Store (http://www.virtualsoftware.com/ProdPage.cfm?ProdID=302).
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