Query about a game

[ssj5gokuuk]

Hello all.

I usually don't start off by asking people for help on my first post in a forum but I came across this board whilst looking around for some older games that I've started to play again recently.

Anyway, in getting a lot of the DOS games working again that I enjoyed as a child I havn't been able to remove one game from my brain. The unfortunate thing is... I don't remember an ounce of the title and what little I remember of the game itself is terribly vague. All I can do is waffle and hope somebody has a sliver of an idea what I talk about ^_^

Well I'll just get to it:
It's a point'n'click (my favourite genre to this day).
It was a Sci-Fi.
The main guy (or certainly the dude you started controlling in the demo) was bearded, probably blonde/fair brown hair. I believe he was the capatain of his ship.
In it there was a side game which was made using cards, you had junction points where you could use cards like research to counter your enemy. It had a cool little graphical interface (as in, it wasn't just a table card game)I don't remember the strategy much, it was a decade ago I last played it.
You could access this card game through a computer-in-wall type Star Trek thing.
I'm sure this thing would also dispense items to you that you could use.
For some reason the word "ring" is in my mind. I have no idea if this is part of the game title or if it was another game in the same demo leaflet.
Also, as far as I can understand, this was a sequal to another game.
I also believe you had a female and some type of big "furry" (like a bipedal kat; kilrathy from Wing Commander type look is imprinted in my minds eye but I don't know how accurrate that is) male crew member.
Lastly, if I recall things right, your ship was a little beaten up and you had to go around repairing it. Fixing up loose wires and getting medical bays to function again etc.
You were also bound for a planet but I think you ahd to get the ships engines going first.


I know this is really dodgey and I don't expect any replies any time soon lol - infact I feel I'm lucky if anyone has an incling about this - but I certainly hope someone can help me here. This is one of those games I would've really liked to have owned but now ofcourse I find myself stranded where that is concerned.

Thanks in advance for anyone who even read my post ^_^

[fov]

Welcome to the forum. :)

That doesn't sound like any game I've ever played. :D Hopefully someone else will have an idea for you.

(Unless you're thinking of one of the Space Quests? SQ5 maybe? Roger's blond but I don't think he ever has a beard.)

[ssj5gokuuk]

Thank you my good man! I certainly do hope so too.

Another thing that might help (after re-reading my post):
The graphics were along the lines of the Lucas Arts "Indiana Jones" games. Pretty decent if memory serves correct.
I did mention it was a decade ago I played this game, but it could've come out anytime around the early ninties so i'm not gonna try and pin-point anything by that alone.
Also, the start of the demo you began in your cabin quarters. You wake up there (perhaps out of hyper sleep or something?). That may help spark something stored away somewhere.

The more details I can think of describing, the more I'll add in hopes that it helps.


As a side-note I have found, by the minor browsing I've gotten done this evening, this board to be very interesting. I'm liking a lot of the chat going on and the whole board as a general seems to be very like-minded to my own thoughts on things. I feel I'm gonna enjoy hanging around here - irrespective of whether I can get further on what this game is or not - ^_^

[CarolAn]

ssj5gokuuk,
What you wrote in your last post, sound like the demo to Albion. I'm not sure this is what you are looking for, but I seem to remember a cat woman in that one.

CarolAn

[fov]

Thank you my good man!

I'm a girl. But you're welcome. :)

[crabapple]

One of the Ringworld games maybe?
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/ringworld-revenge-of-the-patriarch/screenshots

[insane_cobra]

ssj5gokuuk,
What you wrote in your last post, sound like the demo to Albion. I'm not sure this is what you are looking for, but I seem to remember a cat woman in that one.

CarolAn Yeah, sounds like Albion to me as well.

[After a brisk nap]

It's got to be one of the Ringworld games. It was a sci-fi point-and-click game, it has cat people, it has Indy-esque graphics, and why else would you have the word "ring" stuck in your head? :D

[ssj5gokuuk]

Hahaha!
That is totally awesome.
Yes - it was Ringworld I was looking for! Brilliant response crabapple! Thank you very much ^_^

And just as a double-bonus you guys said Albion. Staunchingly good. I played it much around the same time and I had completely forgotten about it, but I am both very amused and very happy at the same time to be reminded of it.

Hah - I never expected I would get an answer to my bumbling mental images this quickly.
Thanks again guys! You've been a great help.


edit:
It's got to be one of the Ringworld games. It was a sci-fi point-and-click game, it has cat people, it has Indy-esque graphics, and why else would you have the word "ring" stuck in your head? :D


Lol yes. You speak my thoughts. I'm glad I was able to remember as much as I could then, even all the years since havn't dulled my memory beyond function :P
I know it wasn't the first one. I believe, it was a sequal to the one posted? As those images remind me of the leaflet I had along with the disk which I believe was showing ones that weren't actually on the disk.


Yeah, looking through that Moby Games site, it was: Return to Ringworld, that I had played the demo for. Which thusly is the one I'm trying to get my hands on somehow. Preferably download as lord is that so much easier than trying to procure a copy from some obscure person half way across the globe. I notice a lot of ninties games have gone completely freeware or at least so it seems with the sites I've come across (which was what spurred all this on in the first place).

[MDMaster]

pssst... don't speak the 'ab' word :)

[fov]

pssst... don't speak the 'ab' word :)

Speaking it's okay. Just don't post any links. And try to sound a little guilty about it. :)

ssj5gokuuk, very few of the games you find on abandonware sites have been legally released as freeware by their copyright holders. So 'abandonware' downloads are illegal, even if the site you're downloading from makes it sound like they're not. That's why it's a bit of a dodgy topic, and we ask that people not request or provide links for downloading abandonware on the forums.

You can find a lot more info about this if you do a search for 'abandonware' on the forums.

[ssj5gokuuk]

Speaking it's okay. Just don't post any links. And try to sound a little guilty about it. :)

ssj5gokuuk, very few of the games you find on abandonware sites have been legally released as freeware by their copyright holders. So 'abandonware' downloads are illegal, even if the site you're downloading from makes it sound like they're not. That's why it's a bit of a dodgy topic, and we ask that people not request or provide links for downloading abandonware on the forums.

You can find a lot more info about this if you do a search for 'abandonware' on the forums.


H'oh righty.
I admit I wasn't actually aware of that, as seriously delusional as that sounds ^^;;;
I figured they'd just released them since no more copies were being made - which to many an extent only seems fair, I mean why hold on to a game if you're not thinking of letting new people get to it right? then why make it in the first place? - so I'll bare it in mind!

I did find it mildly peculiar that some games from '99 were showing up here and there etc. though getting a chance to play some games I'd never been able to try or being able to play ones i'd lost and such with time was just just too good heh.
Still, i've always been a fan of owning the games themselves. If only there was an easier way to obtain things that have since passed us by in time. Alas where I live right at the moment, I have no real hope. And not owning or wanting to own a credit card hampers me a bunch too with the internet-exchange being the main place for such activity heh.

Anyway thanks for the heads-up and now I know what it's called too ^_^

[fov]

No problem. It's a tricky area.

If you don't have a credit card, you might try the GameBoomers (http://www.gameboomers.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi/forum/6.html?) trading post. Someone over there might have the game to trade.