Wonko the sane
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Hello all. Yup, first post and already asking for help.
Anyway, I will relate most of the tale again. I stumbled across the RPGwatch website during another frantic (and fruitless) search for the name of a game whose memory is taunting and haunting me. I'm just going to copy whole sale the letter I sent to the webmaster of the site, since it has just about everything already written in it. Though I did correct the name of the disc.
I am unsure of all the details, but I will try to share. The game begins and you are either three or four students of a college/university. One night you all notice that the campus is over run with what appears to be giant bugs, and one of the professors is heading underground, to the tunnels below the university. The opening play (from your dorm room to the tunnels.) is a 2d map, and it switches to 3d FPS (as in elder scrolls dagger fall. That style.) when you get down there. You switch between characters with no noticeable change in the GUI, just a change of equipment, stats, and weapons. I don't remember there being magic in the game, but I do remember healing myself at a fountain as well as bottling water to take with me later. The enemies I ran into were mostly giant bugs, and I seem to recall that they all dropped… something. Different things, some of it seemed useful, others not. It was at some point in the mid 90's, and I got the game off a shareware disc called "200 great games". It might have been "200 great games for windows". I can recall it was blue with white text in a serif bold font, but not the full name.
This has literally be driving me crazy for the last decade. I have had zero luck getting even close. I don't know if a full version of the game was ever made, and I am running out of permutations to throw at google. Gorath suggested I ask here, as one of you wonderful, intelligent and lorefull folk is sure to know what I am referring to. Or this thread could document my final fall into insanity. Either way: fun time!
Thank you all for the assistance.
Anyway, I will relate most of the tale again. I stumbled across the RPGwatch website during another frantic (and fruitless) search for the name of a game whose memory is taunting and haunting me. I'm just going to copy whole sale the letter I sent to the webmaster of the site, since it has just about everything already written in it. Though I did correct the name of the disc.
I am unsure of all the details, but I will try to share. The game begins and you are either three or four students of a college/university. One night you all notice that the campus is over run with what appears to be giant bugs, and one of the professors is heading underground, to the tunnels below the university. The opening play (from your dorm room to the tunnels.) is a 2d map, and it switches to 3d FPS (as in elder scrolls dagger fall. That style.) when you get down there. You switch between characters with no noticeable change in the GUI, just a change of equipment, stats, and weapons. I don't remember there being magic in the game, but I do remember healing myself at a fountain as well as bottling water to take with me later. The enemies I ran into were mostly giant bugs, and I seem to recall that they all dropped… something. Different things, some of it seemed useful, others not. It was at some point in the mid 90's, and I got the game off a shareware disc called "200 great games". It might have been "200 great games for windows". I can recall it was blue with white text in a serif bold font, but not the full name.
This has literally be driving me crazy for the last decade. I have had zero luck getting even close. I don't know if a full version of the game was ever made, and I am running out of permutations to throw at google. Gorath suggested I ask here, as one of you wonderful, intelligent and lorefull folk is sure to know what I am referring to. Or this thread could document my final fall into insanity. Either way: fun time!
Thank you all for the assistance.
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