Ok folks here's the deal--I've been trying to find this old PC DOS game for a long long time and I'm hoping a $5 bounty will provide an incentive for your help

I will describe the game as detailed as possible, so hopefully it will help and also it should verify the game when we find it.  Here goes:

Many moons ago, I found myself playing an old DOS game (it may have been shareware, I can't remember.  Anyway, it was an adventure / exploration game that had 3-d graphics with very simple polygons and basic 3-d technology.  Here is the description I posted on another forum over a year ago:

I'm looking for an old DOS game - it is a 3D style game, with vector-like polygonal graphics --- VERY similar to Alpha Waves / Continuum and Starglider 2 in terms of graphical complexity, however, the world in the game is much more detailed than Alpha Waves, for example. I'm guessing early 90s era.  The game itself is a 3D Adventure / Platform / Puzzle type game, where you roam around this 3D world. I believe you start in a small town area, where you can walk around and enter various buildings. I remember specifically a building where you walk in and it is a bar with a counter than you can duck and go through to get behind the counter.  There is also an area in the game where you walk inside a building, and you have to go across a platform with swinging pendulums that you have to dodge. I guess I would call the game 3D Adventure / Puzzle? It's not really a FPS or heavy action type game, but you spend a lot of time exploring the world and figuring out what to do and where to go.  It seems like when you die in the game, a 3D polygonal "Game Over" type screen pops up where you can either move around the words or maybe even walk around.  I wish I could remember more details. I have been looking for this game forever and any help is greatly appreciated! There weren't a ton of games back then with the same 3D polygonal vector style, with an adventure / exploration setting, so I'm hoping someone can help.

Some additional details:

I believe there was some kind of visual HUD surrounding the 3D gameplay area.
the game was first-person view


The game is not Alpha Waves / Continuum, Starglider 2, Virus, Vaxine, Spectre VR, Moon Blaster, Thunderstrike, Castle Master, Castle Master 2, or Total Eclipse.  But it looks a ot like those.


As I mentioned, if you can name this game or provide a solid lead to it, I will pay you $5

Thanks!

ummm... this isnt early 90's and ive never played alpha waves, continuum or starglider...BUT, i played this game when i was in like 6th grade, couldnt remember it for the life of me and it took me lots of internet searching to remember it. so i think it would be awesome if it were the same game.

The reason i suggest it is because i remember it starting in a small town area and you enter a bar. but without delay, the game i suggest:

Shivers II: Harvest of Souls

Limbo of the Lost?

alone in the dark?

The Terminator



At least you start in a small town. Or at least it looks that way.

Thank you all very much for the attempts! If you google alpha waves / continuum, you will see the quality of graphics I'm talking about. Most of the games mentioned here are much too advanced (haha, I know I know), compared to the specific game I'm talking about. The closest one graphically would have to be "The Terminator," but unfortunately, that isn't it.

When I say 3D, I mean VERY EARLY 3D graphics - no textures, just simple colors for each polygon basically. It's not a point-and-click adventure game, but a free-roaming 3d first-person style platform type game. I say adventure because I remember doing a lot of exploring and walking around.

Hope this helps - I'll try to think of more details! Thanks for trying so far!

Bump for help and $5 bounty!

I found several other games that look a lot like the game I'm referring to visually, but aren't it.

Castle Master
Castle Master 2
Total Eclipse
Dark Side
Driller

And it isn't 3D Construction Kit / Virtual Reality Studio - or a game that someone made homebrew.

Hope this helps!

Are you sure it was a dos game?
Did it have sound card support or just pc beeps?
Was it 4 color VGA or 256 color VGA?

4 color wouldn't be VGA...

And there were tons of DOS games with full sound card support and SVGA graphics and higher...

Thanks for the responses. I am not 100% sure it was a DOS game, but I REALLY think it was. This isn't something I played in the last 5 years....this was many many years ago.  If you check any of the games I listed, you'll see they all have a similar, outdated 3d style (most of these are from the freescape 3d engine, but I checked the games supposedly created with that engine and I didn't think it was any of those).

My guess is that it was probably 16-color EGA, or maybe 256 VGA at the most. It was definitely not 4-color / CGA.

I don't really remember much about the sound, to be honest.

Hope this helps. It is REALLY REALLY similar to castle master / castle master 2 - but It is not one of those games.

iPad autocorrects CGA. Whoops. 

Was it Eternam?

You should post here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyto...

elhector - thanks. Not Eternam though. Graphics too advanced. When I say 3D I mean like 1 wall is a flat wall polygon square that is just one color - no texture, etc.

scaryice - thanks! I didn't know about / think about that. I'm not down much for reddit but I'll see if I can figure out how to get into it. I thought I might have better luck posting here and offering a bounty, haha. I've tried on several forums before, some even old pc gaming forums, but never found an answer.

The game is Tomb Raider. 5 dollars, please.

Any updates?