the first game i'm looking for was about a guy who had to escape a jungle or something, i remember the graphics to be very brown an green. it played a lot like prince of persia and i remember that you turned into a panther early in the game. the demo i played from a german pc mag's coverdisc around '94 or '95 ended when you encountered a woman with a vodoo doll and the hero's head exploded. i think it had svga introduction screens but the gameplay was 100% vga.
does someone even know a possible name of the game?

the second one is a german shareware game called "Runen". it was a blend of prince of persia and another world, but its sprites where much smaller.
the hero looked a lot like the prince and it featured stages in the look of the games it was inspired by. you even had a gun like the one in another world later in the game.

i've been searching for these two for ages now.
thanks in advance for any help.

Jill of the Jungle?

Do you remember which magazine the disc came with?

thanks, but "jill of the jungle" has nothing to do with this game.

the magazine was "pc spiele" and the year must have been '94 or '95.

Putting the complete impossibility of this guess being correct, this sounds exactly like a description of Alone in the Dark 3

thanks, but was my attempt to describe that unknown game THAT bad? ;D

i may have to add that both games had flicking 2D screens and no scrolling - just like prince of persia, another world, flashback, blackthorne etc. (i'm into games like these)

Does it relate to any of the King Quest?

no, sorry. the games are just 2D platformers with adventure elements and no point and click style adventures. they were also made by independant developers and that's probably the reason why they are so hard to trace.

Edited by Kohijin at 08:56 on September, 09th 2004