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I can’t remember if it was C-64 or DOS, but there was a sidescroll game where your character was on a quest in a forest where there were tree houses. They were called the “Grund” or something. Can’t find it anywhere.

Edit: I may have found it: “Below The Root” Gotta see if I can find it abandonware somewhere and try it again.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 28 minutes ago)

For me it is a ski racing game that lookslike about 2005 or 2009 type of game and has a sort of athletic/olympic winter games type of vibe.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Yep, I have one of those. A side-scrolling scifi shooter for C64 from probably late 80s that I just remember a general vibe about. Not Nemesis, something where you fly above a sort of city. I have tried to remember its name for more than a decade probably.

One would think that there weren't that many of them but oh boy.

[–] radiantshackles@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Brave Fencer Musashi for me. Played that game so many times through what I remember as the first boss, then didn't figure out how to progress when the world opened up

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

It's so good! BFM is a top 5 PS1 game for me, easily.

[–] petersr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

3d third person shooter with a female protagonist. Late 90 or early 2000s. Think something like Tomb Raider, but I am pretty sure it was not Tomb Raider. I don't remember much, aside from the tutorial level being in some kind of Portal chamber / Aperture Science like sterile tiled floor and walls with various lights. If I remember correctly, the first real level was in an old big multi store warehouse or club house.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 57 minutes ago

Stealth game? There was a nice PS2 stealth/hacking fame with a female protagonist

[–] petersr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

After having looked for this game for two decades and asked here, I realized perhaps I should ask ChatGPT. I gave it the same description and it came up with Oni (2001). And I am pretty sure that's it!

[–] dingleberrylover@lemmy.world 1 points 48 minutes ago

This is my guess as well. I still remember the tutorial.

[–] PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Ok maybe Lemmy can help me. Does anyone remember a cartoon that used a key. A magic key. To draw a door and open to a new dimension? I have been looking for this show for decades and I can’t remember it. It had like care bare characters and children.

[–] radiantshackles@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Nah. Think lte 80’s and early 90’s. I wonder if I dreamed this shit up.

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

I remember that in Beetlejuice, and there was a cartoon version of that.

[–] AngryPancake@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago

I only know Pans Labyrinth but it's certainly not a comic

[–] N01R3@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 hours ago

I know it's name: End of the World, part 2. Was a Wolf RPG Editor game someone made and released for free.

Cant seem to find it anywhere.

[–] Guitarfun@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

This is a weird one. I've been looking for a game for years and I've had no luck. My uncle took me on one of his drug deals, as he did very often and I played someone's ps1 or ps2 while they got high. All I know about this RPG/JRPG I played is there were summons and I can vividly remember the 2d world map. There was a mine/tunnel area and some kind of grand library or mansion area. I've been looking for this game for 20 years now with no luck. If I see the world map I'll recognize it instantly. So many of the RPGs of that time had sprawling world maps, but this was very confined. One screen with very obvious images for each area. I would be eternally grateful if anyone could help me find this game.

Edit: The mine/tunnel area was in the middle/bottom of the world map and the grand library or mansion area was towards the top right if I remember correctly.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

You could try looking for a ‘compilation of PS1 jrpgs’ video on YouTube, showing gameplay of each game for half a minute. This could jostle the memory. And the same with ps2, if that doesn't work. However, afaiu there were a lot of jrpg games, so idk if anyone's made a comprehensive video.

[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] Guitarfun@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Unfortunately no, it was definitely turned based and not an ARPG. The graphics weren't very different though.

[–] Ragallos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I had to try and find it for the sake of this meme! I thought it was a PS1 game all these years, just found it.

Buck Bumble. An N64 game I played when I was a kid, flew around as a bee and shot down other bugs. Its was a good time, glad I was inspired to try and find it's name again!

[–] Odo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I love that game's title music.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Here's hoping:

It was in the 90s. Top down, you could be either an Apache gunship or a tank for each mission.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 51 minutes ago
[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I really enjoyed this on GameGear. My brother had it and I remember it being hard, but fair. We did pretty well.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Edit: I'm pretty sure the game was "Super Solvers: Gizmos & Gadgets!" and I was remembering the intro/home screen!

I used to play this edutainment title in the early 90s. All i can remember is cartoonish art, a professor or scientist or something and you had to solve puzzles by building machines i think?

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] kieron115@startrek.website 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The game I remember had a top down view, and looked more modern than that. It might have been a late DOS game but our computer at that time ran windows 3.1 on top so it could have been an early windows game too.

[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] kieron115@startrek.website 4 points 3 hours ago

The game I remember had a top down view, and looked more modern than that. It might have been a late DOS game but our computer at that time ran windows 3.1 on top so it could have been an early windows game too.

[–] faltryka@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Miner VGA, I still fire it up every now and then.

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

For the engagement. I could literally google this or ask any of the half dozen AI search agents I have access to and likely get an immediate answer. I don't really care one way or the other.

But having said that....

Back in the day of the original Playstation, circa mid to late 1990s, there was a really intriguing robot battle game where you essentially implemented a visual program to run your battle robot then let it loose in a "3D" arena to run its course with the program you designed. You literally had no direct control over the real time action IIRC, the game was won or lost on how well you programmed your bot to fight.

The actual game was probably pretty shit by modern standards, but for the time it was unique and good enough to be intriguing. It was certainly not the kind of game that would have wide support, then or now. A bit nerdy, definitely complicated for the era.

My stupid fucked up brain remembers it as Armored Core, but that's definitely not the name of the game or even the right genre. I'll literally forget any correct response and likely end up asking this same question again in 10 years, so don't feel compelled to answer. Not like I'm going to fire it up again any time soon. My PS was stolen more than 2 decades ago and I'm pretty sure it was a game I rented a half dozen times but never owned anyway.

Also Merry Fucking Christmas

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago

ChatGPT was really hit-and-miss for me in this regard, and really more miss. Idk about other LLMs.

Instead, in this case I'd rather find the category for such games on Wikipedia, which seems to be Programming games, then click through the games to see which of them are on PS1 (or use a script I have for pulling such data from a category), then look at YouTube clips of the gameplay.

Carnage Heart. OK, bye.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Oh shit I remember playing this, it was more like a sim with tanks, right? I remember cheesing it by constantly driving in a circle and shooting enemies when the barrel aligned with them.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

It's Freddy fish

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 11 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Anyone else think of Another World / Out of this world?

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[–] bonenode@piefed.social 1 points 59 minutes ago

Those godly laser gun sound effects and visuals.

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