Gaming

Racing game, late DOS, possibly early Windows. Three "eras" of American cars. There might have been loops. Cockpit-view only I believe. Possibly some sort of jet/boost.

Mine was a flash game, I think on miniclip. Sort of like a tower defense game but it also had a point and shoot cannon you'd use. Sort of near future kind of vibe. I think it had a green background due to being on a field. Top down. Main cannon was a big white one and you would build auto turrets to help defend.

What was that one where you were a stationary turret shooting at UFOs flying in? At some point the turret upgrades to a helicopter. I remember playing that on win 98 or something.

Playroom by Brøderbund

Still unfound, some game with a joust and a dungeon to explore, on Mac in the early 90s Edit: king Arthur’s magic castle

For books, a medieval themed book like where’s Waldo? But I don’t think it was a where’s Waldo book. I forget what you were looking for.., a spy?

This was me with Return Fire on MS DOS.

oh good are we remembering old video games

What's that one that's like spy vs spy where you fight a clone of yourself? Would've been windows 95/98 era

I think it was educational

Plok.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bT77XP52uw&t=73

"See no path oh soo bay see no path oh SOO BEE RAAAY"

I did not speak french when I was six. I do now, but apparently that doesn't automatically translate memories from thirty years ago. It took me about 5 years of actively looking for this to find it. I found it by asking in a big forum (not reddit but that sort of thing) for something like "people driving cars deforesting space with lasers".

For me it was Ignition, a top-down racing game where you could play as a police car, a school bus, an ambulance, a yellow car or a blue beetle car.

There was also another racing game I don't remember the name of and likely never will, because it was a game that came on a blue floppy disk and actually was a 3D racing game, and all I remember is that it was a demo for a game that had you doing street races and it wasn't open-world, it was with proper tracks and it was a level at sunset in a city, with no traffic. As far as I can tell, it shouldn't really have been possible to have a fully 3D game on a floppy disk, but I guess since the game was just a demo, it could be squeezed down.

Croc 2! I love him so much.

AIV Network$ (A4 Networks) - I searched for years, the name didn't make it easy to find.

I once played a first-person point-and-click adventure game featuring a player character who is a cyborg. I don't remember much about the game, but I do recall quite explicitly that it had a Hard Rock Cafe in the game. Haven't had any luck finding it.

I keep trying to find this old educational game that was creepy. I don’t remember much else about it and it is frustrating to know I’ll likely never figure this out. I don’t even remember what kind of educational content it was like math or reading or what.

Edit: thanks for the suggestions, everyone. And keep em coming!

I don’t remember much about the game except it was set in a house of some sorts and had this really creepy vibe to it. I want to say it involved aliens, but I don’t think that’s accurate. Might have been monsters instead. They weren’t humanoid-like creatures though.

We got it the same time we got this other computer game called Radio Addition and may have been in a pack together, but might have just been next to each other when my mom bought them. It ran on Windows, to further narrow it down.

Edit2: I found it by chance! The game I was thinking of was Math Blaster Mystery The Great Brain Robbery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3USKxJd4J4&pp=ygUUTWF0aCBibGFzdGVyIG15c3Rlcnk%3D

Y’all got me thinking more about it and I asked an LLM tonight and it said this was likely the game I’m remembering and it’s right!! Super creepy colors and music I remember.

So that solves the mystery for me lol. Thanks for the recommendations!

For me it was Starush on Amiga. Still a great soundtrack.

Legends of Kesmai for me, I used to play it on AOL.

I can't remember the name now, but I recently found a game In have been looking the name of for years. It's something like Pharo's. Curse or something along those lines, but I'd have to check Flashpoint Archive for the name because they have the online demo.

The concept was just that each level had a different board layout and you had to move 3 pieces of some sort of symbol or artifact or whatever to be adjacent ( possibly in a certain order horizontally ) but balls spawn if you move witjo clearing them by matching 3 or using a powerup. You could move them to any empty space so long as the path was clear.

Can't find a copy of the actual game itself from a reputable website right now, but I know it exists.

I did this just yesterday, trying to find an ASCII Dracula game. Played it on a friend's PC-like in the late 80s. I remember you controlled all the characters but could lose Mina and others during the game depending on your choices.

Remember going to the asylum to chat to Renfield to find clues to where Dracula was hiding

For me it was Madalin Stunt Cars 2.

Played that shit all the time in the computer lab with my friends.

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