Gaming

Commander keen

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.

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.

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?

For me it was a golf game but it was probably ASCII only, played on a green monitor, sometime in the late 70s. I loved that game. Either that or my memory is playing tricks with me.

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

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.

There's this game on the original macintosh that's been my white whale for decades. A samurai/ninja game with a heroes of might and magic style overworld map and and a fighting game style screen with a dense bamboo forest in the background. I've gone through a bunch of archives and I just can't seem to find it

Terror tubbies personally

It's Freddy fish

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.

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.

Took me two decades to find the game [Dominus]. Nothing worse than having the name of something on the tip of your tongue for that long. Used to play this game a lot when I was young, it’s not very good but it was a core memory. I cried a bit when I figured it out.

We had a fighting game on NES. Japanese game, and we didn't even speak English (okay, maybe a few words), let alone Japanese.

There was literally nothing to quote in my search, apart from just using descriptions. It was frustrating, because otherwise it was one of the best NES games I have played.

Years later I somehow ran into it. It was something like Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu.

There was a fantasy point and click adventure on the school PCs about two lost goblin or gnome children. I think it was some sort of learning game released during the 90s. The only things that I clearly remember are a mini game about getting red and yellow llamas across a bridge with a passing point, and a labyrinth where you had to solve riddles. Never figured out what it was.

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?

A very simple space sim that was just sitting in a folder that was either part of windows or one of my installed games, presumably an Easter egg for those just perusing the files. Maybe late nineties?

Like, the simplest starfield and cockpit and you just used the mouse to shoot lasers at stuff.

All of the sound files (only maybe a dozen sound effects at most) were in .wav format so I used the crappy mic I had at the time and recorded new sounds just with my mouth. Had a blast playing my "modded" version.

Haven't figured out what it was/what "real" software it came with.