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[–] N01R3@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lookorex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Sounds like an old Excel easter egg

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Micro-man. game came on a game collection cd I’ve never been able to find it online with the rest of the games

[–] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Mine was a GameCube game that was my first RPG outside of Pokemon. All I could remember was the coverart being a kid with a big machine arm on his back. Took me till probably 2011 to figure out what it was.

It was Evolution Worlds. I immediately bought it so I wouldn't forget it again. Played it and had fun till I got locked in an area where you have to beat a boss, but I was ill-equipped and I couldn't leave from where I saved to grind or get more items.

[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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!

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not Baldi's Basics, is it?

Oh no definitely not. This was early 90’s/late 80’s software.

[–] shatterling@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not this one either, sadly. Thanks for the suggestion.

It’s crazy knowing what it’s not but not knowing what it is lol.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

That and Mallory Towers were staples in UK schools.

Most of the fun was telling the Raven to fuck off.

[–] Move_to_mars@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lol it’s funny because as I typed this, I was thinking someone would think that was it. I loved the Jumpstart games and especially the 3rd grade one. But that’s not it, unfortunately. I’m grateful I remember it, but I played it so much I can’t forget.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Butterpaderp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I could never forget about plok, I still hear the music pop up on youtube every now and then

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago

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".

[–] RedFrank24@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Ignition is one of the best in the top-down genre and arcade racing games overall, the mechanics work really well.

As for the other game: ‘Virtua Racer’ was released on Mega Drive (aka Genesis), and even Gameboy had some pure-3d racing games, though looking like crap. So it would definitely be possible to fit a 3d game on a floppy. However, I'm not so familiar with street racing games: you could try searching for a ‘DOS racing games’ compilation video on YouTube, if you played it in DOS.

In my high school, someone actually stripped down Quake 1 to have a handful of character models and iirc six multiplayer levels — so that the game fit on a floppy. This was copied and given out to people, and whenever the sysadmins removed the game from the class machines, it quickly found its way back again.

[–] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I'd try watching a ‘DOS racing games’ compilation video on YouTube.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Maybe fatal racing (whiplash)?

With guns: have a n.i.c.e. Day?

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[–] JokklMaster@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

I once played a 2D RPG which I got stuck in at a point, because I filled all save slots right before getting to a blocking battle, for which I ended up not having enough weapons^[I had recently bought a weapon I then got another one of, just before the battle (as a gift for the battle), but was useless, because only 1 of the player characters could equip that] and then just falling 1 or 2 hits short of managing to pass it.

I have been meaning to retry it from the start (it was a freeware, I think) but I can't recall the rather peculiar name of it. I has been ~ 20 years.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

T-Rex Warrior for the Commodore Amiga.

Was probably my first introduction to 3D gaming, and because it was a hand-me-down I didn’t have any instructions on how to play it. It literally took my months to figure out how to move in that game, so in the meantime I just stood in place and spin around shooting at enemies until I died.

[–] treesapx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is the one thing I actually use LLMs for: When I'm stuck trying to remember that one thing from a long time ago.

For me, the really hard one to find was a game called Return Fire. Awesome game.

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

This was me with Return Fire on MS DOS.

[–] aeiou@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Lumelore@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Croc 2! I love him so much.

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

I prefer the first one but I love the little WAPOW boy either way.

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[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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.

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

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] shatterling@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Try clicking through Category:Video games based on Dracula to see if any are in the approximately correct era and platform, and if the description rings the bell.

Could it be the ‘Dracula (1986)’ text adventure?

For me it was Madalin Stunt Cars 2.

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

[–] JoshuaBrusque@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
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