Games you don't quite remember thread

What are some games that just popped up in your head out of nowhere, and you can't figure out what they are?

I remember watching G4 years ago, and they were talking about a PC game that was some sort of GTA clone. You played as this pudgy dude in a white suite and ran around shooting people. The one thing that really stands out to me is the cursor in the main menu was a buzzing fly, and the guys on the show could not get over how bad it was.

I played a lot of those plug-n-play joystick games when I was a kid, but I barely remember them. I actually barely remember my childhood everything is fuzzy and vague. Even my highschool and uni years are becoming difficult to remember.

lots of old pc edutainment games
only ones I remember well are the humongous entertainment ones

We had an old Compaq Presario Windows 98 Desktop PC. I vividly remember playing some kind of game on the thing. The game was already installed on the PC. I remember the game was played through an isometric perspective. I remember controlling a man that I believed was wearing a black suit (I hope my memories of Driver aren't fuddling my memories) with the mouse. I remember a petrol station and a road with cars going up and down to the right of the station. I also remember the game had a day-night cycle (I was surprised by this. It was the first time I'd seen a game with such a feature). I also remember not knowing what to do and not being able to understand or do anything.

Sorry. There's one more detail: Time-limit. There was some kind of time limit. You needed to do something within three in-game days otherwise you'd fail.

I recall playing the star wars ones pretty frequently.


Those are pretty great. I vaguely recall a game called "Four Footed Friends" and it was in the same vein.

I've started writing down the events of my day at night, no matter how uneventful. Nothing too long or crazy, just enough so I don't feel like everything is a blur. You'll be surprised at how different each day is once you sit down to analyze each one, even if they all follow the same patterns.

My days are all pretty much the same. Same work schedule, same breakfast, lunch, and dinner everyday with the exception of weekends where I enhance my meals by adding an additional side dish and bonus food peripherals like cheese and jalapenos. I did remember some of the plug-n-play joystick games and they were very influential on my taste in vidya. The spiderman one gave me a fear and hatred of sewer levels and the batman one got me to love exploration and puzzles. I'll have to try that journal trick if it can help me remember by childhood a little bit better.

I remember a PC game from the late 90s or turn of the millennium that had a Pac-Man clone but he was blue and a first-person Arkanoid type game. I got it at Office Depot so it probably wasn't some bootleg.

I've tried starting with my childhood, you'll just get mad at yourself for being unable to accurately chronologue everything you can remember.

8ch is cancer. 4chan is cancer. Image boards are cancer. The amount of time I waste here when I could be doing literally anything else is nothing short of a blackpill. I could have played video games, but instead I just refreshed Holla Forums. I could have watched anime but instead I just refreshed /a/. I could have read a book but instead I just refreshed Holla Forums. I could have actually enjoyed my life, but instead I got trapped here.

this is what happens to any man when he forgets there is another gender

These days you have to try to forget them, otherwise live in a world where half of your species are vicious hellscreaming monsters that want to eat your aborted children.

I can't think of anything to say that you either don't already know, or would probably reject.

Definitely reject.

Where is this logic even coming from anyways? Why is this all of the sudden about women?

If only I could forget.

because life is about women you colossal faggot

Oh wow user here lemme tell you one quick tip to improve your life exponentially!
Go to /r9k/ you lazy faggot

A game that I can only describe as "platforming off enemies" using extended combos in midair, had a cyberpunk theme, and was either a Dreamcast or PS2 game. Came out around 2000.

Cut out the masturbation and enquire "Whom am I?" within. The black void of nothing I've found is a massively more interesting state than any pornography I've ever browsed. It can only work if you kill the masturbation, though, otherwise you aren't feeling squat.

Get a load of this faggot.

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literal gay spotted, enjoy fucking yourself and being beta bro

Shinobi?

The solution for your addiction is simple, set yourself a limit of refreshes and other rules.

MathBlaster.
I suck at math now.

Sounds like you're a faggot to me. Stop acting like a little bitch and own your actions rather than blaming them on a fucking vietnamese basket weaving site. Fucking piece of shit, your mom would be disappointed in you unless she already is.

Ah, not quite, but your suggestion got me on the right track. The game was Nightshade!

Fuck off Myst was easy as fuck its only hard if you're a brainlet or have an observational disability(such as being blind).

It was some weird side scrolling RPG for the NES. There were several characters to choose from and if one died he stayed dead. I remember the first area had a pit my childlike brain couldn't comprehend how to cross at the very beginning of the game, one of the characters was a monk like guy and he had a staff as a weapon and I can't recall anything else about the game. I borrowed it and a bunch of neat games from a neighbor as a kid and I simply draw blanks when I try to recall anything else about it.

Nightshade was gay.

It's industry tradition

It was like diablo2 but with guns instead of swords
No idea what its even called

I'd fuck ms pac man

Hellgate London?
Restricted Area?

Space Hack?

I know it wasn't hellgate but i'm fairly sure it was a 3d game not isometric. It could be space hack but i don't know since i never actually played it, only saw an ad for it on the back of some gaming magazine.

Little Samson? No staff weapon but the rest fits.

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I REMEMBER THAT GAME

Restricted Area
Space Siege
Sacred 1 with Dwarf

No. That's not it.

Project Overkill?

Sounds like AD&D Heroes of the Lance.

That's it. Very nice. It looks positively awful. Thank you.

It's one of the most infamous games on the system and is argued by some the reason why D&D console games fizzled out.

You drive tanks, top-down view, and there's a capture the flag mode except it's a cow.

Return Fire.

Doesn't look like it. I think it was a 2d game. And there were cows.

It's probably one of the sequels. I feel good about this.

A shareware game I downloaded off the AOL kids section in the 90s cant remember the name of it but the gameplay was simple, you chose either a tank or helicopter and went to destroy an enemy base and rescue POWs

That describes Choplifter and a billion clones of it

Oh, shut the fuck up and do some push-ups or something.

I will hazard one guess, since you mentioned an enemy base, which isn't in Choplifter or most clones: Armor Alley. Though you only have direct control over a chopper, while the tanks (and other ground vehicles/infantry) are NPCs.

RecWar
I remember playing it on lan parties.

some old puzzle game. You played as a bulldozer moving reflective boxes around to direct a laser to burst a balloon

I remember a Dexters Lab game where you did something similar but with flat mirrors you pointed in different cardinal directions and the laser had to reach an exit point. Dunno why, but I had a big game library and I replayed that fucking game for weeks. It wasn't even longer than 15 minutes either if I recall.

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This game looks like a fever dream.

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He probably cant because his man tits sag further than his arms.

Like ninety percent sure you’re talking about Hunter: The Reckoning

I pity you, honestly I do.

Jesus loves you!

I have one.

All i remember is yellow steamrollers with missile launchers in some sort of post apocalypse. late 90's i think.

Damn nigger that's some good bait.

Blast Corps? I don't remember it being post apocalyptic though.

Might you be thinking of Blast Corps?

Some adventure game for the ps1 where you could transform into different creatures, one of them looked like a tadpole.

Itz*** mom's gay too haah

I remember on the ps1 there was this odd game that you fought over cubes as a resource. You could take the cubes back to your base and turn them into weapons. More cubes let you constructe bigger, better things. Any idea what it is?

Nigga, if you haven't played Darby the Dragon or Mortimer and the Riddles of the Medallion, get the fuck out of here.

I remember playing an arcade FPS (as in Arcade machine), but I think it's very obscure. It had two modes, a linear single player campaign with checkpoints and a multiplayer arena mode akin to Quake 3 Arena.

In the intro it had a Nazi/commie general with lightning bolts in his hat. It also seems to be a sequel. It was something like __2: _ Revenge

I remember playing pooh preschool. Pooh dies in the end and goes to heaven.

This might be the game.

Doubtful, gluttony is a fuckin sin.

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Ive been looking for this old pc game i once had as a kid that i got from one of those CDs that came with PC gaming magazines. My memory on the whole thing is quite hazy but im quite certain it was some sort of side scrolling sci fi shooter. I think your mission was to save some woman and it had some sort of time limit because the fucked up part was that at the top of the screen youd see a portrait of said woman and the longer you took the older she got until she looked like a skeleton. I was deeply afraid of this as a kid and never played it again because of that. Yet because the memory never truly faded i want to know just what the fuck it was.

Nah it was in first person.
I think there were several vehicles you could enter and exit at will.

Myth of the fallen lord was a headliner on my personal list of 'shit that made enough of an impression to stick in my brain, but not enough of an impression to have any useful memories of anything about it so I could figure out what the fuck it was and be done with the nagging feeling of knowing I had forgotten something I had once enjoyed' for what felt like decades, the worst part is that once I remembered it I realized I didn't even enjoy it that much and nothing would make me happier than going back to feeling nostalgic for something I really couldn't remember.

Yeah Myst is piss easy if you aren't a pre-teen like I was when I first played. I was too hyperactive to pay attention to the story until years later when I had it for myself. Its really 2spoopy if you don't know you can't die.

Then I went and played the first couple Journeyman Project games, where you can indeed die hilarious deaths.

I remember some Donkey Kong mock up flash game with two drunken guys. First entry was the original arcade it was poorly programmed, second was Mario vs. Donkey Kong, still poorly programmed and laggy as shit.

I was a big fan of Carmen Sandiego when I was a kid. I suppose a lot of 90s kids are. Easily one of the catchiest theme songs ever. I played a lot of this one game from the series I can't remember the name of, it was a puzzle edutainment title in the first person, and you're only addressed as Agent 13. Your job is to rescue the other twelve agents, who have been put in a kind of stasis where they just speak gibberish all day. It was a good game, with a good balance between being awesome and funny.

I'll also throw out another game 90s kids might remember: Anyone here ever played Logic Quest 3D? Vid related. Shut up, we weren't allowed Doom at that age.

There's a few, actually. One I spent a few months on and off looking for to get on an emulator was a really good JRPG with a somewhat steampunk setting, multiple (many) playable characters, and a fuck ton of different storylines. Also had a strong naval element. If an user has an idea, fuck, tell me what it might be.

Older shit that I can't recall was this really fucking complex 2D game all about dinosaurs. I guess it was probably a point and click, but I don't recall enough of it to really know off hand. The other was some kidshit MMO that I discovered by buying a toy; it was an electronic one where you had to take care of a pet, if that rings any belly.

Sega genesis, you were a cop/detective. You had to fiill out a report card thing for whoever it was you were following, i remember something involving flying to different countries, what vehicle they were driving and maybe if they had a watch.

If you didn't fill in the report card correctly, you couldn't catch them or something.

Man, did anybody else have that children's mystery game that came with a fucking plastic magnifying glass that you were supposed to play the game with? I'm drawing blanks.

I have vague memories of such a concept so you might be on to something.

you mean the one with the red magnifying glass?
i vaguely remember that one as well

I spy?

It might have been I Spy, but there were a ton of those games. I specifically remember it taking place in a museum.

Oh fuck I remember that fucking 3rd game, its all flooding back being traumatized by that fucking bear's stare.
As a britfag, I had a weird collection of american, british and yurop edutainment games although the main ones that I always used to play were Cluefinders and Adiboo MP (adiboo had legitimately spooky as shit stuff in it for a really young kid)

Threads of Fate/Dew Prism
specifically Rue's path

Carmen Sandiego Word Detective
Fun for an edutainment game at the time.

When I was 14 or so I played a RPG whose name started with (again, not sure) the letter K. Graphics were similar to the Pokemon games (early ones). I remember getting stuck a lot in it since it might have been in japanese. Unfortunately I don't recall much else about it. I don't expect anyone to find it, but maybe a miracle happens. Think it was a single exe file too.

Instead of a NES or SMS my dad bought me an Atari XE.
There was this one game I played a bunch where you customize your own monster and fight other monsters. Trex was my favorite but I remember doing better with claw attack crabs or stinger wasps. Spiders sucked.
I can't remember the name of the thing.
My friends had mario and I had lode runner, fuck that game it was like the grandaddy of indie pixel shit.

some sort of sidescrolling NES game, I think it had fantasy elements and you played as a knight or something, I only remember starting near a large tree, I thought it was Castlequest, when I recently saw this game, but no, it's not the same game.

All of them. I have some sort of brain problem and my whole life is a blur. I know I played a shit ton of vidya on older systems when I was little but I cannot for the life of me recall most of them.

Huh. My first guess was Impossible Creatures but it's far too old. I wonder if your game was an inspiration for that.

almost sounds like body harvest

Downloaded a demo of some kind in the early 00s. It was an isometric game where characters had red, green, and blue mana pools and skills. It had a few campaign levels with few skills and a quick game against AI that had you running around a woodsy level trying to beat other spellcasters.

Has to be Mail Order Monsters.

I need to not hit reply so fast while posting.

Wizards and Warriors, perhaps? The first level was a forest.

One of the earliest PC games I remember was some point and click adventure game taking place in 'Mother Goose Land' or something.. I don't think me or any of my brothers ever figured it out, because the moon logic was fucking insane. There was also another game where you play as a kid who can talk to animals and you swim around the ocean helping a dolphin save something from something.

I think one of the first PC games I ever bought was some crazy fighting game where all the characters were robot animals… Might be remembering it wrong. It ran like shit and crashed constantly. The early days of PC gaming were fucking confusing, because no one bothered with system requirements or standardization of any kind. So many games I can't even remember because I never got them to work on my parent's PC.

First two are Mixed Up Mother Goose and EcoQuest.

Lighthouse. WTF was i supposed to do after i followed the babby and alien through the portal? I got out of the submarine. Hours later i was still lost.

Never understood outpost either.

Thanks m8. Any clue on the robot fighting game?

technically you can die 2 ways, if you count getting trapped in one of the brothers books a death. or forget to bring the white page at the end

If I had to guess it would be Rise of the Robots, but to be honest I have no idea. You can count the number of PC fighting games from back then on a single hand.

Went digging and found it. Battles Beasts. It was janky as hell and sucked, but the graphics were entirely animated and cartoony and full of personality, which is probably why I remember it at all.

I just got done writing something for the day, I can share the .txt with you if you'd like.

Looking it up it was apparently made by the same people who did that one Ace Venture point and click.