Help me find the name of an old pc game

Post » Fri May 24, 2013 3:03 pm

Before I begin, I want to apologize how absurdly vague this will be.

The computer I played this game on is old, VERY old. It may have even been a later version of DOS. I think 94 or 96? It was windows.

But what was weird is the way the OS operated. You were in what appeared to be a living room. A shelf on the wall could be zoomed in on, displaying games to click on.

One of these games was a Spiderman drawing game. You could animate your own little clips using various characters that had simple movements.

Another game, the game in question, was *i think* a demo. It was set in the future. You took control of a man, and it was all 1st person. You were in an advanced futuristic apartment I think, and there honestly wasn't much at all to do. You could turn on and off lights, turn on the faucet, and look in the mirror.

What was noteable was the guy had a thing over his eye. Like a saiyan power reader.

You could walk *absurdly slowly* to this other room that let you sit down in a chair and make the lights dim, and the walls would turn into other locations like tvs. One was space, one was the beach/ocean, etc. it was bizarre.

You could go down this huge elevator and get into what appeared to be a transporter and then it would take you to various places. One was mars, and then you'd die. One was an underground train, and I think the demo ended.

I'm very distraught over this. I have searched and searched the Internet and cannot find this anywhere.

I found out what the Spider Man game is, it's Spider Man Cartoon Maker. Now if I could just find the other :(
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Post » Fri May 24, 2013 3:56 am

I vaguely remember that game. It came on my old HP 386Dx running Windows 95. I remember trying that game out and thinking what the point of it was. Wish I could help you bit I too can not remember the name of it.

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Post » Fri May 24, 2013 5:32 am

I looked up various games from the time period and still can't find it.

Games that it is NOT:

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Post » Fri May 24, 2013 4:11 am

The game you're describing is most likely http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journeyman_Project in the Journeyman Project series of video games. They're very good games, but unfortunately I found them completely incomprehensible when I was a kid, so I never learned to really appreciate them. Doom was far more entertaining. :P

As for the OS you described, you're probably thinking of Microsoft Bob. Does http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html ring any bells?

I also recognize the Spiderman game you're talking about; I still actually have an original CD of that, but I can't hardly find any information on it online since it's such an obscure piece of software. I don't even remember how I got a hold of a copy in the first place!

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