"What was that game from my childhood?" thread

Post » Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:05 am

Here's an interesting little idea I've seen some other forums use. Not sure if we already have a thread for this, but it can't hurt anyway. The idea is to help people remember games they vaguely remember from their childhood or saw in passing at the store, but they don't remember the name. Will probably lead to lots of nostalgic abandonware binges as I mostly am thinking of obscure 80s/90s titles that would be difficult to look up. Feel free to throw around the names of any other games you think people may find interesting. I'll start with mine:

If you played lots of those old 90s games like Bailey's Bookhouse or Mathblaster in the computer lab during elementary school, you may remember this one. It played in a first person perspective, with you having to navigate a house of sorts, à la Dungeon Master. You had to collect items or something like that, and the completion of each level was represented by a lettered book being added to your "bookshelf" on the menu screen of the game. There was one for each letter of the alphabet (I think), with the level of each becoming progressively more difficult. How does a game like this become difficult? I remember that in the later levels, some sort of Leprechaun character would teleport around the various rooms of the house (you could see a little flare on your minimap representing him). If you dawdled, he'd pop up in front of you and take an item from you or something. I think there was also an attic in the house, the one area where you were safe from him.

Sadly that's about as much as I remember. The game was pretty dull looking, your typical grey 90s Macintosh game with the menus matching the operating system's windows. Anybody remember this game?
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Harry-James Payne
 
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Post » Tue Aug 02, 2011 5:11 am

I don't know the one your describing, but maybe you can help with mine? :)


Okay, there was this one game, where you started off as a skeleton waking up in tomb and you have to kill other skeletons... It had sort of a Nightmare Before Christmas feel.
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Post » Mon Aug 01, 2011 8:09 pm

I don't know the one your describing, but maybe you can help with mine? :)


Okay, there was this one game, where you started off as a skeleton waking up in tomb and you have to kill other skeletons... It had sort of a Nightmare Before Christmas feel.

Sounds like a psx games...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTAhqVecfVY
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Post » Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:37 pm

Sounds like a psx games...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTAhqVecfVY

Ahh, thats it! Thank you.
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Jennifer May
 
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Post » Tue Aug 02, 2011 4:07 am

Mine was Double Dragon for the NES.
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Post » Mon Aug 01, 2011 4:12 pm

A PS1 game where you play as some half naked guy with a scimitar, travelling through dungeons, breaking vases and fighting large insects. Felt a bit like Prince of Persia.No idea what it was.
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Post » Tue Aug 02, 2011 1:14 am

croc or pokrmon no doubt
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Post » Tue Aug 02, 2011 2:24 am

Mine was Double dragon for the NES. i think im going to play it now thanks!!!
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Post » Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:19 pm

Alright, I have one. I haven't been able to find it, nor have I had any luck here.

Musta been about 1980.

A text adventure on the Apple II

The only thing I definitivly remember is climbing a tree and looking for a golden leaf. Mars may have been a part of it as well.

That's all I have...GO!
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Post » Tue Aug 02, 2011 1:01 am

I think this was a PS1 game, where you played as a young boy who was absorbed into some realm where there were dark creatures that would try to kill him, and he would die in gruesome ways. I specifically remember the player character drowning a lot. It was a sidescroller, and if I remember correctly, the opening cinematic featured the boy skateboarding into the back of a van, and then a dog showed up. Seriously help me out on this guys, I've been wondering what this game was for years.
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Post » Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:22 pm

I think this was a PS1 game, where you played as a young boy who was absorbed into some realm where there were dark creatures that would try to kill him, and he would die in gruesome ways. I specifically remember the player character drowning a lot. It was a sidescroller, and if I remember correctly, the opening cinematic featured the boy skateboarding into the back of a van, and then a dog showed up. Seriously help me out on this guys, I've been wondering what this game was for years.

Heart of Darkness!


It's brilliant, I still have my copy.
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Post » Mon Aug 01, 2011 8:02 pm

Heart of Darkness!


It's brilliant, I still have my copy.


I love you! I wish I still had my PS and this game. D:
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Post » Tue Aug 02, 2011 1:38 am

I love you! I wish I still had my PS and this game. D:

I haven't played it in years, but those puzzles were really cleverly done, the way you would use light to kill the shadow monsters. It was really quite a grim game. You lose your laser cannon about five minutes in, and spend the rest of the game running through forests and swamps while being chased by unspeakable monsters. They don't make them like that any more.

There was a PC version as well, so you could always try to find it.
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Post » Mon Aug 01, 2011 8:37 pm

I haven't played it in years, but those puzzles were really cleverly done, the way you would use light to kill the shadow monsters. It was really quite a grim game. You lose your laser cannon about five minutes in, and spend the rest of the game running through forests and swamps while being chased by unspeakable monsters. They don't make them like that any more.

There was a PC version as well, so you could always try to find it.


Yeah, I remember having lots of fun with that game. Of course, when it came out I was about 8 years old, and I rarely finished games at that age. I'd love to get it on my PC and play it all the way through. Time to search for it through Google.
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Post » Tue Aug 02, 2011 3:13 am

I remember I had this learn to spell game on the Commodore 64. All I can remember about it is it came on a red cartridge and it had a penguin in it. I think. It was a long time ago so I'm fuzzy on the details. Could have been a math game. Hell I don't remember.
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Post » Tue Aug 02, 2011 12:11 am

Sounds like a psx games...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTAhqVecfVY


I have that installed on my PSP. Great game.

There's one game that was installed in the computer lab when I was in the third grade. I've been trying to remember what it was for years. You had to go through a side-scrolling platformer sort of area where there were parts scattered around to build a vehicle, then you had to use those parts to build the best possible vehicle to win a race. It was designed to teach aerodynamics and stuff like that, that much I remember.
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Post » Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:54 pm

Alright, I have one. I haven't been able to find it, nor have I had any luck here.

Musta been about 1980.

A text adventure on the Apple II

The only thing I definitivly remember is climbing a tree and looking for a golden leaf. Mars may have been a part of it as well.

That's all I have...GO!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGzarAlmz6s?
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Post » Mon Aug 01, 2011 6:16 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGzarAlmz6s?

AT first glance, no? I don't remember any graphics with it. More along the Zork line.
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Post » Tue Aug 02, 2011 2:45 am

Did anyone play that educational PC game where you were in some kind of castle? I remember that at the beginning of each level there was a cage door and you could see a robot through it, and you had to collect pieces on the floor of the castle you were on to build the robot and then control it to pick up a key to take you to the next level. I remember there were portraits that talked to you and gave you clues and there were bats that flew around, and I think you had to throw oranges at them. It was pretty pixelated.
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Post » Tue Aug 02, 2011 5:41 am

Does anyone remember those games where it was like leapfrog on the computer? You would go around this treehouse type deal and play games that helped you learn your abc's and maths and stuff.
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Post » Tue Aug 02, 2011 6:28 am

Does anyone remember those games where it was like leapfrog on the computer? You would go around this treehouse type deal and play games that helped you learn your abc's and maths and stuff.

I remember that game. It was literally called "The Treehouse"
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/treehouse
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Post » Mon Aug 01, 2011 2:57 pm

I remember that game. It was literally called "The Treehouse"
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/treehouse


OH SNAP NO! IT WAS JUMPSTART 2ND GRADE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HY-LP_7c1Y
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Post » Tue Aug 02, 2011 12:18 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HY-LP_7c1Y

You got me thinking of the old Thinkin' Things games! Those had some http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiz2qSmpdiU&feature=related that's been sitting in the back of my head for over a decade now too, even though they were pretty simplistic loops.
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Post » Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:18 pm

You got me thinking of the old Thinkin' Things games! Those had some http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiz2qSmpdiU&feature=related that's been sitting in the back of my head for over a decade now too, even though they were pretty simplistic loops.

okay i have a couple one is this game idk if it was ps1 or not but you play as this kid and you use roller skates and you can bash soda machines. The kid hat black hair and his suit was blue, my other one was this game for the pc during the early 2000's it was a trial version, i think it came with the computers you control a bowling boll and you can crash into statues. the last one i think was for the ps2 and you play as a mummy in egypt and you have an evil brother or something.
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Post » Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:02 pm

I remember a game where you played some sort of kid with green shorts and pink hair who hit pigs with a mace. Anyone know what this is?
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