Forgotten childhood games - Games you've played as a kid or quite a long time ago. Some events in the game, maybe some piece of dialog, where it take place..etc etc, but having a hard time remembering the name so you can replay it again, I want this thread to serve that purpose.

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Recoil said:
There was a build engine game set in the future on a space station that allowed players to choose between 3 unique characters and made big use of cameras and drones. Nobody remembers this thing, I've been trying to find it for ages and I don't have any more deets. You could release radio controlled bomb drones and the perspective would shift to the drone's camera.
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Yeah I thought you we're talking about something like that, I was just being sarcastic. But those balls man, how the fuck did this guys play with those, they look heavy af, how did it not break their bones!
 
I remember watching my dad play this old C64 RPG that looked way too complicated for me to figure out at the time, but my dad was really into it. It was kind of like Ultima, I remember the box had a group of heroes doing their battle poses, I distinctly remember a bald orc kind of creature being prominent on the box...some kind of green skinned humanoid anyway. I haven't been able to remember the name of it though. I'd like to emulate it if I can find it.
 
Clop said:
If you remember any details, that'll help. Memory is a funky thing that distorts a lot of details, so having more of them at least give a shotgun approach.
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I think that one part of finding Atlantis involved a volcano in someway. Another detail I remember is that you were looking for Atlantis in Europe.

Also I should have mentioned this earlier but I was playing this around 2005.

Bessie said:
I have a sliver of memory that lines up with this, but it's too tenuous to be sure. Do any titles on this list ring a bell?
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Unfortunately no.
 
Late 80s, I think an Apple system, maybe Apple II? It had Karateka I know that, but the game in question was an overhead stabbing game like a cruder-looking Zelda? Maybe it was turn-based like a nethack and I was just a spastic kid mashing buttons fast. I think there was some goofy multicolored caterpillar looking monster.
 
I was trying to describe this really old game, where you go around with some whips and guns and steal things from a pyramid, which I've tried to remember in the past, but couldn't find.

It turns out it was this 1982 game called Lost Tomb.


It looks a lot shittier than I remembered it.
 
In my case, I DO remember the name, but it's so generic, it's of no use(

Basically, sort of a Kidpix thing, titled FUN. Had minigames in it (dressup, memory cards, fish catching bubbles, some other); in drawing mode, there were, beside everything, picture stamps that made sound when pasted (remember that snail one said "This is snail"?...idk exactly as I knew no english as a kid, but I do remember the soundbite itself; and christmas tree said "Timbeeer"). It was for windows 95, ran in dos mode, and I think had no logo on shortcuts.
 
Did anyone ever find out the full version of Bow and Arrow, a Win95 game?

It used to be in the high school computers but nobody there had the full version.
 
AnOminous said:
I was trying to describe this really old game, where you go around with some whips and guns and steal things from a pyramid, which I've tried to remember in the past, but couldn't find.

It turns out it was this 1982 game called Lost Tomb.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=frKSh8ltmsM
It looks a lot shittier than I remembered it.
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yeah, it always looks super cool in your memory, but usually when you try it out it turns out to be shit. But it's still satisfying to actually be able find it
 
Lemmingwise said:
I doubt anyone can help me with these, but fuck it.


There was a pc game that had you play as a historian. You were hired by a politician to do historical research. The historical research always had to do with the population of different tribes at different locations. You would have the results presented to you (IE 300 years ago there were x of group a & b at location 1, 2 and 3, and there are x amount after 300 years at each location. You basicly had to make sense of the data by supplying reasons such as migration and events of mass death like famine or disease. I think it kinda looked like hidden agenda. Monochrome, or maybe 8bit. I think I remember it being greenish.

In hindsight, and without having finished that game, I think the topic was historical revisionism and I think the politician that was also your tutorial guy was using you to justify either genocide or at the very least, conquering land by using you to rewrite history.

HELP ME FIND THAT HISTORY GAME
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The game you're looking for is called "Opera Omnia" by Stephen Lavelle aka "increpare".

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Borax Bozo said:
Opera Omnia- Stephen Lavelle
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Thanks. That's the perfect gift for my day off. I think I was looking for that for over 8 years now. Pretty fucking amazing that someone out there finds it. I think I must have asked numerous times throughout the years on different forums. Didn't really expect anyone to know it.


So this is the guy that opened the door for historical revisionism to me? Makes sense.

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Lemmingwise said:
Thanks. That's the perfect gift for my day off. I think I was looking for that for over 8 years now. Pretty fucking amazing that someone out there finds it. I think I must have asked numerous times throughout the years on different forums. Didn't really expect anyone to know it.


So this is the guy that opened the door for historical revisionism to me? Makes sense.

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Congrats mate
 
I guess I'll have another go at this, I posted about it months ago but no one has had any luck finding it and I'm gonna try elaborating on it as much as my memory can, but I'm gonna have everything in a list because it's easier for me to sort it like that for some reason.
1. The game's perspective was changeable between first person and third person, but most of the time I played in first person mode.
2. I think there was at least two unnamed characters, but the playable character was some yellow robot-looking character and there was a pink version of this character in one level called "save the princess!" or something similar.
3. As for levels in general, the game was less an actual game and more of a map editor/viewer for some 3D engine I can't remember the name of, but some notable maps include: Castle in the Sky, Cabin in a wintery setting, a Shack with an empty pool that leads to a hidden facility, a platforming map that features a pink recolor of the player character named "save the princess!", and some generic island named "adventure island" that was the most detailed out of all of the maps.
4. I think the menus were mainly green/yellow, and the options menu had some rather childish humor when describing what certain things did. (IE The Volume ended by saying "Duh!")
5. if it's any consideration the last time I remembered this game was in 2007 or 2008 I believe, and I DO remember seeing a youtube video for it way back then when a family friend of mine introduced it to me; reason why I say 2008 is because I think I was heavily into some Xbox 360 games at the time, and the newest release I can remember being Marble Blast Ultra.
 
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