Games you reminisce playing... - ..but can't recall the name of, sometimes.

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I played an educational CD-ROM adventure (?) game about travelling the world as a young child which I remember having a phone that would ring incessantly until you answered it to receive a message about what you were supposed to do next. Something like that. I wish I could remember the name.

Could it be one of the Backpacker games? They were very popular.

 

[Exceptionally Exceptional]

I remember this weird Japanese game I played on the original Playstation when I was a kid. It was about a team of basically mech suit pilots who go to the moon to investigate the outbreak of some infectious malignant disease that turns people into monsters. At one point it's revealed that one of your team members is an android and he betrays you for some reason before eventually saving your ass. It was first person, and all the dialog had anime style portraits of the characters. The only 2 survivors at the end are your character and a girl who survived the initial outbreak.

I just cannot for the life of me remember what the fuck it was called.

 

[Titty Figurine]

MegaRace was already brought up as a possible answer for another game but not being able to remember what it was fucked with me for years. I was starting to think I had imagined it as a kid by the time I found it again.

The one I haven't been able to figure out is a twisted mini-golf game that would have been either Windows 3.1 or 95. One level definitely took place in a junkyard at night and you had to hit the ball through a dead dog. It disturbed and fascinated me when I was little and I wish I could find it again.

 

[Posthumorous]

MegaRace was already brought up as a possible answer for another game but not being able to remember what it was fucked with me for years. I was starting to think I had imagined it as a kid by the time I found it again.

The one I haven't been able to figure out is a twisted mini-golf game that would have been either Windows 3.1 or 95. One level definitely took place in a junkyard at night and you had to hit the ball through a dead dog. It disturbed and fascinated me when I was little and I wish I could find it again.

The game you were referencing the game I was looking for seems to be a game called Spaceship Warlock. I found this on another forum I posted on.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

I played a point and click Windows 3.1 adventure game back in the mid-90s, which was unusual since most of those kind of games were for DOS. It had cartoony graphics, one item you could get was a pair of underwear, and at one point you had to shoot a guy in the face with a shotgun to get an item from him. I found it once on Mobygames, but forgot it again.

 

[Coin Ops]

Conflict: Desert Storm

Do not go back and play it, it has aged terribly.

You just helped me remember the name of one of the first PC games I owned! Sincerely, thank you!

Here's the story. One of the first PC games I bought was a Middle-East nation governing simulator where you were Israel in the 1980's. While I have always remembered the gameplay with nostalgic fondness, I couldn't remember the name of the game.

Here's the twist. My Conflict is not your Conflict. As you kindly linked for us (thank you!) your's is Conflict: Desert Storm, and mine is (get ready for a real sexy title) Conflict: Middle East Political Simulator. They're two different games, yours launched an entire series of tactical shooter games. Mine was a one-and-done 5 1/4" floppy piece of nostalgia where you could nuke anyone who gave you the business.

Spoiler: This is what war looked like back then

Ah, good times. Cheers!

 

[He Who Knows Games]

I remember this weird Japanese game I played on the original Playstation when I was a kid. It was about a team of basically mech suit pilots who go to the moon to investigate the outbreak of some infectious malignant disease that turns people into monsters. At one point it's revealed that one of your team members is an android and he betrays you for some reason before eventually saving your ass. It was first person, and all the dialog had anime style portraits of the characters. The only 2 survivors at the end are your character and a girl who survived the initial outbreak.

That would be Space Griffon VF-9 if I'm not mistaken.

The one I haven't been able to figure out is a twisted mini-golf game that would have been either Windows 3.1 or 95. One level definitely took place in a junkyard at night and you had to hit the ball through a dead dog. It disturbed and fascinated me when I was little and I wish I could find it again.

Forgive me for using a lets play because there's no fucking regular no commentary longplays/footage but Slice 'n Hook may fit the bill. (The dog bit {or is that a cat?} is visible at 9:34)

I played a point and click Windows 3.1 adventure game back in the mid-90s, which was unusual since most of those kind of games were for DOS. It had cartoony graphics, one item you could get was a pair of underwear, and at one point you had to shoot a guy in the face with a shotgun to get an item from him. I found it once on Mobygames, but forgot it again.

This one's making me scratch my head! At first I thought it was Toonstruck because that's almost always the game people tend to forget. Then I thought maybe it's Stay Tooned because a few years back the seinfeld skit in it made the rounds across the internet. Would have made sense if you found it after remembering it. But neither of those is actually on 3.x they were dos and 95 games. The only games I can find that were on 3.1 were Torin's Passage which doesn't involve underwear at any point, nor a shotgun, and then Ace Ventura. Which I can't seem to recall any gunplay being in either. Even as just an item. It may have been one of the leisure suit larry games, as around the 90s they were experimenting giving larry a makeover. Could have been a lucasarts adventure game like day of the tentacle or full throttle. But the underwear as an item is making me draw a blank. Any idea as to anything else? Do you remember if it was first person or you controlled a character?

trying to figure out a game I wanted to try again since 2007-2009 but outright cannot even remember the name, but I do remember some details of it

Almost forgot about you! Trying as I might, I can only really find Tokobot. More than anything else, do you happen to remember the platform you played it on?

 

[Exceptionally Exceptional]

That would be Space Griffon VF-9 if I'm not mistaken.

Fucking thank you! Been wanting to replay that game for actual years but almost nobody I ask knows what the fuck I'm talking about, and the few people I've asked who do remember that game can't remember the title. Hope I can find an ISO for it since EmuParadise went down.
You're a fucking god, my dude!

 

[Posthumorous]

This one's making me scratch my head! At first I thought it was Toonstruck because that's almost always the game people tend to forget. Then I thought maybe it's Stay Tooned because a few years back the seinfeld skit in it made the rounds across the internet.

I'm not sure if I ever have played this game, but I have seen the developer logo around for sure.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

But the underwear as an item is making me draw a blank. Any idea as to anything else? Do you remember if it was first person or you controlled a character?

All I can remember was I had the demo on a 3.5 inch floppy so it must have predated CD-ROM games, it was first person, and it was set in a city and you started in an alleyway. Also, when you shot the guy it didn't hurt him since he was a cartoon, it just turned his face black like Loony Toons.

 

[Titty Figurine]

Forgive me for using a lets play because there's no fucking regular no commentary longplays/footage but Slice 'n Hook may fit the bill. (The dog bit {or is that a cat?} is visible at 9:34)

Well I'll be damned. That's exactly it. I don't know how I misremembered the cat as a dog, but that's a mystery put to bed. Thanks!

It looks even weirder now than it did when I was a kid.

 

[PoisonedBun]

One of my earliest memories was a computer game I played online, probably around 1999 or 2000. I think it was a little like Neopets, and it was about fluffy puff balls with eyes in the sky. They were JPEGS and incredibly compressed, and a bunch of different colors....that’s all I can remember.

 

[He Who Knows Games]

All I can remember was I had the demo on a 3.5 inch floppy so it must have predated CD-ROM games, it was first person, and it was set in a city and you started in an alleyway. Also, when you shot the guy it didn't hurt him since he was a cartoon, it just turned his face black like Loony Toons.

I think I've found it: Dare to Dream (chapter 1) .

One of my earliest memories was a computer game I played online, probably around 1999 or 2000. I think it was a little like Neopets, and it was about fluffy puff balls with eyes in the sky. They were JPEGS and incredibly compressed, and a bunch of different colors....that’s all I can remember.

If it was actually a neopets clone, it would probably be somewhere on the Dead Pets List. (Morbid, innit?) I can't lie to you and say I have any knowledge or experience with those types of games, so I don't think it'd be right to get your hopes up. Hopefully someone else will know it though.
Edit: Actually if you may have misremembered the date, they very well could have been "Puffles" from club penguin.

 

[Jub-Jub]

Can never remember the name but it was Tron bikes the videogame.

Played this off a demo disk back in the day probably win95/98. Story was you are a prisoner and fight 8? others in a tron bike (3rd person) I played against CPUs but i think the full game may have had internet multiplayer. You start off on a platform in a main entrence/exit hub before exiting in a direction to other areas connected via a Hex/Octagonal shaped door and getting floating weapon drops or using your recharging tron wall to kill opponents. Demo arena was timed so you would have to get back to the exit hub, but this may have just been demo specific. Tons of ramps in the environment.

The problem I've always had is that there are a ton of tron inspired games and i don't even know if this game was ever completed.

 

[He Who Knows Games]

Can never remember the name but it was Tron bikes the videogame.

Seems to me like DeathDrome.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

I think I've found it: Dare to Dream (chapter 1) .

That was it, thanks.

 

[Doc Cassidy]

I think I've found it: Dare to Dream (chapter 1)

Holy shit, I remember playing a game called Dare 2 Dream a long time ago but it was different. I dug into it and it seems there was a second one with practically no one mentioning it. The only thing I could find is this video with only twenty views.

That's definitely the game I remember playing, it was weird as hell.

 

[Chexxchunk]

Funny enough, up until just yesterday when the new Game Sack episode came out, I spent almost over 20 years trying to figure out the name of a SNES giant robot game I remember renting a lot as a kid.

Turned out it was Xardion.

That game has some legit spooky shit in it that has stuck with me even 25 years later. The fake planet with the alien trees is nightmare fuel. Also how one of your characters literally fucking dies.

Holy shit, I remember playing a game called Dare 2 Dream a long time ago but it was different. I dug into it and it seems there was a second one with practically no one mentioning it. The only thing I could find is this video with only twenty views. https://youtube.com/watch?v=UGCgAKvYlKM That's definitely the game I remember playing, it was weird as hell.

All the reams of BBS DOS Shareware is a whole maze of content that not many people mention or explore anymore. Luckily, archive.org has dumpsters full of it, so I can visit it whenever I get around to it.

 

[Victory Leo]

We used to have this PC Game with its box, it was a horror game with a predator looking shadowed face on the cover, it would always crash for us after a few minutes, but it was a third person(point and click possibly) game, you started at rocky green hills with some sort of castle or structure to head to.
I've tried to find the copy since then but we either gave it away or threw it out, I've tried looking for obscure 2000's and late 90's horror games but found nothing. I even tried looking at boxarts of over 200 pc games from that era and found nothing fitting its description.

 

[c-no]

Never played it but it did interest me: an FPS dos-era pc game where you're a guy on planet that's either a failed colony or a prison for criminals. The goal is to escape the planet but you had so many ways to die in the game.

One game I can really reminisce on was a pc game released by Taco Bell back in the 90's. This particular game was a Doom clone where you played as an explorer going into a temple, shooting cobras and scorpions with packets of Taco Bell hot sauce. I'm sure the game is shit but I can remember having fun with it back when I was a little shit that didn't know what was a good game.