Gaming

There’s a game on the school computers in the late 90s where you choose between 3 numbers for how far you move, you are racing to the bottom of the screen, and some shortcut squares let you drop down.

I once played a 2D RPG which I got stuck in at a point, because I filled all save slots right before getting to a blocking battle, for which I ended up not having enough weapons^[I had recently bought a weapon I then got another one of, just before the battle (as a gift for the battle), but was useless, because only 1 of the player characters could equip that] and then just falling 1 or 2 hits short of managing to pass it.

I have been meaning to retry it from the start (it was a freeware, I think) but I can't recall the rather peculiar name of it. I has been ~ 20 years.

I got two im thinking of : One I am sure I can recover but hey, let's shoot for some engagement here, it was a sort of worms like but with pigs, were you could promote units to archetypes The second one I couldn't find on my searches, it was a PS1 game (I think) in which you constructed your Mecha for battle royale rounds, and you could buy parts or change chassis. I remember an arena on a sort of battleship or structure in the sea, but I was unable to retrieve the name of this game.

The legend of Kyrandia or something

This is the one thing I actually use LLMs for: When I'm stuck trying to remember that one thing from a long time ago.

For me, the really hard one to find was a game called Return Fire. Awesome game.

This was me with Return Fire on MS DOS.

oh good are we remembering old video games

What's that one that's like spy vs spy where you fight a clone of yourself? Would've been windows 95/98 era

I think it was educational

I can't remember the name now, but I recently found a game In have been looking the name of for years. It's something like Pharo's. Curse or something along those lines, but I'd have to check Flashpoint Archive for the name because they have the online demo.

The concept was just that each level had a different board layout and you had to move 3 pieces of some sort of symbol or artifact or whatever to be adjacent ( possibly in a certain order horizontally ) but balls spawn if you move witjo clearing them by matching 3 or using a powerup. You could move them to any empty space so long as the path was clear.

Can't find a copy of the actual game itself from a reputable website right now, but I know it exists.

Yep, I have one of those. A side-scrolling scifi shooter for C64 from probably late 80s that I just remember a general vibe about. Not Nemesis, something where you fly above a sort of city. I have tried to remember its name for more than a decade probably.

One would think that there weren't that many of them but oh boy.

Croc 2! I love him so much.

I once played a first-person point-and-click adventure game featuring a player character who is a cyborg. I don't remember much about the game, but I do recall quite explicitly that it had a Hard Rock Cafe in the game. Haven't had any luck finding it.

I have two games.

The first one I found out was called Nanosaur and even has a free download. I played like 20 minutes of this in grade school one day and never got a chance to play it again during my childhood.

The other is insanely obscure, because I'm pretty sure I know the name of it but cannot find any trace of it. It's a fantasy themed RPG maker XP game I'm fairly certain is called "The Under" Where it starts as a training mission but your team discovers strange things going on and reality re-writing itself. It uses a real-time turn based combat (similar to final fantasy) and...

spoiler

Everyone in the party except the kobold dies at the very end.

I'm also fairly certain the person making it started working on a sequel that had a small demo I played. A quick google search brought up another RPG maker game called The Under, but this isn't the game I'm talking about.

I still dont know the name of a c64 game i played a lot as a kid. You had to move some kind of flying submarine through a maze and if you touch the wall you die. The first few screens you had to fly downwards.

Mine was probably on a demo disc around 2000s. It was like a battle on some destroyed city, had futuristic tanks, aircrafts and anti-air. The tanks had WW1-style tracks, like they were huge and squeaky and the size of the whole side. The anti-air had Σ-symbols (faction maybe) and shot blue lasers. The closest I have come to is G-Police, but that’s not it. It was on Win98 most likely.