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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by cashmaggot@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Hey there folks, on the phone with my fantabulous mother - and she just said "I wish I could find that game. That one with the monkeys. Where you had a business, and you sold bananas. And the monkey was in a suit..."

*She also adds the bananas were called "nanas" and you had to go to "The little houses which were the suppliers"

Honestly, I have no clue what this game is. Sounds like a simulation game. I thought it was that old black and white pixelated game from Mac - but I sure as HEY can't remember what game that is. But I feel like someone on here might know what it is. So if anyone knows about this magical monkey mac pixel game can someone give me the 411? Thank you!

*Was my grandmother's Mac - and we played it ~92-93. The disks were stored in a little white clamshell, and we think maybe it could have been shareware. No sure though. Ho-no!

*Down the rabbit hole I found it's from a Macintosh 128K, still trying to find it.

*The saga continues. My mother and I searched for a large quantity of time before we realized it was more than likely shareware and in turn might be so obscure that it might be too difficult to find. But I did find two things. Internet Archives has various [vintage mac](https://archive.org/search?query=Vintage Apple Macintosh Shareware Games ) games all alphabetized. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything "banana, "nana," or "monkey" related in there. (Well actually Monkey solitaire and one other game, but neither were the ones). I also found another pretty cool site with lists of games. Which I might paw through, cause I love to make my mama happy. So eh! If anyone has any idea what this might be - feel free to toss it my way, even in a message. Thank you!

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[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 10 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I mean I don't trust it for any kind of facts, but it's really good at figuring out what you want from a vague description, or finding a title based on a few unique things about the movie/book/song. It's also a good thesaurus when the word you want is on the tip of your tongue and just can't quite get it. It's pretty fucking awful at everything businesses want it to do.

Worst case scenario OP checks it out and that isn't it.

[-] cashmaggot@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago

Hey either way I thank you and my mom said it was absolutely amazing what you said and she's totally happy =)

So, smooches! For making my mama happy =)

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

What I mean though is it might just make up a video game and tell you about it.

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 months ago

What’s the downside here? Whatever game it suggests can be quickly checked.

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