For Op: is it this?

Worse when it's a flash game, as I understand they're all dead now.

I just want to play the unknown snowboarding game with all the little hills to jump on again. Well that and the ever classic Kitten Cannon.

Anyone else think of Another World / Out of this world?

For the engagement. I could literally google this or ask any of the half dozen AI search agents I have access to and likely get an immediate answer. I don't really care one way or the other.

But having said that....

Back in the day of the original Playstation, circa mid to late 1990s, there was a really intriguing robot battle game where you essentially implemented a visual program to run your battle robot then let it loose in a "3D" arena to run its course with the program you designed. You literally had no direct control over the real time action IIRC, the game was won or lost on how well you programmed your bot to fight.

The actual game was probably pretty shit by modern standards, but for the time it was unique and good enough to be intriguing. It was certainly not the kind of game that would have wide support, then or now. A bit nerdy, definitely complicated for the era.

My stupid fucked up brain remembers it as Armored Core, but that's definitely not the name of the game or even the right genre. I'll literally forget any correct response and likely end up asking this same question again in 10 years, so don't feel compelled to answer. Not like I'm going to fire it up again any time soon. My PS was stolen more than 2 decades ago and I'm pretty sure it was a game I rented a half dozen times but never owned anyway.

Also Merry Fucking Christmas

I had to try and find it for the sake of this meme! I thought it was a PS1 game all these years, just found it.

Buck Bumble. An N64 game I played when I was a kid, flew around as a bee and shot down other bugs. Its was a good time, glad I was inspired to try and find it's name again!

Old computer game, never have been able to remember the name. It was a sci-fi setting. I distinctly remember taking a ship of some sort and attacking multiple-legged walkers. I don't think it was a Star Wars game. You didn't just control the aerial vehicles as there were also grounds vehicles. You could change out weapons on the vehicle before the mission. There's a line that has stuck with me though: "You're replaceable, the (ship thing) isn't". I remember it coming in a PC game subscription service from the mid 90's. I think the service was called SOMC or something along those lines. It's where I also learned of SWARM and 7 Kingdoms. I still have yet to this day been able to find that sci-fi game, or even the subscription service (or evidence of its existence) again.

Here's hoping:

It was in the 90s. Top down, you could be either an Apache gunship or a tank for each mission.

Commander keen

Terror tubbies personally

Syndicate, by bullfrog

This is a weird one. I've been looking for a game for years and I've had no luck. My uncle took me on one of his drug deals, as he did very often and I played someone's ps1 or ps2 while they got high. All I know about this RPG/JRPG I played is there were summons and I can vividly remember the 2d world map. There was a mine/tunnel area and some kind of grand library or mansion area. I've been looking for this game for 20 years now with no luck. If I see the world map I'll recognize it instantly. So many of the RPGs of that time had sprawling world maps, but this was very confined. One screen with very obvious images for each area. I would be eternally grateful if anyone could help me find this game.

Edit: The mine/tunnel area was in the middle/bottom of the world map and the grand library or mansion area was towards the top right if I remember correctly.

It's Freddy fish

Edit: I'm pretty sure the game was "Super Solvers: Gizmos & Gadgets!" and I was remembering the intro/home screen!

I used to play this edutainment title in the early 90s. All i can remember is cartoonish art, a professor or scientist or something and you had to solve puzzles by building machines i think?

Ok maybe Lemmy can help me. Does anyone remember a cartoon that used a key. A magic key. To draw a door and open to a new dimension? I have been looking for this show for decades and I can’t remember it. It had like care bare characters and children.

Took me two decades to find the game [Dominus]. Nothing worse than having the name of something on the tip of your tongue for that long. Used to play this game a lot when I was young, it’s not very good but it was a core memory. I cried a bit when I figured it out.

There was a fantasy point and click adventure on the school PCs about two lost goblin or gnome children. I think it was some sort of learning game released during the 90s. The only things that I clearly remember are a mini game about getting red and yellow llamas across a bridge with a passing point, and a labyrinth where you had to solve riddles. Never figured out what it was.

I recently re-discovered Deathtrack.

Brave Fencer Musashi for me. Played that game so many times through what I remember as the first boss, then didn't figure out how to progress when the world opened up

We had a fighting game on NES. Japanese game, and we didn't even speak English (okay, maybe a few words), let alone Japanese.

There was literally nothing to quote in my search, apart from just using descriptions. It was frustrating, because otherwise it was one of the best NES games I have played.

Years later I somehow ran into it. It was something like Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu.

There's this game on the original macintosh that's been my white whale for decades. A samurai/ninja game with a heroes of might and magic style overworld map and and a fighting game style screen with a dense bamboo forest in the background. I've gone through a bunch of archives and I just can't seem to find it

top down spacecraft kind of thing. two of them, but there are so many its pretty much impossible.

Miner VGA, I still fire it up every now and then.

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.