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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I used to read those when they were originally printed as short stories in Analog magazine, I remember being excited when the book collecting them all together came out. I still have a few of those issues floating around: poo poo, that might be what it was. I must have read some of the stories, not the entire book.
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There was a PS1 game I had as a kid. It was a shooter, where you were flying into the screen (like starfox). The backgrounds were all pre-rendered. I remember one of the first bosses being a mechanical scorpion thing. The game had 3-4 discs (because of the pre-rendered backgrounds I assume). It came out pretty early in the PS1's lifecycle, so probably in 97 I think That's all I can remember about it, but if anyone knows what I'm talking about I've been trying to remember what this game was called all day e: Thought I remembered it being made or published by Psygnosis but I glanced through their PS1 catalog and didn't find it Revins fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Aug 12, 2019 |
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curlingiron posted:Any chance it was Sam and Max: Freelance Police? The game was never actually released, but looking at some of the stills here, there was an environment similar to what you described, and PC Gamer did a feature on it in that timeframe. I'm not sure... some of the environments there look surprisingly like my memories, but I thought what I saw was a playable demo. I'd originally ruled out Sam & Max due to the 2D style, but now I'm wondering if I just saw some trailer on a PC Gamer demo disc and my memory confused it. This gives me some years to look at though, maybe I can actually track it down now!
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pseudanonymous posted:How do you pronounce meme? Same as the book: meems all one syllable. ”smart dude” posted:So the first definition of the word - that is still accurate and in use. Sorry about your therapist though. He literally lost it when some of my books were AD&D themed. Pool of Radiance, Pools of Twilight, etc.
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Julius CSAR posted:Speaking of old Mac games, can we all just take a moment to remember Our Lord and Savior, Ambrosia Software? RIP. The site and forums were still up until a few months ago, but are finally and truly dead now. Still kind of surprised and disappointed that they never did much with mobile/indie gaming, both of which boomed not super long after they started to fizzle out. Oh well.
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there was an old flash game I played back in the mid 00's that start with a k that I can't remember for the life of me and I put hours of time into it. It was a 2d flash/web browser fighting game with destructible geometry and you could fling fireballs around and stuff. Kaput or Kabam or something like that. I miss it.
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DerekSmartymans posted:I also forgot mine. My dad used to find books for me by author or picture on the cover. On visitation day one summer he brought me 7 or 8 from new authors who “seemed” like sci-fi based on cover. He brought me a book with a man in a snowy background while wearing a white coverall/hat and holding some futuristic gun. The book was about memes, but this was back in high school before the web really existed and memes were more scholarly-based and dangerous. A computer AI (not the only one) learned how to use memes (pronounced meems) to overwrite human brains. The AI was trying to use memes to take over the world, and a resistance had formed against it. Are you thinking of Snow Crash?
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The name of a point and click adventure game for the pc. The only thing I can remember about the game is that at one point you can click on a tankard and when you do, your character says “A tankard? I’ll take it”, then the owner of the tankard yells “Ere that’s moine!” in like a think farmer accent, and you are unable to take the tankard.
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Garfield posted:The name of a point and click adventure game for the pc. The only thing I can remember about the game is that at one point you can click on a tankard and when you do, your character says “A tankard? I’ll take it”, then the owner of the tankard yells “Ere that’s moine!” in like a think farmer accent, and you are unable to take the tankard. The Curse of Monkey Island? 
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Bold Robot posted:RIP. The site and forums were still up until a few months ago, but are finally and truly dead now. Still kind of surprised and disappointed that they never did much with mobile/indie gaming, both of which boomed not super long after they started to fizzle out. Oh well. I think EV Nova is available on GoG, but I don’t think holding out hope for Harry The Handsome Executive will be a good idea
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cormorant posted:A song I heard one time at least 20 years ago that has stuck with me. It was a folk-rock style song, and the one line I can remember from it is "sitting in the back of a long black Cadillac." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zDkMfhSteE The Blasters, Long White Cadillac. (I hope)
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Unfinish3d posted:There was a PS1 game I had as a kid. It was a shooter, where you were flying into the screen (like starfox). The backgrounds were all pre-rendered. I remember one of the first bosses being a mechanical scorpion thing. The game had 3-4 discs (because of the pre-rendered backgrounds I assume). It came out pretty early in the PS1's lifecycle, so probably in 97 I think Isn't this Colony Wars? It was published by Psygnosis and came on 2 discs. EDIT - Or G-Police, also by Psygnosis and which came on 2 discs. Dell_Zincht fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Aug 13, 2019 |
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Unfinish3d posted:There was a PS1 game I had as a kid. It was a shooter, where you were flying into the screen (like starfox). The backgrounds were all pre-rendered. I remember one of the first bosses being a mechanical scorpion thing. The game had 3-4 discs (because of the pre-rendered backgrounds I assume). It came out pretty early in the PS1's lifecycle, so probably in 97 I think Sounds kind of like Varnak, but it's only a single disc, iirc.
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Aug 13, 2019 04:10
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I posted about this one already but it's still driving me crazy thinking about - and none of my coworkers at the arcade can remember what it's called either: A mechanical two-player 'soccer' game where you stand at each end of a sloped 'field' and control paddles with a crank. It's similar to Spectrum Fireball but that's NOT IT. The version I played was different in that the crank could be moved from side to side to move your paddle, and the paddle itself was actually two with a gap in the center that could be scored through. The field may have also been designed to look like a soccer pitch.
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Riptor posted:Are you thinking of Snow Crash? Nope. I have a copy of that and for a fun read, it’s not too hard to understand. This book was also not Cell by S. King. I do appreciate the attempt, though!
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Aug 13, 2019 10:27
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Captain Splendid posted:The Curse of Monkey Island? Unfortunately not, it was definitely not done in a flat cartoon style, more rendered. I think the setting was a fantasy one though. Turns out I can remember a few more things about it after all! Actually I’d like to also find out the name of another point and click adventure as well. This one was also a fantasy one, but I think it was done in a cartoon style. What I remember from this one was that at some point there were crystal tigers, and your character exclaims “crystal tigers!”. I played both these games with my brother, and we will still quote these lines to each other but can’t remember what games they were, so it would be neat to find out. I realise there’s very little info to go on
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Mr. Bones posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_WPLNf3jbI I always assumed that line on The Simpsons "video taping this crime spree was the best idea we ever had" was referencing this video. I can't find much about it but I think their parents had to pay for all the damages. I wish I knew their names so I could see what they are up to today (probably making license plates).
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Garfield posted:Unfortunately not, it was definitely not done in a flat cartoon style, more rendered. I think the setting was a fantasy one though. Turns out I can remember a few more things about it after all! Kingdom: The Far Reaches - PC adventure game with crystal tigers. Looks like a loving Dragon's Lair ripoff. You're welcome.  Also, I'm fairly convinced that the tankard game is Discworld (1995), but I could be wrong... The people are very flat 2D cartoons, but the backgrounds look a little better than, say, OG Monkey Island Teketeketeketeke fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Aug 13, 2019 |
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Garfield posted:The name of a point and click adventure game for the pc. The only thing I can remember about the game is that at one point you can click on a tankard and when you do, your character says “A tankard? I’ll take it”, then the owner of the tankard yells “Ere that’s moine!” in like a think farmer accent, and you are unable to take the tankard. Was it, "Get ye flask!"?
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Kharnifex posted:Was it, "Get ye flask!"? > DENNIS
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Dell_Zincht posted:Isn't this Colony Wars? It was published by Psygnosis and came on 2 discs. Nope, neither of these. The more I think about it the more I'm sure it was made my Psygnosis, but I think its a game that did so poorly that its been lost to time such that its not even on wikipedia. The backgrounds were basically lovely FMV that were definitely horrendously choppy by today's standards, and it was Starfox-like in that you were a ship flying into the screen. e: Nvm, I found it. It was the PS1 port of Novastorm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AAqNtx1rZk Revins fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Aug 13, 2019 |
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Aug 13, 2019 22:28
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I’m looking for an image from a photoshop friday. It’s a Lord of the Rings arcade game. It just had 3 buttons Boil em Mash em Stick em in a stew
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Jose Oquendo posted:I’m looking for an image from a photoshop friday. It’s a Lord of the Rings arcade game. It just had 3 buttons https://www.somethingawful.com/comedy-goldmine/awful-arcade-machines/7/ This photoshop phriday is one of the first things I remember seeing on SA, which means I started lurking in 04 apparently
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I'll post one that I was eventually able to figure out. I was at a museum several years ago and came upon some architectural drawings from the 80's that looked just like Protoss buildings. One look and it was immediately clear that Blizzard must have borrowed the building designs to make the Protoss race in Starcraft. Afterward, I forgot his name and couldn't find any mention of any architect or design inspiration on Blizzard fan sites. For a little while I thought maybe it was sketches from Santiago Calatrava, who is also amazing if you want to peep at some cool buildings. Finally found him: Eugene Tssui I (eventually) found this bad photo of a postcard from the exhibit:  "House for Hugh and Ida Fraser, Oslo Norway" If anyone could find more info on this drawing, or just a better picture, that would be cool. Another image here: https://images.app.goo.gl/izxW3F5hQv3byHna7 I don't actually know if any Blizzard artist did use him for inspiration, I just remember seeing several of his drawings at the time and thinking they were too close in style for coincidence. Dr Strangepants fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Aug 13, 2019 |
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Dr Strangepants posted:I'll post one that I was eventually able to figure out. I was at a museum several years ago and came upon some architectural drawings from the 80's that looked just like Protoss buildings. One look and it was immediately clear that Blizzard must have borrowed the building designs to make the Protoss race in Starcraft. Afterward, I forgot his name and couldn't find any mention of any architect or design inspiration on Blizzard fan sites. For a little while I thought maybe it was sketches from Santiago Calatrava, who is also amazing if you want to peep at some cool buildings. It's possible, but Starcraft started out as a Warhammer 40k game. It's not a coincidence the Eldar and Protoss are basically the same, Zerg/Tyranids, Humans/Space marines. Though it's also possible 40k took some inspiration from that architect.
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There is a rap song that I’m 100% sure that KRS-One was on. Some of of the lyrics include: “I’m not a drug rapper, I’m not a thug rapper, I’m the type of rapper to smack yo rear end and snatch your stature” (paraphrasing) There is a lot of internal rhyming like this throughout the song. Please help me find this. I’ve already been to NMD identify a song for me. No-one replied. I did not dream this.
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Captain Splendid posted:> DENNIS It was a load bearing flask!
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Unfinish3d posted:https://www.somethingawful.com/comedy-goldmine/awful-arcade-machines/7/ Oh my god. Thank you so much.
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I used to have a really, really old video around 20 years ago I'd gross friends and family out with an Asian woman sitting in front of a table and repeatedly vomiting into a bowl, then very slowly eating it all back up and then vomiting it back up and eating it again for half an hour. I've looked for it a few times over the years and have never been able to find it again, but to be honest I kind of hope I don't ever see it again because it hosed me up more than Mr Hands, 2G1C and those Chinese kitten stomping videos did combined.
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there was a show that used to come on early in the morning on channel 4 in the UK in the early-mid 90s. i think it was paired with 'Once upon a time... Life', a weird show about the human body. there was one episode of it where they sang a birthday song that went like 'it's your birthday happy happy birthday'. I have spent so long looking for that stupid birthday song but it eludes me still. i think the people were in a village and doing a circle dance?
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Robokomodo posted:There is a rap song that I’m 100% sure that KRS-One was on. I am a pretty big KRS-One fan and this isn't ringing any bells. You sure it's him? I searched some of those lyrics on genius.com and got nothing with KRS-One on it. If you are convinced it is him, for the lyrics to not be on genius.com it probably means the song was a freestyle which might make it easier for you to narrow down on Youtube. Chumbawumba4ever97 fucked around with this message at 13:47 on Aug 14, 2019 |
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There was this computer game I used to play in school in like 5th or 6th grade where you can make stage plays or something with backgrounds and characters and you can write their lines and pick a computer voice to say their lines. To test the voices each voice would say "All the Worlds a Stage". This was like back in '96 and for the life of me i cant find the loving game and maybe it never existed because any time I've tried to find it I've come up with loving nothing. Somebody tell me this goddamn game existed in their timeline too.
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Lindy Hopscotch posted:There was this computer game I used to play in school in like 5th or 6th grade where you can make stage plays or something with backgrounds and characters and you can write their lines and pick a computer voice to say their lines. To test the voices each voice would say "All the Worlds a Stage". This was like back in '96 and for the life of me i cant find the loving game and maybe it never existed because any time I've tried to find it I've come up with loving nothing. 3D Movie Maker?
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Lindy Hopscotch posted:There was this computer game I used to play in school in like 5th or 6th grade where you can make stage plays or something with backgrounds and characters and you can write their lines and pick a computer voice to say their lines. To test the voices each voice would say "All the Worlds a Stage". This was like back in '96 and for the life of me i cant find the loving game and maybe it never existed because any time I've tried to find it I've come up with loving nothing. I don’t remember the name but I’d swear LGR did a video about the base one, as well a the American Girl doll version.
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:I am a pretty big KRS-One fan and this isn't ringing any bells. You sure it's him? I searched some of those lyrics on genius.com and got nothing with KRS-One on it. If you are convinced it is him, for the lyrics to not be on genius.com it probably means the song was a freestyle which might make it easier for you to narrow down on Youtube. I’m positive it was KRS. At this point I’m just gonna have to relisten to his discography. I have it somewhere on a flash drive. This song is real, unless I dreamt it. In that case I’m gonna write me a rap song.
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Lindy Hopscotch posted:There was this computer game I used to play in school in like 5th or 6th grade where you can make stage plays or something with backgrounds and characters and you can write their lines and pick a computer voice to say their lines. To test the voices each voice would say "All the Worlds a Stage". This was like back in '96 and for the life of me i cant find the loving game and maybe it never existed because any time I've tried to find it I've come up with loving nothing. Was it Opening Night? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnqRkHhxEMc
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juggalo baby coffin posted:there was a show that used to come on early in the morning on channel 4 in the UK in the early-mid 90s. i think it was paired with 'Once upon a time... Life', a weird show about the human body. there was one episode of it where they sang a birthday song that went like 'it's your birthday happy happy birthday'. I have spent so long looking for that stupid birthday song but it eludes me still. i think the people were in a village and doing a circle dance? What kind of village - modern small town Britain? Medieval? Cavemen?
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This opening preview for the new season of Venture Bros in summer of 2008. It had incredible music , licking the barrel of a gun , and I have not been able to find it anywhere , at all , in like 10 years.
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Dr Strangepants posted:I'll post one that I was eventually able to figure out. I was at a museum several years ago and came upon some architectural drawings from the 80's that looked just like Protoss buildings. One look and it was immediately clear that Blizzard must have borrowed the building designs to make the Protoss race in Starcraft. Afterward, I forgot his name and couldn't find any mention of any architect or design inspiration on Blizzard fan sites. For a little while I thought maybe it was sketches from Santiago Calatrava, who is also amazing if you want to peep at some cool buildings.
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Robokomodo posted:I’m positive it was KRS. At this point I’m just gonna have to relisten to his discography. I have it somewhere on a flash drive. It would be pretty weird for genius.com to not have a recorded song of his; I am more than sure it's a freestyle
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