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Acres of Quakers posted:Back in the early 200Os I stumbled upon a song on Napster that was titled "Lilywhite sessions Too Blue". It featured a female vocalist and one of the lyrics of the chorus was: No joke, go on soulseek. They will have it. I've found stuff on there a week ago that I'd been looking for for a decade. BhindiBhaji Boogie posted:There were toys that were sold in the early to mid 90s in Canada (and im sure the US) that were basically half mutant/ half car hybrids leaning closer to the action figure end of the spectrum than the hot wheels side. They were called gruesome racers or something. I vaguely recall that one of the characters was a guy standing with his arms out and two large wheels affixed to his hands. There was also a Twisted Metal character named Axel that had a similar design if I remember correctly. If anybody knows what they were called I would be interested in finding out. Mattel Attack Pack?
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# ? Nov 26, 2019 00:21 |
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:No joke, go on soulseek. They will have it. I've found stuff on there a week ago that I'd been looking for for a decade. Unbelievably enough after years of intermittently trying to figure out what the hell those toys were I figured it out a second ago. They were called "Savage Mondo Blitzers" and they were monsters on skateboards, not cars. There does not appear to actually have been a monster with wheels for arms after all. Thank you kind goon although the Mattel Attack pack was not what I was looking for you inspired me to do one last google search that ultimately put me out of my misery
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# ? Nov 26, 2019 01:24 |
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An fantasy art book that came out in the 80's or even earlier which was all horror art from Transylvania. The pictures included a screaming tree with a human face, a blue beast creature gnawing on a human arm and an amazon woman trying to fend off a winged creature with a spear while a space traveler with a laser pistol lay unconscious underneath her. Any ideas goons?
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# ? Nov 26, 2019 03:19 |
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Oh, I got one. There was an old book of folk/fairy tales. They were all from some country, but I can't remember, and they were all pretty graphic and there were kind of spooky illustrations and stuff. I think it may have been Russia, but I can't find it. That book and all the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark were my go to fall reading material when I was a kid.
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# ? Nov 26, 2019 03:31 |
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Got a wierd one, pretty hazy Pretty sure it was a kids show, possibly British Live action, late 70's early 80's, reminiscent of the old tripods show Involved an invisible alien hunter, that had a red triangle symbol, kind of like mosquitor from he man/she ra legs It was hunting a kid I think, who was hiding in some kind of above ground sci fi bunker. Maybe the hunter had glowing red eyes and pretty bad stealthing fx
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Kharnifex posted:Got a wierd one, pretty hazy The Tomorrow People? This one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tomorrow_People
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# ? Dec 4, 2019 22:10 |
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Seems like a solid lead, thanks!
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# ? Dec 4, 2019 23:37 |
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There was some girl who made kinda neat poo poo and she died in a hiking accident and my vague google searches get vague google results
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# ? Dec 4, 2019 23:42 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:There was some girl who made kinda neat poo poo and she died in a hiking accident and my vague google searches get vague google results I dunno what you mean by "kinda neat poo poo," but if it's music, maybe Taylor Mitchell?
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# ? Dec 4, 2019 23:56 |
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No she'd invent or at the very least make poo poo
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# ? Dec 5, 2019 19:49 |
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YeahTubaMike posted:
Master Blaster? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_Master
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Solice Kirsk posted:Oh, I got one. There was an old book of folk/fairy tales. They were all from some country, but I can't remember, and they were all pretty graphic and there were kind of spooky illustrations and stuff. I think it may have been Russia, but I can't find it. That book and all the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark were my go to fall reading material when I was a kid. Not sure if they were illustrated but apparently the original Brothers Grimm tales are dark as gently caress (relative to their tame modern versions). https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/12/grimm-brothers-fairytales-horror-new-translation
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# ? Dec 6, 2019 00:09 |
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Looking for an old video of some sleeping European guy having the absolute poo poo scared out of him and then his friends having to calm him down.
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tangy yet delightful posted:Not sure if they were illustrated but apparently the original Brothers Grimm tales are dark as gently caress (relative to their tame modern versions). https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/12/grimm-brothers-fairytales-horror-new-translation Yeah, it wasn't them and it was definitely illustrated. Pretty sure it was Eastern European.
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YeahTubaMike posted:2) There was this one game -- I think it was for Genesis -- but you navigated this..world, of some sort. You were in a tank or a ship or something, and you had to collect three of a specific kind of token or something, to gain a specific power. Cut me some slack, I was like 7, and I only ever watched my uncle play it. That is 100% Blaster Master. It was originally released on the NES and was almost a Metroidvania game before the genre was really fleshed out. I never beat it but I remember playing it and loving the poo poo out of it.
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# ? Dec 6, 2019 01:10 |
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SalTheBard posted:That is 100% Blaster Master. It was originally released on the NES and was almost a Metroidvania game before the genre was really fleshed out. I never beat it but I remember playing it and loving the poo poo out of it. And if your mom took away your NES, you could read it:
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# ? Dec 6, 2019 01:14 |
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This is a weird one - about 5, maybe 8 years ago a comedy sketch about twerking. A bunch of girls in short shorts twerking, it ends with them sitting on a kitchen counter and somehow making a sandwich by twerking a bunch of sandwich ingredients.
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# ? Dec 6, 2019 02:32 |
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uh yeah I'm looking for that too
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# ? Dec 6, 2019 03:12 |
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:And if your mom took away your NES, you could read it: I had that book and read it cover to cover dozens of times. I also had the Mega Man book as well
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SalTheBard posted:I had that book and read it cover to cover dozens of times. I also had the Mega Man book as well I read a bunch of them, but owned the Ninja Gaiden one, read it many times. Also the Gremlins 2 adaptation, which provided me with an excessive education on how metal arcs in the microwave.
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mysterious frankie posted:I read a bunch of them, but owned the Ninja Gaiden one, read it many times. Wait...there was a Gremlins 2 the movie the video game the book?
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:Wait...there was a Gremlins 2 the movie the video game the book? Oh man I wish that was what I meant.
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mysterious frankie posted:Oh man I wish that was what I meant. oh haha, I wouldn't have been surprised. My friend to this day still remembers the password to the last level of that game. NXRD . And I only know it from him telling me.
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:Wait...there was a Gremlins 2 the movie the video game the book? Reminds me of this book I own: Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Francis Ford Coppola Film: Official Movie Edition The novel of the film by Fred Saberhagen and James V. Hart Based on the screenplay by James V. Hart from the Bram Stoker novel With an Afterword by Francis Ford Coppola and 8 pages of full-color movie photos It's basically the definitive version of Dracula.
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Tip posted:Reminds me of this book I own: I'd kill for a novelization of this game
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# ? Dec 6, 2019 04:14 |
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I think it came from maybe the 90s? That would make the most sense. I remember playing a board game with my brother when we were both very young and it was a kind of like, D&D-lite style thing. You collected equipment cards and you went to 'dungeons' to try and assemble a key. Once you got the key, you ran to the center of the board, at which point you folded it over itself to go to some kind of shadow realm or something on the other side. Anyone who wasn't in the center was lost to the board flipping.
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ishikabibble posted:I think it came from maybe the 90s? That would make the most sense. I remember playing a board game with my brother when we were both very young and it was a kind of like, D&D-lite style thing. You collected equipment cards and you went to 'dungeons' to try and assemble a key. Once you got the key, you ran to the center of the board, at which point you folded it over itself to go to some kind of shadow realm or something on the other side. Anyone who wasn't in the center was lost to the board flipping. Sounds a bit like Talisman but I'd be interested to hear more
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ishikabibble posted:I think it came from maybe the 90s? That would make the most sense. I remember playing a board game with my brother when we were both very young and it was a kind of like, D&D-lite style thing. You collected equipment cards and you went to 'dungeons' to try and assemble a key. Once you got the key, you ran to the center of the board, at which point you folded it over itself to go to some kind of shadow realm or something on the other side. Anyone who wasn't in the center was lost to the board flipping. This is Key to the Kingdom. https://youtu.be/tlfAQ33YE1A
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SalTheBard posted:That is 100% Blaster Master. It was originally released on the NES and was almost a Metroidvania game before the genre was really fleshed out. I never beat it but I remember playing it and loving the poo poo out of it. Building off of this comment, I feel it necessary to point out that there was a Blaster Master 2 on Sega Genesis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_Master_2
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# ? Dec 7, 2019 00:02 |
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A romantic novel based around the battle for the established recognition between the different global co-ordinate systems in the 1800's.
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Acres of Quakers posted:Back in the early 200Os I stumbled upon a song on Napster that was titled "Lilywhite sessions Too Blue". It featured a female vocalist and one of the lyrics of the chorus was: This one is bugging me because I swear I've heard this song before ages ago. Can you give any more details about the exact year you found the song? What genre did it sound like? I thought the song might be something from the the Steve Lillywhite Sessions on World Cafe, but afaik those only started ~2008 so I'm guessing that'd be too late. Maybe the song is from World Cafe in general? Unfortunately it's been around for like 30 years, so digging through the archives would be a pain. Of course, that's assuming the napster info was even remotely correct.
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MachineryNoise posted:Since I don't think this was ever answered, I'm 90% sure this is L'Odyssée d'Alice Tremblay a.k.a. Alice's Odyssey. I saw it on CityTV years ago and it's a goofy fairy tale comedy from Quebec that's PG-13 at most. The 7 dwarves being Snow White's lovers is absolutely a thing in it. My dude this it!!! gently caress I feel so validated now no one ever believed me lmao
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There was a website 98-2000 called something like Beats For Geeks, which hosted video game theme parody music. They hosted some early MC Hawking, but also had a song about the original Sims called SimHillarity, with the refrain "Why oh why can't I leave it his block?!" I was in middle school, I remember showing it off in middle school computer lab. Casual ducking and internet archiving shows me nothing relevant.
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# ? Dec 7, 2019 05:40 |
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I've been trying to find a goofy clarinet tune that was used in X-Play skits back in the mid aughts when it was still on Tech TV. They'd use it while Adam Sessler was doing a mock interview with some game dev or something, idk. I've pretty much given up on finding it at this point since describing an instrumental song by text is hard af for someone musically illiterate such as myself.
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# ? Dec 7, 2019 09:40 |
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E: I’m dumb and google is a thing 😄
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# ? Dec 7, 2019 10:14 |
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I think this may have been from Cracked or another competitor to Mad Magazine, maybe from the 80s or 90s - a comedy article that listed world nationalities, complete with (deliberately) insanely offensive caricatures and stereotypes.
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# ? Dec 7, 2019 10:14 |
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PcLeague v2.1, a football (soccer) manager from 1994 made by Asle Rokstad. It was released in full as freeware by the creator 2008 or so, but all I can find if the dumb shareware that has disabled the save function. The closest I've come is bundled up with 19k other DOS-games, but that's not what I want.
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# ? Dec 7, 2019 10:15 |
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A PC game from the late 90s/early 00s where you controlled one of three different vehicles (I think it was an attack helicopter, a tank, and a jeep?) and tried to destroy or capture your opponents base. At any time you could return to your own base and switch vehicles. Top-down view, 2D or isometric graphics.
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Comrade Koba posted:A PC game from the late 90s/early 00s where you controlled one of three different vehicles (I think it was an attack helicopter, a tank, and a jeep?) and tried to destroy or capture your opponents base. At any time you could return to your own base and switch vehicles. Top-down view, 2D or isometric graphics. Nuclear Strike or one of its predecessors?
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Comrade Koba posted:A PC game from the late 90s/early 00s where you controlled one of three different vehicles (I think it was an attack helicopter, a tank, and a jeep?) and tried to destroy or capture your opponents base. At any time you could return to your own base and switch vehicles. Top-down view, 2D or isometric graphics. Return fire?
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