Mode 7 posted:

I remember playing what I think was a tech demo, but I don't remember what graphics card it was for - you were a dolphin swimming underwater with other dolphins, and could get a burst of speed temporarily as you swam around. If you swam upwards to the surface of the water, you'd leap into the air and transform into a bird and then fly around as a bird. If you dove into the water as the bird, you'd transform back into a dolphin.

It blew my mind at the time - I think this was circa '98 or '99? - and I'd love to see/play it again but I don't remember what the card was or what the tech demo was called.

CheeseThief posted:

Robert Sheckley's Status Civilization:

Sci fi novel set on a prison planet, new prisoners start as peons and become free citizens by earning it. The main character becomes one right away by killing a man of higher rank in self defense. The planet is strange and hostile, for example they have a church that worships evil.

Anyway the main character eventually sneaks back to earth and relearns his past, he was wrongly imprisoned because he witnessed a murder and all earth citizens are brainwashed into confessing any crimes they commit. His brain washing kicked in when he saw the murder and made him turn himself in.

The copy of the book I had ends with the main character standing in front of a broken mirror having overcome his brain washing, then it just ends. I'd swear there were pages missing, another chapter that wasn't there or something.

If anyone has read this book just tell me the ending, did it stop there or was there more? It feels weird that it never resolved anything but the brain washing.

Slore Tactician posted:

I’m looking for the recording of 700 hobo names. You know the one.

Hell Yeah posted:

the weed that smells like a dead skunk on the side of the road when you're driving up north to go camping with your mom and dad.

d0s posted:

Julius CSAR posted:

I am looking for several pieces of artwork that are part of a series and appeared in one of my language arts textbooks in the mid-late 90’s.

It was a series of paintings of the exact same part of a town in middle America, and each painting was from the exact same perspective and but from a different time period showing the town’s growth from a small village town square to dirty 1970s metropolis and then a gentrified 90s modern city. It wasn’t one specific place and each building, billboard, store front etc were taken from actual places then combined together to create a generic American town/city. The view was from up high, and off to the side, like from the top of a building on the corner of the square. It was super interesting and the paintings were wildly detailed. I remember the text book having a lot of art like that. In fact the reason I started thinking about this is because of another painting that may or may not have been in the book, which I discovered last night, James Doolin’s “Highway Patrol” which may be the impetus for my love of cyberpunk looking cities.

IronicDongz posted:

some old indie japanese shoot em up. low res graphics with a lot of simple geometric shapes, including pickups, and a fairly monochrome light blue/white color palette. hard to describe what it looked like but it's fairly clear in my head

Deep Glove Bruno posted:

this sounds like a false memory/dream I had/fetish thing but I swear to christ I remember seeing this and want to prove it to myself. I think I saw it linked from SA.
does anybody remember a music video floating around a good few years back:
I.
- on vimeo because it was too "hot" for youtube
- two swedish white girls
- rap song??? had some singing. can't remember but I think they rapped too, it was in english
- seemed to have a budget
II.
- was about taking a poo poo and then rolling the poo poo into a joint and then smoking it, fully literal with no metaphor or poetic language - a line of the lyrics end-rhymed with the word "feces"
- did not appear to be a joke in any meaningful way, though thinking back this really puzzles me
- the singers appeared at least topless if not naked in the video, which was almost unwatchably gross/literal (making out while liquid poo poo/nesquik poured on them etc.)

Lot 49 posted:

An old animated video of I think a baby on a skateboard and some weird animal or something racing on a downhill road.

Yoshi Jjang posted:

This is going to be a long shot, but here goes nothing.

In the early 2000s, my history teacher either shared single-panel comics, or maybe they appeared in some kind of textbook, but they depicted cartoony dachshunds in historical settings (like wearing Roman soldier gear or whatever). They have a distinct style to them that I can recognize when I see it, but I honestly don't know how to explain it, and I can't draw them from memory.

The only thing I've got going for it is that there's a drawing I made in high school of these dachshunds, except I can't even find that drawing at the moment.

Ichabod Sexbeast posted:

I found a hurried note in my writing from a space conference a few years ago, instructing me to look up a PhD thesis from the University of Uppsala that had some reference to Homer Simpson in the title (or a picture of Homer Simpson on the cover, but I don't think that's normal for a thesis). I do not know why, I think it's somehow space-related, and I didn't see it in the uni directory. What the gently caress was I talking about?

Ichabod Sexbeast posted:

Also still after the comics and the finnish homer simpson thesis in case anyone didn't see those asks

von Braun posted:

Anyone know of PC game from the Win 98-era. It was FPS or 3rd person shooter with like water guns and water balloons? I think it was some kind of arena shooter. It was from what I remember quite colorful.

Wudz posted:

Second is a flash video, probably from around 2005-2009. All I really remember about it was that it music video for a non-english song, and at one point there's a character with a horse skull (basically this) who fades in while a synthesized voice sings "yoi yoi yoiiiiiiiiiiiii".

Hungry Squirrel posted:

I'm looking for a children's book from the 60's or 70's. It was about a young boy who went grocery shopping with his mother but got split up. He wanders around lost, and eventually finds another child (I believe a black boy?) who is also separated from his parents. They have misadventure, including building a hidden fortress out of canned goods. I think I remember in one of the illustrations, there is a signboard advertising a product: “DOOF: It’s ‘Food’ backwards!”.

It's not "Lost in the Supermarket" by Ladybird books, or "Lost in the Supermarket" by Christine Richmond. Any help is appreciated!

Lpzie posted:

if i had a CD or floppy disk in the mid 90s full of DOS games that were lovely like a temple puzzle game or one set in Rome, what was it or whatever. and where did i get it....

Bulgaroctonus posted:

Hey, I got another one. I’m trying to remember this series of ‘video art’ that from the mid nineties.

DACK FAYDEN posted:

I am looking for an (edited?) old comic book cover

where uh, like a dude is married to another woman now and his girlfriend is sad about it

and he's saying something like "sometimes these things just happen and we have no control over them!"

Dave Syndrome posted:

There was a show on German TV in the mid-70s named Die Yxilon-Show.

Here are the end credits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8BFCaO0usM

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Og5Tg_Jyo

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Man Engine

Yolomon Wayne posted:

a mini webcomic of link running into a house, smashing up everything, plundering the rupees, and leaving the owner behind looking sad as he views the broken remnants of his home.
link had a very very focussed/stressed look onhis face, biting his lower lip i think.

Flipperwaldt posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APviTkh1D7Y

KennyMan666 posted:

If you would happen to be Swedish I have a memory of this happening in the 1994 Pillertrillaren, they play paintball in the forest on what's probably a corporate getaway and one guy replaces his paint ammo with (I think) ice rounds to try to murder the main character.

MrQwerty posted:

One time in the early 1990's my Catholic-to-Falwell grandparents told me, "we had no idea Liberace was gay."
I did not know who Liberace was.
I do not believe a single word of that sentence at age 36.

ZombieCrew posted:

Mio in the Land of Faraway? Christopher Lee plays the villain Kato

Fors Yard posted:

Thank you! I loved the Haunted House book/game he made and I don't think I would have ever guessed it was the same artist. This style is so much more minimal and clean than the Haunted House.

The real reason was I had this memory of a green sea creature/octopus with tentacles coming out of the water and thought it maybe was from this same book and sure enough:

Trent posted:

What the hell is the name of this scary-horror-themed tune I hear in so many videos? Here is an example I found today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UScfLdnqx8M
Google is not being very helpful

Sekenr posted:

Pls help me find an ancient thread when a goon decided to move to Sweden and asked for input on how is life there. Swedgoons and others starting posting made up "facts" about Sweden with gradually increasing absurdity while it took way too long for OP to catch up.