randon31415,

My dad brought home “Xexyz” for NES one year. I have never heard anyone ever reference this game in any nostalgia reviews and had to actually go look up the name myself after vaguely remembering it as that side-scroling NES game that started with an x.

morphballganon, (edited )

Reading through these answers and two people posted Xexyz lol

Edit: not seeing the other one anymore, maybe they deleted it

xionzui,

This absolutely terrible in the most hilarious ways B movie that may or may not have ever actually been released called The Astrologer. It was filmed in 1975 and apparently lost until just recently. A local theater got a copy and did a showing of it. Fortunately, it’s now preserved on the internet archive! archive.org/…/the-astrologer-1975-previously-lost…

neuroneiro,
AgentGrimstone, (edited )

When I was a kid, I remember seeing a trailer on TV for a Captain America movie. The tone of the trailer was dark and gritty, it looked like it was a drama and you don’t find out it’s even a Captain America movie until they reveal him at the very end.

fmstrat,

The GI Joe movie where the hands come out of the ground still sticks with me.

guyrocket,
@guyrocket@kbin.social avatar

I remember a 3D version of Tetris on an early IBM PC clone. Very early like 8088 or 286 PC. Don't remember the name and it was only wireframe and 1color (amber or greenscreen?) but I was very impressed with it. Seemed ahead of its time.

GreenDust,

Check out PolyCube for a modern 3D Tetris.

store.steampowered.com/app/798790/PolyCube/

fmstrat,

New addiction unlocked. Thank you.

mumblerfish,

I recognize something like that, but I think the blocks were blue. Maybe the wireframe was amber? And the blocks were falling into the screen.

NoSpotOfGround, (edited )

Might be Blockout? Although i remember even worse graphics and lots of brown.

mumblerfish,

Ah, yeah, thats the one I was thinking of!

foggy, (edited )

I got this. Someone, please prove me wrong. I’ll PayPal you $82.76 if you find this.

There’s a cartoon from the 80s (could be late 70snor early 90s) called Howard The Duck.

You’ll never find it, because of the wildly popular movie bearing the same name.

The “Howard the duck” I’m referring to was a cartoon movie that was about a Mallard duck who got separated from his flock while they were migrating south for the winter.

Howard finds himself in NYC for the winter, where he spends time with rats and frogs. They show him around NYC via the sewers.

There’s a scene where they’re beneath the world trade center and Howard and the frog marvel at is enormity. Then, the frog reminds Howard that “Nothing lasts forever; especially in New York.” (This is an exact quote, sparing punctuation.)

The VHS I had ended with a music video by some band with the word “dogs” (junk yard dogs? Something like that) in their band name. The music video was trippy AF. There was barking in the song. The visuals were mostly patterns of colorful circles.

Like, this sounds like a fever dream, but if you’ve seen it and can locate it, it will make sense. I swear.

My memory is shit but I’d describe the art style as watercolor. Animated watercolor. Fro the 80s. So, yeah. Sorry.

Fuck it. $20.

Fuckit 2: 4 payments of $20.69

maxprime,

I wonder if you’ve got the title wrong?

JDubbleu,

I’m usually excellent at finding shit like this and I got nothing in half an hour. I’m high as fuck rn tho so I’ll be trying again tomorrow because I’m officially invested. If I do by some miracle find it (I’m pretty convincing I won’t) send the money to a FOSS project of your choice, or your favorite Lemmy instance.

fmstrat,

Too late 😆

edwardbear,

yep. 2 hours lost. can’t find a shred of evidence. some random blogs I’ve scrolled mention something about the “Other Howard the Duck”, archived content from 1986, but that could just be a mention of marvel comics. i’m officially interested though.

foggy, (edited )

I respect an appreciate your effort.

I will someday inherit my parents nonsense and find the VHS amongst the masses and update this post (This is a lie).

If it helps, a place the frog takes Howard is a famous theater in NYC. that’s like a quarter of the whole short film.

I know this doesn’t help, but throughout this movie the sound effect of the ducks flying is just a person breathing with a small open mouth, swiping their tongue left to right. Do it, and you’ll get it.

TheMinions,

(This is a lie)

I respect it.

justice,

rarefilmm.com/2019/01/new-friends-1981/New friends 1981, Fmstrat gave the answer right before I could.

fmstrat,

The rat race is never ending 😉

Udonezo,

I gave it a fair shake. But you’re right, seems obscure enough to be lost media adjacent. Ended up scrubbing 2 DuckTales episodes, skimming the ugly duckling (1997), and watched half an episode of Charlie chalk. My strategy was to ignore the name Howard entirely. Here’s a list of animated ducks for your reference.

foggy,

ok, two people immediately sank a couple hours in.

Im upping the ante.

fmstrat, (edited )

Found it! New Friends 1981

m.imdb.com/title/tt3352786/

After a few attempts, the successful Google string was:

“howard” “duck” “frog” -comic “new york”

Edit: By few, I mean my whole morning. Fun puzzle 😉

Edit 2: My work here is done. youtu.be/06kfHOvZdbs

Edit 3: Donate the money to charity, or use it to buy gifts for kids for the holidays!

rustyredox,

That clip was really short and sweet.
Really enjoyed the hand painted water color animation.
Would also a perfect cross post for Deep into YouTube.

flooppoolf,

No maaaames

foggy,

HOLY SHIT.

😃

Ill absolutely donate to charity for your work. I’ll even probably update this post at some point to show it.

Thanks!! About to see my sister’s at Christmas, we grew up on this movie, and they both have kids and we’ve been trying to figure it out for YEARS.

Thanks!!

fmstrat,

Haha, NP, glad I was able to rekindle a fun Christmas memory for you guys. Have fun! And tell them you found it on Lemmy. Get’em on the Fediverse 😉

Thunderbird4,

Furthermore, I believe this cartoon is an adaptation of a Russian story/cartoon from 1948 called Little Grey Neck. It doesn’t take place in a city, but the premise is very similar, where a young duck misses its migration and has to befriend the other winter animals to survive.

SpaghettiYeti,

I’m still trying, but I found this gem and I just had to share: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_and_Dirty_Duck

The plot:

Willard Isenbaum, a lonely insurance man with wild sexual fantasies, decides to ask out the new secretary, Susie, whom he has only known for a day and to whom he has never spoken. He spends the entire morning before work fantasizing about having sex with her, but his attempts to approach her fail. His female boss sends him to investigate a claim filed by Painless Martha, an aging tattoo artist, who works in the city. Martha believes in a Ouija board message saying that she will be “killed by a bomb delivered by a wizard on Tuesday”.

When Willard tells her that the insurance company will not pay until her death, she dies of a heart attack [after an explosion noise]. Her will stipulates that her killer must take care of her duck. After the duo spend a night in jail, the duck takes Willard to a brothel. After a wild night of partying, they wind up in the desert, where the duck dresses Willard in women’s clothing in an attempt to get a ride. After several encounters with an old prospector dying of thirst, a racist police officer, a lesbian couple, and a short Mexican “bandito”, they are finally picked up by a trucker.

Back at his apartment, Willard creates a makeshift sex object, which the duck eats. Shortly after, Willard discovers that the duck is female, and has sex with her. The following morning, Willard and the duck go to Willard’s job, where Willard has sex with his female boss and quits his job shortly after. Willard and the duck leave, and the movie ends with Willard saying that the duck was a good duck after all.>

fmstrat,

I ran across this before I found the right one, too. Funny stuff.

Cheems, (edited )
@Cheems@lemmy.world avatar

Ok so I don’t know the name of it. But it was a sidescroller shooter game for the Sega Genesis. You played as like a kid and blasted enemies and there were upgrades. I think it had gun in the name.

Edit: I was right it did have gun in the name

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunstar_Heroes

lastunusedusername2,

I played this game so much

Mr_Dr_Oink,

I always get this game if im installing an emulator. It was great. I liked the combinations of guns you could choose. Either power up one of the 4 types or combine with another type. Homing lazers were always my go to.

xionzui,

That was the first game I rented from blockbuster. I spent all night playing it with a friend. Still one of my favorites for Genesis

jesterkun,

Arx Fatalis for og Xbox. I have it and haven’t played it, but nobody I know has ever heard about it.

xionzui,

I had it on pc at one point. I think I read about the spell casting system and really wanted to try it. I didn’t end up playing that much though.

Gamers_Mate,

I just searched that game and found it is also on steam.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1700/Arx_Fatalis/
Reminds me of the old TES games before Oblivion.

Hubi,
@Hubi@lemmy.world avatar

I actually have both that and Arx Libertatis installed on my PC! I haven’t gotten around to playing it though.

CodexArcanum,

It was a very cool spiritual successor to the older Ultima Underworld games, which are surprisingly interactive for their time. In many (many) ways they are the precursors to the immersive sim genre, and Arx is an interesting if isolated branch on that family tree.

Hello_there,

There was a dnd game for the intellivision

Kolanaki, (edited )
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

There was more than 1! My dad had at least 2 and I am pretty sure there was a 3rd. I remember playing the Minotaur labyrinth one a lot.

AngryCommieKender,

youtu.be/O59I5rjzEmc?si=VJQmIlWnoYgJuEie

They’ll be in there somewhere. I was surprised by how many I hadn’t heard of.

yamanii,
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

Not really a particular piece of media, but I saw an artist on twitter that made anime style art but with a Tex Avery twist, it’s very strange seeing it but it intrigued me so much.

Warning though some of it is NSFW: twitter.com/acrylictoon

KinNectar,
@KinNectar@kbin.run avatar

Woah, that embed opens their entire Twitter feed within kbin. Also pretty interesting art style.

Aztechnology,

I loved a lot of ps1 era rpgs

One that always stuck with me was Legend of Legaia

Never met anyone who played it and the sequel on ps2 was terrible.

Some unique things I never saw in a turn based rpg again:

  1. Armor you could buy and equip per slot and you were able to mix and match… This meant you could look really stupid when farming money for different sets but it was exciting to get a new item and equip it and see
  2. This was a turn based rpg but had some inspiration from arcade fighter games of the time… You would enter your attacks like up down left right x y z and then say ready and your character would do a combo… You could randomly enter combos and learn new specials and finishes etc… Also a lot of ways to learn them through exploration and such

Not unique the game has a ton of fun side quests, games and secrets as well…

pmw,

All I remember from that game is some character named Xai or something like that. Xain? That and the world map was cool.

Aztechnology,

I know there was a villian who was like a minotaur type thing named Xain… I don’t remember the main characters name off hand

Usernameblankface, (edited )
@Usernameblankface@lemmy.world avatar

There was a text based game sample pack on Apple II C that I can’t remember the name of.

If you typed in a command too simple, it would give a preprogrammed response, apparently offended that you took the game for an idiot. You could look around, pick up items that it described, open and close drawers, go up and down stairs, unlock doors if you find the key, dig in the ground if you find a shovel, all through typing in actions and reading the text that came up in response.

There were at least 3 samples on the floppy disk, one an adventure on a crashed spaceship, one finding a buried treasure in a desert, and one centered around a white house (not the White House, but a house that was white.) All the samples ended just when it got interesting and advertised where to get the full games.

Edit: the whole idea of gaming on an Apple 2c seems foreign to every single person I have ever mentioned it to. Someone must have done it, because my family found 2 different computers at garage sales in the 90s that each came with stacks of games on 3 inch floppy disks. Some where educational games, I learned to type properly with one of those. Some were bootleg versions of popular games with handwritten labels. The original Maria Bros comes to mind as one of those, it was on a disk with Joust. Some were the original floppy disk from the publisher. Oregon Trail was one we spent countless hours on, and I especially liked Wings of Fury.

Usernameblankface,
@Usernameblankface@lemmy.world avatar
Denjin,

Are you thinking of the Infocom library of games? Most famous of which would be Zork or Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infocom

Which you can download the complete collection freely here:

eblong.com/infocom/

You’d need to work how to actually run them.

Usernameblankface,
@Usernameblankface@lemmy.world avatar

Infidel is definitely the one about finding treasure in the sand, so it must have been a sampler from Infocom

Persen,

Symbian, mobile Java games

jodanlime,
@jodanlime@midwest.social avatar

There were some legit games for symbian

Crafter72, (edited )
@Crafter72@lemmy.world avatar

As someone who back then experienced symbian java/java games on my father’ and brother’ phone, I partially agree. For some reason back in 2010-2012, here on Indonesia, cheap Symbian based phone are booming. You can buy a cheap symbian phone with preloaded mp3s and some java .jar games from local phone booth. For me personally I played those java games on my brother Nokia E63 (which is fun) or my father’ Sony Ericson phone (forgot which model). Java games solely responsible for me to discover Gameloft that made those knockoff mobile games (but fun given how simple it was back then).

EDIT: Perhaps due to difference how regional tecnoloical advancement back then but here earliest I got more modern phone was in 2013 when I got my own Lenovo A369i which running Android Jelly Bean. Learn myself how to root my phone to gain more of my system (back then I was first year of Middle School). Symbian phones was one of mobile era that I fond of because it was very close to my memory of being a kid.

On similar topic, Blackberry based phone was big here in Indonesia when most of higher class use Blackberry Messenger as form of chatting, never had myself a Blackberry due to how expensive they were on Indonesia

themoonisacheese,
@themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’ve never seen a video on this, but surely someone else has heard of it.

Back in the late 2000s, early 2010s, I got a CD in a cereal box with a PC game on it. the game was I think some kind of gamified flight sim, and the interesting part is that there was a decal of a plane on top of the CD surface. On the other side of the CD, there was another game (maybe a racing game?) And it had a corresponding decal, so the CD had decals on both sides and could be inserted both ways in your player to play each game. I’ve never seen that anywhere else (2 -sided CD or CD readable surface with decals) and I remember the game actually being somewhat fun, but promotional games of the era are very often lost media.

Synthead,

I did a little digging and found that Nestle added CDs to their cereals! There were quite a few different titles with different labels. Maybe these links well help you find your games?

There’s a bunch more content here:

themoonisacheese,
@themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works avatar

It was this one archive.org/details/nestle_game

But in french instead of Portuguese. Thanks for the throwback!

KinNectar, (edited )
@KinNectar@kbin.run avatar

A movie called Sir Henry at Rawlinson's End, extremely surreal British Arthouse. Like an opium dream from the brain of a fox hunting aristo, part comedy part stream of consciousness spoken word poetry. The gags, puns, and quips are truely monumental. It's a gem, though not PC, you've been warned: https://youtu.be/N6W5RB50fXk?si=eYUlKqkTyyMvHz-Z

Naich,
@Naich@kbin.social avatar

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawlinson_End

There was also a radio series and LP. I've heard the radio version but never seen the movie before.

AquaTofana,

Denver the Last Dinosaur!

I’ve never met anyone who knows what this is, even if I sing what I remember from the theme song.

My husband is slightly older than me and he had no idea wtf I was describing. It was a late 80s/early 90s cartoon with a green long necked Dinosaur with sunglasses that performed in a band.

I had to YouTube the theme song to make him believe it was real.

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