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Gremour, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
Ragallos, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

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!

Odo,

I love that game’s title music.

faltryka,

Me too man, it’s stuck in my head now!

TropicalDingdong, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

Syndicate, by bullfrog

Rusty,

That was my favorite game as a kid. Too bad the only remake is a stupid FPS.

TropicalDingdong,

Yeah the remake totally misunderstood what the game was about.

SlurpingPus,

‘Satellite Reign’ is the spiritual successor, released in 2015 and started by the producer and lead programmer for ‘Syndicate Wars’.

/cc @TropicalDingdong

Rusty,

I’ll check it out, thanks.

azimir,

I loved that game. Only for to play for a few weeks in Germany back in 1995.

Ran into it again years later somewhere and finally made it much further through the missions. Great game.

TropicalDingdong,

I never beat the final mission.

azimir,

They got frakin’ hard! Especially the mechanics of the trains and when the baddies started shooting further. Tracking where the action was got tough when you had to split the team.

TropicalDingdong,

Yeah I had figure I out a strategy using the persuedatron, where it would get stronger the more people you persueded. If you started with civilians and got a bunch, you could then do security guards, then the police, then other syndicate agents. I still think this is the only way to beat that final level, but there are nothing but agents on that level.

Lycist,

R.I.P. Bullfrog…

The Dungeon Keeper games will forever be among my top 10.

Clearwater, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

I grew up playing a very specific Minecraft trial world. You spawn on a beach with a single tree. Immediately inland was a large plains biome, but about 100 blocks to the side was an oak forest. In there (still visible from spawn), was a single large hill with a small cave in it which poked though it and made for a good base.

I am rather confident it was a Minecraft trial edition world. I believe I reset that map several times over before discovering how to make the trial last forever. However the trial seed on the wiki does not match for any game version. (It does match a different world I remember playing at least.)

I’ve probably spent about 10 hours over the last couple years periodically going on the hunt for it, and at this point I’ll give out a small bounty for information.

toeblast96, (edited )

what platform? pc/ console?

I know pcgamer had a demo on pc but not sure if that sounds like your description

Cracks_InTheWalls, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
@Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works avatar

For more engagement: a Doom reskin where you shot balloons at some (to child me) scary af toys that came alive and were ornery. Windows 3.1/DOS era, was part of a shareware collection.

Observer,

Bad Toys?

Cracks_InTheWalls,
@Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works avatar

Edit: You know what I don’t think this was what I’m thinking about BUT I did play this and may be mixing the memory with another shooter in the same collection.

AMillionMonkeys, do games w Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game
@AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world avatar

What could I do? Uninstall.

If you aren’t having fun with it, sure. I was expecting the comments to be people arguing with how you have fun (using the dev console), but fortunately that’s not the case.

PlantJam, do games w Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game

If you want a dark game with puzzle style combat and bosses, I can’t recommend a plague tale enough. Innocence is the first one, Requiem is the second one.

Lembot_0006,

plague tale

I believe I have tried it. Until the first boss, where I was forced to run around him and try to dismantle his armour piece by piece with a sling and stones. Of course he caught me while having the last piece of armour on. Uninstalled and never even considered giving it a second chance.

PlantJam,

I hated black myth wukong and elden ring boss fights, so punishing games really aren’t for me. I finished both plague tale games, though. I usually lower the difficulty quite a bit just to enjoy the story, so maybe the defaults are harder than what I experienced.

Kazumara,

Yeah they are fun!

Also pretty easy I’d say.

ViraPyon, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

Waku Waku 7, very silly fighter

faltryka, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

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

ThrowawayPermanente,

May the hair on your toes never fall off

petersr, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

3d third person shooter with a female protagonist. Late 90 or early 2000s. Think something like Tomb Raider, but I am pretty sure it was not Tomb Raider. I don’t remember much, aside from the tutorial level being in some kind of Portal chamber / Aperture Science like sterile tiled floor and walls with various lights. If I remember correctly, the first real level was in an old big multi store warehouse or club house.

petersr,

After having looked for this game for two decades and asked here, I realized perhaps I should ask ChatGPT. I gave it the same description and it came up with Oni (2001). And I am pretty sure that’s it!

dingleberrylover,

This is my guess as well. I still remember the tutorial.

tetris11,

Stealth game? There was a nice PS2 stealth/hacking fame with a female protagonist

petersr,

I don’t recall stealth, but I also only watched someone else play it for an hour or so.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

What platform? PC, Playstation?

petersr,

PC

prole,

Fear Effect maybe?

Xatolos,
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sailormoon, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
@sailormoon@lemmy.world avatar

Nanosaur

kieron115, (edited ) do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

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?

ArsonButCute,
kieron115, (edited )

The game I remember had a top down view, and looked more modern than that. It might have been a late DOS game but our computer at that time ran windows 3.1 on top so it could have been an early windows game too.

Xatolos,
@Xatolos@reddthat.com avatar

Most likely it’s The Incredible Machine by Sierra. www.gog.com/…/the_incredible_machine_mega_pack

kieron115,

The game I remember had a top down view, and looked more modern than that. It might have been a late DOS game but our computer at that time ran windows 3.1 on top so it could have been an early windows game too.

prole,

I loved the Super Solver games as a kid

vga, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

Yep, I have one of those. A side-scrolling scifi shooter for C64 from probably late 80s that I just remember a general vibe about. Not Nemesis, something where you fly above a sort of city. I have tried to remember its name for more than a decade probably.

One would think that there weren’t that many of them but oh boy.

RememberTheApollo_,
@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world avatar

Dominion?

vga,

I haven’t heard of that one, but no, wasn’t that.

Also tried figuring this out with an AI but nope. I’m pretty sure I’m not hallucinating this game.

Guitarfun, (edited ) do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

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.

baltakatei,
Guitarfun,

Unfortunately no, it was definitely turned based and not an ARPG. The graphics weren’t very different though.

SlurpingPus,

You could try looking for a ‘compilation of PS1 jrpgs’ video on YouTube, showing gameplay of each game for half a minute. This could jostle the memory. And the same with ps2, if that doesn’t work. However, afaiu there were a lot of jrpg games, so idk if anyone’s made a comprehensive video.

prole,

Legend of Dragoon?

SethTaylor, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
@SethTaylor@lemmy.world avatar

There was this game I swear was called Solaris but was not able to find. The whole thing is a model of a star system with a couple dozens of oddly-named planets and you need to “shoot units” at the planets you want to conquer. You basically have to estimate how many units you need to take it over or something.

I’ll probably never be able to find it cause I can’t even describe it so well haha

Daefsdeda,

Do you perhaps mean solarmax (1/2)?

prole,

Probably not Stellaris right?

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