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

I once played a 2D RPG which I got stuck in at a point, because I filled all save slots right before getting to a blocking battle, for which I ended up not having enough weapons^[I had recently bought a weapon I then got another one of, just before the battle (as a gift for the battle), but was useless, because only 1 of the player characters could equip that] and then just falling 1 or 2 hits short of managing to pass it.

I have been meaning to retry it from the start (it was a freeware, I think) but I can’t recall the rather peculiar name of it. I has been ~ 20 years.

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

Anyone else think of Another World / Out of this world?

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Machinist,
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It came as a demo with so many games. Finally played it a decade or so ago. It was pretty good.

kayzeekayzee,

Mikearuba

Xanthrax, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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It’s Freddy fish

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

T-Rex Warrior for the Commodore Amiga.

Was probably my first introduction to 3D gaming, and because it was a hand-me-down I didn’t have any instructions on how to play it. It literally took my months to figure out how to move in that game, so in the meantime I just stood in place and spin around shooting at enemies until I died.

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

This is the one thing I actually use LLMs for: When I’m stuck trying to remember that one thing from a long time ago.

For me, the really hard one to find was a game called Return Fire. Awesome game.

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

Plok.

Butterpaderp,

I could never forget about plok, I still hear the music pop up on youtube every now and then

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

Commander keen

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

I keep trying to find this old educational game that was creepy. I don’t remember much else about it and it is frustrating to know I’ll likely never figure this out. I don’t even remember what kind of educational content it was like math or reading or what.

Edit: thanks for the suggestions, everyone. And keep em coming!

I don’t remember much about the game except it was set in a house of some sorts and had this really creepy vibe to it. I want to say it involved aliens, but I don’t think that’s accurate. Might have been monsters instead. They weren’t humanoid-like creatures though.

We got it the same time we got this other computer game called Radio Addition and may have been in a pack together, but might have just been next to each other when my mom bought them. It ran on Windows, to further narrow it down.

Edit2: I found it by chance! The game I was thinking of was Math Blaster Mystery The Great Brain Robbery www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3USKxJd4J4&pp=ygUUTWF0aC…

Y’all got me thinking more about it and I asked an LLM tonight and it said this was likely the game I’m remembering and it’s right!! Super creepy colors and music I remember.

So that solves the mystery for me lol. Thanks for the recommendations!

Kolanaki,
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It’s not Baldi’s Basics, is it?

NutinButNet,

Oh no definitely not. This was early 90’s/late 80’s software.

Move_to_mars,

en.wikipedia.org/…/JumpStart_Adventures_4th_Grade…

This one and the 3rd grade one with the robot were so good.

NutinButNet,

lol it’s funny because as I typed this, I was thinking someone would think that was it. I loved the Jumpstart games and especially the 3rd grade one. But that’s not it, unfortunately. I’m grateful I remember it, but I played it so much I can’t forget.

shatterling,
PhobosAnomaly,

That and Mallory Towers were staples in UK schools.

Most of the fun was telling the Raven to fuck off.

NutinButNet,

Not this one either, sadly. Thanks for the suggestion.

It’s crazy knowing what it’s not but not knowing what it is lol.

Ryanmiller70, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

Mine was a GameCube game that was my first RPG outside of Pokemon. All I could remember was the coverart being a kid with a big machine arm on his back. Took me till probably 2011 to figure out what it was.

It was Evolution Worlds. I immediately bought it so I wouldn’t forget it again. Played it and had fun till I got locked in an area where you have to beat a boss, but I was ill-equipped and I couldn’t leave from where I saved to grind or get more items.

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

This was me with Return Fire on MS DOS.

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

oh good are we remembering old video games

What’s that one that’s like spy vs spy where you fight a clone of yourself? Would’ve been windows 95/98 era

I think it was educational

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

Micro-man. game came on a game collection cd I’ve never been able to find it online with the rest of the games

pixeltree, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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.

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.

Fandangalo, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
TootSweet,

Underrated.

ummthatguy,
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azimir,

The SNES version was superior to the PC one. There were a few weird changes to how you could command the hive that worked better in the SNES one.

The large scale colony land ownership system was just crazy, though. Each time would devolve into full 300 to zero for colonies and it was tough to grind control back one way or another.

Lycist,

Fucking loved this game, played the crap out of it.

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