Games we remember, yet don't remember.

[Beren Zaiga]

After reading that cryptic title, you are probably puzzled as to what I am saying. Well, I'll gladly give you an answer.

For some of us, there are games we definitely remember playing at one point, yet we do not remember the game's name. The things about the game we remember are things like the title music, character names, storylines, things other people may remember that we do not. This thread is to discuss those game which are obscure to our memories due to years of never seeing it after the fact or some other reason.

I'll start things off with a racing game I remember playing.

Back in the 90's, my brother and I had gotten a SNES, and we had enjoyed it for awhile. One day, a racing game catches my eye on the Dillons Video Rental area, I rent it, take it home, and play it almost non-stop. That game was really fun, and played similar to the SNES version of Biker Mice From Mars (which I do own). Similarly, the characters you played as were either human or alien.

The thing I remember the most about this racing game was it's title song: a lyric-less, SNES version of George Therogood's "Bad to the Bone". To this day, I remember playing that game within the deep recesses of my mind, but I have never been able to remember it's name.

Discuss your own games that you remember in such a way, and /or maybe shed light on a fellow member's experiences.

 

[finalark]

Sooo much stuff back on my Genesis before it was lost when I moved with my family several years ago. I remember having Aladin, but nothing about the game, I also remember this football game and Ecco the Dolfin, which I don't even remember the title music from.

 

[CaptainOlimar123]

I was playing a game for the N64 and the game was about some squirrel and it was rated M...thats all I remember

 

[Proverbs]

^Hahah! That's Conker's Bad Fur Day! I never played that game, it looked -way- too bizarre for me.

 

[CaptainOlimar123]

^Hahah! That's Conker's Bad Fur Day! I never played that game, it looked -way- too bizarre for me.

Oh,now I remember! You're right that game was bizzare especially the part when you had to fight that boss that was a pile of poop (I think his name was the great mighty poo or something like that)

 

[finalark]

Oh,now I remember! You're right that game was bizzare especially the part when you had to fight that boss that was a pile of poop (I think his name was the great mighty poo or something like that)

Oh yeah! I remember the Poop monster! I think he sang, but my memory is kind of fuzzy... heheh, fuzzy, like a squirrel.

 

[Yink]

I remember playing this game on the SNES (or maybe NES) where you were this little kid who wore like, a loin cloth and had a skateboard.

Yeah that's not very helpful but that's all I remember about it.

 

[Lythium]

@OP: Is that Rock 'n' Roll Racing?

 

[SyOn]

sounds like Rock n roll Racing to me too. god I love that game, I play it with my cousin all the time.

 

[UberMario]

I don't know many that I have truly forgotten the names of (although it took me years to find one of them, Super Off-Road) but nearly all the games I've forgotten were for the arcade.

-There's one where you're shooting torpedos from a watertop view of a squadron of ships that scroll from either end of the screen. There were three-to-five distance locations they could be, and bigger ships took more torpedos to down. Your submarine doesn't move and isn't even on screen.

-One of the Jurrasic Park games allows you to tranquilize dinosaurs, but I don't know which game it is.

-There was a computer game a friend of mine had that looked similar to Daytona USA by Sega, but of course was on the pc and had fully customizable paint schemes.

-There was another game that I saw advertised at a mall nearby where you could play a demo. The demo let you build a rollercoaster for a bunch of angry hamsters to ride, and the only way to win was to intimidate the other hamsters into falling to their deaths by looking at them when they try to ram you. Weird I know, but I never found out what the heck it was.

 

[CaptainOlimar123]

I remember playing this game on the SNES (or maybe NES) where you were this little kid who wore like, a loin cloth and had a skateboard.

Yeah that's not very helpful but that's all I remember about it.

That game is Wonder Boy!

 

[tko112]

4 me, dat game would b Street of Rage 1-3, good times

 

[tko112]

another 1 would b Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune

 

[Spire]

Countless DOS and Mac games from the early-mid 90s. I'll make a list some day of descriptions.

 

[Chris Lionheart]

Something on the PS1... you play as some type of soldier that, if I remember correctly, only uses various types of mines as weapons. You run around the field, throw the mines at your enemy, watch them go boom.

 

[A17]

on the NES, you play as a little chick (not a girl, a baby chicken) in an enclosed stage where you shoot these patterned blocks horizontally towards a wall where you will try and match 3 of the same kinds together.

It was by Tecmo is all I remember.

another one i remember was a rock paper scissors game, where winning makes a picture of this 8-bit girl lose clothing piece by piece. if you lose, she puts clothing back on, it's pretty mindless. this was also on the NES.

 

[finalark]

You know, I remember watching my cousin walking around in first-person in some giant catsle fighting baddies by turning them into sheep, I think he was playing either Morrowin or Daggerfall.

 

[pitskeyblade]

I remember playing this game on the SNES (or maybe NES) where you were this little kid who wore like, a loin cloth and had a skateboard.

Yeah that's not very helpful but that's all I remember about it.

You could've been playing Adventure Island II. That was one of my favorite games growing up. You were this little dude with a hat and skirt of leaves that collected fruit and rode dinosaurs around. You opened eggs to either get a hammer to throw at enemies, a cool dinosaur to ride, or a skateboard.

 

[Jimnymebob]

One of the trophies in that SEGA racing game made me remember a game I had way back on the Master System, Captain Silver.

I remember the box art, it had pirates on, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was about.

 

[tko112]

a lot of plp probly dont kno bout da Front Mission games, which 2 me, those games were cooler than Advanced Wars

 

[Deleted member]

There was three educational games for the PC back the mid 1990s-late 1990s and they were released in the same time and was part of one series. The main character was a bug. Depending on the game, you would go to either a farm, a jungle, or an airport. The bug outfit would change match the setting. In the Airport game, there was a minigame where you had to transport baggage to the correct area and I believe there was ninty-nine levels in that game. I played the game on Windows 98 and it was not an MS DOS game. The game was in 2D. The color of the bug's skin was blue.

The game also had some voice acting in it and you pointed in a direction if you wanted to go someplace.

Can anyone give me a clue on what game it could be?

 

[Brickbox]

Wow that made me think about playing reader rabbit 2nd grade. That was along time ago but I can still remember the tune

 

[Deleted member]

Wow that made me think about playing reader rabbit 2nd grade. That was along time ago but I can still remember the tune

It's not Reader Rabbit. The main character was a bug. But you help me recognize one thing that I used to play in school a lot.

Never mind, I found what I was looking for. It was in the Junior Field Trips series. Thanks for helping anyway!

 

[CodeBlack]

I remember playing tons of DOS games: EcoQuest, PoliceQuest, etc, but I don't remember anything about them.

On the other hand, there's a bunch of DOS games I remember a lot about but whose names I don't remember at all.

 

[Paixy]

My brother encountered this the otherday. It turnt out to be The Gregory Horror Show on the PS2 lol

 

[Luigitoilet]

-One of the Jurrasic Park games allows you to tranquilize dinosaurs, but I don't know which game it is.
.

Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park Rampage Edition for the Genesis both have tranquilizer guns.

 

[Dai Tian]

There was this one game way back in the Genesis days. I can barely remember it but you were some kind of warrior in blue armor, you went into a dungeon and fought enemies through melee attacks with your sword. If I remember right you had healing items and you could level up but for the life of me I can't remember what game it was.

 

[Pikaville]

Mine was on the megadrive or the nes.

It involved some guy who had been transformed by and evil guy and was trying to get his real body back. Some 2-d platformer game.

I only remember everytime you completed a world his limbs would get closer to his body in an FMV kinda thing.

Very vague but I remember every other game I've played bar this one and It's been killing me the past couple of years over what It was called.

 

[Spire]

You know, I remember watching my cousin walking around in first-person in some giant catsle fighting baddies by turning them into sheep, I think he was playing either Morrowin or Daggerfall.

There were no sheep in Morrowind. I know you could do this in Oblivion (if it was that recent). If much older, then I'm sure Daggerfall is your candidate.

There was three educational games for the PC back the mid 1990s-late 1990s and they were released in the same time and was part of one series. The main character was a bug. Depending on the game, you would go to either a farm, a jungle, or an airport. The bug outfit would change match the setting. In the Airport game, there was a minigame where you had to transport baggage to the correct area and I believe there was ninty-nine levels in that game. I played the game on Windows 98 and it was not an MS DOS game. The game was in 2D. The color of the bug's skin was blue.

The game also had some voice acting in it and you pointed in a direction if you wanted to go someplace.

Can anyone give me a clue on what game it could be?

Oh man, I completely forgot about that game. I had the farm one. JEEZ that's old stuff. I wish I remembered it

 

[Jimnymebob]

My brother encountered this the otherday. It turnt out to be The Gregory Horror Show on the PS2 lol

That game is amazing. That is all XD.

I remember playing tons of DOS games: EcoQuest, PoliceQuest, etc, but I don't remember anything about them.

On the other hand, there's a bunch of DOS games I remember a lot about but whose names I don't remember at all.

If they're part of the Quest series by Sierra then I remember having the PoliceQuest games, but remember nothing about them. The best Quest games were KingsQuest and SpaceQuest.

 

[Akaku94]

A few years ago, I played this game at one of those old McDonald's gamecube stations they used to have instead of playgrounds. I played as mario, and I picked up this giant water thing that I could fly with or shoot things with. It was great, but I didn't know what it was. Of course, it was Super Mario Sunshine, but that was definitely memorable for me.

 

[tko112]

i also used 2 love playin Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure on da Genesis