Games You Don’t Remember the Name of - The PS1 Game I never rediscovered

WinchesterPremium said:
Are you SURE it was in 1st person? Most examples I can think of that fit your description are 3rd person.
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Positive. That's what made it stand out in my mind. You don't see that kind of thing too often.

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Edit- You said that you checked out the Wikipedia page. Is that page still in your search history?
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I went back and looked at my Wikipedia history, but then I realized that I couldn't remember if it was a completely Japanese name or one of those Japanese media that has some English in it. That and it's so incredibly massive and full of shit I have no memory of looking up that finding anything was extremely cumbersome. I dug through it twice and couldn't find anything. I'm certain it's in there somewhere though.
 
Duncan Hills Coffee said:
I looked them all up but I don't think they were it. If it narrows it down, it was fully 3D and in first person. I recall the video showed the player exploring an outdoor area at night.
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Try Soul of the Samurai/Blade of the Rakshasa.

Fully 3d, horror game with undead in feudal japan and the samurai or Ninja you pick is the MC who hunts the undead. You have the option of first and third person view.

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When I was in elementary school and because both my parents worked, during the summer I was enrolled in a day camp program at the local Youth Center so they wouldn't have to worry about finding someone (that wasn't my older sister) to watch over me on weekdays. There were computers we could freely use to play games, mainly interactive storytelling games. We had the standard "Animated Storybook" games based on Little Critter and the works of Shel Silverstein (not the expensive but premium Disney ones sadly), but my favorite was something different and more ambitious.

It was a retelling of Peter Pan, but the gimmick was that you had a magical pencil, eraser, and paintbrush that interacted with the environment to get Peter Pan out of trouble, with multiple options for every "page". The pencil and eraser are self explanatory, while the paintbrush would alter an existing object's color to make it behave differently ie paint a vine to make it turn into a snake to scare the pirates.

I wasted many hours on this game and just can't remember what it was called. This was in the mid 90's. but the game could've been a little older, from the early 90's, if that's any help.
 
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MysticMisty said:
It was a retelling of Peter Pan, but the gimmick was that you had a magical pencil, eraser, and paintbrush that interacted with the environment to get Peter Pan out of trouble, with multiple options for every "page". The pencil and eraser are self explanatory, while the paintbrush would alter an existing object's color to make it behave differently ie paint a vine to make it turn into a snake to scare the pirates.

I wasted many hours on this game and just can't remember what it was called. This was in the mid 90's. but the game could've been a little older, from the early 90's, if that's any help.
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Sounds like Peter Pan: A Story Painting Adventure
 
Here is one that I've tried -several- times to look up in the past.

When I was a kid I had a lot of ps1 bootlegs, among them there was one fully-fledged optional co-op 3D beat them up game set on a medieval fantasy setting, you could only chose between three characters, two buff knights and a woman.

Since it was a bootleg it didn't have any marking or label and I don't remember the title which tells me it was most likely a japanese game. It was quite fun and I remember it had some budget behind it with the graphics looking on par with something like Dino Crisis, so I've tried to look it up with companies that could have even produced the game at the time (Capcom, Namco and the like) but nothing has come out of it.
 
XMassAllYearRound said:
Here is one that I've tried -several- times to look up in the past.

When I was a kid I had a lot of ps1 bootlegs, among them there was one fully-fledged optional co-op 3D beat them up game set on a medieval fantasy setting, you could only chose between three characters, two buff knights and a woman.

Since it was a bootleg it didn't have any marking or label and I don't remember the title which tells me it was most likely a japanese game. It was quite fun and I remember it had some budget behind it with the graphics looking on par with something like Dino Crisis, so I've tried to look it up with companies that could have even produced the game at the time (Capcom, Namco and the like) but nothing has come out of it.
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When you say 3D, do you mean the gameplay was 3D or just the models?
 
MysticMisty said:
I don't remember the spray paint option at all (I guess it was my least favorite of them), but otherwise everything aligns with my memory. Thanks!
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I'm amazed someone else actuallty remembers a story paint game. My family's first real computer came with a giant pile of pseudo-shovelware Including several of those and my stand-out memory is getting yelled at and told not to play them due to a dick joke in the story paint version of around the world in 80 days.
 
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ducktales4gameboy said:
I'm amazed someone else actuallty remembers a story paint game. My family's first real computer came with a giant pile of pseudo-shovelware Including several of those and my stand-out memory is getting yelled at and told not to play them due to a dick joke in the story paint version of around the world in 80 days.
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That's hilarious. I don't remember anything like that in the Peter Pan one (that I noticed anyways).
 
When I was in primary school we had some weird edutainment games for free time. There was one point-and-click adventure/hidden object game about a grey mouse looking for wheels of cheese. I want to say it was set in the Netherlands somewhere, there were canals and windmills but I could be misremembering. You'd click on things in the environment and they reacted, even if they didn't do anything to move the story along. I remember there was a bit where you find some brussels sprouts in the fridge and if you click on the sprouts, they grow some punk hair and bounce around. That's what made it stick in my head, the objects would react in completely weird ways. I'm pretty sure it was on Windows 95 but may have been 3.1, this was mid to late '90s.
 
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Hongourable Madisha said:
When I was in primary school we had some weird edutainment games for free time. There was one point-and-click adventure/hidden object game about a grey mouse looking for wheels of cheese. I want to say it was set in the Netherlands somewhere, there were canals and windmills but I could be misremembering. You'd click on things in the environment and they reacted, even if they didn't do anything to move the story along. I remember there was a bit where you find some brussels sprouts in the fridge and if you click on the sprouts, they grow some punk hair and bounce around. That's what made it stick in my head, the objects would react in completely weird ways. I'm pretty sure it was on Windows 95 but may have been 3.1, this was mid to late '90s.
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I think you may be referring to Mia. There are 6 games in the franchise (all listed on the wiki page I linked) so it could be one of them.
 
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The Real Me said:
I think you may be referring to Mia. There are 6 games in the franchise (all listed on the wiki page I linked) so it could be one of them.
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That could well be it, it definitely had that same dithered 3D art style over backgrounds like that. I didn't think it was as late as '98, but it may have been. If it wasn't that it was something very similar, that's the same look it had. Thanks!
 
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There was an air combat game for PS1 or 2, I played it on the PS2, that I have been trying to find for years because the theme song was catchy as fuck. Couldnt remember the name and could never find it. Anime style art for the characters, the song was sung in Japanese. Environments that I remember were those European style cities and castles you see in a lot of anime. Each pilot/plane you could play as had a special feature, the only one of which I remember is the very first pilot/plane you could hit a button and your plane would brake hard and turn to put the closest enemy in your sights automatically.
 
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There was an air combat game for PS1 or 2, I played it on the PS2, that I have been trying to find for years because the theme song was catchy as fuck. Couldnt remember the name and could never find it. Anime style art for the characters, the song was sung in Japanese. Environments that I remember were those European style cities and castles you see in a lot of anime. Each pilot/plane you could play as had a special feature, the only one of which I remember is the very first pilot/plane you could hit a button and your plane would brake hard and turn to put the closest enemy in your sights automatically.
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Ace Combat 1, 2 and 3 seem likely candidates based on kickass opening alone. If it isn't, was the theme song lyrical and if so, was it in Japanese or English?
 
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Ace Combat 1, 2 and 3 seem likely candidates based on kickass opening alone. If it isn't, was the theme song lyrical and if so, was it in Japanese or English?
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It wasnt an ace combat game, it didnt use real planes or real planes given crazy abilities and stuff for fun. Original planes with crazy abilities lol. The opening song was lyrical and sung in Japanese. I'm gonna go nuts going through the list of ps1/2 flying games when I get home from work, seeing this thread has made me wanna find it again bad lol

EDIT: Found it, it's SkyGunner

 
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When i was young, and i think this was about 2009-2011, my grandma had a flip phone with a game on it where i played as a stickman. I can't remember much details, i think it was called miner but i'm probably wrong about that. He was white, and small on the already small screen. The textures were almost nonexistent, like wireframe graphics such as Elite. I didn't know how to play so i moved my character and i think i found some gold, and i must have died or lost somehow, i think i fell into a spike pit. Every time you played it charged money. This is really obscure and i'm pretty sure nobody will know what it is, i don't even know what phone it was.

I played those old games on sky games too. I remember one on a train, and a bejeweled thing, there was temporarily a competition and if you won enough you could win one of those old rotary telephones. Only name i remember of any of the games is beehive bedlam. I'm a lot younger than most people here, i was in the single digits when the 2000's ended, so i doubt many people will remember this kind of stuff, wasn't really aimed at age range higher than 10.

Edit: i just looked up sky games and it bought back a flood of memories of games i thought i forgot. Nice feeling.
 
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Way back when Dr. Ashen had a forum (around 2008-2009) I remember a discussion about a resource management sim set on a spaceship. It had a POLLUTION IS BAD narrative and the thing that sticks in my mind is it started with a shot of Earth that had green seas and orange landmasses. During the opening the spaceship leaves Earth just as it explodes. It was on one of the old home computer systems (think Amige/Atari ST period) if that helps.
 
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My parents bought me a bargain bin game for the SNES back in the day.

It LOOKED cool, because you were a robot or a mech (I think) in third person view and you had to destroy a giant spaceship. You were in some kind of harbor. I don't think there were any identifiable characters.

The only problem was that either I was too stupid to understand what to do at the time or the game only had one level.
 
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