"What was that game?" - For the games in your memories without a name

Martys_not_smarty said:
I got one it was a Macintosh game I played around 93-94ish it was a number puzzle game called the mystery/secret of the (number)'s I just remember the beginning being being of a guy coding on his computer and a number in the line of code on his monitor falls off and lands in this underworld of numbers where you have to solve various puzzles that were math related.
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I think you're talking about the game 3 in Three. It was a followup to the Mac puzzle game The Fool's Errand. It's available on the linked website for free.
 
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There was a really old puzzle game on my parent's iMac G3 I played in the late 90's. A scientist accidentally turned his rat into a humanoid, rat abomination copy of himself somehow, and you have to help his assistant undo the damage by playing different puzzle games which represent different part of the Doctor's brain. Also the rat thing was in each of these games and had different cliche accents for each puzzle game.
 
Colloid said:
There was a really old puzzle game on my parent's iMac G3 I played in the late 90's. A scientist accidentally turned his rat into a humanoid, rat abomination copy of himself somehow, and you have to help his assistant undo the damage by playing different puzzle games which represent different part of the Doctor's brain. Also the rat thing was in each of these games and had different cliche accents for each puzzle game.
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Ended up finding it myself just now. It was the Lost Mind of Dr. Brain. Brought to you by the same guys who made King's Quest. God I love those games.
 
I remember this old kid’s computer game with an orange haired scientist talking about dinosaurs, space, ect. Whenever you clicked on something, he and his computer assistant explain what it is. Dude had a German accent too.

Then there was this math related game where one of the mini games involved an octopus teaching you about global trade or some shit. You can click on him to get advice, but I remember the game soft locking with him scratching his head indefinitely instead of only doing that for a couple seconds and then giving you the answer.
 
What was that game that was often on school computer labs where you could put topping on a cookie to feed to some weird animal? I remember someone posted an image from it on /v/ once but I didn't save it.

I also remember an educational game on the PC about dinosaurs, where you would fly past a 3D gate very much like Jurassic Park.
 
There's a game I've forgotten that sounds and looks like it should have been the one called Halloween Harry, but what it's actually called I don't remember.
It's a PC game, shareware, side scroller. You play as a guy with a shotgun, starts just outside the doors of a mansion, the first enemies encountered inside are zombies. His shotgun is a hit-scan weapon, which was fun and unusual for the time.
 
Japanese vertical scrolling shooter with a ridiculous amount of playable characters, including an Ultraman parody with a bird mask. I think one of the stages involved flying over a city and it might've been the first level. Played this shit on MAME years before I learned anything about anything so I never found out more about it.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
There's a game I've forgotten that sounds and looks like it should have been the one called Halloween Harry, but what it's actually called I don't remember.
It's a PC game, shareware, side scroller. You play as a guy with a shotgun, starts just outside the doors of a mansion, the first enemies encountered inside are zombies. His shotgun is a hit-scan weapon, which was fun and unusual for the time.
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Dangerous Dave 2/Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion?
 
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Fictional Character said:
Dangerous Dave 2/Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion?
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Yes! Thank you.
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It's even programmed by John Carmack and John Romero, how could I even misremember this. Halloween Harry should be called Dangerous Dave and vice versa.
 
Table Country said:
When I was a kid at my friend's house his dad was playing this game on his computer. It was some kinda fantasy strategy game with an isometric view and I've never figured out what the fuck it was. You'd move units around on a large turn-based overworld map and then engage baddies in smaller real time combat maps. At first, looking back, I thought it might've been Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic, but AoW is all turn-based so no. I remember distinctly that one of the units was like a nymph or something; it looked like a naked lady with strategically censored naughty bits.
It might be Lords of Magic, come to think of it, but my only knowledge of Lords of Magic is Sseth's review of it, so I'm not sure.
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Perhaps you're thinking of Heroes of Might and Magic 3? I don't remember if that one is real-time smaller battles but it has everything else you were looking for, even the nymph units.

Dom Cruise said:
I also remember an educational game on the PC about dinosaurs, where you would fly past a 3D gate very much like Jurassic Park.
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I think you're thinking of 3D Dinosaur Adventure (in that order; there's a Dinosaur Adventure 3D and it's totally different, confusingly enough).

OT: So I think the game I'm looking for was on SNES or something equivalent. It was an animesque side-scroller platformer where the main playable character was a chick with green hair and a white blouse. I'm probably crazy but it looked like she had deer legs. EDIT: I found it, it's called Mischief Makers and it was on N64.
 
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there was this story game about a guy who made a bunch of game demos for fun but never released them, you're his friend playing them after he had passed away.

There's like a house that constantly changes, a cave with a bunch of dark souls like signs that you can read along the path.
 
I remember playing some weird 3d pacman ripoff where you play as a ball shaped cat and I think you collected diamonds in it.
I only played it at school
 
Early 2000s PC isometric action RPG. Looked and played a lot like Diablo 2 but set in either a Feudalist Japan or Wuxia Chinese setting.
 
I remember playing a game around 2002. It was a multiplayer 2d platformer in a future/cyberpunk setting. The players were "hackers" on two opposing teams each trying to download data from computer terminals and bring it back to their base. This got you points, which you could use to buy bigger guns, and you would shoot the opposing team before they could finish downloading. (A bit like capture the flag in that regard)
 
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