IT REALLY WAS REAL! The "I saw this so long ago I thought I hallucinated it" thread

Sagwa, yes!

 

My first thought was, "I know a video game about a sentient Japanese wolf who does magic painting with her tail," but that's different. :::PPP

 

So this was either a music video or part of an actual film. I'm leaning towards music video, but I've been looking for the thing for so long I can't be sure any more. Things I remember:

There's a 1950s-esque nuclear family sat around a dinner table. They're all wearing glasses (?) It seems like the picture perfect family: beautiful wife dishing out food. Handsome father. Cute-as-a-button kids. At some point one of them takes their glasses off and sees the family as they 'really' are. Mother is an alcoholic or something similar. The food is all rotten. Everyone is desperately unhappy. The colour scheme becomes much darker. They put the glasses back on and the happy scene reappears.

I probably only saw this once, so the details are sketchy. But the 'perfect family around the dinner table seen as they really are' thing is a definite. Ring any bells for anyone?

 

Here's a puzzle:

When I first got a Windows machine (3.1), there were a bunch of things already on it, mostly trial versions, including DOS games which you had to fuck around in DOS to get to. One of those DOS games was this really great GIANT ROBOT FIGHTING GAME, which I think was cage-arena style, sort of like Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat? I'm pretty sure you got to go and fit your robot with new cool robot parts between matches but I might be mixing up games. When I think of it these days I can only visualise it as Transformers, but I've never found a Transformers game which fits the description.

 

I vaguely remember that and it was definitely not transformers. It was around the 386, 486, VGA era, yes?

 

I'm not sure if it was 386/486 (I'm not very good at old-timey computers), but I do know that a hell of a lot of the programs on there had VGA settings, so I'm gonna go ahead and say that it was probably a VGA Thing.

 

Do you remember when you saw it? It sounds like an early 2000s nu metal MV, from like Disturbed or some such band.

 

Googling around I think the one I'm thinking of may be One Must Fall: 2097, does that look familiar?

 

@paintcat It probably was early 2000s, yeah. I watched a lot of Kerrang and Scuzz around that time, and was very much in to nu-metal / associated genres, so it would make sense if it was something from there.

 

OK so even dad's catalogue memory for games hasn't saved the day, maybe one of you guys know what I'm talking about:

I played a fighter game on the Sega Genesis when I was a kid. It wasn't Mortal Kombat, didn't have the right characters and I remember all but the first MK. One of the stages was on top of a moving train, and I think one in a graveyard. It wasn't MK and didn't exactly have fatalities or the FINISH HIM/HER period, but sometimes if you really fucked up a match the enemy would straight-up kill you instead of KO. Not as lovingly rendered as MK though. There was a chick I liked to play but one time she curbstomped me, blew a kiss... and the kiss turned into a huge pair of lips that vored me. It was very memorable! I think there was an old dude character, too. More western feel than other fighting games. The menus had a very similar blue to default FF7.

 

Eternal Champions? I don't remember the menu, or the lips thing, but I know it had environmental kills if you finished someone in just the right spot. There was also Killer Instinct, but that was only on the Super NES.

 

That's the one! Interestingly, I seem to be remembering the second one, which was for Sega CD but I don't remember ever playing that console. I know we had it, dad's talked about it, but I only remember playing the Genesis since it was the one we had at my grandparents'.

 

I feel like i know what your talking about? Vague candy recollections. Very possibly a bazooka joe product?

 

small me had a crush on at least two of the Rocket Power kids

 

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but it wasn't Flesh Colored Horror by Junjo Ito, was it? I'm on mobile and searching is a pain in my ass but if you poke me tomorrow I'll keep looking.

 

this isn't it, although this looks really good and i'm gonna read it 'w' thank you for searching!

 

HEY ANYONE WANNA HELP ME FIGURE OUT WHAT THIS SCI-FI THING WAS??

Spoiler: long

when i was little (7-ish?) i saw a brief scene of something (i don't know whether it was a TV show or a movie) that has stuck with me and FREAKED ME TF OUT at the time

things i think were involved: aliens. a man and a woman (both scared) sneaking around on an alien structure or ship. escaping maybe?? the ship(?) had a shiny black interior. a drawer that was opened. abduction and experimentation

what i definitely remember: a baby, maybe human, maybe alien, maybe a weird hybrid?? hooked up to wires and sensors. i think it was inside a sleek black drawer. its presence on the ship(?) was a reveal that was supposed to be disturbing (it was!! i was disturbed!!!)

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS WAS AND IT'S BEEN DRIVING ME BONKERS FOR
Y E A R S

maybe it was the outer limits?? but i have never been able to find the episode in question, if so. it gave me horrible nightmares as a child. we were staying in a hotel the night i saw it and so i have no idea what channel it was on

I'M SORRY IT'S SO VAGUE

 

Just wanted to let you know I haven't given up. I asked a question on a huge manga-based forum I'm on (if anyone can find it, it's going to be them, because they've found some obscure shit before). But I have a question: was the story written by Junjo Ito? It sounds like it's something he possibly could have done.