I somehow always fucking forget how to navigate to my games folder in DOSbox and it drives me mad because I have been using this stupid program for years but when that little black box pops up I go ?????????? and spend the next half hour furiously typing in commands and hoping I find the one by trial of elimination. So yeah I like to play old ass adventure games at times. EDIT: This is not my main account. Oh noooo.
wait wait --- do you mean you remember my skiing game?? because i promise you, if you can find reference to it on the internet within a couple google searches, it's probably a different game! did you play it on an imac??? if you actually remember this shitty game, i will be so pleased, i will be so so pleased because i cannot find any siggn of its existence on the internet and it's making me crazy ×8U
aaaahhhhhh i am sorr, i should have read further before posting i think it was skiifree :'U man, though, like, what did the layout of this game look like roughly? because the mystery is catching and i kind of want to help find it now whoops
okay it was like.. very clean looking, not at all 8-bit or pixel-y, but very.... simple. maybe it had early-3D aspects to it?? i think the POV was just slightly above and behind your character, and you raced to the finish line, but also were trying to get... points? maybe? by doing tricks while you were in the air after a jump. i can't remember much.... it wasn't a good game, we only played it because it was there...... i wouldn't care so much about finding it except that the not knowing is driving me crazy
here is my list of Memorable Old(ish) games for your perusing pleasure.. not all were DOS, but some were! Hero's Quest/Quest for Glory series (at least 1 through like, 3. remake of 1 and original before rename!) Sim games.. Sim Ant, Sim Farm, Sim City 1, Sim City 2000/3000, Sim Tower, Sim Park, Sim Safari, The Sims 1. Zoo Tycoon 1 and it's xpacs Catz/Dogz/Petz 3, 4, and 5 Trail games.. Oregon Trail (original), Oregon Trail (remake.. I think #3), Yukon Trail, Amazon Trail Mixed Up Mother Goose (original and there was a later remake) Secret Paths series.. I think there were only 2. And they had a sort of tie in with another series that I think was called Rocket... something? I never played those ones, but my sister did.
probably the oldest game i can remember playing, is my dad had this kid's "game" that was literally just. you got a prewritten story based off really simple kid stories, and you could pick parts to go in the story.. like instead of little red riding hood, you could pick a blue bonnet instead. And you'd just pick the new parts and it'd put the 'new' story on the screen. very simple, very old.
Actually this site has a lot of old games... @applechime does this help at all? http://www.myabandonware.com/browse/theme/snowboarding-skiing-1x/
-deep breath- dID ANYONE EVER PLAY THE YUKON TRAIL? it was way fun; I actually never got to play Oregon Trail because it was only on the Star Lab computers in elementary school and my classes /always/ got the Moon Lab. But the yukon trail was so fun and you got to try really hard to find a lot of gold at the end and it was gr8 also did anyone have that Lion King Activity game? Because my sisters and I loved that one so much
The 8-bit micro game I spent more time on than any other was Elite, the space combat and trading game. It's now downloadable and playable for free.
@applechime I'm not sure quite how old the game you're looking for is, but one game I found on a cursory search was Slope Rider (Not sure why that particular music is put over it but ok). There's like fuck all information about that game and apparently it came out in 08 (I think? Like I said it's hard to find info) but it was shipped with some iMacs.
holy shit i i think this may actually be it? oh my god it was snowboarding, no wonder i couldn't find it... oh my god. it is exactly as shitty as I remember...... Thank you.....
oh my god thank you forever, I am drowning in nostalgia now oh man how did I forget that game, I spent HOURS playing it when we were moving and didn't bother setting up internet in the in-between house (as a side note the internet is a mindblowing resource but I kind of miss encarta for nostalgia/aesthetic reasons)
In elementary school we had one of those computer-labs-in-a-trailer. I can't remember what kind of computer they had in there -- I think it was some manner of Windows but it could have been some manner of Mac, I suppose. We played some kind of Oregon Trail in there, but I don't think it was the Oregon Trail, just something similar. I am pretty sure we played Gizmos & Gadgets, but could be wrong about that, too. My memories of elementary school in general tend to be fuzzy and ill-defined. All I remember clearly is making a powerpoint presentation on rays and skates. Also the teacher teaching us about three-and-a-half-inch floppies, and instructing us not to wave our hands in front of the screens even though it looked really cool. More clearly, until I was thirteen the only computer my family owned was this one: We had three games for it: Barbarian, Bentley Bear Spelling Bee, and Bentley Bear Magical Math III. I have the computer set up on my desk, now, for nostalgia purposes, and I buy games for it off of eBay, though I usually play them via emulator. I need to figure out a way to make copies of the Bentley Bear educational games, because it seems like I own the only copies in existence and I'd hate for the world to lose them.
YES I LOVED IT what about MayaQuest? I never managed to win it but it was SO FASCINATING. same company as Yukon Trail. so good. MINDMAZE. i have been searching on and off for this damn game for YEARS. I fucking loved it.
We got a big pack of trail games, it had MayaQuest and also Africa Trail in it along with Oregon, yukon, and amazon. But those are the two i literally never really played, they were a bit more obtuse from what I recall. Africa Trail I think was actually weirdly tuned to be stupidly difficult... it was biking through africa, and you'd break parts of your bike just. constantly. It was really really hard for a 7 year old at least.
I vaguely remember encarta and mindmaze. I also remember, idk if it was the same encyclopedia software, but we at least had one that had like.. a bunch of mini games? I remember slide puzzles. You also clicked to move around a space that was sort of like a theater, and could use it to watch clips of encyclopedia subjects like animals and stuff. Another game that just came to mind... did anybody play Awesome Animated Monster Maker? you'd drag parts around to make a monster and could paint it and decorate it and take photos of it. there were a few areas of a map you could go to and events would occasionally trigger and change parts of your monster. One room was a kitchen where you could add a bunch of monster ingredients to a pot and it would have effects on your monster, like turning them red or giving them new parts. edit: lord even this guy trying to run it on a newer computer to stream.. it runs about as garbage as i remember it running. lots of graphical glitches and sound cutting out.
