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

2 video games whose existence I was only able to confirm yesterday because I forgot the names, that I played as a child: Darkened Skye & Constructor.

 

There's a lot of stuff from my childhood I've forgotten, but I did find info about a couple of them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_the_American_Rabbit
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_Chop's_Play-Along

Oh man I remember the little bunny foo foo thing! I don't remember it being that creepy when I was a kid though. I remember a tv show/movie that started maybe ??? With a family on a road trip singing she'll be comin round the mountain when she comes song, going to visit a relative. The only other scene I remember is them walking down stairs and the stairs light up and play music.

 

Did anyone else have the Lamp Chop handheld game thing? It was this endless runner thing, I think, where you had to dodge obstacles. It was on this specially made handheld device. I had another one that was a lot harder that turned out to be based on Battletoads.

Oh, here they are! They were made by Tiger Electronics apparently.

 

OH MY GOD I LOVE LAMB CHOP. My mom and I still quote a bit from one episode where Lamb Chop says she's going to the kitchen for a Brownie meeting and Shari says "I didn't know you were in the Brownies," and Lamb Chop says "I'm not. The brownies are going to meet my mouth and be in me."

(For those who may not know, the Brownies are a Girl Scouts thing as well as being a dessert (and a type of fey folk).)

 

I have, of all things, a faerie tale. I grew up on Grimm's, they were my faves and I had an ancient book the cover had fallen off of, but I also had a ton of other books with stories from around the world. My cousin and I both had a volume, pale green, I think with generic meadow imagery on the cover. Grandma meant to give us both the same but we ended up getting Vol I and II. I ended up getting the other book from my parents 'cause I was more into them so I don't remember which one it was in, but they had stories from pretty much everywhere in Eurasia.

I've tried to find the story, but the only one close I found is a European story that shares some details but ain't it. For one, the one I remember mentions dates, which I don't think were the fruit of choice in France/Germany.

There's a family with two or three brothers and a sister. When the mom was alive she had magic items that would let her know if the sons were hurt- I remember a knife that would rust and a string of pearls that would break. I don't remember if she died and the quest was something else, or if she got sick and they went looking for something to cure her. There were three obstacles (natch), and now that I think about it was probably three brothers because they each messed up at one of the challenges. The magic item would show something happened and the next brother would go, until only the sister was left. I only remember one obstacle I think, which was a path full of statues that spoke. They'd taunt you, and if you answered them at all you'd become a statue too. So sis sets off to save her brothers, and for this obstacle she stuffs her mouth with dates so it's so full she can't talk at all. I remember this part very clearly, because I'd never encountered dates the fruit before. I thought of one of those page-a-day calendars and took it literally, like she ripped a bunch of pages off and stuffed them in her mouth. It was weird, but didn't change the story at all- her mouth was still full of stuff and she couldn't answer the statues, one of which was her brother because that's what happens if you mess up. I don't remember how it ended other than she saved her brothers and completed the quest. In the European version I keep finding that's Not It it turns out one of her brothers wasn't actually her brother and was a prince and she's a princess and they get married or some shit? But that wasn't in the one I read at all.

 

there was a game somewhere online way back.. with like. a donkey? I think a pink donkey that was pretty?? And little games? It was really strange and I remember being hooked on it for some reason, dunno the info other than that though.

 

There's a DS game that I remember but can't find. It was a puzzle game with hexagons and color-matching (I think?) and you fought with an opponent and you could upgrade your ship to do more damage/have skills/whatnot. You would travel around to different areas and... stuff. It was a fun dumb game and I have no idea what it was called.

 

Was it Pink Donkey and the Fly? It was a web show, but apparently it did have some interactive elements.

Puzzle Quest: Galactrix?

 

!!! YES

 

I'm pretty sure that's Wee Sing in the Marvelous Musical Mansion! Couldn't find the stairs on YouTube, but here's the road trip scene.

 

Seconding the YES!!

 

Yeah that's it, thanks!

 

google was no help with these next two so I'll just leave a description here. I think these were both short movies maybe??? One was about a family of cats, a mother and two kittens. An evil queen kidnapped the kittens so she could make gloves out of them because her hands were always cold.
The second one was about a school for bugs in the walls of a human school? Also a spider gets washed down one of those white drain pipes you would see on the side of a building, then has to climb back up it.

 

Reading Blaster?
It's a point and click haunted house game, I had forgotten it existed before you said something.

 

I'm not 100% certain bc I'm forgetting so much but the front bit seems very familiar!! holy shit.

 

I remember i used to watch this early morning kids show sometimes and it was about a girl who had a giant couch? And a doll named molly and she could like go inside the couch and stuff.

Also i know its real but something i swear sounds made up that i used to love was archies weird mysteries, featuring archie and the gang from those comics you found in grocery stores, but it might as well have been the xfiles from all the weird shit that would happen. It was awesome.

 

that's the big comfy couch

 

Yes, thats the one! I loved that show

 

mine's a fairy tale—it was about a princess who lived in this kingdom, and a witch who was jealous, and threatened to take her away? so they put her up in a tower, but the witch could turn into a crow, and then the princess vanished from the tower, I think?

And it turned out she'd frozen her into this block of ice, she was laying down and surrounded by flowers and whatnot
And then the prince showed up and was trying to freeze her but he only had until the sun set, and he didn't want to try and shatter the ice because he was afraid it would kill her too
And in the end the sun was nearly gone and he was desperate, so he swung his sword at the ice—it shattered, she came back to life, and the witch was frozen now

no one has heard of this fucking book not even google

 

I was an avid webcomic reader as a kid, and there are a few that I distinctly remember reading and enjoying but now I can't find them at all.

One that I've tried searching for a few times was about teenagers with superpowers. The protagonist is this lanky, pale kid named Thirsty whose body completely absorbs kinetic energy that comes into contact with it without sustaining damage. His body uses the absorbed energy to function, so he basically doesn't need to eat. He has a friend who can transform various substances into metals. At some point early in the story he gets ice cream on his shirt so he turns the ice cream into lead and just peels it off, it's really clever. Neither of them really have any inclination towards heroism, however. This is all established before the story's conflict is introduced.

The story was presented issue by issue, complete with cover pages. The artwork was relatively polished and at least some of it was in full color. It may have gotten print release and been taken off the web or something. I read it in the early 2000s.