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[adam_smasher]

Cross Country USA and/or Canada? I played it on the PC but a Mac port is conceivable.

[thedaemon]

I love you! 

Cross Country USA and/or Canada? I played it on the PC but a Mac port is conceivable.

[Eibx]

It's a game either on the Commodore 64, Amiga Commodore or early DOS game.

It's a 2D side scrolling game where you're a thief hiding from a police spotlight.
You can hide behind fences, mail boxes ect, so the spotlight doesn't spot you.

Do anyone have any idea what this game is - or even which platform it was on?

[Aloshi]

A recent Flash game with ZX Spectrum-style graphics (I think? I think there were also multiple "themes" too) that was a plaformer timed with music, with the world scrolling forward continuously. I think it used the arrow keys + A/S? and depending on what arrow keys you held down S would do different moves, like roll backwards. I think it had three difficulty modes too, and on the hardest the game would end after a single death. I remember seeing it on Bytejacker.

[SirNiko]

A recent Flash game with ZX Spectrum-style graphics (I think? I think there were also multiple "themes" too) that was a plaformer timed with music, with the world scrolling forward continuously. I think it used the arrow keys + A/S? and depending on what arrow keys you held down S would do different moves, like roll backwards. I think it had three difficulty modes too, and on the hardest the game would end after a single death. I remember seeing it on Bytejacker.

http://jonathanwhiting.com/stalwart/ This one, I'm certain, is Stalwart.

[Aloshi]

Ah yeah, that's it! Thanks!

[VirusN]

I swear, if any of you guys know the game i'm talking about, i'll marry you.  

It's a game I played when I was a child in a NES. It was a one player game, the first level was a platformer on a train (a modern, electric train) where you ran on the roof and then got inside the train and got back to the first wagon, to save a girl.

After that, the game turned into a top down, zelda-like thingy.

And that's pretty much all i remember about it.

:EDIT:EDIT:EDIT:Ignore this, I found it :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_%28video_game%29

[D-TurboKiller]

Alright, this one has me pulling my hair out for a week trying to figure out what it was called.

It was a PC RC racing game from around the late 90's. No, it's NOT Re-Volt, in fact, it might've been awesomer. It did use a similar camera style though. If I recall correctly, it was a bit more open ended; you could travel aroud a bit on a "choose your map" kind of area (kinda like Crash Bandicoot) with your RC car and whatnot (I think I was using a Jeep RC at the time and the environment looked space-y). I remember only one race track, it looked foresty and I think you could race inside a chopped down tree log somewhere between it. And yes I think there were powerups.

EDIT: Somehow after a very deep (yet fast) dig I found the game's name, it's called Buggy RC Racer.



Huh, my kid self sure has weird memories sometimes, this doesn't look nearly as cool as I thought it would be. Oh well.



EDIT2: Well, since that first one's taken care of quite fast, here's a better challenge.
It seems to be an arcade driving game with guns for MS-DOS, in MegaRace-style view but in modern-ish days; the scene might've been more sprite-ish or better textured however, but I can't confirm that. Apparently a bunch of enemies are trying to destroy you and you have to shoot them down before you're turned into scrap, and progress to the next stage. As far as I can remember, you started out with a minigun and some rockets. The first stage involved cruising around the city for a while, eventually you'd reach the next stage, where you'd drive around the city's dried river dam (or whatever you call it; remember the Truck scene from Terminator 2? Pretty much this), and there might even be a helicopter chasing you as well. Finally, you'd have to restart from the beginning of the stage everytime you fail it, though there might have been a life limit that'd force you to start over. And that's as far as I can remember: guns blazing and crazy hard progressive action driving.

[BattleBeard]

 Okay, here's two hard ones.

It was a game, a cartoon network game, that I can't seem to find anymore. I want to at least remember the game's name, if it's not playable anymore. It was related to Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends. The game was like a Single Player RPG, you signed in, and everything. I forgot my password and forgot the name as well, eventually.

Number two is another game I remember, where you played as a ragdoll, tossing it around. There was no point. I remember there was a timer so you could see how long you were addicted to it, color options, hats...it was fun.

[SirNiko]

http://www.kongregate.com/games/shockvalue_/interactive-buddy

Is this your second game? I seem to recall it being really popular for a while.

[BattleBeard]

http://www.kongregate.com/games/shockvalue_/interactive-buddy

Is this your second game? I seem to recall it being really popular for a while.

 No, no, I love that game too, but it was a black, stickman.

[D-TurboKiller]

Number two is another game I remember, where you played as a ragdoll, tossing it around. There was no point. I remember there was a timer so you could see how long you were addicted to it, color options, hats...it was fun.

The closest thing I can remember is Ragdoll Matrix Reloaded. There was a prototype version with a stickman but now it's textured. You have to dodge bullets and bombs until the timer runs out, great fun.

[DavidDark]

It's a game either on the Commodore 64, Amiga Commodore or early DOS game.

It's a 2D side scrolling game where you're a thief hiding from a police spotlight.
You can hide behind fences, mail boxes ect, so the spotlight doesn't spot you.

Do anyone have any idea what this game is - or even which platform it was on?

Hostages. It was on amiga and commodore I belive.

[moi]

It's a game either on the Commodore 64, Amiga Commodore or early DOS game.

It's a 2D side scrolling game where you're a thief hiding from a police spotlight.
You can hide behind fences, mail boxes ect, so the spotlight doesn't spot you.

Do anyone have any idea what this game is - or even which platform it was on?

Hostages. It was on amiga and commodore I belive.

no, in hostages you play the pohleece

[gomick]

this is what I played almost 2 decade ago: a DOS game, top to down airship shooter when you keep taking powerups you can upgrade your ship. last weapon is a laser. loader: DR.exe
first ship is propeller sirhip, second more like jet powered ship.
I'm sorry if there's someone answered this please let me know.

[danbot]

It was a platformer for very old x86 machines and certainly had bright, old, pixelated aesthetics. You were some jumping everyman with I hard-hat. I think you could swing from ropes and climb stuff.

The big thing I remember though is that there were snake enemies and you had to wait until they turned into alarm clocks to get past them. It was weird.

I played it in the mid-late ninties when I was a little kid.

[Noyb]

Years later, and with the assistance of the Idle Thumbs forums I finally figured out the three outstanding (as in yet-to-be-solved, not above-average-quality) titles I was looking for.

I once played a demo of a 90s (point and click?) adventure game in the where your character was placed into a large hamster habitrail and had to outwit a pair (or more?) of giant killer hamsters. I seem to remember there being a lot of no-win states and deaths.

This was Orion Burger.

A Myst-style point and click adventure game about robot dinosaurs living under the earth. Can't remember much more than that.

This was The Day the World Broke.

This might be obscure, but here goes.

I played an amateur/indie adventure game demo around the late 90s or early 00s. Think it might have been an AGS game. From what I remember of the plot, you were a ghost (looking like an amorphous blue squiggle, perhaps) on a spaceship. The demo ended as the ghost landed or crashed on a planet which might have been earth. Wacky humor, including one random scene with a poorly told joke about how the camera ended up upside-down when panning to a new room. The developer may or may not have had the name of Trapezoid.

Sorry for the hazy description, but this is all I remember or think I remember.

This was a demo of Crashsite, an unfinished game by the dude who's now Lemon Demon.

[Fegon]

this is what I played almost 2 decade ago: a DOS game, top to down airship shooter when you keep taking powerups you can upgrade your ship. last weapon is a laser. loader: DR.exe
first ship is propeller sirhip, second more like jet powered ship.
I'm sorry if there's someone answered this please let me know.

Makes me think of Donpachi, i think Gekirindan you could choose to play as a chopper. Both are arcade games though.

[Noyb]

This one was fairly popular, but my brain is blanking on me.

It's a multiplayer in-browser collaborative building game. Very low-res, perhaps even ASCII. Some crazy mazes and "slides" were designed around placing arrows that temporarily change the flow of gravity.

[Tanner]

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