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[raigan]

It sounds like Treasure Tower, by David N.

Yes!! Thanks

[Core Xii]

I'm trying to remember the name of a mac game from the 90's. It was a 2d side view of a field and you played as a frog that had to eat all the bugs on the screen to progress. You had to dodge a snake, mole with dynamite, car and lightening. There was also a wasp that would switch between being red and yellow and you could only eat it in it's yellow/calm state. I think you could also shoot water drops but I can't really remember... I think it was called something like "Kojo the Frog" but I can't find anything called that. 

I remember now, it was Koji the Frog!

Apparently the developer released a Windows version at some point, but it's not on his site anymore.

[InkBlotBunny]

I'm trying to remember the name of a mac game from the 90's. It was a 2d side view of a field and you played as a frog that had to eat all the bugs on the screen to progress. You had to dodge a snake, mole with dynamite, car and lightening. There was also a wasp that would switch between being red and yellow and you could only eat it in it's yellow/calm state. I think you could also shoot water drops but I can't really remember... I think it was called something like "Kojo the Frog" but I can't find anything called that. 

I remember now, it was Koji the Frog!

Apparently the developer released a Windows version at some point, but it's not on his site anymore.

Thanks, now I childhood is complete. 

[dustin]

So this was an arcade game that our local pizza place had when younger.  It was a side scrolling beat em up where you played as these giant monsters.  But you were the good guy monsters trying to take on other monsters (like godzilla) but you could also do stuff like pick up buildings and throw them at the other (bad) monsters.  It had 2 player co-op also.  That's really about all I can remember except that I thought it was awesome.

[moi]

king of the monsters?

[dustin]

Yeah that looks very close to my memory.  Thing is that looks like it plays more like a fighter (1 on 1 or 2 on 2) where in my head the game was more of a beat em up like streets of rage.  I guess it's probably just me not remembering correctly though...

[Derek]

Could be King of the Monsters 2, then:

[dustin]

Haha yep that's totally it.  Its funny watching the video now I remember a bunch of those moves.  Makes me want to build a MAME cabinet...
Thanks guys, I kept getting results for rampage when I was looking and I knew that wasn't it.

[timthetoolmantaylor]

Well, what about that one game with the dude and he had the thing. You know. 

I think you're thinking of Kingdom Hearts 3

[D-TurboKiller]

Reposting, if someone would know.

Lode Runner -clone, where you could play as two wizards (blue and red) and you had to collect different coloured keys to free people from their prisons. When released, they would walk around and wait, till you released everyone else.
If you got killed, you would vanish, leaving only your robe and hat behind.

I remember the demo had few levels, and first one was in a castle. After releasing all prisoners, ladders appeared and you had to climb them before time would run out.
Others were in jungles with teleporters and man-eating plants, laboratories with a spell that would create cloud bridge and a town in the sky, with boulders and switches.

Ah, got it? That's all I remember.
EDIT: Game appeared on some magazines CD, containing demos and videos. Many CDs were released by genre, including Puzzle (Gubble 2, isometric Lode Runner and this game I am looking for.) Horror, Action (Quake) and Adventure (Monkey Island and Discworld)

I finally remembered! I was looking for it as well. It's called Lurid Land, and it's a pretty damned awesome game, albeit a bit hard.

[Dane]

Alrighty then.

Presumably 90's game. I played it on Windows. Two cars/things racing. Multiplayer. One car was red, the other was blue. The player/s could shoot at eachother. In some cases there was a large turret thing on the track that would occasionally shoot at the players.

[TwilightVulpine]

I was trying to find a very short game I played a few years ago. I think it was part of a compo, but I'm not sure.

In it you control an astronaut that lands on an alien planet. As you walk around you sight alien monsters running around. The usual reaction, an automatic response for most gamers, is to shoot and kill. A little ahead you sight a bigger, similar alien. As you approaches her, she asks you whether you have seen her children. Then the game ends.

[Noyb]

I was trying to find a very short game I played a few years ago. I think it was part of a compo, but I'm not sure.

In it you control an astronaut that lands on an alien planet. As you walk around you sight alien monsters running around. The usual reaction, an automatic response for most gamers, is to shoot and kill. A little ahead you sight a bigger, similar alien. As you approaches her, she asks you whether you have seen her children. Then the game ends.

Strangers.

[pgil]

There's a flash game I played a year or two ago.  It was a platformer with minimalist pixel art graphics (lots of black and gray and red).  You play a guy running around and avoiding werewolves.  Sometimes you fight one.  Fighting consists of tackling the werewolf, screaming, and clawing at it until it dies (they also spew a lot of blood).  At one point you rescue a baby.

[SirNiko]

http://www.kongregate.com/games/weremsoft/vox-populi-vox-dei-a-werewolf-thriller

Sounds like Vox Populi, Vox Dei.

[pgil]

Thank you! You just saved me from having to watch old bytejacker episodes.

[X3N]

Rotating box, ps3 camera, QR codes, tilt to make the man walk through the rooms.
I swear it was on frontpage but going back 7 pages and searching puzzle & ps3 tags I didn't see it.
Do you know what it is?

[Danmark]

Shareware, top-down 2D action game with empire building elements set in space, from around the turn of the century. Might have had Newtonian physics, because I recall the action being similar to Subspace/Continuum. You would drag colonies from behind your ship, and place them on planets.

Pretty sure I saw it on cnet.com/download back in the day. Can't find it there now.

[DeadPixel]

Posting this one for the GF:

"It was on a 3.5” floppy disk, and I don’t remember the name, obviously, but I think it was part 2 of something.  Maybe it has the word heart in the title, I dunno.  You wake up in your bed at home, I think, see your mom and then leave to go explore.  There’s a computer in your room.  You have to find keys or clues to get to new areas, trying to get to a fantasy world, I think?  I remember a treehouse, an area under the tree, and a tree stump with ants on it.  Maybe a barn, too, and a picnic table.  I never ‘finished’ the game, I don’t think, it ended with you going to a barred gate in front of a mountain cave, and you couldn’t go in.  There were two strange, cartoony creatures guarding the cave."

She said it was a point and click adventure game.

[wzl]

The game i tried looking for such a long time. I think it was on C-64. You play a some kind of delivery guy and have to transport stuff with your truck.
Gameplay is a top down view onto the road, with traffic which you have to evade on the bottom third of the screen, the upper two thirds are a sideview of the road, and only served a visual purpose (nice parallax scrolling backgrounds).
The music was super awesome (that's what i thought when i played it back then), but i never found the game,ever EVER, despite searching for hours.
This was around 20 years ago

It looked something like this