You mean Sim Ants my dude
I don’t mean SimAnts.
Microsoft Ants came out a few years later, on the Microsoft Gaming Zone.
It died when they pulled the plug on the platform, and part of me wishes they’d release it on Steam. But that’s probably the nostalgia talking.
I was going to say, I don’t remember a Microsoft Ants but I sure as hell remember SimAnts.
I never figured out if bringing a piece of food next to an egg made it hatch faster but omg as I’m typing this right now I realize that makes absolutely no sense. Why the hell would an egg hatch faster if it has no mouth. Wtf was I thinking as a kid, loool.
For Op: is it this?
Underrated.
Fucking loved this game, played the crap out of it.
The SNES version was superior to the PC one. There were a few weird changes to how you could command the hive that worked better in the SNES one.
The large scale colony land ownership system was just crazy, though. Each time would devolve into full 300 to zero for colonies and it was tough to grind control back one way or another.
Worse when it’s a flash game, as I understand they’re all dead now.
I just want to play the unknown snowboarding game with all the little hills to jump on again. Well that and the ever classic Kitten Cannon.
Worse when it’s a flash game, as I understand they’re all dead now.
You can still play every flash game ever through the Flashpoint Archive
Gonna try this but one of the games I really liked was actually delisted from popular flash sites back in the day and I forgot the name because it was a fictional fantasy single word title.
Lost it long before flash died, and I can only assume it was because the creator had requested a takedown which is really weird.
There’s a few I remember which aren’t on here. Nicktrolpolis is one of them. But it’s consider all the other obscure games which did get preserved it’s amazing.
Dude awesome thanks! Looks like running it on linux is a whole thing but doable, now I just neef to find out what the game was.
Try r/tipofmyjoystick on Reddit. This is one case where a larger audience definitely helps.
Try describing it to AI. From my experience, AI chats are pretty good in finding games, movies etc based on poor description, just ask for short list of game names so it will not write you essay about how old games are better. You can also describe it here
But be ready for disappointment, because at least ChatGPT is bad with obscure media, and even makes stuff up regularly.
Flash is actually coming back to life via WebAssembly of all things.
Emulating Flash in HTML tech wasn’t a problem for a long time already, but from what I can tell there are no tools for creating such animation that could rival Flash’s popularity from back in the day. People are probably just using dedicated game engines that can target browsers.
No you can literally run Flash games on your browser again, thanks to ruffle.rs
this, there was a flash game where you are an evil genius. you have a base which you can later upgrade to a volcano or a moon base. you send agents to kidnap politicians or other villanous schemes. there were segments where your base was attacked and you had to use your resources to defend it.
overall an amazing game. never found it again :(
I’ll have to check the details but, could that be Mastermind: World Conqueror? It’s still on newgrounds
YOU FOUND IT!!! THANKS, SO MUCH
tried search engines, tried AI, and nothing worked. but you did, you proven yourself better than the trillion AI investments.
a few months ago on a nostalgia trip I found a playable kitten cannon, I don’t remember where. I think I was looking up new grounds or addicting games and found the website through a Wikipedia link.
I remember the sound effects and one level… but not the name. Classic.
A puzzle game where each (2D) map spawns with lasers and corresponding targets, and sometimes mirrors etc. You get to place some mirrors, T pieces, beam splitters etc. and have to fulfill each target.
There are so many clones of this out now it’s nigh impossible to find, especially as the game is literally just called Laser. This one’s also a clone I think but I just love this particular one.
I did recently finally find it again after more than a decade of looking.
Septerra core legacy of the creator, a pc turn based rpg i got in the early 2000s in some multi game pack at walmart or something. took forever for me to find it using the early internet. Its a unique title, but highly forgettable.
One of my earlier memories was playing a strange game I haven’t been able to find again. All I remember is: you control a car (I think it has flower decals on it?) and can drive through a desert/canyon area. You can also press a key which makes a rotor come out of the top of the car, allowing you to fly it like a helicopter.
I have no idea what the gameplay was beyond that, but I’d love to find it again.
I got you fam, it’s called NewZealand Story. https://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-new-zealand-story-679
I used to have this symbian game that had a small dragon as the main character and accidentally deleted it from the phone it was on. Never found it again :(
At some point at some friend’s place I played a slightly GTA-ish game but it was all 3D stick figures and just running from the police and shooting thr stick men with guns.
I think what I am looking for is a third-person shooter. Thanks for the tip anyway!
Oh ok, glhf
I remember years ago I went looking for a game I used to play as a child where you start at a manhole cover and open it to reveal a beanstalk.
The game was called “the manhole”
I learned a lot about the internet that day.
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There’s two edutainment games I remember playing on school PCs back in the early 2000s (either 2000 or 2001) and I’ve found nothing about them since. Asking about them on the TOMT and TOMJ subreddits got me nowhere.
One was set in a castle and had an intro where the main character crosses a moat. I remember it for a particular minigame where you operate a catapult and have to launch cabbages at people hiding in barrels, following instructions like “90 degrees clockwise”, “125 degrees anticlockwise”, etc. If you successfully hit all 8 targets without fail, the victory message was “You cabbage head!”
The other was more like a loose collection of minigames and several different CD collections were released. I used to own one that I found in a supermarket bargain bin. The minigame I remember on this collection involved moving a pin to pop balloons. The background music was some kind of weirdly upbeat jazz song.
Syndicate, by bullfrog
R.I.P. Bullfrog…
The Dungeon Keeper games will forever be among my top 10.
Magic Carpet and Genewars were such weird games.
I loved that game. Only for to play for a few weeks in Germany back in 1995.
Ran into it again years later somewhere and finally made it much further through the missions. Great game.
I never beat the final mission.
They got frakin’ hard! Especially the mechanics of the trains and when the baddies started shooting further. Tracking where the action was got tough when you had to split the team.
Yeah I had figure I out a strategy using the persuedatron, where it would get stronger the more people you persueded. If you started with civilians and got a bunch, you could then do security guards, then the police, then other syndicate agents. I still think this is the only way to beat that final level, but there are nothing but agents on that level.
That was my favorite game as a kid. Too bad the only remake is a stupid FPS.
‘Satellite Reign’ is the spiritual successor, released in 2015 and started by the producer and lead programmer for ‘Syndicate Wars’.
I played it for couple of hours and it seems pretty good. Thank you again.
I’ll check it out, thanks.
Yeah the remake totally misunderstood what the game was about.
Anyone else think of Another World / Out of this world?
Mikearuba
Agusta… Agusta Agusta laser fires
It came as a demo with so many games. Finally played it a decade or so ago. It was pretty good.
Those godly laser gun sound effects and visuals.
I recently re-discovered Deathtrack.
