![]() ![]() Now, keep in mind that while those other games I’d found from my childhood were cool, they weren’t even in the same category as this game. Thinking I’d finally find the game I’d watch my cousin play nearly two decades ago as we sat side by side on our grandparents’ computers, 9-year-old me playing some Disney movie title with him on a medieval RTS, I read over the titles posited, hoping I might find the game I could only describe as “a top down medieval game with bright colors on the map.” Obvious standouts where Age of Empires, Total War, and Crusader Kings, but other oft-forgotten titles like Cossacks and Stronghold were suggested. The most miraculous breakthrough, though, was when someone described a medieval strategy game with a handful of people chiming in their guesses. ![]() These games I knew far too little about to be able to have a clear picture in my head, let alone articulate. Even more impossible was the brightly-colored platformer game that I literally would never have been able to describe, yet was an answer offered up on someone else’s post ( Crystal Caves). Games that I had played on occasion at my grandpa’s house, like the 1995 version of Hover!, or had helped an ex-boyfriend grind while he was at work, like Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth. It was through skimming these posts that I was not only able to help someone find a more recent title, but, to my surprise, to re-discover titles I would have never been able to find even through posting on the subreddit. They even provide a guide on how to get the best results possible. Title-seekers must use brackets to convey necessary information, such as platform and year, followed by a bulleted breakdown of potentially pertinent tidbits. These things might sound like they’re bound to be laughably unsolvable for the uninitiated, but the moderators have done a fantastic job of ensuring posts are as helpful to other members as possible. I started reading through posts to see if I knew of the games people were vaguely describing. Of course, now that I had been helped, I felt it only fair to try to help others, especially considering the politeness of the community. Delighted to put names back to these games, I instantly searched for the titles on YouTube, taking a nostalgic trip down memory lane. Brain Puzzleopolis / Puzzle Madness - names I sincerely never thought I’d hear again due to my fuzzy memories and the sheer amount of games released since. Both so vivid in my mind’s eye, but again, not enough for a decent Google search.Īgain, within a few hours, names emerged - Bugdom and Dr. Some game where you play as a bug, another where you play as a scientist trying to track down your escaped evil clone. Pleased by the results, I decided that I’d try submitting other titles from my childhood lost in the annals of my memory. Within hours I received the odd closure I was looking for ( The House of the Dead: Overkill for those interested). Figuring that another human would certainly remember that uniquely specific description, I quickly typed up what I could recall, pressed post, and waited. ![]() One link stood out from the rest, however a subreddit called /r/tipofmyjoystick, a polite community of gamers who assisted others find the names of the titles they were looking for. ![]() Desperate enough to try anyway, I typed a few variations I thought would get some hits, but to no avail. I knew searching through Google was going to be impossible “game where nerd’s mother gets really big and you have to destroy her and your girlfriend’s brain is in a jar also there’s a helicopter involved”was just not going to yield any results. I could see it in my mind’s eye so vividly… why couldn’t I remember the name? It wasn’t a game I had played, to tell the truth, but a game that had an ending so bizarrely traumatic that the play-by-play explanation given to me by a friend over a decade ago had been seared into my memory. It wasn’t anything in response to the Twitter prompt - the game I was suddenly recalling was where the mother was an antagonist - but the fact that I couldn’t remember the name of the game started to drive me mad. After replying with a few of the games I could remember ( The Park, Rakuen, Grandia III, and, jokingly, Silent Hill III), I couldn’t help but think I was forgetting… something. That was the prompt I read one night on Twitter, the community coming up mostly blank in response. “Name a game where the protagonist is a mother.” ![]()
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