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Do you remember the game from this small part of a screenshot? Perhaps we should start a tally to see which editor posts the trickier “Remember This?” screenshots! Leave your answers in the comments and if no one guesses the answer by 2pm, a clue will go up.
OH!!
It’s that airplane combat one on atari 2600!! it HAS to be!!1
No idea what it’s called, though
I think you’re thinking of River Raid and unfortunately if you are I think you’re wrong. I was thinknig river Raid, anyway.
sorry Loops, i thought everyone played that one…
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The red spot did it
/spoiler
If you finish it on Legendary the red spot and yellow spot hug.
ssshhh don’t tell anyone but i heard the yellow spot is actually the red spot’s sister
And then, halfway through when …
**** SPOILER ALERT ****
… the black spot appears and declares it is red spot’s father. Man, talk about a bolt out of the blue!
man you should play it with the developer commentary on… that block spot is one crazy bastard
Looks all Atari to me, so here were my favourites as guesses.
Air-See Battle – hours of multi player fun
Missile Command – Total classic
Moon Patrol – The first game my mum played
Solaris – The first game I clocked
Combat – I know this was rules out but it’s such a classic I’m mentioning it again.
Is it any of the following:
Turmoil
Troll’s Tale
Thrust
Threshold
The Dreadnaught Factor
Tapper
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Star Wars: Jedi Arena
Spy vs Spy
Space Invaders
Shamus
Rush ‘n Attack
Robotron: 2084
Rescue on Fractalus
Qix
Qb
Popeye
Pole Position
Pitstop II
waitaminute.. for some reason I just had to google that comment for obsessive fact checking reasons and it turns out that not all commodes have wheels attached. Joke withdrawn…
This looks familiar, like a crappy old text adventure that they let us play at primary school to teach us typing…
Palm trees and coconuts. That is what I see in the image not a guess. Not Atari 2600 graphics are too complicated.
I panicked a bit when I saw your “screenshot” before realising that it is not the screenshot at all. 😛
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Tracey, any chance when you enlarge these “Remember This?” screenshots to use “nearest neighbour” resizing instead of whatever you’re using at the moment? (Bicubic by the looks of things). It would look a lot cleaner for pixel art.
It is past 5pm, meaning it is time to reveal the game!
IT IS COCONOTES!
Was it ever released in Australia? Not really impressed by stumping us with games that none of us could reasonably have come across.
afaik it was never released in Australia, which imo should disqualify this round. Rules for this should be: Game was released in Australia within 5 years of it’s initial release, on a mainstream console/system (so as to disqualify the obscure one-shot wonders out there that noone even remembers buying, let alone playing a game on)
Those rules seem good. Otherwise we get stuff like this, games that had a limited release (and this was an educational game as well apparently) that most, if not everyone, here has never played let alone heard of.
How about we just make it the same game every/ time (Mario 64)?
That way we can always guess correctly! 😀
It would remove all humour/fun/challenge from the series! YAAAYYYYY!!! \o/
Cmon now, there was no challenge in this because unless someone found a far more comprehensive image searcher than google’s or tineye, no one was going to get it.
A challenge is great and plenty of them are challenges (well plenty of Tracy’s are challenges :P) but this one was just downright silly.
How about you don’t take it so seriously?
It was refused classification because it may have portrayed realistic images of a bong tree. Because the developer did not say the classification board assumed it as a bong tree.
If I remember fictional history correctly, that game was panned by critics for its lack of pokerface’ing whales.
While I agree, it’s hardly an important matter. I got some great laughs from the comments in this one, especially the fake whale game :3
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