#639 Find the old video games I used to play as a child ✔

I don't know if your childhood involved more board games or video games, and despite mine involving both, I have always been a big, big fan of video games. Recently I've been on the hunt for the old games of my childhood. I've been in a rather nostalgic mood and that have been several games which have bee plaguing the back of my mind that I just had to find. After scratching my head and using as best descriptions as I could into the google search bar and looked through the image results to see if the images struck any gold.

I've always had a really good memory, I'd probably go as far as to say, maybe, photographic. When it comes to my past I have several memories that I can recall like distant video clips stored in the bad of my mind. Whenever we have talks as a family about past memories I tend to be the one to remember a lot more than everybody else does. I'll remember old conversations, several arguments my siblings and I used to have, several events that occurred, random strangers I met once. And a lot of these memories that I bring up my family either don't remember, or they'll be like "oh, yeah, I forgot about that". I've always had a really good memory.

But, anyway, I have several visuals in the back of my memory of the old games, but the name of the games slipped me. It's like people, I'm great at remembering faces, rubbish at remembering names. But, the descriptions I searched worked rather well. I ended up finding almost all of the games I used to play, which has made me extremely happy, and giddy. Replaying the games has been the highlight of this goal, they make me feel like I'm 9 years old again. Isn't it just amazing the way somethings can almost take you all the way back as though time has never changed? It's pretty great.

Here is a list of the video games that I found:

• King's Quest VII - The Princeless Bride. (PC)

• Lilo and Stitch: trouble in paradise (PS1)

• Thinkin' Things - Collection 1 (PC)

• Micro Man (PC)

• Battle Chess (PC)

• Hocus Pocus (PC)

• Peter Pan: a story painting adventure (PC)

• Rodents Revenge (PC)

• Lucky Luke (PC)

• Shrek (PS1)

• Net Yaroze - Haunted Maze (PS1)

• Chip's Challenge (PC)

• Adventures of Lolo (PC)

• Prince of Persia (PC - 1990)

• Resident Evil 3 (PC)

• Barbie Horse and Ride (PS1)

• Yu-Gi-Oh (PS1)

• Soul Reaver (PS1)

• Rainbow Six (PC)

• Finding Nemo (PC)

• Fifa 2002 (PC)

• Alone in the Dark (PS1)

• Mr Driller (PS1)

• Alfred the Chicken (PS1)

• Hugo (PS1)

• KLONOA: DOOR TO PHANTOMILE (PS1)

• Wonder Boy (PC - 1990)

• Lord of the rings - the fellowship of the ring (PC)

Here is an extended list of some more games I used to play (A lot I still own):

• Commando (PC)

• Age of Empires (PC)

• Road Rash (PS1)

• Splinter Cell (PS2)

• Crash Bandicoot (PS1)

• Rayman (PS1)

• Harry Potter: Philosopher's Stone (PS1)

• Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 (PS1)

• Tomb Raider 1, 2 & 4 (PS1)

• Matt Hoffman's Pro BMX (PS1)

• The Sims (PC)

• Ratchet & Clank (PS2)

• Sims Bustin' Out (PS2)

• Tom & Jerry (PS1)

• Hercules (PS1)

• Toy Story 2 (Gameboy)

• Barbie Explorer (PS1)

• Driver (PS1)

• WWF Smackdown (PS2)

• Rugrats (PS1)

• Tarzan (PC)

• Spiderman (PS1)

Playing the Tomb Raider games as a kid, I used to spend a lot of time on it with my cousin Isabel, we used to play it for hours and hours. It's funny cause every time we made Lara take a step we would save the game. We were afraid that a creature or a bad guy would jump out of nowhere and attack us, or that we would trigger a trap and die. We would especially freak out whenever the background music started playing, it was super creepy and as a 7 to 9 year old things get rather more anxiety-inducing. Just thinking back to the music that would play whenever something was about to happen it puts shivers down my spine. It's definitely left its mark. The sharks and the crocodiles were always the worse. Even now it's slightly traumatised me, whenever I play other games and make the character go swimming I freak out thinking something is going to appear in the water and attack me.

In Rayman, I was never able to get past the piano level. Even now, replaying it, I'm still struggling to get past that level. Has anyone ever gone past it? I don't remember ever finishing Crash Bandicoot either. Nor did I complete Rugrats, or Yu-Gi-Oh, or Hercules. The PS1 Spiderman game, however, I believe I completed that game 3 times, maybe 4, I absolutely loved it. Driver, I could never complete all the goals on the list, so I never made it past the first level, I didn't understand what half of the objectives on the list even meant.

A lot of the other games I used to pay were either on a PS1 or PS2 demo CDs (insert image), which had games like Mr. Driller, Alfred the Chicken, Klonoa, Soul Reaver, Haunted Maze and so forth. And, not only that but, my brother used to have this really nerdy friend whom he had come over and install a floppy disc which had like 300 different DOS games. It was this floppy disc that introduced me to Hocus Pocus, Adventures of Lolo, Prince of Persia, and Wonder Boy. There was also one game on there, which I don't know the name of, that I used to play quite often. It was a dude, and he had this blob which you could turn into whatever you wanted in order to progress in the game. I remember it being a rather creepy game, I can swear that one scene was held in a graveyard. We also had a couple of Microsoft Entertainment Packs on our pc where I used to play SkiFree, Chip's Challenge, Rodent's Revenge, JezzBall, Micro Man, and Pipe Dream.

The thing that makes me sad, however, is that there is one game that I was unable to find, and I feel discouraged that I will ever be able to find it, I searched all over google, I even joined to geeky video game forums to ask the real nerds of the web to help me search but they all came up with nothing. Funnily enough, I drew a picture of what is in my head and they all said they feel like they had seen it before, so, it must exist and it isn't just some Mandela Effect type of situation. Here are the forum posts I had created for the topic:

Forum 1 -

DOS Games Discussion

Forum 2 -

Old maze game from the '90s which I can't remember the name | Hardcore Retro Gaming

If anyone out there knows what this game is, PLEASE, let me know in the comments section below.

I have also made a video of this journey, and if you'd like to see me re-play (and fail) a lot of these old game then feel free to watch the video at the bottom of this blog post. And there you have it, my childhood revisited and another goal achieved. Let me know in the comments box below what video games you used to play as a child or if anyone has played any of the games listed above, let me know what you think of them, I'd love to hear your thoughts and opinions. I hope you all have a wonderful week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZdX5KrNHg8