Post by magnavox on Oct 30, 2023 3:23:59 GMT
There was a game I had on my old laptop when I was a teen in the early 2010s that has stuck in my mind ever since, but I can't find it anywhere online and it's driving me nuts. It's a Japanese game with (IIRC) an untranslated Japanese title, made by a single developer and posted online for free download ala Cave Story. It's first-person perspective with very simple, lo-fi 3D graphics, my laptop was an ancient beater running Windows XP and it could handle the game just fine.
You start out in front of a two lane paved road that stretches off in either direction, on the other side of the road is a diner and there's flat featureless desert all around. It's night, the moon is out, and there's nothing else around except a few derelict buildings. Inside the diner there is a fry cook at the counter and some burgers on the grill. The fry cook is a zombie, he has green skin and makes moaning noises similar to the zombies from Minecraft if you interact with him. Nothing else in the environment is interactable.
There are a few odd buildings in the environment outside, but the most memorable one is what looks like an unfinished construction of a warehouse or high rise. It's a large building made of bare concrete and rebar, with several floors accessible by stairs.
It's mostly empty except for one bizarre feature that I think is the main reason I remember this game: on one of the upper floors there is a large sprite of a bootleg RoboCop action figure (see below) that says "Greetings, I am Robert Cop" if you interact with it.
The game also has a time limit that is imposed in a very creepy way. After you play for game for I think about 10 minutes, a large orb with a blank, expressionless face will descend from the sky and home in on you. Once the orb touches you, the game closes itself.
I feel like there was slightly more to the game than what I've described here but my 10+ year old memories and some crude MS Paint drawings are about the best I can do. I've tried for years to find this game using every combination of search terms I can think of with no luck. I do remember exactly where I found the game though, it was on the old Sega Forums in ~2013. Somebody made a thread about the game shortly after it released and I and a bunch of other posters played it and posted our impressions there. Unfortunately Sega closed their forums years ago and Wayback machine archives of it are far too scant to have that one specific thread saved. If anybody else remembers this game and can help me track it down it would really make my day, this has been my own personal lost media quest for years.
You start out in front of a two lane paved road that stretches off in either direction, on the other side of the road is a diner and there's flat featureless desert all around. It's night, the moon is out, and there's nothing else around except a few derelict buildings. Inside the diner there is a fry cook at the counter and some burgers on the grill. The fry cook is a zombie, he has green skin and makes moaning noises similar to the zombies from Minecraft if you interact with him. Nothing else in the environment is interactable.
There are a few odd buildings in the environment outside, but the most memorable one is what looks like an unfinished construction of a warehouse or high rise. It's a large building made of bare concrete and rebar, with several floors accessible by stairs.
It's mostly empty except for one bizarre feature that I think is the main reason I remember this game: on one of the upper floors there is a large sprite of a bootleg RoboCop action figure (see below) that says "Greetings, I am Robert Cop" if you interact with it.
The game also has a time limit that is imposed in a very creepy way. After you play for game for I think about 10 minutes, a large orb with a blank, expressionless face will descend from the sky and home in on you. Once the orb touches you, the game closes itself.
I feel like there was slightly more to the game than what I've described here but my 10+ year old memories and some crude MS Paint drawings are about the best I can do. I've tried for years to find this game using every combination of search terms I can think of with no luck. I do remember exactly where I found the game though, it was on the old Sega Forums in ~2013. Somebody made a thread about the game shortly after it released and I and a bunch of other posters played it and posted our impressions there. Unfortunately Sega closed their forums years ago and Wayback machine archives of it are far too scant to have that one specific thread saved. If anybody else remembers this game and can help me track it down it would really make my day, this has been my own personal lost media quest for years.
