Old Games

𝕯𝖊𝖉𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖉 𝖙𝖔 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖆𝖗𝖒-𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖉𝖊𝖉 𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖒𝖆𝖑𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉

The unique value of the “authentic” work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value.

But the instant the criterion of authenticity ceases to be applicable to artistic production, the total function of art is reversed. Instead of being based on ritual, it begins to be based on another practice – politics.

When the age of mechanical reproduction separated art from its basis in the cult, the semblance of its autonomy disappeared forever.

-Walter mf Benjamin

This eZine features OLD GAMES, a found text work by Halie Theoharides.

Halie Theoharides is the author of Final Rose, Into the Leaf Gloom, and Phantom Jams (forthcoming). She lives in Western Mass and is currently working towards a library science and information degree. IG @halie.theoharides Twitter @halie_theo

It was a top down view, perhaps angled a bit

I remember going through hallways of a castle or ruins

If your character is killed, you become a skeleton.

You can continue to play, but you're more vulnerable

I don't remember if you're able to become alive again.

If you die as a skeleton, I believe it was game over.

the first choice was that you were starting in a forest only with a knight riding a dark horse

his flag was red

and then you could reach a friendly town

having the flag color in very light blue

and that town was having

an air balloon flying over the town

and the peasants or constructors

were wearing white with brown pants

the second choice was starting in a medieval town that you could control

the peasants or constructors were wearing grey with red

and they were automatically collecting seeds

and then after a while

you would be attacked by another faction

the third choice was you would start

with a knight on a white horse

the horse couldn’t walk

only run

and the knight color orange

and the place where you would start

was in a destroyed village

only a few peasants remained

Help me identify this game so i can sleep peacefully again

It revolves around a girl that tries to beat the light.

It involved a lot of colors

Anyway, the game pretty much starts off with a robot girl being woken up by a human boy in a huge rundown facility. They attempt to leave but some bad guys try to stop them. They manage to escape and begin traveling together. The boy seems to hate her very much, yet seems to know her. They end up travelling to some kind of town or city and while there the boy gets hurt. They meet up with other people there. These people consist of: two men in their early 20's, a young boy who is into gaming, a plant boy, an invisible guy and a stern looking woman. There might be another but if so, I forget. One night that she is there, she overhears the woman talking to one of the men about her. They say something about her being a murderer. You can then choose if she stays there or leaves them. Then the demo ends there.

I vaguely remember that if you die, you would go to some sort of "heaven" and Zeus or someone similar would be like "you messed up lol but we'll give you another chance"

You controlled a guy in a 3D home or office, but I don't remember if it was first or third person. You could open doors, and interact with objects like cabinets, sink, bed, just home furniture.

there was a dot that moved all on the edges on the path I made

I had to figure out where to move and how to move the oval blocks in order for the dot to move on the specific edge and make the barriers blow up & I collect my crystals/diamonds

The whole setting was in a black or cosmic surrounding

There was a female cat character who guided you through the activities and made bad puns that varied from one activity to the next. Each activity had a specific theme in addition to the subject it taught: the first one taught patterns and the theme was a prairie cottage/house where you used shapes to make quilt patterns, another was an alpine ski resort teaching multiplication where you solved problems with cows in balloons and hang gliders, another area was an eastern bazaar where you balanced scales to teach solving for variables, etc. There was also a part where you made smoothies/juice for a toucan.

I was about 8 or So

it develops mostly in the desert, the main character is dressed in blue (i think with a red belt and a pony-tail) and is trying to become a wizard/magician

i remember 3 weapons used in the game:

1 darts,

2 a yellow ball,

3 a straw-like blowgun;

another thing i remember is that one of the tests to become a wizard is located inside a observatory-like place in a rocky island, and the path inside the observatory is invisible.

the game was an adventure-puzzle fantasy game.

if i am not mistaken you were becoming a magician to save your girlfriend who is dressed in pink.

The game, I have been trying to remember is quiet old around anywhere from 2000-2005. All I can remember is a monster killing a guy for a crown. I think the guy fell off a platform while trying to run away.

I think it was an alien that killed the guy with the crown. He fell off a ledge or something. Someone please help?

2000-2003

Maybe it was an artifact, I have no clue what he was running with.

First of all, greetings and salutations everyone.

Now, what I'm searching for is a pc point and click game I used to play in the 2000s though I suspect it was a tad older than that

What I can remember is this:

you where the last human male alive

the game starts with your space ship crashing on a primitive planet;

you encounter a woman in a shack

that doesn't believe you're a man

and asks you something along the lines of:

-Where does the fork go on the table

(to which the correct reply would be)

-Where ever it lands after I throw it.

she then believes you

and your perspective changes to that of a monitor

where more women see you

they decide to capture you

one of the first puzzles in the game involves a sack of pears;

you lay some leaves on a hole put the pear there

and afterwards a very large woman comes jumping from the background

to eat the pear of course she gets stuck in the hole

You are later captured on a spaceship

your cell is empty

but you do have the option to talk to the cell wall

on the other side being another male

of alien origin

from your so called cell mate

you learn that all the males have been eradicated

and that the women on board the vessel

are collecting the last male

from every species in the galaxy/universe

you then go through the vent of the cell

arrive at a command console with lots of monitors

you proceed to open the alien cell

when that happens

a woman points a laser blaster at you

asks what you are doing you reply something like

"I was just admiring this half eaten doughnut"

she then gets splatted to the wall by your friend

who proceeds to the teleporter to get to his own planet

At some point you arrive on an all female planet

and if you try to go any further some lasers and saws kill you

after that you find a sex change machine

you also get to a male only planet

which is desolate

here you find a space ship to get off the planet

at this point you can end the game

but because the glass of the ship is cracked

your head explodes in space

so you have the option to glue the crack

but then you can't leave

because your character has an obsession

with getting a precious vase

from the mayor's office

(insurance purposes)

which if I remember correctly

is off limits

because of the lava

You started out in a town where you had to figure out why you were there, and you had lost your memory. I remember there being a broken down car and a house which you entered and could explore.

I remember you started out in a town and you had to figure out a way across a bridge that was closed and you went inside a house.

Also in one house you learned about the people that lived there through pictures left behind I think. At the end of the game you find a person in the town in a church and end up finding out everyone has been raptured or died unexpectedly.

Also the game was heavily influenced by Christianity hence the rapture idea. The end of the game had in the menu you could email the game developer with questions about Christianity or anything in general, also it had bible verses i think.

You were a detective that flew around in a flying car that landed on at-least 1 rooftop

you play as a woman driving in the rain to a friends house by a lake

the car crashes into the lake and you investigate the house

some memorable moments included discovering the body of your friend in the garage

a hand held camera in the kitchen where your friend recorded herself

discussing some experiment she was conducting

a phone on the table in the living room where you heard something creepy

maybe your friends voice

can't remember

a VHS tape in a tv upstairs that showed a first person POV video

of someone running up the stairs and locking the door

a talking face in the lake

you were some kind of dot or little thing and just moved along the edges of the screen, and you would like "eat" little parts of the screen by moving inside it and then returning to the edge, engulfing some things or bugs that were inside that space, making the screen smaller each time you moved inside it

I don't know if it's an apartment building or a hotel you are in but you can go in elevators I think and walk around. You have to go to work and scan your finger on a fingerprint scanner. I think the corporation you work for is bad

i used to play a game where you would

hatch gremlins from eggs

name, and raise them

and you could hold there hand to walk them places

you could ride a skateboard

take them gardening

to the dungeon to explore

to this sky machine building thing

and back down to slide on a giant tree with a face

and you could go home and bake cakes for them to eat with what you found outside

and when they got sick you would ring a bell

and a horse would come and bring a machine

where they would step inside for awhile

and come back out all better

the gremlins would lay eggs randomly i think and when you clicked on them

they would get sent by a bird to your homes incubator

and when your current gremlin grew old and died

he would walk himself to the graveyard

i think i don't remember too much

but there would be a stone with their name on it

Texts were adapted from The Escapist gaming discussion “Old games you remember playing but can't remember the name of.” After over 930 pages of discussion dating back to 2010, the Escapist magazine migrated this forum to its new site.

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