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It could even be a youtube video or movie that you don't think anyone reading this has heard of besides you.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The Legend of Alon D'ar. Never talked to anyone who's played it. I know some people have due to YouTube videos, but it's not a great game and I ended up beating it because I had nothing better to do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Zone of the Enders had a touching anime series about a widowed space truck driver whom stumbles upon a sentient orbital frame which he considers his surrogate daughter as he attempts to become a better father and reconnect with his grown kids, amidst an inter-system civil war.

And I'm kinda sure it's cannon.

No, I am not making this up.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'll throw mine in:

Video games: Weird Dreams and Spectre VR both for PC back in the early 90s iirc

Music: one artist i really enjoy that unfortunately died from covid in 2020 though he was only in his 20s... His name was Cesar Alexandre and i got to know and love much of his work as Lindsheaven Virtual Plaza. In fact, my first thought when i heard the opening track from their EP Daily Night Euphoria was that it would have been a great soundtrack for Spectre VR...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

beyond ynth

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Back in the 90s maybe into early 2000s, my family managed to acquire a lot of VHS tapes, and some of them were fairly obscure

Two that I remember particularly fondly were 2 animated movies

Epic: Days of the Dinosaur, which was about 2 kids raised by dingos, kind of a weird fantasy movie

And Return to Treasure Island, which was pretty much just a straight-up if somewhat comedic adaptation of Treasure island, which was apparently made the USSR, and the Russian version had live action sequences that didn't appear in the English version I had.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I remember a 3D version of Tetris on an early IBM PC clone. Very early like 8088 or 286 PC. Don't remember the name and it was only wireframe and 1color (amber or greenscreen?) but I was very impressed with it. Seemed ahead of its time.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Spent countless hundreds of hours playing Icicle Works on my Commodore +4 when I was a kid and I've never met anyone who's even heard of it, or remembers the +4 over the 64

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

A movie called Sir Henry at Rawlinson's End, extremely surreal British Arthouse. Like an opium dream from the brain of a fox hunting aristo, part comedy part stream of consciousness spoken word poetry. The gags, puns, and quips are truely monumental. It's a gem, though not PC, you've been warned: https://youtu.be/N6W5RB50fXk?si=eYUlKqkTyyMvHz-Z

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawlinson_End

There was also a radio series and LP. I've heard the radio version but never seen the movie before.

[–] mindbleach 1 points 11 months ago

Our classic Mac had a game where you dropped a guy into a moving hay cart. As evidence that GTA's subversive spirit was never anything new, you could land on the horse and kill it.

Hue's Hat was a late-90s freeware game for Windows 9x, or possibly VGA-era DOS. Windows 9x would drop straight back to DOS and (usually) return unscathed. A lot of games targeted DOS for simplicity. It was an action puzzle game where your dude could move left and right below the playfield, which was full of balls slowly bouncing around at 45-degree angles. You could shoot straight up, and hitting a ball made it burst into four shots on diagonals, which could in turn hit more balls. And you. So the goal was to clear the field in the fewest shots, using chain reactions, without getting caught by your own crossfire.

Someone else here has probably seen Balance, a stop-motion short about a bunch of guys on a square floating in a white void, but it's not gonna be dozens of us.

[–] xionzui 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

This absolutely terrible in the most hilarious ways B movie that may or may not have ever actually been released called The Astrologer. It was filmed in 1975 and apparently lost until just recently. A local theater got a copy and did a showing of it. Fortunately, it’s now preserved on the internet archive! https://archive.org/details/the-astrologer-1975-previously-lost-film

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