Delighted to put names back to these games, I instantly searched for the titles on YouTube, taking a nostalgic trip down memory lane. Brain Puzzleopolis / Puzzle Madness - names I sincerely never thought I’d hear again due to my fuzzy memories and the sheer amount of games released since. Both so vivid in my mind’s eye, but again, not enough for a decent Google search.Īgain, within a few hours, names emerged - Bugdom and Dr. Some game where you play as a bug, another where you play as a scientist trying to track down your escaped evil clone.

Pleased by the results, I decided that I’d try submitting other titles from my childhood lost in the annals of my memory. Within hours I received the odd closure I was looking for ( The House of the Dead: Overkill for those interested). Figuring that another human would certainly remember that uniquely specific description, I quickly typed up what I could recall, pressed post, and waited. One link stood out from the rest, however a subreddit called /r/tipofmyjoystick, a polite community of gamers who assisted others find the names of the titles they were looking for. Desperate enough to try anyway, I typed a few variations I thought would get some hits, but to no avail. I knew searching through Google was going to be impossible “game where nerd’s mother gets really big and you have to destroy her and your girlfriend’s brain is in a jar also there’s a helicopter involved”was just not going to yield any results. I could see it in my mind’s eye so vividly… why couldn’t I remember the name? It wasn’t a game I had played, to tell the truth, but a game that had an ending so bizarrely traumatic that the play-by-play explanation given to me by a friend over a decade ago had been seared into my memory. It wasn’t anything in response to the Twitter prompt - the game I was suddenly recalling was where the mother was an antagonist - but the fact that I couldn’t remember the name of the game started to drive me mad. After replying with a few of the games I could remember ( The Park, Rakuen, Grandia III, and, jokingly, Silent Hill III), I couldn’t help but think I was forgetting… something. That was the prompt I read one night on Twitter, the community coming up mostly blank in response. “Name a game where the protagonist is a mother.”

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