MobyGames maybe? You know its genre and possible release date range so it should be fairly easy to find given you’ll be able to recognize the title or artwork.
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ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
this kitchen reminds me of a game that I played relatively lot as a little kid, around 2005 or so, probably even before I learnt to read because I don’t remember its name at all.
how do you even start to find such games?
enemyofsun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
well I actually know neither. I have very slight memories of it. I think I was using windows XP at the time. the game, as I remember, was a bit like those physical fidget games today, in that there was no story (or I didn’t understand it yet) or any kind of goals (that I could understand?). there were multiple different locations in the game, one of them us a kitchen similar to this one, but I’m not sure if I could regularly walk across them, or just click on doors or something to move to another location.
given that I couldn’t yet read at the time (I think), I have no memories of its title or the desktop icon, or at least I wasn’t able to recall it in any degree for a long time.I expect that back then there were much fewer games released in a given timespan than today, but I don’t even know where could I see even a list of them that I could go through.
enemyofsun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
it requires a registration and a subscription to browse the games database…
Wha, are you sure? I can search just fine and I don’t have an account there
ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
this page says so: www.mobygames.com/game/
after sending that comment I noticed that I can also just browse by platform, but those lists are limited to 6 pages :/ see the notice at the bottom below the page switcher: www.mobygames.com/platform/win3x/…/page:5/
Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
Back when I was on reddit, they had tipofmyjoystick which was pretty helpful. If you aren’t opposed, everyone there was very knowledgeable. I liked frequenting that sub because it was like a guessing mini game each day, but you got to help people find games they miss.
ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
thanks, I’ll consider it!