Has that ever happened to anyone else? You remember a thing, distinctly, you know you've had it before, yet you can find nowhere that sells it, no record of it ever existing, and everyone you know who you ask about it looks at you like you've gone mad?
Had that today, I spent an hour trying to find a product I'd swear blind I've bought before(flattened square Croissants designed to be cooked in your toaster - and if it turns out I am mad or just dreamed it, ehm, idea copywritten or whatever ), but even Google seems to think I'm wrong. It's infuriating.
Yodhrin wrote: Has that ever happened to anyone else? You remember a thing, distinctly, you know you've had it before, yet you can find nowhere that sells it, no record of it ever existing, and everyone you know who you ask about it looks at you like you've gone mad?
Had that today, I spent an hour trying to find a product I'd swear blind I've bought before(flattened square Croissants designed to be cooked in your toaster - and if it turns out I am mad or just dreamed it, ehm, idea copywritten or whatever ), but even Google seems to think I'm wrong. It's infuriating.
I searched all over for the Ramien bowls they served in the Mess hall in South Korea. For the life of me I cannot find them in the Seattle area, Amazon, Google.....
I once played an amazing space RTS that I can't find any record existing anywhere.
It came on a PC Gamer demo disc waaaay back in the day, probably in the early 00s when I was still a little kid on my first HP Pentium II.
Installed it and played those two maps for weeks, months even. Eventually lost the disc, which is too bad. In any case, it was likely some kind of indy/vaporware.
It was sort of like the finished Star Trek Armada, but the factions were a human race vs. an organic alien race. I know this because when I destroyed their ships, blood and organic matter would spray outward. It was really impressive at the time to me, probably the first space RTS game I've ever played.
Had that today, I spent an hour trying to find a product I'd swear blind I've bought before(flattened square Croissants designed to be cooked in your toaster - and if it turns out I am mad or just dreamed it, ehm, idea copywritten or whatever ), but even Google seems to think I'm wrong. It's infuriating.
Sara Lee used to brand toaster pastries as "toaster croissants" in certain markets; perhaps that is what you're thinking of.
Had that today, I spent an hour trying to find a product I'd swear blind I've bought before(flattened square Croissants designed to be cooked in your toaster - and if it turns out I am mad or just dreamed it, ehm, idea copywritten or whatever ), but even Google seems to think I'm wrong. It's infuriating.
Sara Lee used to brand toaster pastries as "toaster croissants" in certain markets; perhaps that is what you're thinking of.
No, they were literally croissants - right taste, right texture, they even smelled right once heated up(to my recollection anyway), they were croissants, but with the profile and thickness of really thick-cut bread. Bah, this is more annoying than when you know you know the name of something but your brain's memory imps have gone off on holiday without telling you and it just won't come to you.
Had that today, I spent an hour trying to find a product I'd swear blind I've bought before(flattened square Croissants designed to be cooked in your toaster - and if it turns out I am mad or just dreamed it, ehm, idea copywritten or whatever ), but even Google seems to think I'm wrong. It's infuriating.
Sara Lee used to brand toaster pastries as "toaster croissants" in certain markets; perhaps that is what you're thinking of.
No, they were literally croissants - right taste, right texture, they even smelled right once heated up(to my recollection anyway), they were croissants, but with the profile and thickness of really thick-cut bread. Bah, this is more annoying than when you know you know the name of something but your brain's memory imps have gone off on holiday without telling you and it just won't come to you.
From what I can find they weem to have stopped making them around 2002. But they do look more like pop tarts, so may not be what your after.
The toaster croissants still exists, but it is very rare. You must continue to seek it by searching every loaf of bread until the promised bread appears!
I'm still searching that specific book full of "fairy" tales I had as a kid. Most tales were more brutal than Hänsel&Gretel and the like, but I loved it. Only remember that "The Tinderbox" and possibly "Jack and the Beanstalk" were in it. I know we never sold the book and search through my parents attic a few times a year and have yet to find it. I would already have bought it, but can't find it anywhere.
Another thing is a movie where a small kid gets electrocuted in a water puddle at the beginning. It was on a VHS a friend lend me to watch "Army of Darkness" which he recorded.
Always thought it said "American Gothic" or something like that, but I can't find it. I don't even want to watch it, I just want to know which movie it is^^
where the supermarket stocks hot dogs and hot dog buns in equal ratio packages.
then I wake up to the nightmare that is reality and
PS pilsbury toaster strudel is basically what you are looking for
I found the equal hot dog bun to hot dog ratio! It was only at one Safeway in this little town, but they sold 8 hot dogs and 8 hot dog buns! It was amazing.
Automatically Appended Next Post: The most distinct one I can remember was a top down Gauntlet-style Jesus game. I don't remember, but it was like Adventures of Jesus or something. I think it came on a floppy disk, but you shot snakes or something. It was like my first introduction to videogames
Tannhauser42 wrote: My wife.
I'm pretty sure she exists, I see her every day, but it still defies all logic that I still managed to find a woman willing to marry me.
The Shadows of the Empire movie. I saw it in FAOSchwartz in Chicago, 1995 or 1996. I recognize it wasn't made by Lucasfilm, but it exists. Nobody believes me, I've seen it pop up on eBay once, but can't even find an illegal copy online. Very mysterious.
I was 11 years old, dammit, but I still remember the exact place (and year) I saw it!
timetowaste85 wrote: The Shadows of the Empire movie. I saw it in FAOSchwartz in Chicago, 1995 or 1996. I recognize it wasn't made by Lucasfilm, but it exists. Nobody believes me, I've seen it pop up on eBay once, but can't even find an illegal copy online. Very mysterious.
I was 11 years old, dammit, but I still remember the exact place (and year) I saw it!
I think they made a nintendo 64 game by that same name, although it's a legit video game, unsure about if a movie like that exists though.
An amazing dinosaur game where you hunted them. It was only on apple computers and probably14 years ago. I remember this amazing shooter and can not find it for the life of me.
Incognito15 wrote: An amazing dinosaur game where you hunted them. It was only on apple computers and probably14 years ago. I remember this amazing shooter and can not find it for the life of me.
The only thing I can find like that is Nanosaur. If that's not it, can you provide any more details?
Watched an anime with my dead when i was a kid about pirates on an island, style somewhat like the gatchaman series in Japan, cute pigs and stuff. Have been looking for that anime for a long time.
There was a scene in the Dune book by Frank Herbert, that i was sure that it was in the movie, but it was only in my mind!
Incognito15 wrote: An amazing dinosaur game where you hunted them. It was only on apple computers and probably14 years ago. I remember this amazing shooter and can not find it for the life of me.
Oh hell yes! I remember that! You played as a dinosaur and had to recover eggs before the extinction event wiped them all out.
timetowaste85 wrote: The Shadows of the Empire movie. I saw it in FAOSchwartz in Chicago, 1995 or 1996. I recognize it wasn't made by Lucasfilm, but it exists. Nobody believes me, I've seen it pop up on eBay once, but can't even find an illegal copy online. Very mysterious.
I was 11 years old, dammit, but I still remember the exact place (and year) I saw it!
I think they made a nintendo 64 game by that same name, although it's a legit video game, unsure about if a movie like that exists though.
I actually remember a really early one of these. There was this one picture book, beautifully painted, which was about these little people. One side, the good guys were orange fuzzy guys, and the other side were blue and icy. I also remember that there were these little details throughout, like these little ladybugs that progressed with the story doing different thing. One day the library re-arrnaged, and I have never seen it since. Never even had anyone know what it is.
I had a book when I was a teenager, called Combat!, full of military tactics and so forth. I remember reading it, I can remember all the stuff about LAWS, Smaws and so on. It was an awesome book....
But when I search for it, I cannot find it. It was in a red cover, and just the word Combat! On it.
Doctadeth wrote: I had a book when I was a teenager, called Combat!, full of military tactics and so forth. I remember reading it, I can remember all the stuff about LAWS, Smaws and so on. It was an awesome book....
But when I search for it, I cannot find it. It was in a red cover, and just the word Combat! On it.
I actually found what they were, I owned these things in grade 7 and had no idea what they were and had no idea GW made these things or even what they were for
If I recall mine had terminators on them, I'd like to get some more...only because I have been pondering about them for nearly 15 years, I mean they just vanished, I remember having them and really liking them.
Was it definitely Shadows of The Empire? The FMV cutscenes for Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight could quite easily be mistaken for a film in the dawn of a persons memory.
Ironically, I had/saw this a year before I actually saw the Star Wars films themselves.
In my childhood I was wandering a toy department and I SWEAR I saw Battle of the Planets (G-Force, Gatchaman) toys. And it wasn't some exotic store stocking Japanese imports like Forbidden Planet, it was the basement of Alexander's.
I wandered the store for hours (OK maybe 10 minutes) treying to find them again. I may have cried.
I now think I saw some Micronauts Acroyear IIs and mistook the blue ship for the Phoenix. But damn that's still my chimera.
Incognito15 wrote: An amazing dinosaur game where you hunted them. It was only on apple computers and probably14 years ago. I remember this amazing shooter and can not find it for the life of me.
The only thing I can find like that is Nanosaur. If that's not it, can you provide any more details?
Oh! There was this game where you picked a bug faction (one was ants) and had to fight other insects. It was a lot like Starcraft, but with bugs! It was awesome. I cannot find it for the life of me.
Edit: Holy gak I found it! It was called Swarm Assault!
Incognito15 wrote: An amazing dinosaur game where you hunted them. It was only on apple computers and probably14 years ago. I remember this amazing shooter and can not find it for the life of me.
I seem to recall, a few years back a bunch of excitement over a prequel trilogy to the Star Wars movie... Anyone heard of it, or seen what must be an epic masterpiece?
Incognito15 wrote: An amazing dinosaur game where you hunted them. It was only on apple computers and probably14 years ago. I remember this amazing shooter and can not find it for the life of me.
My 'Holy Grail' is a bit of an esoteric one. Back when I was but a wee slip of a lad, Ladybird books used to do a 'book and tape' release that had the book along with an audio tape of the story so you could read along with it. One particular one they released was an abridged version of Conan Doyle's 'The Lost World', this one in fact:
The accompanying audio was fantastically well produced and left a lasting impression on me to the extent that I would dearly love to track down the audio. Do you think I can find it buried somewhere in corner of the internet? For the life of me, I cannot...
I swear that a few years ago I saw a movie where two brothers washed up on an island where dinosaurs lived together with people. but i don't know if that ever actually happened.
the shrouded lord wrote: I swear that a few years ago I saw a movie where two brothers washed up on an island where dinosaurs lived together with people. but i don't know if that ever actually happened.
It was a TV movie based on a Children's book. Dinotopia, if I recall.
No, I didn't watch it. I shelved a lot of books when I worked at Borders and we had a promotional hooha when the show aired.
the shrouded lord wrote: I swear that a few years ago I saw a movie where two brothers washed up on an island where dinosaurs lived together with people. but i don't know if that ever actually happened.
It was a TV movie based on a Children's book. Dinotopia, if I recall.
No, I didn't watch it. I shelved a lot of books when I worked at Borders and we had a promotional hooha when the show aired.
the shrouded lord wrote: I swear that a few years ago I saw a movie where two brothers washed up on an island where dinosaurs lived together with people. but i don't know if that ever actually happened.
It was a TV movie based on a Children's book. Dinotopia, if I recall.
No, I didn't watch it. I shelved a lot of books when I worked at Borders and we had a promotional hooha when the show aired.
Yeah, I remember that. There was the TV movie and then a series that only ran for one season. It was pretty good for the time, I recall.
Speaking for myself, there was a book I read in high school that then vanished from the library. I sometimes doubted it ever existed, until I found it in a charity shop years later. I haven't read it again yet, but 75p to confirm my sanity seems well spent!
Took me years to finally track down the ancient French cartoon I watched as a kid: Robostory.
And I know that as a kid I played a game on my old 386 where you were on a space station and were trying to get off/repair it/something, and it was played from first person (though that was in a window within the screen), your health bar was your face slowly losing flesh until it became a skeleton, you had a massive inventory, colour-coded key cards that needed to be recharged, you could get robots and give them programs, combat was horrible and the game was SUPER difficult.
And I know that as a kid I played a game on my old 386 where you were on a space station and were trying to get off/repair it/something, and it was played from first person (though that was in a window within the screen), your health bar was your face slowly losing flesh until it became a skeleton, you had a massive inventory, colour-coded key cards that needed to be recharged, you could get robots and give them programs, combat was horrible and the game was SUPER difficult.
It kind of sounds like a combination of Doom and System Shock.
H.B.M.C. wrote: Took me years to finally track down the ancient French cartoon I watched as a kid: Robostory.
And I know that as a kid I played a game on my old 386 where you were on a space station and were trying to get off/repair it/something, and it was played from first person (though that was in a window within the screen), your health bar was your face slowly losing flesh until it became a skeleton, you had a massive inventory, colour-coded key cards that needed to be recharged, you could get robots and give them programs, combat was horrible and the game was SUPER difficult.
No idea what it was called.
I remember robo-story, i used to love that show as a kid. I usually had to leave for school half-way through each episode, but i got lucky on the day they aired the final and managed to catch the whole thing. Was epic. Do they sell a dvd of it?
No, they were literally croissants - right taste, right texture, they even smelled right once heated up(to my recollection anyway), they were croissants, but with the profile and thickness of really thick-cut bread. Bah, this is more annoying than when you know you know the name of something but your brain's memory imps have gone off on holiday without telling you and it just won't come to you.
Are you sure they're not just a normal croissant that someone sat on?
I doubt they're still available, but since M&S has no online grocery system (except party food and all that gubbins) it might just be that they still do have them, but there's no product online for Google to find.
There was a cartoon that was on when I was younger about teams of 5 people in mechs that competed against each other. There was the blue team who were the good guys and the reds who were the bad (I think). I periodically try to search for the name of it but have never managed to find it. Don't think i've watched it in 10-15 years, its really annoying as I swear I should remember the name.
I doubt they're still available, but since M&S has no online grocery system (except party food and all that gubbins) it might just be that they still do have them, but there's no product online for Google to find.
I'd set up for disappointment, personally.
That's them! Yay I'm not mad afterall, my mum did food shopping at M&S on her way home from work. Shame they've stopped doing them though, I suppose I'll have to satisfy myself with squishing a regular croissant into a Toaster Pocket
Lord Bingo wrote: There was a cartoon that was on when I was younger about teams of 5 people in mechs that competed against each other. There was the blue team who were the good guys and the reds who were the bad (I think). I periodically try to search for the name of it but have never managed to find it. Don't think i've watched it in 10-15 years, its really annoying as I swear I should remember the name.
Was it Heavy Gear?
Never watched it really so I can't confirm on the colours thing; but it sounds right.
I spent ages looking for a PC shooter I played in the mid 90's where you flew a ship over the surface of a planet destroying bases and enemy fighters and you could fly through the planet via a series of tunnels. It was a shareware version of the game that came on a disk with 4 other shareware games.
I spent ages describing it to people but no one knew the game I was talking about. I was starting to think it might have been a figment of my imgination untill a last year on youtube when looking for something else I came across it:
There was a film. Rutger Hauer was in it. There was a black shiney monster (a bit alieny, a bit like Venom) killing people in a near future post Flood London.
It could have been good, it could have been bad and I can't be sure it actually exists but I'm sure I saw it on VHS 2o odd years ago.
LuciusAR wrote: I spent ages looking for a PC shooter I played in the mid 90's where you flew a ship over the surface of a planet destroying bases and enemy fighters and you could fly through the planet via a series of tunnels. It was a shareware version of the game that came on a disk with 4 other shareware games.
I spent ages describing it to people but no one knew the game I was talking about. I was starting to think it might have been a figment of my imgination untill a last year on youtube when looking for something else I came across it:
Sounds a lot like Descent, honestly. I think I have that floating around somewhere still.
LuciusAR wrote: I spent ages looking for a PC shooter I played in the mid 90's where you flew a ship over the surface of a planet destroying bases and enemy fighters and you could fly through the planet via a series of tunnels. It was a shareware version of the game that came on a disk with 4 other shareware games.
I spent ages describing it to people but no one knew the game I was talking about. I was starting to think it might have been a figment of my imgination untill a last year on youtube when looking for something else I came across it:
Jehan-reznor wrote: Watched an anime with my dead when i was a kid about pirates on an island, style somewhat like the gatchaman series in Japan, cute pigs and stuff. Have been looking for that anime for a long time.
It wasn't Porko Rosso by Studio Gibli was it? A pig pilot in old WW1 planes fighting pirates.
I have one. It was a game from my early days of PC gaming - It was a strategy game and you were some sort of evil tyrant guy. There was a strategic map with your giant evil tower in the middle, and groups of enemies would move towards it with the intent of defeating you. You would go into tactical level battles and take them out. The mechanic that stuck with me was being able to capture the enemies and warp two or more of them together into monsters of your own. You would, if I remember correctly, research spells and stuff in different rooms of your tower in between battles.
The only enemies I distinctly remember were weird parrot faced dudes.
Bromsy wrote: I have one. It was a game from my early days of PC gaming - It was a strategy game and you were some sort of evil tyrant guy. There was a strategic map with your giant evil tower in the middle, and groups of enemies would move towards it with the intent of defeating you. You would go into tactical level battles and take them out. The mechanic that stuck with me was being able to capture the enemies and warp two or more of them together into monsters of your own. You would, if I remember correctly, research spells and stuff in different rooms of your tower in between battles.
The only enemies I distinctly remember were weird parrot faced dudes.
Well there are a lot of Tower Defense games. Might try searching for that.
Bromsy wrote: I have one. It was a game from my early days of PC gaming - It was a strategy game and you were some sort of evil tyrant guy. There was a strategic map with your giant evil tower in the middle, and groups of enemies would move towards it with the intent of defeating you. You would go into tactical level battles and take them out. The mechanic that stuck with me was being able to capture the enemies and warp two or more of them together into monsters of your own. You would, if I remember correctly, research spells and stuff in different rooms of your tower in between battles.
The only enemies I distinctly remember were weird parrot faced dudes.
Well there are a lot of Tower Defense games. Might try searching for that.
As far as I recall this predated the genre. Talking late nineties or turn of the century. It was a full on strategy game.
LuciusAR wrote: I spent ages looking for a PC shooter I played in the mid 90's where you flew a ship over the surface of a planet destroying bases and enemy fighters and you could fly through the planet via a series of tunnels. It was a shareware version of the game that came on a disk with 4 other shareware games.
I spent ages describing it to people but no one knew the game I was talking about. I was starting to think it might have been a figment of my imgination untill a last year on youtube when looking for something else I came across it:
You know how many hours of my life I wasted playing this game? Well, this and Whacky Wheels (Mario-Kart style PC racer also distributed by 3D Realms. Came with Duke Nukem 3D). Oh, and Raptor by Apogee!
I remember and action figure/monster from the early 90s that had chains on his wrist and smashed everything to bits. Maybe he was brown? Wasn't a stuffed animal, which people often suggest, as there was some similar stuffed green monster at the time. I remember seeing a single commercial for it during Saturday morning cartoons, wrote it on a christmas wish list, then never saw it again. My parents said it was the only thing they had no idea about.
You know how many hours of my life I wasted playing this game? Well, this and Whacky Wheels (Mario-Kart style PC racer also distributed by 3D Realms. Came with Duke Nukem 3D).
Bromsy wrote: I have one. It was a game from my early days of PC gaming - It was a strategy game and you were some sort of evil tyrant guy. There was a strategic map with your giant evil tower in the middle, and groups of enemies would move towards it with the intent of defeating you. You would go into tactical level battles and take them out. The mechanic that stuck with me was being able to capture the enemies and warp two or more of them together into monsters of your own. You would, if I remember correctly, research spells and stuff in different rooms of your tower in between battles.
The only enemies I distinctly remember were weird parrot faced dudes.
Well there are a lot of Tower Defense games. Might try searching for that.
As far as I recall this predated the genre. Talking late nineties or turn of the century. It was a full on strategy game.
Bromsy wrote: I have one. It was a game from my early days of PC gaming - It was a strategy game and you were some sort of evil tyrant guy. There was a strategic map with your giant evil tower in the middle, and groups of enemies would move towards it with the intent of defeating you. You would go into tactical level battles and take them out. The mechanic that stuck with me was being able to capture the enemies and warp two or more of them together into monsters of your own. You would, if I remember correctly, research spells and stuff in different rooms of your tower in between battles.
The only enemies I distinctly remember were weird parrot faced dudes.
Well there are a lot of Tower Defense games. Might try searching for that.
As far as I recall this predated the genre. Talking late nineties or turn of the century. It was a full on strategy game.
Dungeon Keeper?
Nah. If the game indeed exists and isn't a product of my fevered imagination, it's got to be fairly obscure as my normally robust google fu has failed me time and again.
I'm still searching that specific book full of "fairy" tales I had as a kid. Most tales were more brutal than Hänsel&Gretel and the like, but I loved it. Only remember that "The Tinderbox" and possibly "Jack and the Beanstalk" were in it. I know we never sold the book and search through my parents attic a few times a year and have yet to find it. I would already have bought it, but can't find it anywhere^
Was the book Max and Maurice?
There was also Struwwel Peter.
Max and Maurice blew off their teacher's head by swapping pipe tobacco for gun powder, among other things and Strudel Peter's hair and fingernails grew so long that he strangled himself and gouged his own eyes out.
Who says Germans don't have a sense of humour.
There's a reason I grew up like I did.
Bromsy wrote: I have one. It was a game from my early days of PC gaming - It was a strategy game and you were some sort of evil tyrant guy. There was a strategic map with your giant evil tower in the middle, and groups of enemies would move towards it with the intent of defeating you. You would go into tactical level battles and take them out. The mechanic that stuck with me was being able to capture the enemies and warp two or more of them together into monsters of your own. You would, if I remember correctly, research spells and stuff in different rooms of your tower in between battles.
The only enemies I distinctly remember were weird parrot faced dudes.
Well there are a lot of Tower Defense games. Might try searching for that.
As far as I recall this predated the genre. Talking late nineties or turn of the century. It was a full on strategy game.
Dungeon Keeper?
Nah. If the game indeed exists and isn't a product of my fevered imagination, it's got to be fairly obscure as my normally robust google fu has failed me time and again.
Is there anything else at all you remember, however insignificant it might seem? The closest I can find is Master of Magic, but it doesn't exactly meet a lot of what you said, and I can't find a thing anywhere about capturing enemies and turning them into monsters, regardless of the game; is there anything in MoM, or any other strategy game like it, that you remember being in the game you're looking for (obviously excepting the basic stuff like settlements and tactical battles), or could jog your memory?
Lord Bingo wrote: There was a cartoon that was on when I was younger about teams of 5 people in mechs that competed against each other. There was the blue team who were the good guys and the reds who were the bad (I think). I periodically try to search for the name of it but have never managed to find it. Don't think i've watched it in 10-15 years, its really annoying as I swear I should remember the name.
Was it Heavy Gear?
Never watched it really so I can't confirm on the colours thing; but it sounds right.
Was the book Max and Maurice?
There was also Struwwel Peter.
Max and Maurice blew off their teacher's head by swapping pipe tobacco for gun powder, among other things and Strudel Peter's hair and fingernails grew so long that he strangled himself and gouged his own eyes out.
Who says Germans don't have a sense of humour.
There's a reason I grew up like I did.
"Max & Moritz" and "Struwwelpeter" are still extremly popular in Germany, but not the books I'm looking for
), but even Google seems to think I'm wrong. It's infuriating.
sorry but its foggy.
