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 Compel wrote:
I had that, Easy E. I then worked out that EVERY cut of David Lynches Dune was terrible. :p

Pistols. Dawn. No seconds allowed.

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.

squidhills wrote:

 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.

I remember the dinotopia books!

I remember Tabasco flavored Fritos. They were great. Actually had a picture of a Tabasco brand bottle on the bag.

Yet no one else seems to have heard of them or had them. This saddens me, as I really liked them, whether they actually existed or not. Damn it.

squidhills wrote:

 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!

 jasper76 wrote:
I think the cartoon Galaxy Rangers was a figment of my imagination,because I've never met anyone who remembers it.

But the internet does. Is life a dream?

Oh man, I LOVED Galaxy Rangers when I was a kid! It definitely existed!
awesome theme tune too

 Desubot wrote:
I recall there being a Spiced holiday Cocacola and liking it. but no one else seems to remember it.

I just remember the Pepsi version.

 Easy E wrote:

 Compel wrote:
I had that, Easy E. I then worked out that EVERY cut of David Lynches Dune was terrible. :p

Pistols. Dawn. No seconds allowed.

He's clearly lying. Human lifespan does not allow for enough time for one person to watch every cut of David Lynch's Dune before death.

I didn't say I watched every cut of it :p

But seriously, this is the Baron I recognised from the books.

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.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

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?

 Yodhrin wrote:


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?

On the croissant front, this article here (dating back from 1997 ) talks about square toasting croissants available from an M&S in Scotland for 99p: http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/check-out-1.369917

First line of the second paragraph.

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.

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.

 Avatar 720 wrote:
On the croissant front, this article here (dating back from 1997 ) talks about square toasting croissants available from an M&S in Scotland for 99p: http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/check-out-1.369917

First line of the second paragraph.

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

I seem to recall a cut of Blade Runner without the "Drops of Rain" speech.

 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:

I remember a version of Star Wars that had Han Solo shooting Greedo without Greedo getting off a shot, let alone the first shot.

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.

Han did shoot first in the original cut of star wars, and Greedo never got off a shot.

The Rutger Hauer film in a flooded london is Split Second, and contains the immortal line. "We need guns, bigger fething guns!"

 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:

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fury3.

Basically the same game by the same company.

 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.

 Grey Templar wrote:

 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.