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Also all the other windows 95 games: Hover, Chip's Challenge, pipedream, that one with the lion and the mouse.

Honorable mention to the maze screensaver.

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

SkiFree, Chip's Challenge, and Pipedream were Windows 3.1 games.

No clue what this lion and mouse game was supposed to be.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They all had windows 95 versions, which is where I played them.

Looking it up, the lion and mouse game was Rodent's Revenge

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I guess that game had some cat enemies ...

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Right, I was misremembering the cats as lions.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, lions are cats.

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

But not all cats are lions.

IIRC Chip's Challenge was an Atari Lynx game which was then ported to Windows.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Anyone remembers a game called "Glider"? The goal was to awkwardly steer a paper plane through rooms with obstacles. Not sure what platform that was on tho, I played it with a buddy as a kid.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_%28video_game%29?wprov=sfla1

I remember playing that, but I never would have thought of it again if you hadn't mentioned it.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

Glider was originally for Mac I believe but I think it had some ports

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Loved glider! I liked that the guitar would strum when you went past it :)

What a fun game that was!

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Are you thinking of rodent's revenge for the last one? You had to box in the cats so they would turn to cheese.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 months ago

Yep that was it, somewhere I mixed up the cats with lions.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Are you sure? I just tried compressing one of my cats, and he did not turn into cheese.

[–] curiousaur@reddthat.com 1 points 6 months ago

That's the one I was thinking of.

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago
[–] Cagi@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Hover was insane for a free game. That windows 95 CD had some good times.

[–] getoffthedrugsdude@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago

I freaking loved this game as a kid, ty for reminding me of it

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago
[–] American_Jesus@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago
[–] Zess@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

... did not ship with Windows or any of its service packs.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I had to do some digging because I didn't remember the name but Jezzball was another of my favorites!

[–] Audacious@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Are these games available anywhere? I want to play skifree again.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hover was awesome. I'm going to have to figure out a way to play it when I get home.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

I put it on the internet archive a couple years ago, here's a short link to the zip file...

https://tinyurl.com/hover95

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I actually made it to the end of the maze screen saver.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I loved Chip's Challenge and I think some where in a drawer is a notebook sheet with codes to almost all the levels.

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

Bummer.wav is burned into my brain because of that game.

[–] cobra89@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

Just FYI, Chip's challenge is available on Steam. They updated the graphics a bit though.

[–] FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 1 points 6 months ago

Chips challenge was amazing.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

I also member the only reason I ever installed macOS emulators: Escape Velocity.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago
[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago