Forums > Off Topic > "Guess that game/thing" reddits
Chentzilla (227) on 1/29/2014 10:57 AM · Permalink · Report
Recently I've found great pleasure in tipofmytongue and tipofmyjoystick reddits, where people ask for things (including games) and games specifically that they knew some time ago, but somehow forgotten. You can help people, or learn about some games/things you would never know about otherwise. Yes, some of those people would be better off just searching through MobyGames, but sometimes it's not quite feasible. I think guys who have thousands of Moby points would be like gods there.
Pseudo_Intellectual (66248) on 1/29/2014 4:24 PM · Permalink · Report
I always get a kick when someone posts a "what was that game?" thread here, saying it's been bugging them for 15 years, and then they get a positive ID seven minutes later.
Indra was here (20760) on 1/30/2014 6:40 AM · Permalink · Report
I still haven't got my game identified, but then again, I wasn't describing it very well either. Children's memories are poor eye witnesses.
Cavalary (11445) on 1/30/2014 12:56 PM · Permalink · Report
Identified so many games I played back in the day on here on my own so far... Still some I have no clue about though, and plenty of others I don't remember enough about to make the difference between different games in the series or maybe even games not in a series but which match what I remember to a similar extent. Frustrating...
leilei (343) on 1/30/2014 3:11 AM · Permalink · Report
Even worse is that most just run through the laundry list of 'abandonware' sites' obvious commercial games then give up. Particularly embarassing since HOTU was started on unearthing obscure freeware gems, but perceptions on 'obscure' changed forever as soon as it became "the site with the free blood 3d game download". The games I sought were often shareware/freeware and mid-to-late 90s... that these so called curating sites never covered.
BdR (7206) on 2/5/2014 12:38 PM · Permalink · Report
I'm not very familiar with reddit, but is looks cool.
I've been doing something similar in a thread on a dutch chatsite, and it's always nice when someone says "yes thanks! I've been looking so long" :)
GTramp (81965) on 2/5/2014 12:57 PM · edited · Permalink · Report
I enjoy doing the same in a Russian-language forum that I look after, specifically this thread. And in another forum before that, well, until we had to part our ways with the new site management.