It could even be a youtube video or movie that you don’t think anyone reading this has heard of besides you.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    I got this. Someone, please prove me wrong. I’ll PayPal you $82.76 if you find this.

    There’s a cartoon from the 80s (could be late 70snor early 90s) called Howard The Duck.

    You’ll never find it, because of the wildly popular movie bearing the same name.

    The “Howard the duck” I’m referring to was a cartoon movie that was about a Mallard duck who got separated from his flock while they were migrating south for the winter.

    Howard finds himself in NYC for the winter, where he spends time with rats and frogs. They show him around NYC via the sewers.

    There’s a scene where they’re beneath the world trade center and Howard and the frog marvel at is enormity. Then, the frog reminds Howard that “Nothing lasts forever; especially in New York.” (This is an exact quote, sparing punctuation.)

    The VHS I had ended with a music video by some band with the word “dogs” (junk yard dogs? Something like that) in their band name. The music video was trippy AF. There was barking in the song. The visuals were mostly patterns of colorful circles.

    Like, this sounds like a fever dream, but if you’ve seen it and can locate it, it will make sense. I swear.

    My memory is shit but I’d describe the art style as watercolor. Animated watercolor. Fro the 80s. So, yeah. Sorry.

    Fuck it. $20.

    Fuckit 2: 4 payments of $20.69

      • foggy@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        HOLY SHIT.

        😃

        Ill absolutely donate to charity for your work. I’ll even probably update this post at some point to show it.

        Thanks!! About to see my sister’s at Christmas, we grew up on this movie, and they both have kids and we’ve been trying to figure it out for YEARS.

        Thanks!!

        • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Haha, NP, glad I was able to rekindle a fun Christmas memory for you guys. Have fun! And tell them you found it on Lemmy. Get’em on the Fediverse 😉

    • Udonezo@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      I gave it a fair shake. But you’re right, seems obscure enough to be lost media adjacent. Ended up scrubbing 2 DuckTales episodes, skimming the ugly duckling (1997), and watched half an episode of Charlie chalk. My strategy was to ignore the name Howard entirely. Here’s a list of animated ducks for your reference.

  • itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml
    0·
    2 years ago

    The original Death Race 2000 starring Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine. It may have had a small comeback when the Death Race remake came out but this isn’t the kind of movie you’d see randomly on tv.

    • Rambomst@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      My parents love this movie, I saw it many times growing up. Every time they drive past someone in a wheelchair that movie gets mentioned.

    • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I edited the nudity out of that so we could screen it at work. There’s a LOT of titties in that movie.

    • Codex@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      The 1976 arcade game called Death Race (seemingly no relation) is one of the first to ever spark controversy over violence in video games. It’s not too well known today, being almost 50 years old and fairly primitive.

      And fun movie fact, Death Race 2000 is Sylvester “Sly, The Italian Stallion” Stallone’s first non-pornographic film role.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      “What’s that?” “A hand grenade” best pun in cinematic history, un-toppable. I’m a huge Death Race fan, and CarWars, and the Twisted Metal game. Gun cars are just cool

    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years ago

      Fun story, my dad met a guy who talked about a movie he had seen once, where racers ran over people to score points, my dad thought this guy was taking the piss and never considered the movie might be real. Until one day he was watching TV randomly and stumbled on the movie. But as people from the era of cable TV might remember, it was hard to know the name of the movie you just caught midway through, unless the channel showed the name of the movie you were out of luck, so I grew up knowing that this movie existed, but never knew the name. When the remake came out the plot seemed familiar enough for me that I immediately went to check what it was based on and finally put the final nail in the coffin of a long family mistery.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future

    Show from the 80s that was really just a vehicle for selling toys. They had a line of fighter jet thingies that were light guns you could shoot at the tv and somehow the guns themselves could respond to the lights from the tv and cause the cockpit to eject when it was hit. Not terribly obscure I think, but it was only a thing for like a year or two.

    • SCB@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      Oh my god I loved this as a kid, and had a shitload of the toys, and from my late teens on I’ve been trying like hell to figure out what this show/line of toys was!!!

      Thank you for posting this today. Gonna show my kids. This is so wild.

  • aturtlesdream@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    Anna and the appolypse, it’s a fantastic zombie musical with insanely good songs. I have never met anyone in the real world or online who have heard of it (except a few who I forced to watch with me).

    • TAG@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 years ago

      I watched it and I did not like it, but it is probably that I went into it with the wrong expectations. The entire premise of “musical about a zombie apocalypse” sounded a bit goofy to me and the trailer had the same mood, so I expected a comedy, or at least something a bit tongue in cheek. Instead, the movie is a total downer.

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
      0·
      2 years ago

      I still have the T-shirt that came with the box set!

      It was a weird game, honestly.

      I think the other two games in that series (Terranigma) didn’t get official English versions, but there are fanslations if you want to play them.

      • Odo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        All 3 games got official English translations. Soul Blazer and Gaia were released in the US and Europe, but Terranigma for whatever reason was only released in Europe. I’m so glad emulation came around and opened up access to so many region-locked games.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    2 years ago

    Either windows 95 or 98 I used to play this game my mom set up for me but doesn’t remember. Now she needs my help to plug in a USB cable but somehow has a job that uses software and procedures too complicated for me… Anyway I can remember if it was entirely this or just part of it, but the memorable part was the sliding puzzles, like the ice caves in Pokemon. The character might have had skates or something but it’s a vague memory that could be wrong.

  • Zozano@aussie.zone
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    2 years ago

    It was a game for PC around the year 2000, I don’t even know the name of it. I’ve been searching for it for years. It’s a point and click adventure game.

    The premise is your spaceship breaks down on an alien planet. If you try to repair the ship immediately a giant alien spider will come and kill you.

    After searching for a while you end up making friends with one of the aliens and sneak around one of the villages looking for parts.

    I never made it past that point.

    I highly doubt anyone will know what this is, I’ve tried multiple times on that reddit sub for games people can’t remember.

    • PandaPikachu@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years ago

      This sounds like Space Quest. Have a look at this excerpt from a walkthrough and see if it sounds familiar:

      "After escaping the Arcada before its destruction you crash land on the planet Kerona. Before you do anything “take off seatbelt”. Look at the pod and “take kit”. This is your survival kit. Look kit and you will find an Xenon army knife and dehydrated water.

      “Get out” and walk to the front of the pod. “Take glass”. This is reflective glass that we’ll need later on.

      Walk to the right three screens and then take the path that leads up. Follow the path all the way around over a bridge that will crack as you walk on it. A spider droid will drop to the ground at some stage. Just ignore it for now. There are two pillars at the end of the path. Stand between them and you’ll be lowered into the earth by a secret elevator."

      Check out some screenshots along w/ the rest of the walkthrough here: http://gamerwalkthroughs.com/space-quest-1-walkthrough-the-sarien-encounter/

  • Zarxrax@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    Several years back I watched a Japanese film called Fish Story. It’s a pretty weird movie, and the first time I watched it, I hated it, and almost turned it off. It was just kind of boring, and it was really confusing because it kept jumping between different stories, and it was not in chronological order. Then, right at the very end, a short segment tied everything together so incredibly. It blew my mind and I immediately wanted to watch the movie again. I have never experienced anything like that before or since. I don’t know anyone else who’s ever heard of this movie.

    • MelonYellow@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Just looked it up. I like quirky movies and I like the sound of this - it’s going on my list to watch later. Thanks! :)

  • Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    Movies:

    • Kubo and the Two Strings. Some of the story elements are a bit too obvious, but the overall story is charming and the art style (stop motion with puppet-like characters) is just plain cool.

    • Kirikou and the Sorceress. Wonderfully weird with an interesting story

    • Triplets of Belleville. The entire movie is “told” without words, except for a single sentence right at the start and one right at the end.

    Games:

    • Terranigma (SNES). Main characters revives / creates an entire world that was doomed ages ago. It’s kind of bittersweet when you’re done reviving the continents, plants and animals and then the humans start f*cking stuff up. Great music and visuals too, despite being 16-Bit style

    • Ōkami. One of my all-time favorites but due to minimal marketing, not many people are aware that this game even exists. Charming art style and interesting gameplay concept.

    • optissima@lemmynsfw.com
      1·
      2 years ago

      Kubo was a BAFTA winner and Okami was IGNs game of the year winner. The rest I agree with, but those two seem really popular for an “unheard of” list.

  • Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world
    01·
    7 months ago

    I swear I’m the only person in the world who has heard of the game “Threads of Fate” for the PlayStation 1. It’s the most underrated game I’ve ever played and deserves more love than it has ever gotten.

  • fritata_fritato@lemmy.nz
    01·
    2 years ago

    There used to be a website with a rubber man floating on the screen. You could move him around with the mouse and make him stretch out in psychedelic colors. Hours spent doodling.