When you find yourself trying to remember a show (or any works) that's on the tip of your tongue but just out of reach, come here - the collective brain of the TVTropes community can probably help. Post all the details you can remember (examples help). If you're looking for a trope, head over to Trope Finder. Have general questions about tropes? Visit Ask The Tropers!
Samadhir
Since: Jan, 2010
14th Jul, 2019 07:47:38 PM
Solved it on another board. It's Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Phungoria.
Nearly 20 years ago, I found a video trailer for a cartoonish Monkey Island-style adventure game on a disc of demos for a computer game magazine. I can't remember the name, I think it was something along the lines of [main character's name]: the [object of power/search for said object of power].
It had a similar cartoony style to the Curse of Monkey Island, with a main character who even looked and sounded similar, though with brown hair instead of blonde. From what I remember from the trailer, it contained character like a genie-in-a-bottle with a stereotypical Middle-Eastern accent and an overly long name (one of which was Balthazar), a man in a WWII pilot uniform manning a cannon that was about to blow up a pirate ship off the coast, a shifty drug dealer in a dark coat and fedora and a Scottish blacksmith that the main character got into a long argument with about whether he could borrow his hammer. On the preliminary cover, it had the main character holding what I think was a giant white mushroom in his hands, presumably the [object of power] in the title.
The game honestly didn't look very good, not even to me when I was a kid who mostly dismissed it as a Monkey Island-ripoff. Nevertheless, I've thought about it occasionally since then, and when I've tried to look up a game like that from the time period, I have never found any sign of it or anything resembling it (apart from the actual Monkey Island games, of course). Hell, for all I know it was cancelled and never released at all. However, if my description does ring a bell, I would be grateful to receive a response, just to put an old mystery to rest.