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openTank with detachable turret
Medium: Video Game
Okay, this one is a long shot. An old video game seen on Amstrad CPC (and probably other Home Computers of that time) about a tank with a flying, detachable turret. And it was not Buggy Ranger.
Edited by MedinocopenNo Title
OK this is a longshot but, I remember a game, vaguely, or more precisely the demo for the game, the player took control of some sort of fast, segmented tank with catterpillar tracks and the demo level started with them on a beach before they had to move through some cliffs and into an enemy base (maybe) it was on a PC gamer demo disc when I was quite young, thinking about, 10-13 years ago though I could be out with that guess.
Sorry if that's very very vague.
openNo Title Literature
Hey yo,
A book where a young fit male gets dropped off into this testing facility with other fit males and no contact with the outside world.
Every morning, the walls open up and runners have to run and map out the new maze that forms outside the walls. The runners have to get back to base before dark or else the walls will close and they'll disappear/become monsters/be new drug test subjects (can't remember).
New supplies are provided for the group via an elevator — the same one the main character arrived in.
Then a girl shows up, she's pale and pretty. The main character and she discover that they can Mindlink.
By overlaying the maps of the mazes, they figure out a code, and they use it to get out (or something).
Title was Wall Runner or The Runners, maybe.
openNo Title
Can anyone tell me the name of the Batman/Captain America crossover comic that appears on the page for Even Evil Has Standards?
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My friend was telling me about something that happened in a video game he played a while ago, but can't remember what game it was. He was playing, and a cat ran out in front of him chasing a rat. He continued playing, and a couple of hours later, he got tied up and couldn't do anything. Apparently, he was supposed to have shot the cat so the rat would chew through the ropes. He was really pissed at the time because he didn't have a save from before the cat thing, so he had to start over. I might have gotten some of the details wrong, but I think that's basically what happened.
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Cartoon series, dated at least as far as the early nineties. I have only very vague memories of the series - I was in elementary school, but from what I remember I think it was about a superhero team that was either composed of aliens or had superpowers given by aliens. There was a really big guy with horns and another one who could turn his hands into any kinds of metal things, mostly swords.
openNo Title Literature
It's an epic historical(ish) fantasy. There are four novels in the series, written at least five years ago. Each novel takes place in a different time period - the first book was pre-medieval times, the last was closed to modern day (1960-70s). Each book took place around the same physical location that becomes a well-known modern city. The basic premise of the story was that a small group of characters were struggling to control a hidden, powerful labyrinth. All of them initially failed, but their souls and those of several other involved family members became caught up in the conflict through some ritual magic and were destined to be reborn in the future to continue their struggle - the 2nd to 4th books were of them in different lives recalling their past and being drawn together again into the same city and battle. There was a lot more character development than actual fighting, though, and by the final book they mostly banded together to destroy a malevolence coming from the labyrinth rather than control it.
openNo Title Literature
1) A young adult novel (or possibly part of a collection of short stories involving the same main characters) that was probably in the Kid Detective genre. The main characters are involved with some sort of townwide scavenger hunt and one of the clues is "a famous dairy". They go to the only well-known dairy in town and find nothing, then figure out that someone sabotaged the clue by switching a couple of letters around - what they're really looking for is a famous diary. This could have even been the other way around, actually.
2) Another detail I remember from a different Kid Detective type book: someone's reported missing and the only thing unusual in their house is a note reading "crabcakes". Someone figures out that, because there was also a van sighted nearby with the ABC logo, "Crabcakes" is actually a coded clue left behind by the victim.
Edited by MikeKopenNo Title Literature
Years and years ago, I recall reading this short, illustrated children's book that involved a girl with what I think was an eye disease, who needed to have an operation, and a phoenix or firebird (I don't remember how the latter was involved). I can't remember what it was called. The girl's mother kept asking her if the girl was ready to have the operation, and I think she had several brothers and/or sisters. The last page had her in bed, in hospital, with a blindfold. I also think that the girl and her family, and possibly the author, were "ethnic," that is; Hispanic, or native-American, or some such.
Edited by flumph2openNo Title Film
Black and white B movie.
Honestly, I can't remember much of this movie, except that it was a sequel to something that started with "Night of".
The story is thus: a village's locale undertaker (or something) is believed to be evil, because he's an atheist. He hates all of humanity, except for children, and is very vocal about his distastes. I dimly recall that he saves a child in the beginning in the movie.
He wants a bride for some reason, and kidnaps several the locale beautiful women to test their candidacy, such as by letting a number of spiders into the room they're locked in to try to scare them. Only one woman passes all his tests (coincidentally, this woman was already smitten with him), so he kills the rest of the ladies. One of the women curses before she dies.
I can't really remember what happens next—a tangle of subplots to kill off the woman's potential suitors, trying to cover up any involvement the undertaker had in the womens' disappearences, etc.
He DOES find out that the woman who cursed him was pregnant when he offed her. As he loves children, he is completely mortified by what he's done.
Somehow he ends up in hell (because of the pregnant woman's curse or something?), which are the only scenes in the movie that are in color.
In the end he proclaims his new found love for Jesus and dies. Drowns, I think. I'm fairly certain that the local villagers found out about his murders at some point, too.
Edited by ExaggeopenNo Title Western Animation
There are three shows whose English titles escape me.
One was about a semi-anthropomorphic spellbook (essentially the front cover had a face) and it revolved around three kids attending an academy, on various misadventures to foil the plans of this big evil wizard dude.
Another had much more mature protagonists, possibly all-female, their powers based thematically around Star Power, and after every episode they would show these live action demonstrations of DIY magic tricks.
The third is probably French; revolving around two anthropomorphic detectives, a mouse and a fat dog of indeterminable species. The episode routines go like this - Hear about the crime, poke the witnesses/suspects, then they take a 30-second break to let the viewers think amongst themselves who committed the crime, then they point out the answer, sometimes with a little more-complicated-than-needed logic. All I remember is the Norwegian title was "Buster & Gløggen" (Buster the dog, Gløggen the mouse). One particular memory that stands out is Buster has a shoehorned-into-one-episode-plot allergy to eucalyptus.
Edited by CidSilverWingopenNo Title Live Action TV
This was an episode of a 1970s horror anthology show, which might OR MIGHT NOT have been Night Gallery. The episode revolved around a mannequin lying in a box (or cot?), and dressed as a Victorian-era British soldier—red tunic, muttonchops, etc. Near the end, I distinctly remember the dummy/mannequin turning its head and opening its eyes, with a godawful grin on its face.
openNo Title Film
I remember seeing part of some Animesque movie a few years back in the car of some people my parents knew. It was some movie that had Limited Animation, and from the looks of it, it seemed to be from before 2000.
The movie itself involved some woman getting shot down by what looked like gangsters in her bathroom(?), then she gets microscopic robots injected into her body to attack some villain who captures a few of them and makes them his/her slaves (I forget the villain's gender). I don't remember much else, and I didn't see the whole thing because I got bored part of the way through and the person driving the car offered to switch to Cars, an offer I took up (as pointless et cetera, I also saw some episodes of Whats New Scooby Doo before both). I don't know whether the movie I'm thinking of is Anime or Western Animation, but I do remember that the opening credits were text on colors that changed with cuts with each new credit until the thing actually began. If anyone knows what the fuck I'm talking about, you think you could jog my memory?
Edited by MadMan400096openNo Title
Medium: Video Game
This is a game for the SNES that uses an overhead view. You could have 1 or 2 players. In the second level you went through a forest and then floated down a river on a raft. At the end of the level there was a boss fight with something that may have been an octopus. (Can't remember.)
openNo Title Western Animation
Wondering about a cartoon anthology broadcast in the mid-to-late '90s, probably influenced thematically by Goosebumps, where the end of every episode consists of the narrator (who was a new character every episode) saying 'It's a true story. It happened to a friend of a friend of mine.'
openNo Title
Medium: Video Game
So there's this game I've been wondering about for the past years. I remember playing it as a kid(late 90's to early 00's, but the game might have been made before - actually, from the graphics and gameplay, I think it was) on the old computer, so it was available for computers as a download or installation - I'm pretty sure I didn't need a CD to play it. Anyway, the game was about these... blobs. Small blobs in various colors with eyes, kind of resembling the Pac-Man ghosts, but rounder. Graphics-wise, it was pretty much 8-bit style. Anyway, what I remember from it was that you were guiding a few of these blobs though a maze, and had to get them all to the goal. I don't remember whether you controlled all of them at a time(meaning walking in a line after each other) or one at a time(switching between them with some or other key) I think there were obstacles/enemies and collectibles(collectibles were probably some kind of food). I also faintly remember one of the levels having a big blob, that was either a boss-type enemy, or their "mom" we had to lead them to(though I'm not too sure about this part, but I THINK it was there). So... anyone got any idea what this is? I'd love to know.
openNo Title Film
There was a animated movie I saw as a kid(meaning no later than early-ish 00's), starring anthropomorphic mice in the roles(Petting-Zoo People-style anthro, they were fully dressed and most likely had human hair, at least the females). The main characters was a boy, and one of his friends, a girl, was often seen with him. (She might have been his girlfriend, or possibly his sister, can't remember). Most of it took place in a library (or maybe a school). I think there was some focus on either books, or numbers/maths. I remember a few scenes: one I THINK was around the middle, where the boy and girl goes up some stairs to a mirror, the boy looks into the mirror and sees himself as a prince, while the mirror gets a golden frame. (The mirror shows who you really are inside, or something). Also, by the end, a grumpy, old librarian/teacher character (who is the main antagonist) finds the same mirror, and when she looks into it, the mirror frame turns black, and her mirror image melts into some kind of indeterminate, slimy monster/creature thing, while she screams "Nooo!" I think this creature either eats her or chases her away. Anyone knows?
(Not all details might be accurate or exact, my memory might be a bit blurry. So anything even remotely similar might be worth a try)
Oh, and the Norwegian name was something like "De magiske tallene" or "De magiske ordene" (the magical numbers/words), but not sure if it had a similar name in English(or if it even was from another country). (I tried googling both, but found nothing)
Edited by ZanreoopenNo Title Anime
I'm only putting this as anime because there's no fanfiction option, but here goes:
Basically, it was a series of hysterical Pokemon fanfiction. Ash and May start dating. The first fic is Brock training Ash in "girl language" so he could ask May out, the second was them getting lost in the woods. There was one where Ash and May were talking about a hicky Ash had given her while they were making out, and Brock overheard and thought Ash had knocked May up. He then went and told Gary, and Gary was like "No way in hell Ash got some before I did!" So Gary goes to Ash and is like "I heard about May. How'd you do it?" Ash, thinking they're talking about the hicky, says "Um... With my mouth?" And Gary is like "No way."

It was an early '90s, probably British children's cartoon series following a police officer. I can't remember the name of him or the show, but I wouldn't be surprised if the show was named after him. I remember in one episode some kids were being taught about horses and were told how many inches a hand was, and I remember in an episode about the night shift he described a cat as having "just lost one of his nine lives". Any ideas as to what show it was?