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Okay, I remember playing this bug game when I was in elementary school (early 00's) on the computer (probably pc). It involved a bug rescuing his family from a spider, but had quite a few levels for a kid's game. I remember a snow level, a desert level (with dive-bombing mosquitoes and snakes with boomerang cowboy hats), a water level, and a grassy level. The bug himself was a green... something, and there was this deep bass voice that said "You the man, bug" at main menu screen.
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I doubt anyone will remember this, but I recently remembered about a TV show I watched that was on back in the 1980s. It was about a man named Jim Douglas I think and he had a car that had a mind of its own I'm pretty sure. This sound familiar to anyone?
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A couple of years ago I read on the wiki a description of a short story. I'm having trouble remembering the name of the story.
Basically a guy goes on vacation on some beach after his wife has died and meets this girl there who claims to be a time traveller. Eventually they fall in love. This girl is using her fathers time machine to travel back in time but has limited amounts of use.
Eventually she uses the time machine to go back to when the man is younger and changes her name and becomes his secretary and it turns out the girl is his wife.
Sorry about the long post but I really loved this story and want to find it again.
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I know it best as a catch phrase from Atop The Fourth Wall, but does anything before it use "Our hero, ladies and gentlemen" in a sarcastic tone?
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I'm choosing literature but this is actually a comic featured in Heavy Metal magazine. It was featured about the early 90s, I think (at the earliest the end of the 80s). I only saw the issue being read by a bunch of schoolmates and the rest of the details are all hearsay. From what I saw, it was about a tribe of women on an alien planet. They lure warrior men to go down a huge cliff wall, where the rest of the tribe hide in waiting to capture them. Once the men are caught, the women would tie them up and have sex with them to impregnate themselves; then they would, errr, cook them for the whole tribe to eat. From what I've heard, the planet was slowly falling apart (hence the giant cliff faces) and the inhabitants try to keep it together with cables/rope, and the women follow the ways of the black widow spider (hence their treatment towards men). I really would like to know the title of this story and who made it, and even the issue of the Heavy Metal mag that featured it. Thanks!
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Watched this in Malaysia just a month ago, so it was voiced-over in Malay. The title didn't show.
A dark and bloody anime that had something about an experiment called Project ALICE that went wrong. They were trying to perform an experiment on a little girl with a spiral mark on her abdomen. Her village was destroyed (something like that). There was a significant toy animal somewhere.
At the point where I started watching, there were five main characters. The main character was a girl with round glasses. Then there was a scientist guy with glasses; he was eaten by a skeletal animal. Also, a badass guy with a his arm tattooed with the name 'Laura'. And a young boy and his female guardian (whom I can't seem to remember much of).
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This one has been nagging me for years. As I remember it, it's part of a movie. There are girls, in what I think is an orphanage, and they're in a bedroom. One of the girls is telling the others a story, which is shown on the screen. The story has a man, maybe a prince, dying in a forest. A deer comes along and licks his wound, and ends up giving its life so the man can live. That's all I can remember, and I'd be eternally grateful if anyone could tell me what it was from.
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Video game (Why isn't that an option on the medium?):
For some reason I can't remember anything except the soundtrack, but I'm pretty sure it was a fighter. All I remember is some guy going "Round One...Fight fight fight fight!" and then "Round Two...Fight fight fight fight!"
Ring a bell for anyone?
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An animated show, say eighties or early nineties (that when I did see this, could have been older of course). I only remember the intro, were the premise of the show is told:
We see the Big Bad climbing a very high tower or mountain under a star sky, in order to get the MacGuffin (I think it was some crystal thing), which rests at the peak of the tower (or mountain). He can almost reach it, but then for some reason it shatters into many tiny pieces, which somehow disperse into every corner of the galaxy/universe/whatever. Now, the protagonists (normal humans from Earth???) are on a quest to gather all the Mac Guffin pieces, before the Big Bad can get them into his hands]].
My memories are very vague, so I might have misremembered a thing or two, but I thing I have successfully pinned down the essentials of this
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Kids catoon that I saw on Australian Nickelodeon (no idea if it was on US Nick as well or not) in the mid-90's. Set somewhere in Africa, main character was a teenage boy (dressed in an orange shift thing), accompanied by a neurotic rabbit-man and a girl who was human at night and a gazelle during he day. They were on some sort of quest, guided by two water spirits/deities (a male and female, spoke in unison, appeared in rivers as humanoids with bodies made of water and orange/yellow/red masks) against an evil fire spirit/deity.
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A webcomic set in Japan, really dark... Yaoi tones... A recurring image was that of this creepy yellow smiley face that sort of looked like this O_o and the mouth was stitched. Mention of anarchy... Very sexual in nature.
The main character was abused by his father, and another of the main cast was a gay, male Ganguro.
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Hello...I remember that is was a horror movie, or, maybe a show of a series, were there is an empty, winter town, and there is this monster that pops up, and eats the people slowly and stays hidden. There is a scene in a hotel, a scene were they find a finger in a meat grinder, and then the Government shows up, and they confront the monster, with a scene saying something about the Lost golden army of china. the monster pops up with the puppet'd people, sadly I've forgotten how it ends. In color, 2000/1990s ish.
Thanks in advance...
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Video game Ok, can anyone remember a platforming pc game that involves you controlling a bug where you have to go through various levels which usually involve colored gates you have to open to continue? I remember there was a playroom level, and a backyard level that involved giant sprinklers. As well as a special level where you were sliding through a pipe.
There's an amnesiac boy with a keyhole in his chest, and he meets a girl. That's all I remember.