"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 09/28/2016 at 11:07 • Filed to: None

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Xyl0c41n3 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/28/2016 at 11:28

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Thank you for bringing a little weirdness to my mid-morning. :)

mrbaits > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/28/2016 at 11:36

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I remember this game from the 90's. I can’t remember what it was called though.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > mrbaits 09/28/2016 at 11:43

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The Neverhood - developed by Doug TenNapel, also known for Earthworm Jim. It sold relatively poorly, got a big boost in published numbers through getting bundled with Gateway PCs, and then turned into an underground hit in the former Eastern Bloc via piracy. No, really. It’s a very good game, though its sequel Skullmonkeys , which was a sidescroller for the PlayStation, wasn’t as successful.

They made a “spiritual successor” to the game last year, called Armikrog. Good, but very buggy on release and very short.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Xyl0c41n3 09/28/2016 at 11:52

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The Neverhood is a very unique and twisted little game from 20 years ago. The whole thing was done in polymer clay - the cutscenes are stop motion, the game world was a whole little Wallace and Gromit-esque table of sculpture, and the in-game sprite (a la Monkey Island and other adventure games) was a stop-motion capture superimposed over the background. Not sure why, but it’s not available for sale and hasn’t been for a long time - which of course means that abandonware types have seen fit to host it.

Anyway, they made a sequel on Playstation (not an adventure game), and recently made another game in a similar style (an adventure game) called Armikrog.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Xyl0c41n3 09/28/2016 at 11:59

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The gif in the main post is actually from the game’s first real puzzle. You wake up in a room, pull a lever to smash open a door, jump down from a balcony, and find yourself confronted with that door. One of the rings pulls the door up, but won’t keep it up. On the other hand, there is a giant “hey idiot” red button on the door. Which, I should note, does not and will not ever open the door. As you can see.

This is also the game that has an apple tree off to the side of one of the main areas. If you click on it, the character eats an apple and belches. If you do it a second time, he belches again... for a good thirty or forty seconds. If you are such a fool as to click a third time, the belch continues for three minutes.

There is also a “Hall of Records” of rambling backstory which continues on for something like 18 screens. There is a thing at the end of the long walk required to complete the game...

for Michigan > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/28/2016 at 12:17

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I played a Mortal Kombat-style fighting game with this style of animation on like a Dreamcast or something ages ago. No clue what it was called, but this reminds me of it.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > for Michigan 09/28/2016 at 12:38

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BoomBots, one assumes. The least well regarded TenNapel game - just didn’t work.

mrbaits > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/28/2016 at 20:23

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It’s funny that I had forgotten the name of this game (thanks for reminding me) but I still remember the main song from the soundtrack. The brain is an amazing thing.

Nauraushaun > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/02/2016 at 07:14

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I used to play this in primary school. Good times.