Rick Dangerous Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 I had a guest this weekend who played a game boy game growing up where the main character "wore moccasins" and walked around collecting coins (every game ever, i know). Can anyone help me here? Have done some digging but coming up blank. Literally all i have to go on is the moccasins.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smith Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 (edited) Sounds like Whomp Em but I think that was NES only. Maybe also Milon's Secret Castle or Maru's Mission? Idk. Try those. Edited July 5, 2022 by Leonard Smith 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Dangerous Posted July 5, 2022 Author Share Posted July 5, 2022 I looked through a list of all North American releases and don't see any likely candidates. I think she is probably remembering it wrong....moccasins were probably boots and it was probably something super common like Super Mario Land I'm going to keep digging, thanks for the tips! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roots.genoa Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Yes, it's strange how she could identify the type of shoes on a sprite that's probably 16-pixel high and made of 3 tones of grey. ? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Rick -- where did they mention the moccasins? That seems like a very Native American piece of footwear. Maybe it was translated from Japanese in an odd way. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hakogame 箱亀 Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 They might be thinking of Lock 'n Chase? It has a little ball looking player with big feet... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Dangerous Posted July 6, 2022 Author Share Posted July 6, 2022 (edited) Okay so it's in color so it's probably a NES/SNES game. She said the main protagonist has a sac over his shoulder that the coins he collects go into. Edited July 6, 2022 by Rick Dangerous 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roots.genoa Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 Something tells me it's gonna be like GTA V in the end. ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 If it's an NES game then my first thought was Whomp 'Em. But, there's the matter of the aforementioned sac. I can't find any instance of teabagging at all! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Dangerous Posted July 6, 2022 Author Share Posted July 6, 2022 (edited) I was thinking one of the Wario games, but those are all on Gameboy, GBC, GBA. This drives me crazy. I'm going to track down this game! Lol Her descriptions are so vague. She's like "I just remember there were mountains in the background". Thats like 50% of games!!! Edited July 6, 2022 by Rick Dangerous 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 Maybe it's Battle of Olympus? Perhaps she mistook the shield for a bag, and the shoes the player's character wears look a little bit like moccasins...? Could also be Kid Icarus? or Little Samson? Or Rygar? Or Conquest of the Crystal Palace? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Dangerous Posted July 7, 2022 Author Share Posted July 7, 2022 Thank you! Great suggestions. Going to send some screenshots of those games her way tomorrow. I know this is stupid but I love solving a mystery like this and it would be super fun to fire up this game for her that she hasn't played since childhood. Thanks guys. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 It's not stupid, I've seen this brought up largely over Nintendo 8/16bit games for a good 20+ years online and it's always fun trying to solve the mystery with vague memories that are really an equal shot at being right as they are wrong, adds an element of mystery and confusion to see what sticks to the wall. I was going to vote a couple choices, but they go tcalled so I'll back them up -- Whomp Em if it was not Gameboy but NES, but due to the other elements I thought Battle of Olympus worked too and that (though not in the US) did have a GB version as well. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikebloke Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 These 'guess the game from vague descriptions' is some of my favourite topics! My wild guess is the McDonald's game which I think was region exclusive, because who knows! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 10 hours ago, Rick Dangerous said: Thank you! Great suggestions. Going to send some screenshots of those games her way tomorrow. Screenshots might be enough, but if not, you should send her links to gameplay videos on YouTube. That may spark her memory more than still screenshots. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Dangerous Posted July 7, 2022 Author Share Posted July 7, 2022 None of these games. She is my wifes age, born 1990, so i'm thinking it's most likely an SNES game. Sent her Zelda: A Link to the Past and she said nope so...the hunt continues. Any other SNES suggestions? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Mystical Ninja? Wears japanese traditional shoes that look like them if you don't know what they are, and you can get powered up ones to run faster. You collect coins constantly basically per kill about, and you can then turn around and pelt people with them as a distance weapon for the price of that coin. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Dangerous Posted July 8, 2022 Author Share Posted July 8, 2022 (edited) This was the game: Super Solvers Treasure Mountain : The Learning Co. : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive ?♂️ Edited July 12, 2022 by Rick Dangerous 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 So not only was it not a Game Boy game, it wasn't even a console game? Where's that Picard facepalm...? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Dangerous Posted July 8, 2022 Author Share Posted July 8, 2022 (edited) And the Gameboy Game was Super Mario Land. Close the case file on this one! Treasure freaking mountain....you gotta be kidding me. Will probably pick it up for $5 on ebay just so she can have a whirl on my Powerbook 3400. I do enjoy Learning Company games my kids will probably like it too. Edited July 8, 2022 by Rick Dangerous 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikebloke Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 17 hours ago, Tanooki said: Mystical Ninja? Wears japanese traditional shoes that look like them if you don't know what they are, and you can get powered up ones to run faster. You collect coins constantly basically per kill about, and you can then turn around and pelt people with them as a distance weapon for the price of that coin. I totally thought this might have been it too! Any videos online of treasure mountain? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Mushroom Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 1 hour ago, Mikebloke said: Any videos online of treasure mountain? 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikebloke Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 6 minutes ago, Lord Mushroom said: Thanks, I feel like I've seen the 'master of mischief' before, was he reused on other games? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Mushroom Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 1 hour ago, Mikebloke said: Thanks, I feel like I've seen the 'master of mischief' before, was he reused on other games? He is apparently a common character in games by The Learning Company: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/SuperSolvers 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 He's in my favorite game of the era from that company, Ancient Empires. It's like a soft version of tomb raider (think the GBC versions) with some decent little puzzle on the last space of each area and a basic nicely done general history lesson about the area too before going onto the next. It's so well done it's almost a not edutainment game. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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