My friend mentioned an old windows shareware game involving some kind of mouse running around a mansion looking for cheese. I have a very vague memory of such a game, and her curiosity sparked mine, so now I’m off looking for this game. I stumbled upon the following microsoft website: http://www.microsoft.com/games/puzzle/. It hasn’t been changed since 1998, so it looks really horrendously out of date. There are several games to be had (some “from the creator of Tetris!”) and next to each game’s title there’s a bit of pixel art and the size of the game – most of which are on the order of 100kb. There’s even a “news” banner proclaiming the revelation of the Xbox at the 2001 Consumer Electronics Expo. It’s like turning a corner in a Wal-Mart and finding a small section selling pogs. Somebody more clever than I should coin a name for this sort of thing: when a supposedly “tech savvy” company has an embarassingly out of date section on their website. This thing looks almost as bad as geocities did.
For the overly curious, my friend was thinking of this game. I was thinking of another, but I’ve got not idea what the heck it was. There was some sort of house, maybe, which was all dark? I’m not even sure if there was a mouse involved. It came bundled with the PowerSpec PC I bought at the start of high school, and that’s about all I can remember. I’ll know it if I ever see it … this is going to drive me nuts.