>If I were essentially locked up in that scenario, I would at least be confident of the names of the 3 games which were installed, since they'd inevitably be played to death, regardless of how good they were. Also there's this
You'd be surprised what happens after 10 years or so. There are games I played as a kid countless times, in arcardes and on my PC, and yet I coulnd't remember their titles at all when I was at university age and such.
I only rediscovered some of their titles with luck and queries on Google later (in my 30's).
E.g.:
"game where a frog tries to cross the road" was apparently Frogger.
"game where you have a crosshair and hit people" is Prohibition.
"pc game where a cat jumps in an neighborhood" is Alley Cat, etc.
This is absolutely true. One of my favorite arcade games from the 80's where I've spent countless hours and played it to death and I can't remember the name of it. To this day the quest to find it again continues. It's like an adventure or something.
You could try it here too, what do you remember about it? What country were you playing it in? What were the controls? Joystick, trackball, one giant button, several buttons? What year did you first play it? Any memories at all about what the gameplay was like or the overall quality of the graphics?
The other game I can't remember was contra/turrican like game with main character like a robot and you could go in all directions on a map. I remember there were egyptian motifs around levels and I vaguely remember that game had a name Phoenix or something similar. Same time period, same nondescript arcade cabinet. Both in Europe / Croatia.
You'd be surprised what happens after 10 years or so. There are games I played as a kid countless times, in arcardes and on my PC, and yet I coulnd't remember their titles at all when I was at university age and such.
I only rediscovered some of their titles with luck and queries on Google later (in my 30's).
E.g.:
"game where a frog tries to cross the road" was apparently Frogger.
"game where you have a crosshair and hit people" is Prohibition.
"pc game where a cat jumps in an neighborhood" is Alley Cat, etc.