i'm back to scrolling through archive.org for a game i played at least 20 years ago and never beat
here's what i remember:
* first person educational point and click adventure
* puzzle where you had to get past a snake to enter a temple in the jungle
* puzzle where you had to find a machete to cut down some tall grass blocking the way
* title may have had mysteries or legends in it?
* release must have been between 1996 and 1998
i've thought about this game for years and never found it
.......and one fucking google search for "90s educational game snake temple jungle machete" and it shows up in the bloody youtube suggested results
"the crystal rain forest", originally released in 1992 for the acorn archimedes, ported to windows in 1999
i had completely forgotten it took place on a different planet
i was literally one puzzle away from the end
programming the boat takes a while, the game doesn't save, and i only had very limited time back then - but i do remember that penultimate net puzzle
finally, closure on that mystery
@Dex I love mysteries like this! Glad you solved yours. I sometimes think of it as "personal archaeology", taking something from your past and puzzling over it until it makes sense, or you figure out what it was.
I've had a number of those over the years and they remain satisfying to discover. :-)
