Hey there folks, on the phone with my fantabulous mother - and she just said “I wish I could find that game. That one with the monkeys. Where you had a business, and you sold bananas. And the monkey was in a suit…”

*She also adds the bananas were called “nanas” and you had to go to “The little houses which were the suppliers”

Honestly, I have no clue what this game is. Sounds like a simulation game. I thought it was that old black and white pixelated game from Mac - but I sure as HEY can’t remember what game that is. But I feel like someone on here might know what it is. So if anyone knows about this magical monkey mac pixel game can someone give me the 411? Thank you!

*Was my grandmother’s Mac - and we played it ~92-93. The disks were stored in a little white clamshell, and we think maybe it could have been shareware. No sure though. Ho-no!

*Down the rabbit hole I found it’s from a Macintosh 128K, still trying to find it.

*The saga continues. My mother and I searched for a large quantity of time before we realized it was more than likely shareware and in turn might be so obscure that it might be too difficult to find. But I did find two things. Internet Archives has various [vintage mac](https://archive.org/search?query=Vintage Apple Macintosh Shareware Games ) games all alphabetized. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find anything "banana, “nana,” or “monkey” related in there. (Well actually Monkey solitaire and one other game, but neither were the ones). I also found another pretty cool site with lists of games. Which I might paw through, cause I love to make my mama happy. So eh! If anyone has any idea what this might be - feel free to toss it my way, even in a message. Thank you!

  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    3 months ago

    With 4o I might trust it, but prior to that, it would just pull shit out /dev/urandom and say it like it was fact. Ask it for a list of songs about a certain topic and watch it produce >50% fiction.

    • MagicShel@programming.dev
      10·
      3 months ago

      Yeah, I mean I don’t trust it for any kind of facts, but it’s really good at figuring out what you want from a vague description, or finding a title based on a few unique things about the movie/book/song. It’s also a good thesaurus when the word you want is on the tip of your tongue and just can’t quite get it. It’s pretty fucking awful at everything businesses want it to do.

      Worst case scenario OP checks it out and that isn’t it.

        • cashmaggot@piefed.socialOP
          3·
          3 months ago

          Unfortunately not, we thought it might be that - but it was black and white and very pixelated. I believe you swang from powerlines but I can’t remember too much. The bananas I think might have been floating in air and may have twirled. I am really pushing it because this was at least 30 years ago.

          Thank you though! Still on da phone with mama - we’re trying to find it too.

          • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            Any idea what year range it could be? And did she play it in school as an educational game or at home? What type of floppy it was on might help, too.

          • MagicShel@programming.dev
            5·
            3 months ago

            With these additional details:

            Based on the additional details—black and white, very pixelated graphics, swinging from powerlines, and floating bananas—it’s likely that the game you’re thinking of is Bananarama, also known as Monkeys! on the classic Macintosh.

            Bananarama was a simple black-and-white game released in the mid-1980s, where the player controlled a monkey swinging from vines or powerlines, collecting bananas. The bananas often floated in mid-air and twirled, matching the description given. The game had a very pixelated look typical of early Macintosh games.

            This seems to align closely with what you’ve described, so it might be the game you’re looking for!

    • tyler@programming.dev
      3·
      3 months ago

      I trust 4o less than the previous version. I literally cancelled my subscription it is so bad now. I don’t know what they did to fuck it up so badly, but it hardly works at all anymore. It will just repeat the same nonsense no matter what I ask it.