There was this duck, and it would move items around. It was in a dungeon with a prize room… Nobody ever knew what I was talking about. I have been trying to remember a game from my childhood for so long that I started to think I was crazy. Maybe I was inventing a game in my dreams pieced together by my subconscious.
Well last night, I found it. I FOUND IT! Gertrude’s Secrets. Here is a description of the puzzle game that haunted my dreams:
“The puzzles are generally simple and quick to solve. The “array puzzles” involve arranging pieces in a grid according to shape along the rows and color along the columns. “Train puzzles” involve ordering the pieces according to whether they need to be once or twice different from the piece before them in the train. “Loop puzzles” involve guessing Gertrude’s hidden rule for what goes inside and outside the boxes and gets more complicated by having two nested loops where inside the joined area the pieces need to conform to two rules.” – abandonia.com
This lead me to remember all of my childhood games like Math Blaster, Reader Rabbit, Oregon Trail, Loom, Gauntlet, Print Shop (not a game but I got teary-eyed after seeing the cover again..) While other kids were outside playing around at lunch, I was in the computer lab with a small group of friends trying to figure out Dr. Brain, Monkey Island, and Myst.
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Wow. Just today I had the same epiphany that you did when you wrote this post, but mine was with a raccoon, impossibly hard logic (for a second grader), strange shapes that were switches, and incredibly lo-fi graphics. It has been in my dreams constantly and I knew it was too lo-fi to be Nintendo. I found out it was Rocky’s Boots.