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Alrighty, I've got a weird one that I've been trying to track down for YEARS with no luck. I just don't have enough detail and I was too young to absorb much. Here's what I remember:

• It was a shareware/freeware game that I played in the mac in the mid 2000's (don't know exactly what years or if it was new)
• It takes place on a space station that is blowing up, you have a limited amount of time to race through the halls in your hovering vehicle to pick up passengers and complete objectives before evacuating
• There are a variety of vehicles and drivers but the only ones I remember are a classic taxi and a nun. I don't know if the nun drove the taxi or if they're separate.
• It was 3D/polygonal
• The vehicles could switch between hovering (which allowed driving up walls?) and driving on traditional wheels (? I think ?). This part is pretty hazy and could be mixing in other games I've played since then.
• It felt indy as hell (even as a kid who didn't quite know what it meant to be a smaller game)
• The time limit is constantly counting down in the corner

I know that's a limited number of things to go on but this game is my white whale. I doubt it's a great game (or even a good one) but I remember that the tone was just so weird that it's stuck with me since I was a kid. It'd be amazing to find it. I'm sure google is saturated with my searches on some variation of "space station nun taxi." So hopefully you have more luck than I have!

Thanks in advance!

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@vortextk: Digital purchases are super convenient, but nothing built excitement like flipping through a good manual. I miss that! Pretty sure I've still got the booklet for the GBA port of Link to the Past memorized.

I was thinking today about games that are so strongly tied to a physical location in my mind that I'm transported back there whenever I replay them. It's usually games that were unlike anything I'd played before or hit me at the right time in my life.

I think I've got two that stand above the rest:

- Super Mario Bros. 3 always takes me back to the kitchen in my house as a kid. Hunched over, sitting on the counter staring at a white 13" CRT.

- I remember playing Mass Effect in the basement during summer break 2010. My normal bedroom in the attic wasn't insulated and the summertime temp could hit 80 degrees inside (it was an old house) so I'd camp out downstairs. I would come home from my mindless summer job at the high school and veg out in the dark, damp, chilly basement. I only had Nintendo consoles up until high school so my first taste of the wider world of games was Steam, loaded onto a Bootcamp partition, on my middle of the road MacBook Pro. I can remember picking up Mass Effect for sale for $6 not knowing anything about it and it blew my mind. I'll never forget the feeling of sitting on the fold out bed in the basement and playing the coolest game I'd ever seen. It's goofy, but to this day playing Mass Effect in a room that isn't 63 degrees, pitch black, and vaguely damp feels wrong.

What about you folks? What games can you never separate from a single location?