Looking for a VERY strange adventure game

[MMMorshew]

Quite some years ago, when I was maybe 10 or 11 years old, I was in a hospital and there was some videogame freak with me in one room. We often talked about videogames in general and by accident I remembered yesterday that he told me about a weird videogame that he loved and I never heard of. As far as I remember, the way he described the gameplay reminded me of adventure games.

It was a series of games, named after the main character, whose name I have forgotten.

The first game was about an island you had to travel to, but I forgot why. He told me that these games had a lot of freedom, and you could interact with almost everyone and everything and you also had to catch your train at the right time or else the game would take a different direction. Sadly, I can`t remember more oft this.

Another other game of the series was called "[insert name of main character here] and the chocolate bar". This time you were trapped in some kind of weird parallel dimension that you have to escape. You were walking around in a strange, warped version of the main characters home town. People were flying across the sky, children were eating raw potatoes on a stick instead of ice cream, animals in restaurants were eaten alive and so on. There also was a barber, and if you looked trough the window, you could see that when the people combed their hair, it turned in the opposed direction than it should be (I hope you know what I mean, basically you move your comb the the left, but the hair moves to the right). That videogame freak also told me that the chocolate bar in the title would play an important role at the end of the game.

And the last thing I remember was that in another game of the series, the main character walked around almost naked all the time.  

Have you guys ever heard or seen such a game series or did that guy just a prank on me?  

[arj0n]

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon stories?

[Ryan Timothy B]

None of those sound like Callahan's Crosstime Saloon. But man, that game was mighty fun when I was a kid.

I almost enjoyed it more than Monkey Island and Loom.
Almost.

[Igor Hardy]

That reminds me of my own discussions with other kids when I was that age. The strange games, films, comics I heard about from them that sometimes, I found out later, never actually existed...

[Scavenger]

Well, if it doesn't exist, you could always rectify that.

I can't find anything on Google about "And the Chocolate Bar" title of game wise. It doesn't seem to have any entries anywhere.

[Phemar]

I really hope you find this game... It sounds awesome

[tzachs]

None of those sound like Callahan's Crosstime Saloon.

Actually, if I remeber correctly, Callahan did have a big puzzle based on creating a chocolate bar, and was divided into mini games happening in different places, so it could be referencing it, obviously with a lot of mistakes.
Don't forget that kids tend to experience games differently, where their imagination does a lot of the work for them...

[GarageGothic]

I'd be curious to hear which system  this game supposedly ran on. I'm picturing something like the Dizzy series or Alice in Wonderland/Below the Root on C64, basically a platformer with puzzles and character interaction, but checking original poster's age I take that it's much more recent? Anyhow, I'd love to play it too - in a lucid dream if necessary. 

This thread reminds me of when I was 11 or 12. My best friend (still is!) and I  had both purchased C64s around the same time, so we were trading tapes and more or less playing the same games in parallel. One of the games was a sidescrolling beat-em up  titled 'Ninja' (erroneously named Last Ninja on my tape), where you had to fight a number of enemies to advance to the next floor of a Japanese pagoda (ripping off Bruce Lee's 'Game of Death'). There wasn't really any progress in the game, just some palette cycling and higher difficulties. Yet my friend kept telling me that he'd gotten further in the game, to a level set in a garden - where the gameplay consisted of the Ninja walking around with a watering can and tending to the flowers!!!
I'm not sure if it says more about my gullibility or the lack of strict genre divisions back in those days, but I have to admit that I at least partly accepted his claim. I'm pretty sure he made it up, but maybe I should ask him next time we meet . Anyhow, as ridiculous as it sounds - why aren't there any martial arts games where you get to tend your zen garden between fights? Or let you prune bonsai trees, wouldn't that be kinda neat?

[LUniqueDan]

@GarageGothic : don't worry, I'm still having nightmare with pre-internet urban legends related to Maniac Mansion.
- The staircase in the librairy can be fix.
- There's a way to send back the Statue and there's a trap under it.
- Everything related to the chainsaw
- There's a way to have tool deluxe if you have Jeff to publish something
- There's a tunnel to the Meteor crash site