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openball animals Videogame
in the game there were ball animals? and in the house there was this door and when you go through it, it was like a wormhole, maybe it was something like running through a log but that's the only part i remember of the game, and i don't know if i'm making it up. I think it also had part where you can trace letters. i think it was on a leapfrog thing
Edited by Doenutresolved Game with Retraux mode Videogame
So there is a game which in a moment all the characters' current style changes to a Retraux style. I don't know if it is a mode that you can change, but I think it involves an arcade or something like that (IDK). It is also a 3D game.
EDIT: Nevermind, I found the game, it is Hi-Fi RUSH
Edited by StalkerGamerresolved Creepy giggle Videogame
Where is this laugh from? I know I've heard it in a game before, but I can't put my finger on it. I thought it was either Boos or Midna, but I searched those and they don't match.
openEducational math game involving two frogs. Videogame
So sometime between 2000 and 2006, there was a game or computer software we had to use in Computer Lab while at school. I don't remember a whole lot about it, but there were two frog characters that served as "hosts" for the game - a tall, female frog with red coloring and a shorter, blue or purple (not so sure on this one) male frog. They both may have had spots, as well, and I don't think they wore any clothes. You had to solve math problems to progress through the game, but I don't really recall how the levels looked (or if they WERE any levels in the traditional sense of the word). Been hunting this thing for years and have had no luck despite looking pretty much everywhere.
Very confident that it was not a Jump Start game or anything related to Leap Frog, but I'm open to any suggestions. All help is appreciated!
resolved Small girl waits in her haunted room. Videogame
I remember a gameplay video of an indie game where a small girl was supposed to wait in her room for her parent to come home. But the room was haunted or something and depending on your interactions with it, there were different outcomes.
The graphics were minimalistic, looked like hand-drawn and the environment was mostly white.
resolved physics videogame that takes place in a body? Videogame
im pretty sure it was on the switch but not a nintendo title, but it also could have been on itch.io. the game takes place in like a body? it had really cool pixely graphics like qomp and eatgirl. the gameplay is like you shoot blocks at the wall and they stick and you can make like bridges with it. anyone know what game this is?
openDisney browser/flash game featuring blue bear (SOLVED!!!) Videogame
I played this as a kid sometime in the late 2000s (2008-2009 for a more exact guess) on the official Disney website. You played as a short blue bear (drawn in a vaguely Rodney Greenblat-esque style) walking around an isometric board collecting honey and avoiding traps/enemies. I think it was an original property not otherwise connected to Disney, and if memory serves it wasn't hosted on Disney's main game site but somewhere else (again still an official Disney website - some sort of experimental game platform? Abandoned branding?)
Edited by CosmicCatopengame demo i played a few years ago Videogame
there was a game demo i played a few years back (sometime before 2020) that i haven't been able to find. i remember the game like this: a boy wakes up in an old room with a piano in it and heads outside. there, he finds out from another child all the adults in his town have disappeared with no explanation. he goes inside a house and finds a mirror with the sentence "i will be BAC" or something to that effect written on it. going inside the piano room and playing B-A-C will open a door with a razor inside which he can use a weapon of sorts. after that he goes outside the village to a field where there's a man stuck in the top of a well. you have to go get a syringe to put in him (i don't remember why he needed the syringe), which is in an area with some shadows. in the background there's some graffiti which says "the slice wuz here" (the slice is the protagonist's nickname in-universe). after he gets the syringe, he sticks it directly in the man in the well and he falls into the well. the protagonist then has no other option but to fall down the well, after which the demo ends.
there also might have been another character who followed the protagonist around as a helper (think Navi from Ocarina of Time). i may have misremembered some things, since i was still kind of young when i played this and my memory is generally not very good.
resolved [SOLVED] A Famicom/NES game from Contra series Videogame
I remember playing it as a kid, but it was on a borrowed cartridge, and I wasn't able to find it on the Web. What's worse, it could've been ported unofficialy from some other console.
It was definitely a Contra game, I think it was just called "New Contra". As far as I remember, it only had about six levels. First level featured a city, with attack helicopter as a boss. Later levels involved underground bunker with metal walls, something akin to ancient sewers, and later an even more decrepit abyss with jumping satyr-like enemies.
Another notable difference was that flamethrower (F weapon) wasn't like in, say, classic Contra. Typically F weapon sends a projectile flying in circles, back and forth, while inching forward, but in this game it just shot an expanding ball of fire.
Edited by VindicaropenChildren's Online Game? Videogame
So, this is a really random thing from childhood that popped into my head. I vaguely remember a series of online mini-games from the 2000s featuring commercial mascots. I do not remember all of them, but I just barely remember one where one of the mascots was a girl with I think blonde hair that had a spring for legs. You know, like those spring riders from children you see at the park. I think the goal of her game was to launch riders into the sky. I think the whole point of these mascots was they were naughty children turned transformed into ridiculous things.
I think there was a total of five mascots and I want to say they were for a juice pouch company like Kool-Aid or Capri Sun. Not sure which one. And I want to say there was a way to access these games from the Nickelodeon website, but they didn't actually belong to Nickelodeon
openhidden object adventure games Videogame
I played a lot of hidden object adventures when I was little, and I don't remember the names of many, but I remember one heavily featured snow leopards and had scenes with a bear trap and a broken ski lift, and another was set in China and had magic in it. The third one I can remember had vampires, with the main character being turned into a vampire to save her life and in turn she helps the guy vampire rescue his girlfriend from an evil lady vampire. any help would be appreciated! ^-^
openPoint and Click adventure game with lots of references Videogame
It was a point and click adventure where you played as a skeletal kid who had died because your friend accidentally gave you plums(?) which you were deathly allergic to and your goal was to find your friend before halloween ended. It took place on the day and night of halloween and a few big youtubers played it.
openPixeline Videogame
Played the first two games in the series as a kid. A cherry, feminine little girl with (in the Norwegian dub, at least) weird voice teaches kids about stuff in various screens and games. Also remember some of the songs (especially the bicycle one from the second game). An edutainment game series from the mid-90's from Denmark, similar to the edutainment games from America.
openI played a Timon and Pumbaa game on an airplane ride Videogame
As in, this game was available in the built-in screen on the back of the seat in front of mine, and there was likely a remote control of sorts to control it, there are films, games and other sorts of entertainment on it. I forget what airline this was, but in years I'd estimate 2008 - 2014? (That's about the time I was flying most often anyway.)
This game features Timon and Pumbaa, where you control the latter to move left and right on the ground as objects (mostly food) falls from the trees above (I believe it was Timon that was shaking the trees to do this?). One inedible object (that would knock out or weaken Pumbaa for a bit if it hits him) was a wooden sink of all things.
One prominent game mechanic made use of Pumbaa's farts. I forget if it's a charged ability that requires hold and release or a meter that accumulates the more he eats, but sending green fart clouds upwards can knock out bugs that would otherwise hurt him when they fall. Bigger fart cloud = wider knockout area.
Edited by BlackFaithStarresolved Animal mask riot game Videogame
I remember watching a video long ago that was about this game involving a riot crowd fighting against robots (I think), and there were animal masks in it, anybody have any idea what that may be?
openDinosaur hunting Videogame
Dinosaur Hunting has Tyrannosaurus with a feather mohawk. Surprisingly, in this game they are mere mooks (although one is a mini-boss), and easy to bring down if you have the right formula. Later near the end, two T. rex corpses were found, torn to pieces by an unknown gigantic predator. Implied to be a giant mutated ceratosaur who the final boss, which also kills a Spinosaurus. I was trying to find any video that showed this ceratosaurus but couldn't find the game or had any clue where to see it so long as its legitmate and legal.
Edited by oneforneutralpeaceopenitch.io visual novel Videogame
It was about purchasing an android and you would either romance it(?) or treat it as your child, everything was shown as a diorama and in the ending i got it was revealed that the entire story's framing device was that of a diorama presentation your android kid was giving in class. i think there was something about civil rights for the androids in the story too.
it was hosted on itch.io or gamejolt i don't remember which
Edited by masterpenguopenShmup game Videogame
It was available on the Xbox 360, had a Latin name, a red rose(?) logo with red text on a white background and was 2.5D.
I remember the games but not the name, it was heavily centered around darkness and the antagonist was something like an onryo, the first game was about escaping a house much like the "you are trapped on a room" and was first person perspective, the second was on an abandoned hospital and picked up directly from the end of the first game this time from a sidescrolling visual like an adventure game, I was told that there were other 2 games but i didnt play them and is one of the reasons I want to find the series before flash stops being supported. I also remember that it was on english but it seemed translated, so it could have be made from a non english speaking country.