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There was a Playstation 1 demo disc. I remember it so vividly but online searching has gotten me nothing.
There was a hand on the disc's image. When you started it up, the intro was of a submarine just... moving through the water (as they tend to do). One game on it was Mr Driller; the other one I can remember was an RPG. It was pretty generic, but I specifically remember a part where your party is walking along a path and out of the shadows, an archer shoots at you and one of your guys gets unavoidably shot in the leg. That's it. And it bothers me to no end.
EDIT: The RPG is Legend Of Dragoon.
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There are two educational games that I remember very well, but I forgot their names. The first takes place in the lab of a mad scientist. It was a puzzle game where you put pieces together to get them to work. (When I typed in "mad scientist educational game" on Google the Dr. Brain series was the first to come up though I am mostly sure it was not in that series.) The second takes place on an island. It was a point-and-click adventure game similar to Spy Fox (it was certainly not a Humongous game though) and the protagonists were a young pirate boy and his purple dog. Do these games sound familiar to anyone?
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There was a side-scrolling NES game I remember but cannot remember the name of. I don't remember the protagonist, but I think he was a ninja (not Ninja Gaiden or Shadow Of The Ninja). The first stage was set in a city, and sometimes you had to go through sewers (it's not Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles either). I think you could enter some buildings in the background to a single room.
At the end of the stage, you would go through a large hole in a brick wall in the background and fight a massive guy in front of a solid black screen who would jump and cause rocks to fall above your position... can anyone remember this game?
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This was an edutainment game for the Mac, from around the mid-90s.
The game had you exploring the Amazon (or maybe a fictional rainforest?) in search of a magic crystal. I don't remember much of the gameplay, but I think it was a lot of stock puzzles/brainteasers/activity-book-style games. You eventually find the crystal, but it starts to fall from a great height, and you have to stretch out a net across the bottom of the screen to catch it. It's not actually possible to catch it with the net in time, but the crystal is saved by a hand that grabs it from offscreen. A group of natives had caught it and are about to hand it over to you- but then they accidentally drop it! The crystal is ruined, but then the game informs you that you can make one on a computer anyway. The last activity is to draw a crystal, and I think the game would have accepted just about anything you drew. Then you win the game.
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A few years ago, I saw a forum user whose avatar was from what looked like a really old computer game (the picture had a very small color palette). The picture showed a male character wearing a yellow football helmet, smiling, and giving a thumbs up. Also, he was wearing pink, and he had no skin color.
Does this ring a bell with anyone?
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I remember a computer game I played as a kid, but I can't find it anywhere anymore. This must've been 10 years ago or something like that. It was about green musical mice.
Basically it took place in a hotel, and they had an orchestra of green mice. The mice escaped, and it was up to the player to find and catch them all to make the orchestra complete. You went around to different rooms in the hotel and clicked things to find where they were hiding.
Sound familiar?
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There was a card game that was sold on TV for that classic $19.95 Price. The name escapes me, but I owned a few of the cards from this game, and it seemed to contain a mix of Marvel Superheroes, Sports, and Martial Arts, with such cards as Daredevil, Jeet Kune Do, and Lawnmower Racing.
Anyone remember this?
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There was this Arcade beat-them-up (as far as i know it was Arcade only) that had a "Treasure" feel (the videogame company), as in, very weird and innovative gameplay.
For example, you get to choose the first 4 stages and even if they STILL have their theme of Water World, Fire World, etc in each one of them, the layout, enemies and bosses at the end change depending of what stage you did first.
Some of your powers consist streaching your arms like rubber and pick up enemies to throw them by holding a direction and the attack buttom. Another is to tap repeatedly the attack buttom to do a Rapid Fire Fisticuffs on the spot.
And you most common enemies are fat dudes with googles(the first boss of the fire world is a giant mechanical version of it)
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I'm trying to remember a game I used to play. It was a really old (I'm pretty sure I got it form an abandonware site), life simulator. The thing that makes this stand out tough was that when in game, you'll see several squares connected by lines, when you selected one of the squares a scenario would play out and you'll get several choices. Once you were done with that square you'll get a message along the lines of " Due to X, you lost/gained Y in Z sphere" I'm not sure if the game really called it "spheres" but basically they were your stats. (Like Intelligence and Vitality I think?) I also remember you could choose at what stage of life you wanted to start playing: new born, toddler, child and maybe as an adult but I don't remember.
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My friend is looking for an old game she used to play. This is what she says about it: "you were stuck in this...castle... thing. held prisoner by a... warlock? mage? wizard? something. and you had chores to do and shit and... I THINK it was a click and point, but I'm not sure. anyway
and you gathered items to escape
but if you were caught out of your room
START OVER"
Anyone have any ideas?
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It was a PC game. I remember that when I bought it, around 1997, it was already mildly dated (I never had an up-to-date computer, which meant I typically bought things that were a few years old). Vaguely chess-based except that some (all?) of the pieces were treated as military vehicles. The only one that sticks out in my head was that there were airplane pieces that had limited fuel, so you had to fly them across the board, deploy the bombs, then fly them back. Complicating things, it was all in real-time. Said pieces were rendered as basic geometric shapes and I think there were several scenarios.
I want to say that the color scheme was very limited, possibly down to 16-color VGA, but I could be wrong.
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A PC game that came bundled with a relative's computer in the mid to late 90s. I assume it was a budget title. It was a top-down action game where you played a buff soldier-type dude wielding a huge gun in each hand, walking around an outdoor area shooting tons of enemies (aliens, I think). The game's opening cinema showed that the dude was just one of many identical clone soldiers produced on an assembly line- they're grown in a vat, then put in a chair to have their brains zapped full of knowledge, then shipped out to the battlefield.
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There's this game on the internet I'd love to play again, but I can't remember its name.. you start making your character, who can be customized with a simple character creator with various hair styles, colors, accessories ect. Then you can play through the levels (there's 3 or 4 worlds with 6 levels in each, and you can access the worlds in any order you want (you have to do each set of levels in order from 1-6 though) and near the end of each level you get a question, related to moral issues, philosophical questions and that sort of things, where you answer "yes" or "no". You also get an collectible item, which varies after what you answered. After answering, you go through a door and play a game against the boss creature, where you place pieces with numbers down on a game board and try to flip the other pieces over to your color by putting a larger number close to it.
The gameplay is 2D platformer.
Anyone know what this is? I know the post with it went around on tumblr some months ago...
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I’m looking for a video game: It was a (presumably) mid-90s jump-n-run game for Windows (or DOS). Somehow it involved a (naturally coloured) snail that just crawled about and wasn’t harmful in the normal ‘mode’. At times, however, the snail would grimace and start to shit, at which point being in the vicinity risked your life or made you lose points or something like that. I think that its excrements (that it may or may not have left behind) shouldn’t be touched either, but I’m not too sure about that. I just distinctly remember this grimacing snail and the defecation that was accompanied by some stereotypical ‘pooping’ sound. Does that ring a bell with anyone? I’m sorry that I can’t give any more informative details.
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I remember seeing a this on a trope page a few years back, but can't find it for the life of me. It's a tactics game where initiating The Nuclear Option required you to call a phone number in real life, and it played what the results would sound like — not pretty. Anyone know the title? Much appreciated.
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I already know it's going to be extremely vague...but I'll give it a shot.
It's a DOS or early Windows action/adventure/platform game made for children. You're playing as a bear (either a real bear or an animated teddy bear, I'm not quite sure) and your goal, as in many action/adventure games is to go through every level.
Now as for the game itself: the things I remember are that the BGM was classical music re-done to sound good on PC, there were giant pretzels (amongst others, of course) as enemies and I *think* you had to defeat them with a yo-yo...but I could also be mistaking that for the yo-yo from Trolls.
Anyone who wants to take a look or give it some thought, thanks in advance! 8D
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This was a game for MSDOS that I played in the early nineties, on the same computer on which I played Crystal Caliburn and the VGA version of Quest For Glory 1. The game was set in a medieval setting, and had a top-down view. The graphics were in gray scale, I think, and not very detailed. I remember there was a castle you were supposed to go to and the level was kind of maze-like, and you could collect armor and weapons by walking on them.
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Okay so this was a game I played back around 2004-2006 approximately. It was a flash or java game, I know it was in-browser. The gameplay consisted of moving someone in a mecha-suit thing around a hexagonal grid and killing your enemies, but it wasn't bloody. Very high-tech and gritty feel to it, the graphics were dark I know that. I want to say it was on Cartoon Network as a game, but I remember playing this twice then never again but I loved it. When you died, a little capsule shot out of your suit and I presume that was your character. Also, I remember two levels distinctly; one was plains surrounded by mountains and building ruins, another was a long strip of land with three units on each team. I remember searching for this but being unable to find it.
I am not really keen on finding out what this game actually is (rather seeing how reliable this service is, but I still think about it from time to time. I only played a demo of this game years ago but from what I (think I) can remember, the character was a young...uh, person? S/he was wearing an outfit which covered the head but a lot of it stuck out the front in an upwards fashion and the hair was blond. It was very cartoony. It may have been a platformer and, it may have just been a small portion of the game, but it involved rolling a giant egg bigger than the player character somewhere.