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TailsDoll
Since: Apr, 2012
DelphineTheDelphox
Since: Jul, 2019

This was an arcade game I played as a kid. I never got passed the first level.
It was a sidescroller that took place in a jungle, or maybe a forest. You played as some kid. In the first level, there was a part where you reach a river and you need to buy a boat to make it across. If you bought the mud boat, it would make it halfway across and then sink, meaning you had to jump far to reach the other end, but a grass boat would take you all the wall. If you got a game over, you'd see the player character unconscious in the background while some girl in the foreground would cry and beg you to continue. If you continue, the hero gets up and runs back into the action while the girl thanks you. If you choose not to continue, the PC dies and the girl angrily calls you a bad guy.
Sorry, that's all I remember.
Edited by DelphineTheDelphox