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I'm looking for several old games from the Cartoon Network site. They were probably removed, but I'm just looking for their names. There as a Dexter's Laboratory game, where Dee Dee accidentally... sent Dexter into a computer, and you had to navigate through a bunch of levels to get out. Gameplay... there were several enemy types, but I remember there were bolts(screws) that you could move to crush them, or would crush you, or would block your path. Also, you only had 3 lives, if that's any help. Also, there was another game I remember, it was like a turn based rpg, but your actions represented "hacking". What you were hacking, I don't remember. One more game... it was basically a top down racer, and the vehicles looked like the vehicles from F-Zero. There were a lot of locked things as well...
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More recent, should be easy?
A Flash game where you are looking at the side view of two or three apartment buildings. You had an entire night to make, break, and fix love relationships, and at the end of the night, you'd have romances, loneliness, or, they would commit suicide.
Graphics were fairly simple, and it had to have been in the past couple years.
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Workless example from Triang Relations:
"Malfurion Stormrage (A), his brother Illidan (B), and Tyrande (C) are in this sort of triangle. Malfurion and Tyrande are a happy couple, Illidan is loyal (at the beginning) to Malfurion, but loves Tyrande."
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There was this game I saw being played at some science center back in the days when the Xbox was new. It had this cel-shaded look to it and from what I remember, it started with this young boy going on an errand for his mum since everyone he talked to in the hub world kept mentioning that. Later on, there was this boss fight with these three kids in a car and they told you how many times you had to hit them (3 times, since I think it was a really early boss fight). The whole game was really colorful and cutesy
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There was that game for PC I think. You controlled ninja (as far as I can think, I am sure he and probably entire game, had cartoonish graphics) and you fought enemies, progressing the levels. If I remember, over time your headger/belt/can't remember what exactly it was would change colors, giving you access to new levels. If I recall correctly, the very first level was locked after beating it, and wasn't unlockable until laaaaaaater in the game. The first "zone" after that... it was beach, I think.
Man, I played this so long ago, I am not sure about these details.
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It was an arcade game that I used to play during the late 80s/early 90s; specifically, I used to play it at a skating rink. Side-scrolling fantasy RPG in a kind of Asian kingdom; the whole game has an Asian aesthetic to it. You could also do special attacks by hitting both the attack and jump buttons together that might have been Cast from Hit Points, but it might also have just been a simple wide attack to hit foes surrounding you. You had different main characters, and the one I used to always use was a bowman. His special attack was unstringing his bow and whirling it around him before restringing it to keep shooting arrows.
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I remember seeing a preview for this on a British gaming show called Game Pad, a video game I think was either survival horror or action adventure, but I'm totally unsure...
What I can remember is that it appeared to be Sci-fi, the main character was a male and he's talking to a woman in a cutscene. Suddenly, the girl is captured by a giant monster that proceeds to bite her head off then chase the protagonist. A Gilligan cut to a hallway where he has to press face buttons to dodge obstacles before he's killed.
If it helps, the game was probably rated M (due to the onscreen and bloody decapitation) and was definitely for a Play Station console due to the face buttons matching those for a Play Station controller
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- Old first person videogame (early '90s) - Played on a PC - You needed to get elevator keys to asend the levels in the building while killing people in lab coats on the way. - Also creatures that looked like "The Thing" from Fantastic 4 and barrels of acid. - You could collect first aid, amo and larger guns - I believe as you were injured, the screen would turn red
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there's this video game i read about in a magazine years ago, think it was PS 1-era. protagonist was a teenage girl with blue hair and a large crescent-shaped barrette which she could throw like a boomerang. the plot was her being trapped in another world and looking for her brother. NP Cs are cat-dog crossbreed-looking things. the only thing that escapes me is the name.
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Hell-o, you know the drill - long lost game I have played as a child/youngster, completely forgot the game (and was unable to google it), yet I remember quite vividly almost everything else about it.
It is at least 10, more like 15 years old game. It was shareware (I will get to the limit later) game for Windows (95? 98? or even 3.1?), so played in window. You controlled a tank and opponent (AI or human on different set of keys) controlled other one. I think it was basic red/blue colors.
The arena, where the battle took place had walls and you could move the walls by driving into them (and slowly pushing them). There were also mud zones which slowed you down. I think there were three zones - snow, grass, mud (but maybe I am confusing it with Warcraft 2 ... or maybe both games used the same themes). Also, it wasn't just you and opponent, few enemies appeared (little AI controlled tanks, squads of soldiers and a helicopter).
The helicopter was very difficult to kill (and always respawned- after some time after killing) and while helicopter appeared in something like level 3 or 5, it showed message "shareware copy, please register".
It is completely possible that single player "campaign" had just your tank vs squads, little tanks and ocassional helicopter. I'm not sure if there were any bonuses, it's possible. Graphic was very basic, nowadays it would be playing with pixels, but back then, average graphics for such game.
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My other query was some games I played while I was fairly young.
One was on a Win 3.11 machine, at a friend's house. This could have been no later than 1993, as my friends moved during that year. It was an edutainment game, I think, top down like GTA. You had to deliver and pick up people from bus stops? All I remember is that it was fairly simply colored, I think flat green ground, flat almost-black streets, with little dots on the bottom representing something. I was 5 at the oldest if I played this, so yeah, very vague. (I was born in 87. I'm pretty sure they moved away before my birthday very late in the year.)
The other was a Mac Classic game, probably 7, maybe 6. I played it around my second grade year in Elementary School, and it was definitely an edutainment game. It was a first person maze with gates: in order to pass the gates, you had to answer math questions, maybe more than that.
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I have a vague recollection of watching someone else play a game, don't remember the console, although it was 3D and rather modern graphics, probably PS 2 or something like that.The memory involved a level (?) and you having control of first a man, then a woman and finally some sort of animal (mentioned as a dog) transcending the level (might have been a tower) and then getting sealed away one after another. Anyone know this game from this?
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I believe it was a videogame cutscene. I saw it once somewhere. It was some giant godlike dude holding the earth. And like, he poked it with one finger, and there was flames from him breaking into the atmosphere. and just before he touches the ground, the finger is caught by a hero with stupidly bulky muscles, and is driven into the ground. I don't remember there being any more than that. Anyone know what is was?
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I'm trying to remember this game a childhood friend of mine had. It must have been around 10 years ago we played it, probably on a PS 2 (though it could have been older). I live in the UK.
It was a fantasy setting and a turn-based strategy. You could adventure around a map (not in first-person, it was literally a map view) and hope to encounter different fantasy creatures that you could hire for your army. I remember using ogres, giants, dragons, daemons and sprites, with sprites looking like how I would picture faries. The battles were done by moving your groups - represented by one of each species/band thing - around a chessboard-like grid, with some types of units able to attack from range.
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I remember seeing video's about some cool haunted house sim game or something where you need to use ghosts placed on various levels like a home and a party boat to scare people away. Also there were some sort of ghostbuster ripoff guys in the later levels and one of the ghosts was a cat that huanted a pinball machine or something. Also it was relatively recent.

This is a really obscure one. It was a really bizarre platform game based on someone's dreams, and the levels were nonsensical. The colour scheme was primarily beige on a sky blue background, and I'm 99% sure it is a Game Maker game. The style reminded me a lot of Karoshi or Eversion.