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There was a computer game at my elementary school I played in the mid-90's. I'm pretty sure it was called Math Racer or Math Racers but I can't find any info on Google. 1997 or older. Basically, there were different types of races in the game, a jogging race, a car race, a bicycle race and a couple other races. You had to answer a math problem correctly to get further in the race and when you answered it correctly, your character shouted, "Yeah!". Can anyone help me find screenshots to refresh my memory?
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I have a list of several video games from various genres and generations that I'm trying to remember. Here are my descriptions in rough chronological order of how old they are, starting with the most recent:
1) An online Flash game in the puzzle genre with an isometric view. Each level spawns a single-file line of small creatures (I can't remember if they're robots, aliens, or whatever) that must be guided to an exit. Your main tools are placing a limited number of arrows on the ground to redirect the minions, and in some levels they have to hop on springs to get over gaps or collect keys to open doors. I'm not positive on this, but the arrows might also be color-coded so that only certain minions will follow them, which adds an extra dimension of thinking to later levels. I played this game sometime within the last decade, so while it's at least from 2000 I doubt it's newer than around 2008. (Found: it's called Light Brigade)
2) Another browser-based PC game that I played sometime between 2002-2004. The gameplay is similar to Geometry Wars in that the entities are abstract shapes in an open 2D arena. It's actually a multiplayer game in that each player is in their own arena, but their performance makes enemies spawn for the other players. I think you get power-ups like weapons, shields, and such as pickups from destroyed enemies, and I also think the enemies spawn from wormhole-like areas. The last player alive wins the round.
3) A point-and-click adventure game for the PC which I saw sometime in the mid-1990s. As I recall it was near-future or cyberpunk with dark and realistic visuals. The one memory that sticks out in my mind is that the line for I Can't Use These Things Together would be a somewhat deep male voice saying "Hmm, that doesn't work" and the cursor would be a slowly spinning hourglass. I checked the examples on that trope page but nothing particularly sticks out. The closest thematic match I've found so far is Beneath A Steel Sky, but that's a little too alien and not quite as dark as I recall.
4) A sci-fi space exploration game. The graphics are similar to the Atari 2600, maybe a little more advanced. I don't actually know what platform it's on because I only saw it in a video embedded on someone's website, but it could have been an older home computer like the Commodore 64. In any case, the player flies over planets in 2D scrolling segments much like Defender but can also fly through space between planets (I don't remember what that part looked like). Throughout the game the player encounters alien ships that are either red or blue; one type is friendly while the other is hostile. Shooting hostile aliens gives you money from bounties, while shooting friendly aliens causes you to get fined. However, the change in money only applies when you dock at spaceports. If you accrue enough fines that you don't have enough money to pay, you're imprisoned and lose the game.
5) An ASCII-based train simulator game from no later than around 1992. Because of the limited graphics it's simply white characters on a black screen, and there's no screen scrolling so the whole track is confined to one screen. The one gameplay feature I remember is that you can build rail junctions and control the switches with the keyboard keys, and each junction is marked with the key that controls it. (Edit: This was almost certainly a DOS game.)
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In about 1999-2001, I was enthralled by a game, but I've forgotten almost everything about it. The main things I remember is that you're trying to escape this open-top box. To do this, you have to melee other characters like yourself (blocky, cuboid humanoids). When they die, their body parts scatter on to the terrain, and you have to make a hill to escape from the box. I also remember guys with bombs instead of blocks for heads, and that the title screen had blocks slowly falling into the box that you play in. It's hard to explain, but I remember the box was white. If you need more info, I might have it, so ask. Thanks
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I've been looking for this old game I played a demo of once. I remember it came with My First Encyclopedia (which may have been a demo itself, I can't recall), which also came with several other demos including Aviation Adventure. Or it may have come with Aviation Adventure; I don't know. It came with one of those two games, and it was in demo form.
I remember one moment in particular. You could make the game assemble an image of a bridge, and it would do it to the tune of "London Bridge is Falling Down". That's the main sticking point in my memory.
I've been doing a little research of my own, and I think the game may have been Magic Theater. I'd like some more info to confirm, though.
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You know of an arcade game that features bowling. Not sure when it came out, maybe the 90's. But it had over the top slapstick humor (there was this one guy, in one case if he got a gutter ball he shrugged and suddenly a bowling ball hits him in the head where he gets a bump in the shape of a bowling pin) anyone know what the name of the game was called?
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this was a console game i had tried out in best buy when i was young. it was basically some robot going around a house. it could collect "happy points" and i believe there was a little girl with a flower costume. it may be called chibi-robo, but i'm not totally sure.
help?
edit: disregard. i looked it up and it was indeed chibi-robo. though why it was at best buy is beyond me.
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I'm trying to recall a game, which I THINK appeared on the Dreamcast.
It's a racing game, but the races were split into many different parts, all with a different discipline, so for example you'd be running, then you'd be on a bike, then swimming, that sort of thing, all in one race.
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A videogame (I think it was an RPG) where when you died fighting the final boss, he'd narrate what horrible punishment he had in store for you. One of them went "You shall be given the punishment of "Enemy of the Gods" You will be reincarnated again and again, in each life being feared and hated..."
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Hi.
I'm trying to remember this game for Playstation One it played like Star Fox but after each level you could control your character and explore some sort of space station or something, I remember this character had a green shirt and red-ish hair. Unfortunately I can't remember anything else, so any help is appreciated.
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I'm not sure if this belongs here, as I don't know much about the work, but what game is the image here
from? I know it's a game that can't be more recent than about 2003, and it looks to be PS 1 era.
(Again, I'm not sure if I have enough information, but...)
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I'm trying to remember if there was a game like this when I was a kid, because it was one of the first 3D game that was on either the SNES or N64 (I had those systems only at the time).
The gameplay looked RP Gish. Whenever you bump into monster, there was a white (hexagon?) ring that acted like the arena with you and the monster in it. It was also action based, as you could swing the sword to defeat the monster.
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A game with dinosaurs in it for the Playstation 1. Not sure if it had humans in it or not. I remember the first level was a jungle and there was a ditch and I think some velociraptors and a triceratops. Not sure if it was a Jurassic Park game or not. I think it came with the Playstation itself. Everything is a blur and I owned it around the same time I owned Crash Bandicoot. Different types of guns may have also been involved. I didn't get too far in the game.
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I'm looking for a game that I'm certain is on TV Tropes, and has some gameplay videos on You Tube
- The game is isometric
- The protagonist has short white hair, starts off with a hammer, and was said to be a soldier. He wakes up in pitch black with the world forming around him.
- The game is narrated, the name is probably Rusk or something like that. When the protagonist first falls off a cliff, the narrator is like "And then he fell to his death. (Beat) Naw, I'm just foolin'." and he falls from the top back on solid ground.
- There is a short, Portal-based Easter egg.
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Pretty sure this was an SNES gane, but might not be. It was an action adventure game, with solvable puzzles, ala Zelda, but I think the sprites were more realistically proportioned, though quite thin for it. I think the first dungeon was a cave, and you got a ring to help solve puzzles, but not a Tales of game.
I played it on a whimsy many years ago, but can't remember the name of the game now.
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I'm looking for a PC game made sometime, I believe, in the 90s or early 2000s. I think it was edutainment, but I'm not terribly sure. I remember that in the game, you had a net that you could catch these gnomes or dwarfs with, and if you managed to catch one then they would ask you a question or something like that. I think that if you got the question right, you would get coins. I'm not sure. You're on a mountain trying to reach the top. At multiple points in the game you climb a ladder. The bad guy sometimes shows up when you're climbing. I remember sometimes he would get really angry at you and would turn red and then smoke would come out of his ears. There may or may not be a castle at the top of this mountain. This game may or may not involve magic dust or something along the lines of magic dust.
I think this might have been in a series of games. One of the other games involved swimming in the ocean.
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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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I'm looking for a Star Trek (or Star Trek-esque) video game that was on Windows from the 90's or possibly early 2000's. It was possibly based on The Next Generation but I'm not sure.
It was played from the first person perspective of someone aboard a starship. The main thing I remember is that right at the beginning you talked to another character who hid his combadge in one of his hands and you had to guess what hand it was in. Later in the game you got to go around the ship, I remember the bridge and engineering were accessible.
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It was a Bugs Bunny flash game on the Cartoon Network website in which you served a bunch of other toons food in a restaurant. I haven't been able to play it in a while and don't remember what it is called. Any ideas?

There is a game I played once on the school computer in primary/elementary school. It was a pinball game, which ran on Windows 95. Various point targets to hit were named, variously, the "Super Implant, " the "Cybernetic Implant, " the "CPU Hog" and the "Ice Breaker." The background image for the pinball field was a woman in a red dress. Rumours that scoring high enough or hitting certain targets would make her dress turn green or make her take it off were NOT confirmed. The game would record three high scores and allow the high scorer to enter initials only. Allegedly, the background music was sexually suggestive and may have included heavy breathing sounds, but by the time I played it, the school administrators had figured out how to disable the music and I only played it once before they figured out how to delete the whole thing. Exactly what game is this? Where did it come from? Does anybody know? Even Google is stumped.