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A pinball game on DOS, around 1994-1995, probably it was a few years old at that time. There were a few tables with a space-like setting, mostly in dark blue and black. The graphics were not cartoonish, and I think they were better than in Epic Pinball, but that could be just my memory (no pun intended).
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A PC-based video game from the mid-1980s, this was in monochrome colors and had (probably) 8-bit graphics. The story was that this guy would take a train (always at the top of the screen) from one station to the next, then he would have to take these crystals (diamond-shaped) he had with him and spread them out on the ground. The goal was to get as many crystals as you could and the more you spread on the ground, the faster they would grow, but at the same time, the more you spread, the faster the bad guys would come and steal the crystals from you.
I played this game on a computer in the public library in the summer of 1986. I thought it was fun then.
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I recall playing a demo for a game that came on the demo disk of several issues of the official PS 1 magazine (the UK one). You played as a guy who could plant bombs anywhere. Parts from the demo I can recall include;
- In a tutorial, a wedge shaped ship enemy appeared right in front of the character, causing him to tell his Mission Control "Enemy at close range". It helpfully sat there while you practised planting a bomb on it.
- If you died, the screen would fade to white and the player character would say "So this...is how it ends..." before collapsing.
- At one point you have to blow up an obstacle, leading to this exchange (paraphrased);
Mission Control: "Blow it up with a 'stack'"Character: "Stack?"MC: "A technique using multiple bombs for a more powerful blast [explains controls]."
- At the end of the demo, the main character comes up to a building, his MC tells him it's an enemy stronghold. It then fades out to him standing outside a burning building with people on fire rushing out, screaming that they're civilians. The mission control character tells him to calm down and the demo ends.
I'm about 76% sure that the title had "Bomber" in it somewhere.
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Might have been for the PS 1 or Dreamcast. Main character was a animal-superhero hybrid maybe, something like a spaceman. I think he wore a purple suit. It was a side-scroller, and the first level involved hopping/running/jumping through a junkyard full of tires. When you weren't playing the game, a demo played of him jumping through the tire yard.
That's about all I know.
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I have entered yet another query. This time I will attempt to try to be as not jackass-ish as possible.
This game was on the Nintendo 64. It might have been multi-platform but my mom rented it for me from...Blockbuster. It involved chameleons (or some other kind of lizard thingy) that could extend their tongues very far as the playable characters (not Yoshi...). There were multiple chameleons that were different colors. I think it was a 3d platformer like Super Mario 64. It may have just been playing Follow the Leader depending on when it came out.
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There was this computer game I played as a little kid. You play a guy who has to travel up a mountain, often using convoluted means. When you reach the top, there's the room with a giant. You take something from him and make your way down. When you reach the bottom, a huge meter goes up by a tiny amount and you have to do it all over again.
There were several games similar to that, but that's the one I can remember the most.
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This was a game we used to play in school, when I was maybe in third or forth grade. I think it was supposed to teach you grammar or spelling, I'm not really sure. Anyhow, there were different games you would play, and if you did well, you'd be rewarded with a cut scene of some characters enacting a twisted version of a classic story. The ones I remember were a "Charlotte's Web" where the pig gets eaten, and some version of The Wizard of Oz. One of the main characters of the game was a spider, and I think there was also a brain-type thing.
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Trying to remember a freeware game I downloaded and played a few years ago. The player character was a small creature that, if I remember right, looked a little like Q*bert. Anyway, the gameplay was fairly standard platforming, with the addition of special places you could stand and "distort" the world around you. This was necessary to get through the levels for various reasons (for example, distorted clouds might become solid so they could be walked across, or previously solid blocks might crumble when stepped on to allow you to drop through a floor). The game forced you to progressively distort further and further all the time, so much that the final levels were seriously creepy.
The only other thing that I really remember is the ending and secret ending. The normal ending goes like this: you finally reach the princess, the screen flashes dark, and you discover that she's some kind of demon. Presumably, she then kills you. In the secret ending, if you collect all the whatever-you're-supposed-to-collect-in-the-levels, the same thing happens, but the player character is also revealed to be a demon. So I guess they live happily ever after or something. Also, I -think- the title had something to do with music, but I'm not totally sure about that.
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This was an Edutainment Game I played in Kindergarten (around 1999 or 2000). I think it was on Mac. I can only remember two parts about it: in one, you're on a space station in zero-gravity, and if you click on something, Strauss' Blue Danube plays (recently figured this out). The other part is clicking on a radio transmitter will cause a guy to say "This is [I've forgotten the name, but it was something like "Big Bad Joe"] reporting live from Springtown!" and talk for a little while about... something. The name of this game has been bugging me for a long time. I also remember there being a guide, and I think it was a talking frog. Oh, and before you say Microsoft's Explorapedia: World of People, that's not it; I tried it, thinking that might be it, and it wasn't. I don't even think it's Mac-compatible, anyway.
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It was a computer game I played a few times at my cousin's house when I was younger. You start out a carnival or something, and there's a creepy old man there who talks to you at the beginning of the game and gives you all the background information or whatever. I think at some point you get transported to some other world or something? Sorry I'm being vague; it was a long time ago. This was probably about 8 or 10 years ago, if that helps at all.
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This troper played a demo for a game when she was a child, and can't remember the name of it for the life of her. The game was an edutainment one for computers. The graphics were very bright and cartoony, and the characters were all animals that talked and acted like people. The "main character" (that is, the one who instructed the player on what to do) was an otter, if memory serves. The game seemed to have been made to teach the players about other countries. The demo was limited to some Central American one (most likely Mexico, because the otter starts the demo by saying "I can't wait to eat some tacos!")
The game was point and click, with no actual plot beyond the visiting of other countries that this troper remembers. The gameplay was centered around minigames, like one where the player colored a stained-glass window (done like a coloring book)
The demo was included on a disk of demos from the magazine "CD-Rom Today". This troper is almost certain it was a 1995 issue, so the game was likely released around that time.
If anyone has heard of this, any news would be welcomed. :)
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There was an old Game Maker program I used to have back in the late 1990s when I was very young. I think it was called "Games Factory", but I never found it since. I recall one of the games that came with it was called Zed or Zeb or whatever it was called, which was a side-scrolling platformer where you shoot enemies, and the first half of the game took place in some jungle while the second half took place in some sort of purple factory setting. I never did beat it, but I looked in the editor itself and saw that the Final Boss was a yellow Humongous Mecha or something like that.
Another example game that came with it was a top down shooter and had the player as a magician shooting enemies. I recall the Final Boss being a giant skull.
And there were these small examples on how to build a game or something like that, in three categories ranging from "Easy", "Medium" and "Hard", and one of the platformer examples had the player character from Zeb or Zed.
Does anyone remember this old Game Maker?
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There was this educational, not-quite-a-game about space called "Nine Worlds" about 12 or 13 years ago. Google searches don't return anything useful and my disk cracked a few years ago. Does anyone know if there's an ISO of it I can download?
EDIT: It had this orrery screen where if you clicked a planet, you would get a full-screen photo of that planet. There was a video for each one except the sun, asteroids, and Earth; they all had Patrick Stewart narrating them, and the soundtracks were mostly synth versions of Holst's The Planets.
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This was a flash game on the old Bonus.com before something happened to it and the whole site seemed to vanish. I'm almost positive this game still exists because I've seen other games from that site on other sites. It was a tournament fighter a la Street Fighter with a Japanese name and it was the third or fourth installment of its series. It had three or four characters, all of which were cute little chibi animals (one example is a round yellow duck-like creature and another was a blue bear-like creature). The final boss was a shadow thing that looked somewhat like a common Heartless from Kingdom Hearts. If you beat it, or if you did a code on the character select screen, you could play the game as that boss. I swear I'm not making this up, does anyone else remember this?
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Alright, this is an old NES game that I used to adore as a little girl (like, aged 5 or 6), and one of the first games I fashioned a "code book" for, since this was before games had actual save states.
Basically, here's all I remember about it:
It's a puzzle solving type game, in which you take the character and navigate the levels by pushing switches, moving turnstiles, setting traps, and avoiding creatures trying to stop you.
A lot of, if not all, the levels are icy and decorated in a winter or arctic feel.
It's an overhead view, or maybe it was isometric... I'm almost certain it's overhead though.
There's a princess you are supposed to be trying to get to, and these levels are the worlds between.
It's not a Mario game.
With a lot of icy levels, the uses of white, gray and blue color pallets make the game seem pretty vibrant for an 8-Bit game, on account of all the similar shades of color avaible in those spectrums.
I recall something having to do with turnips, or radishes, or something like that, and I think the princess and the character you play as are either fruit or vegetable based (Again, it's NOT Princess Peach, or any Mario characters.)
The only thing I can think of as far as the style of the title is something like "Princess Vegetable and the Land of Ice" or something, but I'm sure I'm wrong there.
This is an old NES game for sure, and I remember it being one of my most favorites out of my stash. But, I'm 22 now, and that was over a decade and a half ago, so it's no wonder I don't know the name a clearly as the rest.
Anybody know this one? I'm starting to wonder if it was an obscure game, or maybe even a hack, because we did get it from a yard sale...
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I should know this one. I know I should. It was a NES game, I think with a name like "Flying Heroes". The game was essentially a martial arts duel game. For parts of the game, you were walking side-to-side and had to defeat mooks, then you'd wind up in an arena to fight a single boss fight in a tournament points-type setting. There was a tie-in comic in one of the gaming magazines which followed the main characters as they fought a boxer in the ring, including revealing that the opponent was vulnerable to sweeps because boxers never think to protect their legs. The control scheme allowed blocking high, middle, or low by pressing the correct direction (maybe with select?) and striking (I think with punches and kicks) in the same dimensions with the buttons. I remember that there was an indicator of where your opponent planned to strike so that you could block, and occasionally, an opponent would get a star on a given body part to indicate that you could do more damage striking there.
The cover art showed the heroes in monochromatic armor (red and blue, I think?) with big winged helmets, rising up into the air. And for some reason, I feel like the game had at least two different titles, either that or there were two similar games out there with titles that varied by a single word.

I'm looking for this old PSX Party game I recall playing as a child. It was based mainly as a sort of a Power Stone type of fighting game where the final boss was referred to as "The Battle King". Does this ring any bells?