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an old computer game where you had to find dinosaur bones and you would walk around a dark empty museum and you could click on exhibits to find out about animals and dinosaurs and other stuff, you would find dinosaur bones by going down in this big machine and going through layers of rock and scanning dinosaur bones to see if they were from the correct age. Then when you found a complete set of bones you could make the dinosaur come alive again and it would wander around the museum and you could see it walking around. It was in the old looking 1990 sort of computer graphics.
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There was this game on my PS 2 Demo CD which involved you running around in dungeons, finding houses which you could then place on a big empty meadow. Once you placed them, you could enter them and talk to the owners of the house. The graphics were pretty bright and it was a typical Third-Person-RPG (IIRC). The plot was somewhere along "So there's that village, and then there's that evil cult that banished the village and placed shards of it in dungeons, so you go to the dungeon and rebuild that village by finding the shards". I played the Demo like hell back then, but eventually, I forgot about the game. Until recently, where it popped back into my mind and drove me crazy. Of course, I don't have the demo CD anymore. >_<
So, does anyone know which game that could be?
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This was something Armake21 covered before his account got deleted, and one of the few games he actually enjoyed and just did an LP for. It was an FPS, I think for the original Xbox or the 360, that had a standard "Amnesiac wakes up in an office building and has to use the combat skills he never knew he had to fight his way to safety and solve his past" plot. He used an MP 5 for pretty much the whole video, and unlike pretty much every other game the protagonist was seen taking the magazine out of a gun and pocketing it whenever he took ammo from a dropped weapon. He regained health by drinking sodas and eating energy bars. I think there was a part where there was a helicopter shooting through the windows at him.
And I'm pretty sure the game started with a mandatory firing range tutorial. Like, the guy was locked in this room and given daily training for some thing that never got revealed.
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There was this computer game I had as a kid(early 00s). It was about this family living in a spaceship(I think it was), and we could go around the different floors, clicking on things to play games, see animations, play cutscenes ect. There was no real "plot", more a just-for-fun game. The graphic style in the game was cartoony, and if I remember correctly, very colorful, with bright colors. I remember the basement being a secret level, and to access it you had to click a certain place to view a cutscene about the cat jumping into the laundry, getting thrown into the washing machine and ending up in the basement. Anyone know? Another cutscene had the little girl messing around with the temperature in the sink while her dad is in the shower, making the water first really cold and then really hot.
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An Edutainment Game from the late 90s (pretty sure it was on a CD). It was of the point-and-click variety.
It started at a squirrel's house (who lives in a Hobbit-style house under a tree). The squirrel may have been a flying squirrel, brown and was completely batshit insane - Ambiguous Gender. After an introduction you would (along with a Chew Toy sidekick) get into a spaceship that's on a rail (it may have been underground, not sure) and solve maths puzzles to open up giant doors to continue.
I can't remember much apart from that and one part where you had to either point out the vowels or put the correct vowels in words while the Chew Toy was slowly lowered into a vat of acid/lava. There was also this calm female character who would start that level/part by telling you what the vowels are ("and sometimes 'y'" has been stuck in my head ever since).
I may have confused some of this with other games. Part of me thinks that it's very similar (style-wise) to Baba Yaga and the Magic Geese
but that might be a coincidence.
EDIT: I also want to say that you travelled to the past for a history lesson but that might be a different game.
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I'm trying to remember the name of a videogame I played years ago... it was a space-sim for PC. Fairly primitive graphics, with combat taking place from a top-down 2D perspective. The most noteable feature was that there was no 'main storyline' - you'd fly around and pick up various missions, and depending on which you picked up, you'd get shuttled into one storyline or another. The one I wound up with had me turn out to be a powerful psychic who could create spaceships through telekinetic projections, but was then enslaved and controlled by a shadowy government organization who apparently did nothing BUT control and enslave powerful psychics who can create spaceships through... yeah, you get the picture.
Also, there were Scottish Mercenaries IN SPACE.
I THINK it was a fairly 'indie' title, possibly a 'fanwork' based on some older game, but I'm nowhere near certain. The really annoying thing, though, is that I'm almost certain that I first heard about that game... here, on T Vtropes. But I can't remember which article I found it mentioned in, or I could just rediscover it there...
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Alright, this is a tough one.
Back when I was a kid, there was this place where they would have a bunch of PSX's rigged to TV's and you could pay to play by the hour. Simple stuff. They had every game pirated, so, many times they'd have a game with no label, mislabeled, or a Japanese game with no title in english. This is such case.
I remember it had a picture in the CD-Case-Thingie that read as "Metal Warrior(s?) 2", though after searching high and low, the game had absolutely nothing to do with the original Metal Warriors on SNES.
In the game, you control a blue mecha, it's a side scrolling beat-em-up style game, robots come after you, you break them to pieces, easy enough. You fill up a circle in the left hand bottom corner that lets you do special attacks, though with the shoulder buttons you could pull off stronger moves than the average attack (I think so, though I may be wrong about that tidbit)
First level, I remember, was an urban battlefield, set in a park-like place. That's all I remember, really.
anyways, I've been looking for this one for a while. Anyone got it?
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It's a videogame for the SNES and had multiple characters to start off as. One was a girl with wings from a floating island. The game is not Secret of Mana. I am constantly having people suggest this. There is a town where the dead rise at night and visit their families. It's an RPG with night and day and had a big maze on the world map.
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A PS 1 game, not sure when it was released. It was one of the games we rented when we first got our Playstation (which was 12 years ago). It was some sort of shooting game, but I don't remember which type. My memory on it is very vague, the only thing I remember was that the intro showed two cartoonish guys (I think they might have had moustaches) shooting things and laughing. Other than that, I don't remember anything else about the game.
Anyone know what game this is?
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I remember reading a preview in an old Game Informer about a game where you'd play a survivor of an apocalyptic scenario involving weird red growths on the environment (something like fungus or the Blacklight Virus growths from Prototype), working together with other survivors to try to get to safety. It was also promised that the disaster would not be an alien invasion. I can't remember the name or if anything ever came of it, though.
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This game just popped into my head today, and I'd like to know what it's called.
It's a point-and-click adventure produced around 1997-1999, and it's for PC. The main character was a koala, but the player played as a fly. If memory serves, the fly's purpose was to investigate what's going on, and help out the other characters. I remember the box art showed a puppet koala run over by a car (it was covered in tire tracks). I only played this game once, it was one of my dad's computer games, it wasn't too interesting to me back then because it was aimed towards adults, and back then I was more into the point-and-click games aimed toward small, small children (Pajama Sam, Putt-Putt, Spy Fox, and Freddie Fish). But now that I'm older and am more into the "grown-up" point-and-click adventures, I'd like to give this game another go.
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I had a videogame when I was younger, it was for some old system (Playstation? Dreamcast? I don't think it was older than that). I think the name of the game contains the word "Metropolis". You were like the mayor of a city or something, you had to place houses and build roads and rivers and stuff like that. I think the characters were sorta 3d.. kinda like those lego guys. It definitely wasn't a Sim City game. I recall finding a video of the game on You Tube somewhere a few months ago... I should have bookmarked it! lol
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There's an SNES game I had as a kid that I mostly only remember because of how bad I was at it. It was an RPG in a high-fantasy type setting, with a four-member party. I THINK that it had a top-down perspective while exploring. There was no cutscene in the beginning or anything; after the title screen, you got a quick overview of your party (I think there were three dudes and one chick), and then you go out into the overworld, which at the beginning is a grassy field and a lake.
And then there would be a random encounter, during which I would ALWAYS die, because I was 6 years old and couldn't figure out the combat system.
This game was definitely NOT any Final Fantasy game, any Dragon Quest game, any Tales Series game, or Secret Of Mana. My instincts tell me it's probably a Western RPG, but I may be wrong.
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There’s this game I’m trying to remember the name of. It was a PC download game. You could play as 2 little round characters and I believe their names were Eddy and Murphy. I remember having to get through some kind of maze and maybe eating computer chips? I think the game was computer themed, and it was some sort of puzzle game where you had to push blocks to get to the exit and stuff. This was forever ago so I don’t remember too much about it, but hopefully this is enough information. Google's not giving me anything useful. :(

I once played an internet game. I remember the protagonist was named Alice (or so I think), the gameplay was Touhou-esque, and the background music was from Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Does anyone know the title of this game?