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openMid-2000s flash game Videogame
I have spent years looking for this one flash game I got obsessed with for like a week when I was small. I never completed it, but fortunately, the page I played it in was garbage and didn't save my progress, so I played the first few stages several times. The game was a side-scrolling platformer btw. On the first stage you play as some guy or girl climbing up a hill to meet with an old person (maybe their grandfather); everything is black and white, it's snowing, and there are a bunch of hedgehogs walking around that you can throw rocks at so they'll lower their spikes and not damage you. Then you reach the grandfather's house, and he tells the character of how when he was young everything was cool and colorful and such. This leads into the second level, where you play as the grandpa in the past; everything is colorful and cool and such, and then you reach the summit and you meet the phoenix, which gives him a magic power. Here are introduced the different spells you can use; the first two are yellow (which allows you to glide) and orange (double jump); the only other I remember is blue (a sort of water-skip). He ends up meeting a wizard and then the two, along with the wizard's other apprentice and the grandpa's youth love interest girl (I know I phrased it kinda weirdly, but it's the same girl) investigate why everything is getting shadowy and gray and spooky.
That's all I remember, if anyone knows what game it is I'd be grateful for the info.
openPossible game Videogame
I'm looking for a game title. Part of it is "Entering a new chapter".
All I know is that it's rated E for Everyone.
open(SOLVED) Elephant app Videogame
I'm looking for the name of an iOS game I played quite some time ago. Basically the main character was an anthropomorphic elephant (or anteater? I think), and your mentor sent you to go around visiting different "planets" in order to solve the problems on them. The problems always had some sort of moral lesson to them.
Like there was one planet where you could eat cotton candy multiple times by getting it from a shop, but you could also choose to eat a bigger bag of cotton candy by taking it from the shop's supplier. Once you ate the big bag of cotton candy, you couldn't get any more smaller cotton candy sticks because there was nowhere to get them from, and I think the lesson was "don't be greedy" or something like that.
Once you finished all the planet levels, you could come back to earth, only to discover your mentor died in your absence. It was a kinda dark game to be honest. What I remember the most, though, is that the main menu music was playing Pachelbel's Canon. Help would be appreciated.
Edited by unfortunatezoruaopeniOS game, endless runner with a protagonist who looked like Gomez from FEZ Videogame
I'm trying to find an iOS game (don't know if it was released on Android) featuring a character very similar to FEZ's protagonist. He could divide into multiple characters when he went through mirrors (it was part of the gameplay) and, AFAIK, it was an endless runner-like game.
openCreepily Advertised Kid’s Online Virtual World (late 2000s) Videogame
So there’s this online virtual world that’s repressed in the deepest thoughts of my brain, and I’m having a hard time remembering the name of it. So here’s the sitch. Back in the late 2000s, Limited Too/Justice used to consistently advertise this online virtual world and I remember it was strangely creepy. The video advertisements came in the form of these post apocalyptic style found footages of teenagers trying to reach out for help. They mention something about some sort of darkness that is taking over the land that comes in the form of a black mist that overtakes everything in its path. It might be a pollution metaphor, idk, it might have a steampunk feel to some of the settings, idk. I’ve also seen print posters in the changing rooms of one of the cartoon teenagers in front of a foggy mirror with a message written on it for the same game. The big thing about the ads that might ring a bell for someone out there is that every ad ended with the same phrase: “We need your help.” Then at the end it would show the name of the game with an ominous jingle of sorts at the end. That’s the most distinct detail I have about this game. The game itself? I can only tell you very little about it, because I didn’t play it very long. You create your teenaged avatar, and you’re going left and right to different areas. I believe there is a sort of nature vs machine vibe to the place. I stumbled across some sort of matching game that I was doing alright in, until I clicked on this one card and the aforementioned dark mist just jumped out of the card and scared the living daylights out of elementary aged me! I closed the game and never touched it or my account again. Now, many years later, I’ve been dying to know what this anomaly of a kids online virtual world was. I’ve searched high and low on the internet to no avail. 99% sure that the game shut down many years ago. TLDR: Kids’ online virtual world advertised in Limited Too during the late 2000s with found footage cartoon videos and a black mist as the antagonist. “We need your help” the phrase said every ad. I need your help remembering what this is.
openArcade Game set in the jungle (SOLVED) Videogame
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 DelphineTheDelphoxopen90s PC game about breaking colored blocks Videogame
It was an old PC game from Windows 95 or 98 where you controlled a ball and had to change colors to break blocks of the corresponding color. The goal was to get a key and take it back to a lock and there were blocks with skulls on them that were insta-death.
openVery simple flash game about drawing shapes Videogame
Once the "game" loaded up, all that was visible was a solid green background with tiny text at the bottom that explained what some of the keyboard buttons do. There was no goal or objective, and the background never changed from green. All you could do was click to draw lines and shapes, which were affected by gravity and instantly fell, and the shapes were always solid white. You could also pick up and drag around shapes you've already drawn. One important detail I remember is that the game lacked any sort of title screen, but for some reason, the flash game website I found it on had it named as "Nyphs", But searching that doesn't turn up anything.
openDisney browser/flash game featuring blue bear (SOLVED!!!) Videogame
I played this as a kid sometime in the late 2000s (2008-2009 for a more exact guess) on the official Disney website. You played as a short blue bear (drawn in a vaguely Rodney Greenblat-esque style) walking around an isometric board collecting honey and avoiding traps/enemies. I think it was an original property not otherwise connected to Disney, and if memory serves it wasn't hosted on Disney's main game site but somewhere else (again still an official Disney website - some sort of experimental game platform? Abandoned branding?)
Edited by CosmicCatresolved Help with a curious cube puzzle game. Videogame
As the title says, am trying to remember the name of a series of puzzle games. What I remember is that it was a point-and-click game, it had to do with this cube that the player was trying to open, with a lot of cool advanced puzzles that tested the players knowledge on various fields, it had to do with demons (apparently) and each time the player completed the puzzle they would get teleported inside of it. It also had this beautiful 3D HD graphics. And each part of the puzzle was its own game. Please help.
openArms hanging from a wall in video game Videogame
I posted this two years ago, but never got a response, so I'll post this again:
I think I remember something about a first person perspective game, where you at one point see female arms hanging from the wall, with her elbows pointing at you. Like she was trapped inside the wall, or something. Probably 90's game, or early 2000's.
The graphics were pretty good, so it might have been FMV.
Edit: Also, it was for the PC, either DOS or Windows 95.
Edited by BreehcNicdollresolved Office Chair Game? Videogame
Trying to remember the title of a game that was installed a secondhand PowerPC Mac. All I remember is that the player character is permanently sitting in one of those swivel office chairs with wheels, and you moved by making him do things like spin around and push off walls. There was also a cartoony cutscene at the beginning where your character is on a flight, possibly going on vacation, and gets called back to the office.
Edited by SumanuilopenDeconstruction Game of River City Ransom/Kunio (Found it, it's VideoGame/TheFriendsOfRingoIshikawa) Videogame
It's about a Japanese gang that fights other gangs, but it doesn't glamorize the fights, people get hurt. If I recall, the end has the main characters friend? Boss? In a coma, and the credits roll with him endlessly fighting; with the implication being he'll probably get killed.
I think the title is The X of Y format?
Edited by wren_locklearopenBubble Gum game?? Videogame
Ok, I remember playing this game a few years ago probably around 2013-2014 (maybe...) and you were this piece of gum and the gum was pink and monster-like. I believe you had to click on walls and platforms and the bubblegum monster thingy would shoot out gum almost like it was stretching its long bubblegum arms to stick to something. The game wasn't that fun but I really do I want to play it again for some reason. Please even if you don't know exactly what I am talking about just give me any answer you have or any other questions!
openDS Game with monster and trees Videogame
So, when I was little (think 2000s, around 2005 to 2010) I vaguely remember playing this game where you play as a monster that fights...I think they were robots? The robots were ruining the monster's home by polluting it and the monster has to fight them to save it. You mainly fight the robots to protect trees that art scattered around the area and the game has a top-down perspective
openVideo game that has a naming system that lampshades an easter egg name Videogame
All I know about it is that in the naming system has something to the effect of it asking you to type a name and you literally typing "a name" or something along those lines and it says "Very funny, pick another name"
openShimeji/desktop pet walks in game window from offscreen Videogame
I know it's an oldish Japanese game, maybe a visual novel, that installed a desktop pet on your computer to have a character "walk" into the game window from offscreen. I think she was holding a baseball bat, and the game was a horror game.
openWhich Wolfenstein? Videogame
There's already a heap of Wolfensteins out there so I kind of lost track which one is about what.
In which installment one of the weapons you can possess, is a drum-magazine submachinegun which can be Guns Akimbo-ed? The smg itself looks like an oversized TEC-9 crossed with MP-40 and its barrel has a "heatsink" with round holes.

Ok so I played this game on the children computers at my library. The game has 2 main characters a boy and girl who you lead around point and click style. They also have a talking flying yellow rectangle that follows them around. (It might be a backpack or something) The game taught math and science. The girl had an uncle (I think) Who took them to this goo island where the game takes place. The island is very Mayan Temple themed. This was all at a 3rd grade level. Every time you solve a puzzle you get goo beetles you need to collect to finish the game. Some of the mini games included figuring out different parts of a life cycle, logic puzzles, strategy, etc. The goo was hurting the characters on the island. I vividly remember a bunch of anthropomorphic flowers who sung a song about the goo that infected the island. I only ever played this game at the library on children computers, which have preset games on them and can't access the internet. The goo beetles came in all different colours that were needed for a final puzzle. The game also had a squeal for 4th graders that focused more on history and took place in a desert. PLEASE let me know if you remember anything about this. Thanks!
Edited by TheGoodUsernamesAreTaken