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openAn online tamagotchi-esque game with dandelions [SOLVED] Videogame
It could be accessed through a girls' game website like Barbie.com or something. You raised these fairy creatures that lived in magical dusky gardens and there were grey dandelions.
Edited by LunarFoolopenOnline game with pink haired knight Videogame
I remember playing a game I found online where you played as a pink haired girl and could either become a knight or a queen? You did different things leveling up certain skills which allowed you to do certain things? I distinctly remember the cover art having the girl as a knight and that you could have jobs?
openX-Com like game Videogame
I'm trying to remember the name of a game someone showed me. They said it was like Xcom. The cover art had a lot of yellow on it and gangster-looking girl. Any ideas? I know I'd recognize it if I heard the name or saw the cover.
openGame that was on school computers (solved) Videogame
I remember the computers at my elementary school (so this was made before 2007) had a game on them (probably an educational game, maybe it taught typing or math) which had three cyborgs (or maybe they were androids?) crashing their spaceship on a spooky planet (I remember in the intro sequence they were dancing and not paying attention to the ship's warning system) and having to solve a bunch of puzzles to fix their ship (or find someone who could).
I remember the three main characters were a tall female cyborg/robot with a ponytail, who may have been dark magenta or purple, a male cyborg/robot about a head or two shorter than her, who I think was pale green (though I may be mixing him up with Buzz and Delete from Cyberchase), and one very small one that was pale blue-green, and had no legs, just floating like a Fog Feet ghost or genie (except mechanical).
I think the Mooks were based on flying monkeys, but I might be wrong. I definitely remember there were Floating Platforms that the characters had to bounce on to get across some levels. They looked kind of like pale brown speech bubbles, and sometimes they were gray and cracked, breaking if you landed on them. There were also some Rope Bridges.
Edited by OpabiniaopenSpelling Edutainment Game? Videogame
I remember getting a game disk from school at around 2008-2009. The game ran on Windows, and it certainly seemed to be an older game, given the 2D style. I think it took place at a circus or a park, but I am not sure if it was Reader Rabbit Math or Preschool. It was a spelling game that feels very similar to that game. I believe the protagonists were animals. The reason why I believe it's a spelling game is because there was an area were you could listen to a song about digraphs. The most memorable example in the song was "A 'tr' in a tree". I feel like it was only a demo, because the game was so small...
Maybe it was a spin-off? I know there is a math game with a cat protagonist that looked like Reader Rabbit, so maybe this was one of those?
Edited by AetherStariteopenDisney Flash Games Videogame
Hopefully this is the last one for today. I want to know the names of these three Flash games on a Disney website:
- A Lilo & Stitch platformer
- A G-Force platformer (?)
- A game of The Princess and the Frog, might've been point-and-click or adventure
openMythology Game. Videogame
This is a cd rom game, it's an edutainment one where you learn about myths and folkloric tales and each country had its own piece of music like for example Scandinavia had In The Hall Of The Mountain King.
Edited by NathanforesteropenGame where you play as a hand Videogame
So the plot is that you got in a car crash and you broke every bone in your body except your hand so you need to use your hand to make gestures like the ok gesture to communicate.
Edited by deepfriedcaropenLegend of Zelda Videogame
Searching for a LOZ fanfic with Kafei (Majora's Mask) not trusting Link Web Original The story seemed Kafei/Link (Kafei is from majoras mask) and last I saw it before it was deleted it was unfinished and the summary from what I remember was about an out of character adult Kafei living in stock pot inn with Anju and being skeptical about what is so special to Anju about the little boy dressed in green (Link) who Anju allows to stay at the inn. Kafei is nosy and is described in the summary as being a “purple haired snob” and I think the title had the word snob in it as well. From what I remember there’s a scene when Anju goes to the laundry pool and Kafei sneaks out to snoop on Link. The fanfic played on Kafei’s curiosity and initial distrust of Link from the game. Anyone recall the fanfic? I think it might’ve been called Purple haired snob but I can’t seem to find it.
openOnline flash game that involved collecting falling star gems/meteorites Videogame
So, I remember coming across and favoriting this beautiful game once or twice through my Stumble Upon account almost ten years ago (before they did a weird transition). I can't remember what it was called but I distinctly remember a lot of the visuals: The intro starts off with a still scene of two children (an older brother & younger sister) fighting over a teddy bear. The following images show the bear getting ripped in the tug-o-war tussle, the now heartbroken little sister being driven to tears, the older brother feeling guilty, the older brother then seeing a paper (or catalogue maybe) advertisement of a teddy bear & resolving to raise earnings to buy it for his sister. We then play as the boy on a small planet/turf that he lives on. The player is able to completely roam the tiny planet, catching and collecting these colorful gemlike rocks that rain down from the stars. The stones themselves are collected and used as a means of currency to help the player reach their goal of buying the new teddy bear. The level's design almost resembles what would be a 2D version the Gateway Galaxy planet from Super Mario Galaxy. But I might be wrong about the layout because it may have been traversing a flat terrain with a starry sky instead of running around a small planet in space (the aesthetic is largely the same). In terms of art design, the children had a peabody cartoon appearance (sort of like Peanuts, Earth Bound, etc.). I'd say in terms of character design, they almost look like more colorful versions of the children from the My Memory of Us game that was developed by Juggler Games. I have a hard time remembering the sister's appearance, but I distinctly remember the brother being blond and having a blue & red striped shirt. Also, this game had a beautiful soundtrack but I'm hard pressed to give a proper genre to it because it's been so long & I worry I might mix in instruments I heard from other things that weren't in this game (I feel like there were stringed instruments, though). It was certainly upbeat & charming.
open2d Action Platformer from the late 90s early 00s(Solved) Videogame
All I had of this game as a kid was the shareware demo. You played as this funky green alien with spike hair, wearing armor and wielding a gun. The first level took place in a forest area, both up in the tree boughs and in small caves beneath the surface.
There were these power-ups that you could wear as a backpack to enhance your weapon or deploy them as these little hopping drones that would jump around the level and shoot at bad guys.
I vividly remember the health gauge being a pair of disembodied eyes that gradually became more bloodshot as you took damage. When they turned completely red your character would die.
Edit: Found it thanks to the Life Meter page! It's a Brazillian game called Guimo for those interested.
Edited by DetenoopenIndie Video game used to promote indie band album Videogame
There was this band that put out an album as an indie game you could download from their website. It was basicly a house you could explore with tapes you could find and plug into a floating frog tape player to hear the track, you could explore the place to find more tapes. The band was japanese inspired pop-indie-techno. last ten years. thanks if you know!
openEdutainment game with guy singing times tables. Videogame
There was this one edutainment game that had lots of math-related puzzles, but it also had a lot of songs, including some singing about the times tables. I can barely remember some of the lyrics of the "one times" times table song. There are two distinct parts of the song I can remember, one was "1 times 1 is 1, 1 times 2 is 2, 1 times 3 is 3, 1 times 4 is 4" and the line repeated all the way to 10, then he'd sing something that had the words "every single time" in it potentially referring to the fact that with a multiplicand of 1, the product will be equal to the multiplier every single time.
openFairy-tale 8-bit game for girls Videogame
I'm trying to remember the name of a home console game from the 80s which my younger cousin used to play. It was an old-time 8-bit-graphic fantasy title marketed to little girls, set in an enchanted forest. I vaguely recall her getting *really* excited when a little satyr (Pan) would randomly appear and jump all around, playing its pipes to her princess-type character. Cutesy as hell, probably without much of a plot, but she adored it.
openBox Monster Battle App (RESOLVED) Videogame
Here's a game I don't remember too much about. It's a mobile game from years back, maybe 10 to 6 years ago, that was on the Google Playstore. It was a game where you battled monsters that were "made" of cardboard and were boxy 3d models (The graphics were nothing special, so you kinda had to assume).
Each monster was kept in a habitat of a certain type, like the dragons in Dragonvale or Dragon City. I remember the Earth, Ice(?), and Fire types existing. You could bring out a squad of three to fight three other monsters in a "story" mode (with no story...). Both squads attacked at once, and when a monster was knocked out, nurse monsters would take them away on a stretcher.
The title screen music sounded like monsters singing in a rough and childish way, singing "Nah nah nah nah-nah-nah!" and the like.
The monsters I remember are a yellow/warm-colored monster that looked like a muppet (name unknown), a penguin with a horn for a mouth (Hornster), and a brown dog (Poochster). I recall these last two names because they would get flagged by the game's OWN NAMING SYSTEM, and part of their names would be replaced with asterisks.
All help appreciated! Thanks!
EDIT: Turns out it was easier to find than I thought; it's called "Monster Life", and it was made by Gameloft.
Oops.
Edited by AetherStariteopenEarly 3D stealing game with... british coppers? Videogame
An old PC game made somewhere around in the middle of 2000s. You played as some sort of thief in vaguely British setting. Main character was a dark haired and smart suited gentleman (possibly with villain mustache on top) where you could go around stealing. Enemies were usually cop sentries looking like the stereotypical British ones (blue uniform, the so called custodian helmet). I remember one building had a granny that could spot you too though.
The game was 3D with an overhead view, you had inventory and you could put in tools to open doors or carry your loot in it. I remember you could interact with doors to open them specifically.
Miscellaneous details, I have feeling I played the demo of the game. Not sure if the full game ever came out. Brother was regularly buying Czech magazine Score which had around 10 Demos and 2-4 full games, from roughly 2005 to 2011. It was very roughly in that time frame and quite possibly where we got our hands on it.
open(Solved)2D semi-cartoony fighter Videogame
I'm trying to find this fighting game that I saw a while back. If memory serves, it had kind of a cutesy pastel anime artstyle and the characters could freely fly around the screen. What I distinctly remember was that the characters' sprites would squash-and-stretch as they got hit, sometimes to a ridiculous degree, and that hitting an opponent with a particularly heavy blow would cause them to bounce around the edges of the screen like a pinball.
Edited by RadayamopenSNES ninja RPG? [Found] Videogame
I vaguely remember playing some strange ninja game for the Super Nintendo. It had JRPG mechanics, a very buzzsaw-y battle track, but with a non-toony art style, so we can rule out Legend of the Mystical Ninja.
Edit: Inindo, Way of the Ninja.
Edited by CidSilverWing

So recently I came across this app on an iPad where certain events would play out on the screen for a few seconds, and afterwards you'd have to chose from two or three options over how the lead character can cross an area safely. You'd have to drag a panel onto the mini-story to see how it goes. Also the game centers around this detective man/woman couple, and the game's mostly silent and shown in black silhouettes telling their story. Unfortunately, I can't quite remember the app's name.
I feel like you probably don't know either.