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Dude, Not Funny! has a workless example in the video games section:
- Suprisingly we get one from Trevor of all people when Wade accidentally calls Ashley Butler a bitch, which Trevor finds very disrespectful.
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I remember playing a Bullet Hell game when I was a kid, probably on the Dreamcast. It scrolled upward (rather than left-to-right), and you flew through the sky fighting enemies. There was a character selection, and you picked two characters (whether to tag them in and out or what, I don't remember) and I distinctly remember thinking it was really neat that the characters had dialogue that was unique for every combination of two characters you could pick. And at least one of the characters was a witch on a broom.
Does that ring any bells for anyone?
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This is a huge longshot, but I really can't remember much. There was a PC game, I think a puzzle platformer kind of thing. The main character was a young boy and the whole thing was his dream. I remember there was a construction site themed level of some sort. This would have been late 90s - 2000s. Any of this info may be misremembered so any suggestion you can throw out is welcome. Thanks a lot.
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Old (Flash?) computer game that used to be hosted on the old LEGO website. It involved creating things out of Lego pieces scattered around a psudo-3D land and trying to reach a set goal with a certain build (signified by either a star or a !, maybe both I don't know). You could move certain builds around and then disassemble them, and their pieces could be used to build something new. It would only work so far as there was also the fact that each build needs 1 battery piece which wears out as you move them around. I DISTINCTLY remember that you could build a duck. Also, something that looked vaguely like an oil rig. I know you could also use some builds that could fight other (NPC?) builds and then you could salvage parts from said builds. Getting attacked drains the battery. It also had a sequel, which wasn't much more then a level expansion if I remember correctly. It's name was probably 'creation' something, or I think it used some sort of form of that word. It was on the same old site as another LEGO flash game called Junkbot (another great game in itself!) If anyone has the name, that's great. If anyone knows where I can PLAY this game, even better!
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So about a fighting game I've seen exactly once, long ago.
It's a 3d fighting game like Soul Edge, but it only had a few characters (like, 8 or 9) and they fight with martial arts weapons. I saw a sai fighter, a sansetsukon (3-section staff) fighter and a kendo sword fighter among others. I saw it in an arcade, not sure if it was ported to a console.
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I remember reading on this site about a video game about this toddler who trying to escape from horrors of his alcoholic parent (don't remember whether it was the mother or the father) alongside his sidekick: a living teddy bear.
I've looked on all the trope pages I remember the game using, like Children Are Innocent, Security Blanket, and Living Toys, but I can't find the game anywhere on those pages. Does anyone remember the title of this game?
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Hello guys, i've been thinking about a very old game i've played and couldn't ever remember the name, it was about: 1- Some kind of astronaut guy 2- His enemy was a wolf guy, or something like that 3- The objective was to go through stages collecting parts for his rocket ship I even remember the green background in the screen that you see the ship's parts (i used to call it the green game) Does anyone else remember that game?? I'd really love to go on this nostalgia trip
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I've got two queries today that I've done some looking for but have found zip.
1.) A PC edutainment game I played sometime between 1998 and 2001, though it may have come out before then. It was this summer camp program type thing where you went around to different areas (like in front of a weird cave with a sign(??) and inside a cabin) with an anthro raccoon who had you do these minigames, which the only one I remember clearly being this paint station with an easel and canvas and all sorts of templates to fill in. I also remember the soundtrack being bomb af (for a child).
2.) A little bit later, possibly between 1999 and 2003, I remember my mom being really into this dragon game where you raised it from an egg. There were all these transitions it went through like being a teen and such. The dragon sat on a cliff, possibly near a cave. For some reason my mind is correlating it with Mahjong tiles??? But that could be completely wrong. I can not remember if it had feeding actions and the like, but probably.
Thanks in advance!
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Late 90's or early 2000's western rpg on PC. It was in first person and set in a fantasy setting. Standard humanity vs the supernatural plot. There were three playable characters. One was a man with bandages around his head and started with a staff, the other was a mage/alchemist woman, the third was a hulking brute. The plot was about how humanity was celebrating some festival(?not sure) because of some eclipse(? not sure) but somehow, demons managed to enter our world and your standard wrpg begins. Can anyone remember?
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I'm actually not entirely sure on the medium here - think it was either a game or a story? I read about it somewhere. It was sci-fi, and basically the setting was that humans were in a spaceship and went into cryo for the waiting time until they arrived at their destination, however the system malfunctioned and actually woke them much much later, as in billions of years later, shortly before the death of the galaxy. That sounds really cool actually but I can't remember where I read it or what it was. (Also, in general if you have any suggestions for works of any medium that take place in a similar setting - like, a LOT of time in the future, but in our world, nothing fantasy - feel free to suggest too, I really like that idea).
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I remember when I was very small, my father had this game installed on his computer that I could never beat. I was born in the late 90s, but my dad was around to fight in Vietnam, so I have no idea when it might have been released, other than before 2004-ish. I recall it was some kind of sci-fi strategy game, I think. I only remember part of one specific level, so I don't know how most of the game worked. I remember starting with a small squad of infantry trying to sneak past a number of enemy towers. The terain was sparsely forested and heavily snowed. If anyone has any idea what game this is, I would vastly appreciate help.
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This one was actually an online game, so it might be difficult. It had these ugly monsters that were trying to kill these little green sock aliens, and you use tools like scissors and boulders to kill them as they march across the screen. There was a pencil tool that could be used to draw boulders, and you could cut bridges with scissors or cut the monsters themselves.
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A PC Edutainment Game I first played some time in the late 2000's. It was part of a collection of other edutainment games, including a revamped version of Super Solvers Midnight Rescue. I can't remember what the collection was called.
Anyway, the game starred a German scientist who basically served as The Host. It was meant to teach logic, and was comprised of several short games where you would have to solve a certain problem. Here are some of the problems you had to solve:
- Keeping a prisoner from escaping prison.
- Beating a chess champion.
- Helping a Non-Ironic Clown cross a tightrope wire - with a tightrope that isn't long enough.
- A guy tries to mail food to a friend in a foreign country, but the mailman keeps opening the packages and eating the food. You have to figure out how to get the food past the mailman without making it impossible for the foreign friend to open the package.
- A man wants to marry the daughter of a medieval banker, who agrees to let them marry if the man solves a puzzle: There are some bags of coins and a scale. You have to figure out which bags contain real coins and which ones are fake, but you can only use the scale a limited number of times.
Does anyone know what the name of this game might be? And, better yet, does anyone know what the name of the collection might be?
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There's a workless example in the Video Games section of May the Farce Be with You:
A VERY old MS-DOS game (Flightmare, I believe it was called), displayed "May the farce be with you" upon quitting the game.
Does anyone know if this is correct?note Ignoring the fact that this example blatantly breaks the rule of This Troper.
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Okay so this is a web/browser game which may make it harder to find, but I think it has a trope page. As far as gameplay goes there wasn't really much to it. You're a in a room/apartment with a girl. And the game is just you interacting with this girl. And it sort of seems like just about like their relationship but if you press certain issues she starts to get glitchy like she's maybe not real. One of the endings where you decide to "get closer" cuts away to you waking up in a hospital. So maybe she's supposed to be a metaphor for drugs or suicide. Any idea what this is?
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I have been trying to remember what this is for years with no luck. I can't remember this very well because I was younger than 10, but when I was a kid there was this weird PC game. It was the 90s, and I was running it on CD-Rom in a Windows 98 computer so I think it was 1998-2000? Maybe slightly earlier or later.
I vaguely remember it but the main character was a boy who was in a lab and this mad scientist/professor/doctor did something that turned him into some kind of mutant monster? As in, turned the kid into a monster.
There were some video sequences I think if i remember correctly and they were voiced but since I didnt know english this doesn't help much.
Thanks in advance I hope I can find it because I am really curious.
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There was an old CD game for Windows I played as a kid in the mid 90s which involved some kind of Einstein-esque professor or scientist and different puzzles to complete.
The only puzzle I remember clearly is a jigsaw of a candle, which you complete whilst standing by the sea.
The colouring of the whole game was very grey/low saturation, but there is one scene involving a lab with glass bottles of brightly coloured liquids.
I think the game starts with a funfair style shoot the ducks type game as well.
Hours of googling has brought nothing, and if it wasn't for the fact my sister has a vague memory of the game (although unfortunately not the name) I would think I'd made it all up.
Anyone got any suggestions?