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openBeat-Em-Up (SOLVED) Videogame
I remember playing a 16-bit (or maaaaybe 32-bit) Beat 'em Up where each level followed the previous one in a weird way - there was a amusement park level, then a whale eats the character, leading to a Womb Level. Afterwards, the character gets out of the whale and fights atop it, even using the blowhole strategically: if an enemy was on top of the blowhole when it shot water, the enemy would fly off.
I think it was some sort of fighting anime or manga license, too. Anyone knows what I'm talking about?
Edited by Pisthetairosresolved Village prepare for monster Videogame
There was a limited amount of days/turns It was decision-based Multiplayer There were many different endings that could happen A medieval village? Relatively modern
Edited by Super_Troper404openGame from TF post Videogame
I'm looking for a game that's akin to (or at least remotely similar to) the scenario mentioned in this
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open2000s Mystery-based Browser Game Videogame
Anyone know what Flash/Shockwave game this is? I remember playing it on Yahoo's Game page circa 2007-2009. It was a dark and drab looking mystery-murder game where you played a detective or surgeon. It either took place in medieval times or Victorian times. I remember it being relatively gorey.
openOld Windows Mini-Golf Game Videogame
I remember having a mini-golf game that I used to play quite a bit as a kid. This was back in the mid-2000's, but I'd imagine the game itself was quite old even at the time. The game in question was a 3D game with somewhere around ten different courses, each with a unique theme. The two courses I can remember are the nineth course (I think) which was a cloud world known as "Cloud 9", and some sort of factory or lab with a container the ball had to get into. The computer was either a Windows 95 or a Windows XP computer.
openWindows Ski Game Videogame
It was from either the late 90s or early 2000s. It was some kind of winter sports game from Windows. I remember it as "In Ski" but I don't think that's what it's actually called. You could do a few events like ski jump, toboggan, slalom, etc.
I remember that in the toboggan game you could see a man's face at the bottom of the screen and his eyes would bug out in terror if you were about to fall off the track. The weirdest bit was one of the ski events, where right at the start if you didn't hold a certain button down your skiier would literally hurl himself off the side of the mountain for no reason. There would be a kind of "biiirnt" sound as he did it.
Also on the slalom the flags would wiggle if you hit them.
openNaruto Game Videogame
I honestly don't remember much of the plot, aside from the overall game being set pre-Shippuuden. The main thing I remember was being able to take jobs from Ichiraku Ramen to deliver food around town; we'd rented it back when video stores were still a thing and I never finished it.
openTrying to find a game (Unsolved) Videogame
There was a human villain named after the Egyptian snake god Apophis or something like it, that doomed a entire race to hell since they didn't read the fine print of his 'demon' contract. I'm not sure if it's a Tabletop game or what, but I do remember the the last sentence of the description was something like "[...] his tongue unfurled revealing the contract, flies flying out of his mouth. 'Read the fine print.' He said."
openPirate-themed adventure game from the late 90's/early 00's (NOT Monkey Island) Videogame
Nearly 20 years ago, I found a video trailer for a cartoonish Monkey Island-style adventure game on a disc of demos for a computer game magazine. I can't remember the name, I think it was something along the lines of [main character's name]: the [object of power/search for said object of power].
It had a similar cartoony style to the Curse of Monkey Island, with a main character who even looked and sounded similar, though with brown hair instead of blonde. From what I remember from the trailer, it contained character like a genie-in-a-bottle with a stereotypical Middle-Eastern accent and an overly long name (one of which was Balthazar), a man in a WWII pilot uniform manning a cannon that was about to blow up a pirate ship off the coast, a shifty drug dealer in a dark coat and fedora and a Scottish blacksmith that the main character got into a long argument with about whether he could borrow his hammer. On the preliminary cover, it had the main character holding what I think was a giant white mushroom in his hands, presumably the [object of power] in the title.
The game honestly didn't look very good, not even to me when I was a kid who mostly dismissed it as a Monkey Island-ripoff. Nevertheless, I've thought about it occasionally since then, and when I've tried to look up a game like that from the time period, I have never found any sign of it or anything resembling it (apart from the actual Monkey Island games, of course). Hell, for all I know it was cancelled and never released at all. However, if my description does ring a bell, I would be grateful to receive a response, just to put an old mystery to rest.
openThat game played in the background of Youtube videos Videogame
alright, this should be easy for y'all, im just dumb. You know that game thats often played in the background of commentary channels? its first person, the character holds a knife, and they just kinda jump/ slide around on ramps though diffrent environments? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REnhhd1RGYE
here's a video with it being played. I know it's really popular, but I don't play a lot of games lol. pls help. thanks
resolved A Retraux cyberpunk Shoot'em Up. Videogame
I recently saw a trailer for this game but i can't find it anymore. The protagonist is a bounty hunter in a 80s themed cyberpunk world and collects cyborg skulls from gang members he kills. The trailer had several gangs with different themes, one were punks with a leatherman Giant Mook, another was a biker gang, the third was a sports hooligan themed gang with sports shirts and hockey sticks as weapons and the last ones were martial artists/ breakdancers whose boss had a samurai armor and mirror shades. IIRC the biker gang were called The Heatseekers and the martial artists were The Repeat Offenders.
openAliens Invading and Math? Videogame
I cannot for the life of me remember too much about this certain game, but from what my 5 year old self can recall, the game's graphics looked kinda scary and 3D-ish. I believe it was an late 90s/early 2000s game. I think the game plays from what looks like your own perspective. Your doorbell rings and a scary, goopy, #D looking alien answers. I don't know if he attacked or not. As you play the game, there were more aliens that show up that are trying to take over the world. In order to stop them you had to solve math problems and stuff. Sorry the description sounds vague.
Edited by goldenpurpleopenPirate-Seatown video game? Videogame
I can recall several details of a game trailer I saw on a CD a long time ago, but I can't recall what the name was...
A man meeting with a butler figure on a dock.
Man: "Dr...Ariginaut?" (Names may be incorrect)
Butler: "No, My name is Japez. Ariginaut's servant. Welcome to Aqua County."
Japez opens up a door on a cliff face.
Japez: "This shortcut will take us right to Ariginaut."
Man: "What's the rush?"
Japez: "I...don't like to keep my master waiting."
They run through the cave, and then there's a cave-in with Japez leaving the man behind. The bridge collapses under him, but he leaps to safety, much to Japez's disappointment.
Japez: "It's clear our 'master' is able to take care of himself."
Anyone have any idea what game this is?
openSpace sim (?) where a character says "Will it ever end" Videogame
So, I have a strong memory of playing a space sim or the like where you have people fighting along side you and at one point you face a seemingly endless onslaught of enemies and one of your friends says something like "Will it ever end?" I thought for the longest time it was something Slippy from Star Fox 64 said, and can even hear him saying it in my head. However, more recently I have played the game multiple times and never heard it. I also asked this on another site and had someone who claimed to have played so many times he memorized all the lines say he never says it, the closest thing is Falco saying "These guys keep coming" and I'm sure that's not it. I think now that it might be Starsiege but I'm not sure. Can anyone confirm or deny? And if it's not that, anyone know what it's really from?
openGame about Forced Perspective (SOLVED) Videogame
There was a trailer for a video game that was shown this year (90% certain during E3) which showcased gameplay that heavily involved Forced Perspective. It was a first-person game and the player was doing things like picking up objects that seamlessly transitioned from being small and close to large and far and other weird visual trickery. Anyone remember what it was called?
EDIT: Just realised the trope I'm thinking of is Depth Deception, not Forced Perspective, which has the game listed there
Edited by iloveserperioropenMail-order breakout in 3D Videogame
One of those mid-2000s mail-order games (think the Wonderland series) that was like breakout but in several realistic environments and with 3d graphics. There were a lot of mechanics that made it more than just standard breakout - I think it might even have been more like pinball. I think the levels were sorted into worlds, and there was a complex level editor.
Edited by iwantedtoaddsomethingopen"Structual Integrity Compromised!" Videogame
I have strong memories of a work (which I'm pretty sure is a video game), where a robot gets shot or otherwise badly damaged and simply responds with "Structural integrity compromised!" the blandness of the phrase being the funny part. I was pretty sure this was something one of the robots on System Shock 2 said when damaged, however, when I searched for that phrase (as I was hoping for a clip from the game with said robot saying it) turned up nothing of the sort. All I could find was a band named that (which I'm 100 percent sure isn't what I'm looking for), and a screenshot from Team Fortress 2 with that caption, which I'm also sure isn't it as I've never played that game either and I'm not even sure from the page if it's an actual quote from the game or just a caption.
openAction game I played 6 years ago Videogame
What I remember most clearly is that you jump from car to car in a high speed chase and in the beginning a villan attacks your wedding.
openSnake but you're crayons and it's PVP Videogame
The gameplay was Snake, but instead of collecting fruit, there are three other snakes, you're all infinitely long and only vanish when you die, and the objective is to kill the other three.
The Excuse Plot is that you, the red crayon, are a Villain Protagonist for reasons I can't remember, and Forest Green is the Big Good Hero Antagonist.
For some reason I remember this game being part of a bundle of screen savers.

I tried Deep Space Waifu, but got a little confused, because I was thinking of this entirely different game where you fly a ship and shoot yellow blocks to reveal more of the background (which was of anime girls), and it seemed to control more like Asteroids than a normal scrolling shmup, so you had to carefully steer through the level. I think part of the description/premise was that you're trying to "liberate" the girls from aliens or something, and I swear Total Biscuit did a video on it years ago and that it was on Steam.