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a magical bakery game Videogame
so ur this magical girl with a long blonde hair and purple dress. Strongly reminds me of rapunzel, but the game is old af... like it's back when I am in elementary (I am not in college). So the magical girl is using her magic to run a bakery, and you sell em. There's a lot of magical properties, with colors of purple. The game is really simple, it's really similar with the usual bakery flash game but with beautiful colors of purple, and magic.
Forrest Games? Videogame
It was an indie game revealed at e3 2018 I want to say, about surviving in the woods. The short teaser had a pot boiling on a stove and a bear with glowing eyes.
Edited by James1968
Video game on a website - alliterative, possibly called "Tiki Terror" or something similar Videogame
My friend is looking for a video game. The game was hosted on a website for children with school, math, etc. related games (for educational purposes). The game's protagonist was in Hawaii in a maze finding a treasure. The treasure was gold and had a grimacing face. He would be attacked by tikis that blew fire at him and evil coconuts with facial features. The game's protagonist was a short old man with a safari outfit on. You couldn't see his face except for a large mustache. There was fast-paced, badass drum music playing in the background.
early 2000's Scify fps Videogame
I remember someone playing a game as a kid on a computer that had better graphics than anything I've seen at the time. I remember metallic rooms and interesting looking gun designs. I don't remember there being any fighting in the rooms he traveled through, but I think he showed me a couple of the weapons on empty rooms he traveled through, maybe he cleared them before. I think there was some kind of gun that launched deadly disc blades. I think there were some windows in one of the rooms that had some Nevada-type desert landscape with mountains or something but it could have just been sunlight with no landscape visible underneath, could have filled in some blanks in my memory and assumed it involved aliens,but I don't really know for sure. I expected to experience a fun weapon like this in the Halo series, being a Scifi series with aliens, but it didn't have the interesting futuristic guns I remembered so it's not that. Anyone got any ideas? The main console out at the time that I knew of was the N64 and the reflections seemed beyond that system's capabilities from what I remember, and I had a couple games that required it that were out at the time too: Jet Force Gemini and Donkey Kong 64.
It could be possible that I remember the graphics being better than they were though, but I think it was probably a PC game.
Children's Educational Library Game. (Edit: Solved!!) Videogame
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
Old PC game using full motion video where you are a flying robot Videogame
Hello everyone,
I've been trying to find that videogame for ages: it is a (very) old point-and-click videogame using full motion video in which the player is a flying robot. You are the companion of two other humans, and IIRC your spaceship kinda crash on an alien ship, and you and your companions are trying to restart the engine while exploring the place (and since you are a flying robot, you can easily go to places they can't). I don't remember much about it, except that in the very beginning your companions (one male, one female) boot you up and you can answer Yes/No to continue (every other options will lead them to shut you down). Ring a bell?
Edited by NonoRobot
Space-Themed First Person Shooter for Kids Videogame
My friend is trying to remember the name of a space-themed first person shooter for kids. He remembers it having very cartoony 3D graphics. He also thinks it might have been an edutainment game with on-rails shooting and floating barrels, but he's not sure about that. He does remember aliens, lazers, and puzzles though.
iOS puzzle and city-building? Videogame
Trying to find a series of at least two games I once played, I'm pretty sure on iOS. It was a puzzle game where you upgraded a town by gathering resources via puzzle games. I think they were "draw a connecting line" type puzzles, and I remember that upgrading to get new types of resources was a big deal, both unlocking them, and then doing matches that would generate more. I think the second one might have had a more exploration-y bent and multiple towns, but the first one was just the one. There were various items you could research and manufacture to do things like clear "junk" tiles or harvest all of a specific resource or any number of things. I absolutely cannot remember their name, and checking my voluminous iOS purchase history has turned up nothing.
Customised robots and killer teddies Videogame
Hello all.
I have vague memories of a game from the ZX Spectrum or Atari era. Graphics were wire-frame, and the game-play revolved around constructing a team of modular robots to escape a facility.
Enemies were other robots that you can take parts from once defeated, and if you strayed out of bounds too far you were beset by nigh-indestructible robots that looked like manic teddy bears.
I can't remember anything more as I don't think myself and the friend who owned the game got particularly far. Thank you for any help in finding this!
An obscure video game where a character regrets her past actions (Found!) Videogame
There was a somewhat obscure video game (maybe an RPG?) that I'm pretty confident that there was a TV Tropes page for a few years ago. But I forgot to bookmark it. The game has an Asian setting in 19XX (Not sure of the actual year). It has two protagonists: a male and a female, both went to the same school. Back in their school days, they had an oppressive government or something along those lines. So some of the students of this school and their teacher started a secret club to rebel against the government's unfairness. Later in the game, it is revealed that the female protagonist had been the one to betray the club and all of the members (because of jealousy or envy of someone else?), and that the male protagonist had been one of the club members and was arrested. The male protagonist is nearly dead, and the female protagonist had actually returned to the school to lament on her past actions that took most of her classmates' lives. That's the most I can recall about it. Please help!
Edited by StrayShard
VHS strategy guide for NES games Videogame
I remember seeing a VHS tape showing NES game strategies uploaded to You Tube years ago, but I can't find it now, on You Tube or off.
It had an "all-star team" consisting of six kids/teens wearing t-shirts and shorts who played the games while a narrator introduced them and gave the strategies. The tape started out with a really cheesy intro that showed the team striking poses and doing air guitar, as well as stop-motion footage of the games they'd be playing. The team's captain was the oldest, a blonde-haired teen named Ron. There are also a girl with '80s hair names Jennifer and a short blonde girl named Sharon who introduced herself with "Yo, dudes!" The games they covered included Legendary Wings, Golgo 13 and Rampage.
Pixel Fantasy Game Videogame
The game I'm thinking of was released relatively recently, probably a few years ago. You play as a female fairy and are helped by other female fairies that are your friends, especially during the final boss fight. In the last phase, you get taken to a dimension resembling hell and the boss turns into a dragon with a wicked sounding name, with his health bar at the top of the screen. I think your allies spend a good portion of the boss fight charging up a special attack and giving you a shield/buffs while you fight him.
It's basically a 16 bit fantasy game with some gothic elements thrown in. It's quite a unique one but I can't remember the name for the life of me.
Edited by ToltecSpirit
Victorian England PS2 title? (Resolved maybe?) Videogame
I know for sure it was a PS2 title, released roughly around the same time the Sly Cooper games were.
The game takes place in Victorian England. The protagonist is a boy blond hair, no shoes, white shirt and brown pants, extremely dirty from soot, mud etc.
The game features an Absurdly Spacious Sewer with giant rats as an enemy. The sewers had huge copper tubes sll over and brown walls; it was pretty disgusting.
Another common enemy are Monster Clowns. I remember that a duo of them are fought as minibosses in a circus tent; a crowd was watching them perform in s circus tent and the boy springs from his seat, points at them and loudly accuses them of being evil. Cue boss fight.
The gameplay was Hack'n'Slash and the graphics more towards realistic, but with a gold-brown saturation.
For some reason, when I think of that game, Oliver Twist comes to mind but I don't think there's actually any relationship.
Edited by Lermis
An Edutainment Game about Frogs Videogame
Back at my Elementary School, there was this Activity Center game that starred an Older Female Brown Frog and her Younger Male Green Frog friend. If I remember correctly it was a series with two installments.
Errands Game Videogame
Looking for a Edutainment Game computer game from between 1997-2002. The game has you basically helping a woman with her daily errands (going to the store, hospital, bank etc.) and that's all I can remember. Google brought up both A Quiet Weekend In Capri and The Fool's Errand both of which are not it, thanks in advance.
Edited by pikafan
Sega Genesis Ministry Commercial Videogame
Someone told me about this Sega Genesis commercial from around 1992-93 (not sure if it was for the system itself or a game for it) that had the Ministry song "Corrosion" playing during the ad. I haven't been able to find the commercial anywhere yet online. If it exists, could someone link it in the replies? Thanx.
Hunting Game Videogame
There's a hunting game / FPS that I'm been trying to remember for some time now. I saw it as a kid, so it wold have been the 80's or 90's. It's first person, sort of like Duck Hunt, except you hunt a bunch of different animals which have pretty cartoonish reactions to being shot. Spiders split when shot, I think, and bears take several shots...at which point they lose all their fur and run offscreen.
I believe the visuals also got darker the further you went into the game, and all this is all I remember. Anyone recognize this?
Top down computer RPG Videogame
When I was way younger, this could very easily be 10 years ago by now, we had this top down 2D RPG on our old computer. Unfortunately, all I remember about it today is that there was a green snake/lizard character who I thought was the coolest thing, so I used the game editor we had to turn the entire party into clones of this one character. I never got far enough into the game to get any of the plot because I was dreadful at playing it. I know it isn't much to go on, but any help would be appreciated!
Arcade game about rolling balls to open dinosaur eggs Videogame
I remember an arcade game from the '90s that was played using Skee-Ball-esque balls that were thrown into the machine, which would turn into boulders on the screen. The object was to break open eggs onscreen, releasing various dinosaurs. I remember the dinosaurs included a dopey-looking one that wandered around after being released and could be hit by the boulders and a little flying one that looked like a hummingbird which flew away really fast. The attract mode had a mother dinosaur saying "Where are my babies?" and the art on the cabinet showed a caveman throwing boulders that were bigger than him.
Portal mod with an NPC who helped you with co-op puzzles Videogame
It was a Portal mod. My memory is fuzzy, but basically, some of the chambers featured a voice-acted NPC who would hold down buttons for you and distract rocket turrets, and you would have to do the same for her at some points in order to move forward, making it like a two-way Escort Mission. The mod didn't revolve around that gimmick, but it was somewhat plot-relevant. If I remember correctly, the NPC wore a blue jumpsuit and described herself as another test subject.
Minecraft adventure map (Lets play?) Videogame
It was a Minecraft let’s play adventure map, taking place in a city with a glass dome around it, seperating it from the world. The characters goal was to escape the dome, and I remember a secret item hidden under a lake in the corner of the map.
It might've been a Barbie game or something Videogame
You were solving the mystery of something stolen I don't remember what, I think it was for Playstation, and one of the challenges involved hitting 2 buttons at the same time. And one of the suspects was a sailor
[SOLVED] Flash Game with two endings Videogame
(I put this under "Videogame", but would "Web Original" be more approriate? Anyways...)
This is a flash game I have played several years ago, and I am fairly shure that I played it on the Armor Games website (but I may be wrong, or it might have been removed, so no guarantee that it can be found on there). It was a rather short game that had two different ways of playing it, each with their own ending. Basically, the story went that the player character was a little girl who was living in a small village and celebrating her birthday (not entirely sure about that last part), and the gameplay consisted of walking around the village, talking to all the people and collecting some sort of cards which may or may not have included a minigame about the cards. Anyways, once you collected all the cards, you were supposed to go back to the house where you started, talk to your mother and the game ended. So much for the first, "regular" ending.
The second, hidden ending could be found by exploring the village and discovering that you could leave it through a hole in the left side of the fence that surrounded the village. Going there led you to an abandoned government facility that was apparently supervising the village for some reason. This path just had you walk through said facility, until the point where you left it and the camera zoomed out in a dramatic way to show you how disconnected your village was from the rest of the (possibly post-apocalyptic) world.
Both endings could be achieved in less than ten minutes, if I remember correctly. I don't think there was much of an explanation about what exactly was going on there, but it has been a while since I've seen this game, so I'm not sure. Any help would be appreciated.
Edited by Codric
An old adventure game Videogame
I remember an adventure game my brothers played when I was a kid (late 1990's to early 2000's, but the game may have been older than that). I seem to recall it was a science fiction game that had some kind of time travel or dimension hopping plot, and I have a feeling it may have been a part of a series. The main character maybe time traveled with a companion, which I think may have been a talking dog or other animal. The setting was either dystopian or post-apocalyptic.
I don't remember much else aside from that.
Old multiplayer game Videogame
I played a game with my brother 15-20 years ago, and all I remember is my character was a wizard or mage, and I used a spell that rained rocks down all over the screen. It damaged my brother's character (even though we were allies) and made him mad. The game was a older, isometric-viewed game. I think it possibly had zombies as enemies, chests you can open, and I think a farm level with a bunch of tail grass or wheat. It's been so long I'm not sure on any of these details.