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game that unexpectedly has creepy audio whispering your name (solved) Videogame
I never actually played this game, but I remembered reading about it on this very wiki somewhere - my immediate thought was it was somewhere in nightmare fuel, but a quick check didn't yield anything that sounded like it. Anyway, at the beginning, the game asks you to type in your name, Hello, [Insert Name Here] style, but the dialogue doesn't really make use of it, so the player may forget having even entered it. However, depending upon what name you typed in, at some point you may hear a disembodied whisper of your name come through the speakers - apparently they had a voice actor read a bunch of common first names just to freak the player out.
Edited by MikeKsci-fi shooter type flash game with furries? Videogame
This game has been driving me crazy for at least a week. I found it around 2010 and it was one of those platformer-shooter games, like Armor Mayhem or Raze, but it was purely singleplayer and the two main characters were furries. It had a lot of comedic fourth wall breaking moments, like one character telling the other character the controls and neither of them knowing what they mean. The character you played was a male grey cat I think, and I think the second character was a female with red hair, and the second character would talk to the player character through a computer and give advice and maybe hack things?
Anime Style Hero RTS (Solved: Hundred Swords) Videogame
I remember a long time ago, probably in the mid to late 2000s playing a anime style RTS on PC, I believe it had a similar Hero system to Warcraft III. I bought physically at a retail store, so it's highly unlikely that it's a fan game of any kind.
Edited by LocustPorridgehorror web browser game series Videogame
I remember the games but not the name, it was heavily centered around darkness and the antagonist was something like an onryo, the first game was about escaping a house much like the "you are trapped on a room" and was first person perspective, the second was on an abandoned hospital and picked up directly from the end of the first game this time from a sidescrolling visual like an adventure game, I was told that there were other 2 games but i didnt play them and is one of the reasons I want to find the series before flash stops being supported. I also remember that it was on english but it seemed translated, so it could have be made from a non english speaking country.
Non-licensed GBA platformer? Videogame
So back when I was a teenager and playing gba games on the computer through less than legitimate means and coming across a not great platform game. I feel fairly certain it wasn't a movie or tv show tie-in, I think it had a fairly distinctive english title and it definitely featured a female protagonist. I also recall there being a level called Skyport or something similar, but memories are a bit hazy. So probably an original IP, could have been part of a series. EDIT: I also remember there being a very annoying Mammoth boss
Edited by FirstSnow(still unsolved)Beat 'Em Up with Boss that Could Turn Players into Enemies Videogame
I remember seeing gameplay of an arcade(or at least arcade-style) beat 'em up game that had a boss that dropped objects(I think they were magician hats but they may have just been cups) onto the stage. If a player character got caught beneath one of them, they would be transformed into a random enemy, but they could still fight the boss. Anyone know what game this is from?
Edited by RadayamAn old game Videogame
There was a game that i had back in 2012 or something that i was curious about. It was a game where you would buy real figures and put them on this model and you could then use them in the game. All the figures remind me of the reddit robot and i think each figure had a power. There was also a house decorating mechanic.
2D fantasy computer game Videogame
Graphics: At least 16-bit
Time: 1990s
Most of the screen was an overhead view of the world's map with icons representing either your or other people's territories. In the top fourth or fifth of the screen were the head and arms of what I assumed to be a wizard. He would occasionally speak and do something with one or two orbs that were mounted beside him, aqpparently casting a spell. The orbs were usually black but sometimes filled up with pink and maybe another colour. I distinctly remember two spells being tornados and earthquakes on enemy territories.
(SOLVED) Wii horror game covered on Nintendo Week Videogame
I don't remember too much, but when I was younger I remember seeing a horror game for the Wii on Nintendo Week. The main gimmick was that you had to always be in an illuminated area, and getting pulled out of the light/entering the dark would kill you. I know it's not much to go on, but I'm really curious about this one.
(Turns out the game was Lit!)
Edited by Mr_StabbyMobile Game With A Green Cube Bear. Videogame
So basicaly a couple of years ago I remember buying a fairly simple game where you would control this green cube-like bear, and jump him onto platforms. The background, from what I remember, was a photo-realistic picture of a sunset. But if you lost, however, the bear's expression in the "game over" popup would be really creepy. His eyes would be pitch black, and he would have a slasher smile.
I've been looking for this game forever, so finding out that it exists would make me happy.
Edutainment Computer Game (SOLVED) Videogame
I remember this educational computer game, but I just can’t recall what it was called. I want to say it was Sesame Street related, but I can’t be sure. It had an area with several short segments, and I recall three. The first was a cartoon segment where a fisherman who finds a hat that ends up belonging to a whale. The second was a literal square dance- as in, squares doing a square dance- done in stop motion. The third one is the one I have the most memory about. It was a puppet segment featuring a "Harvey Chicken" making soup by throwing in various items from all 26 letters of the alphabet.
Edited by AjWargoApple II adventure game Videogame
I have been pestered by a memory of an adventure game I played on an Apple II in school. It was black and white, point and click, inventory management, possibly a hypercard game, and you started in a mine, were trapped by a roof collapse, travelled to a ruined city on an alien world, and maybe there was some kind of time travel element? Anyone able to help?
Weird "Comedy" PC RPG Videogame
I remember this weird RPG I played a long time ago that was supposedly a parody of RP Gs? Maybe it was an action-adventure game? But the main thing I remembered was the game being INCREDIBLY cheesy, with really low budget live-action video cutscenes, including one where the main chacter's love interest/girlfriend/female companion bum rushes him.
A kids computer game with many different games Videogame
I played it in preschool in the 2000s, but it might be older, it had big pixels. The game is a collection of minigames, and it had a mode for older and younger kids. The games I remember are:
- A game where you count the petals of flowers. You click on a ladybug and watch it walk over all the petals.
- A game where you create a face and choose a body for it, like a ballerina or a dinosaur, and the watch it do a dance
- A paint, with prepicked colors but you can also pick new colors
- A writing program that you can print. You can also print a picture in any of the other games
- A fishkeeping game that's missing from the younger kids' version. In it you pick some fish, aquarium plants and equipment and watch it in the aquarium. There's also some fish books you can read, like a book about aquarium plants and a book about fish puns.
PC edutainement game from the early 2000s Videogame
It was an isometric game set on an island that I think had a volcano. There was a 2 story lab that the cast of kids was based in, and they'd ride these hoverboards(I think) around the island, playing minigames, one of which was definitely a bubble shooter.
It was very science based. You had a robot companion at the base and I don't remember there really being a plot. Sorry this isn't a lot to go on but I was like 8.
2000's Video Game about Blackout {SOLVED!} Videogame
There's this video game that was in the 2000's about a kid whose parents are electrical engineers and he is stuck at home while there is a blackout and he has to use cute little electric filled creatures to bring the power back.
I know the premise, but I don't know the name.
It's Solved: It's Elebits
Edited by C6-E9nintendo ds cat game Videogame
I distinctly remember a version of Nintendogs that was about cats on the DS. Before you say "Nintendogs + cats", I distinctly remember that my friend and I played this game when I was in elementary school, before 2013, and that it was definitely a nintendo ds game. It was also a European release. I'm pretty sure it had a different catriadge (did I spell that right?) from the classic Nintendogs, but I'm not too sure. However, searching for it on Google only brings the 3ds game result. Surely I'm not hallucinating?
SOLVED: It's Purr Pals.
Edited by LermisMobile game similar to Pokemon using the four elements? Videogame
(SOLVED)
I remember playing a game in 2016 that was a bit similar to Pokemon where you would capture monster-like creatures and battle with them. The game might've taken place in a camp environment but I could be wrong as it's a very faint memory...
But what I remember mostly is that there were only four types of monsters: water, fire, earth, and air. You would battle by using a format similar to something like Candy Crush where you had to match, for example, three water drops in a row to use a water attack or three leaves in a row for an Earth attack. I hope this is all making sense!
Edited by moonovermarisaGuy is a wolf monster and romancable Videogame
I remember the main character could be male or female depending on the players choice, the MC always had green hair, there was a dragon that I think dies at some point, you can fight this wolf monster that turns into a guy and you can romance him, and you could go around town buying stuff, talking to people or fishing. I’m 99% Vic Magnogna or Todd Haberkorn voiced a butler.
The wolf guy worked at a restaurant after you beat him and bring him to the village and is usually grouchy but softens up if MC romances him. Also, you can have kids and I think work a farm?? The wolf guy had two toned hair and I think still has wolf ears in his human form??
Strategy flash game with a twist Videogame
This one is driving me insane because I could swear it was called "War of Ages", but looking for that just yields Age of War and an infinite number of shitty mobile games.
Anyways, the game started out very similar to Age of War; you had a base, your enemy had a base, you sent enemies to the right to destroy their base. Big difference is, instead of buying individual units, you bought dwellings, and they automatically produced units. There was also a narrator.
The twist was that, during the tutorial narration, an alien bioship crashes against the enemy base, and then the bioship BECOMES the enemy base; the narrator freaks out, and then you have to send cavemen, riflemen, and other such constantly evolving units to fight against alien monstrosities. It was really cool, and I want to play it one last time, before Flash dies, but I can't find it. Help!
A platformer flash game that used to be from the old Family.ca website Videogame
I remember as a kid I played many flash games back at the old family.ca website which used to host flash games (and I believe they are with and still with the Disney Channel) but have discontinued it. One flash game I remember playing it was a platformer that seemed to take place in a museum of some kind. One notable thing it had was a level editor and the background color was a prominent dark red. I played that game a lot, mainly due to the level editor. I've wanted to go back to that game but I forgot the name and it doesn't appear to be there at family.ca website anymore, due to site changes and death of Flash. I was also looking for it in Flashpoint though it might not be there. I think the title had "museum" or "mania" in it but I could be wrong. Anyone remember that game? If so, what was the title?
Edited by WarioGuyOld West themed computer game. Videogame
OK, this one is pretty obscure.
I remember playing a game on the Commodore 64 that took place in the Old West. The game was actually a compilation of mini-games. Three I remember:
1. Your cowboy character is walking through the desert and has to use a whip to fend off various dangers (scorpions, tumbleweeds, etc.)
2. A game set in a saloon where you need to grab the beers the bartender slings at you. If you missed one, it would crash into a tough guy's table, angering him.
3. A gunfight game against a series of opponents.
Ring any bells?
Shadow of the Beast - Aabron's transformation scene Videogame
I vaguely remember a short introductory scene from Shadow of the Beast where the main protagonist turns into a monster and then lets out a grievous pathetic-sounding groan. I've been searching youtube for the scene but had no luck. I have a strange feeling the scene was exclusive for certain versions of the game. For your information I owned the C64 version.
Does anyone remember the scene? I'd like to post it as an example.