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I remember this online game (maybe a flash?) from about a year or so ago. It was somewhat similar to Adventure Quest, but it was completely free and not as expansive. The art was 2d. I think my character was a brown-haired guy?
You played a character that could choose a clan that had elemental themes (Ice, Blood, Fire, Lightning, Wind, Water, and Earth), each with their own strengths and weaknesses. There was also this semi-plot about three political factions - one that wore white, one that might have worn grey, (the ones in white were these sort of Crystal Dragon Jesus-y imperialists and the ones in grey or black or whatever it was opposed the ones in white and had a very the Revolution Will Not Be Civilised feel to it. They hated each other), and one that wore green (maybe red) (aka Team Switzerland). Whatever faction you chose, you had to fight NP Cs for some reason or other. There were a few choices that you could make during the game. For example, I think I remember having to make the choice of killing this one NPC guy affiliated with water (all the clans had specific places associated with them. I visited them all. They all have a list of their elemental spells and a book with a list of all the players who had been in their particular clan.) that I was battling. I know that he allied with my cause when I let him free.
The fights were turn-based and usually against other players (you had to press a "Fight" button to volunteer). I remember that at the end of the game, you had to prove yourself worthy of being the leader of...something...and so you battled all the top NP Cs of each clan until they accepted defeat. Once you did that, you won the game (after a brief epilogue of sorts)
Ugh, this sounds so generic. Sorry. If anyone could help me out, I would appreciate it. Thanks.
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I remember an Edutainment Game for the Apple II. I played it in Kindergarten and first grade. It was a math game with dinosaurs, and I know it was mini-game based, but the only one I remember is one where a dinosaur has set up an ice cream stand and you need to count all of the scoops of ice cream or something. That's about all I can remember.
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Okay, I'm looking for an edutainment game for children where you play as this weird goblin/monster thing, and he has a crush on a monster tv star? And she gets kidnapped, so he rushes to a mad scientist's place to save her and the other people who were missing. There were ghosts involved.
EDIT Also, the kidnapped people were turned into inanimate objects.
Familiar to anyone?
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A SNES RPG that featured a Hopeless Boss Fight at the start, and a female party member named Wild later on. Sorry there's so little to work with. I think the protagonist might have been blond.
EDIT: The Hopeless Boss Fight took place in a tower, and it was against a huge monster, not a person. It was in the first town, or your school, or something (I think it was a school, but that might just have been how I was interpreting the relative lack of buildings).
The battle perspective was from behind your characters, looking forward, not from the side.
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it's a really old video game for the playstation 1. The game is called monkey hero. it is about a monkey who must collect pages of the magic storybook to defeat the nightmare king (who vaguely resembles a roach for some reason...) . it was vaguely based off the journey to the west. Anybody remember this game? .. it's a shame it's virtually unknown since the game was actually pretty good
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This was a game demo for Macinotosh/and or Windows 95 (it came on some game I had). In the game you were a guy you were lost or kidnapped. I think you were on the run from someone. You were in woods or maybe an island. I don't remember a lot of it, since I only had the demo, but I think you were looking for a knife? I remember one part where you walk across a bridge. I know it's a terrible description but does anyone else recall this game???
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It's an old edutainment game. Played it in my youth, so it must have been released in 2008 or before. You have an evil twin. The narrator is a brain. C Omplete minigames/puzzles to unlock weapons allies. When you meet in teh city, you battle. Some examples:
- There was a female scientist/chemist which countered a fire attack.
- A monkey (looked like an organ grinder monkey) countered a giant robot.
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Trying to remember the title of an SNES game I rented once long ago. It was definitely side-scrolling action. Dark color scheme, at least from my recollection. I think it was set in a fantasy feudal Japan - your character might have wielded a spear. The Japanese setting possibility is reinforced by your magic capacity being enumerated by kanji. I think you earned a new spell after each level. I know for certain it isn't First Samurai; I tracked that one down recently.
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One more - an edutainment video-game that I played in third grade. There were little dwarves, I think, trying to reach the top of this really snowy mountain? I think in one of the final levels, you get inside this castle, and there's a treasure chest you need to open. Does this ring any bells?
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Old edutainment video games for around Windows 95 or so. These games were playable demos on an old edutainment game CD. I really want to find out what these games are because it has been bugging me for a while! There are two games that I remember from this compilation.
One is a Marvel superheroes game, and the only available game in the demo was a Spider-Man game where you're trying to climb a building and the Hobgoblin is throwing pumpkins down at you. For the life of me I can't remember what it was trying to teach, I believe math.
The other game was a science game teaching you about various species of wild cats (no, it was not Garfield's Mad about Cats). The host was this "cool" big cat who reminds me of Chester Cheetah, but wasn't him. He was accompanies by this smaller yellow cat who never spoke, and the game played similarly to a board game, at least how I remember it. The yellow cat goes through a small mini-game and as a reward you get a lecture about a species of wild cat.
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This game was an RPG on the SNES I played way back, can't recall the name. It started with a kid and his dog finding an alien craft and being beamed inside, to be greeted by (I think) a Mad Scientist. The game let you play as the kid, a robot or the dog (the dog part I'm not so sure, but it was three playable characters). It used the radial menu system (you press start and a circular menu appeared around your character) similar to the one on Secret Of Mana.
I know it's a tad bland, but that's all I got. Anyone?
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PC game from the 90s, not sure if I played it on Win95 or Win98.
2D, side-scrolling platform-shooter, you played a robot that could transform into a plane version of itself, and possibly another form as well. There was shooting, but, for the life of me, I can't remember if there was ammo or multiple weapons. The game did require a graphics card though.
I couldn't even tell you what country it's from, but judging from the era and the fact that it's in English, I'm going to go with it being American.
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Trying to remember an old DOS edutainment game I used to play in my youth. It took place inside a computer that has been infected by a virus (which looked a bit like a snake). The virus was on a grid of computer chips and would try to eat its way to the edge of the grid - by solving math problems, you would help a box-shaped robot create a barrier to surround and eventually enclose the virus so it couldn't get away. Does anyone know of the game I'm thinking of?
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A early/mid 90's Mac educational game.
Its a point and click adventure where you control a archeologist as he explores a pyramid. Along the way you encounter many puzzles such as stepping on stone letters to spell osiris, and making the wrong move leads to the death of your explorer.
Anyone know what I'm talking about?
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There’s this game I’m trying to remember the name of. It was a PC download game. You could play as 2 little round characters and I believe their names were Eddy and Murphy. I remember having to get through some kind of maze and maybe eating computer chips? I think the game was computer themed, and it was some sort of puzzle game where you had to push blocks to get to the exit and stuff. This was forever ago so I don’t remember too much about it, but hopefully this is enough information. Google's not giving me anything useful. :(
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There's an SNES game I had as a kid that I mostly only remember because of how bad I was at it. It was an RPG in a high-fantasy type setting, with a four-member party. I THINK that it had a top-down perspective while exploring. There was no cutscene in the beginning or anything; after the title screen, you got a quick overview of your party (I think there were three dudes and one chick), and then you go out into the overworld, which at the beginning is a grassy field and a lake.
And then there would be a random encounter, during which I would ALWAYS die, because I was 6 years old and couldn't figure out the combat system.
This game was definitely NOT any Final Fantasy game, any Dragon Quest game, any Tales Series game, or Secret Of Mana. My instincts tell me it's probably a Western RPG, but I may be wrong.
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I had a videogame when I was younger, it was for some old system (Playstation? Dreamcast? I don't think it was older than that). I think the name of the game contains the word "Metropolis". You were like the mayor of a city or something, you had to place houses and build roads and rivers and stuff like that. I think the characters were sorta 3d.. kinda like those lego guys. It definitely wasn't a Sim City game. I recall finding a video of the game on You Tube somewhere a few months ago... I should have bookmarked it! lol
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This game just popped into my head today, and I'd like to know what it's called.
It's a point-and-click adventure produced around 1997-1999, and it's for PC. The main character was a koala, but the player played as a fly. If memory serves, the fly's purpose was to investigate what's going on, and help out the other characters. I remember the box art showed a puppet koala run over by a car (it was covered in tire tracks). I only played this game once, it was one of my dad's computer games, it wasn't too interesting to me back then because it was aimed towards adults, and back then I was more into the point-and-click games aimed toward small, small children (Pajama Sam, Putt-Putt, Spy Fox, and Freddie Fish). But now that I'm older and am more into the "grown-up" point-and-click adventures, I'd like to give this game another go.
There was an arcade game I used to play back in the mid 80's ('85-'87 ish) whose name I can no longer recall. It was a shooter game where one or two players could walk through the battle field. The view was also where the player would be looking down on the action going on. Of course, this sounds like it could be any number of games.
The thing which makes this game stand out from the rest was the final boss battle. During the final battle, the boss would just say "You die! You die!" over and over in a very deep and menacing voice. He wouldn't say anything else.
Does anyone know the title of this game? I can not recall too much of this game anymore. Any help would be appeciated.