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openGames collection Videogame
This is quite a long shot.
There was a collection of games for the BBC Micro advertised in a UK computer magazine in the 1980s, I think around 1986 or 1987. The advertisement was for about 20 different pieces of software, each with a screenshot and a short description. The collection was advertised as "Games Galore for £9.99", but the actual title was something like "Games Collection Vol. 1" It had about 10 games on one disk. None of them had been released separately.
One of the games was a text adventure called something like "The Wizard" or "The Warlock". It started with an animated intro, impressive for the time, showing a 3D grid zooming around before settling underneath ẗhe camera and the letters of the title scrolled towards the camera along it.
I didn't get far in the game itself, but I remember it had a futuristic or sci-fi theme. Near the starting location was a long metal road leading to a city in the distance.
Another game on the collection was a Breakout-like game. You controlled two wizards on a seesaw. When one landed on one end, the other would be catapulted up into the air. If the wizard missed the seesaw, you lost a life. The aim was to pop balloons with the wizards' pointy hats.
I'd like to find the text adventure again, if I can. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
openA Retro Game Videogame
This month, I saw a You Tube video (might have been made by CG Rundertow or Lord Karnage) that showed off this old videogame designed to teach you programming that might have been for the Colecovision or Intellivision.
All I can remember about it is that there was a room with pink walls and that the guy who made the video said that the game was very weird.
Can anyone please help?
openTyping Tutor with Tons of Characters Videogame
I'm trying to remember this old typing tutor game that had a slime with breath powers as the antagonist that kidnapped the characters that made up the other letters on the keyboard, and you had to save them all with the help of two kids representing F and J.
openSurvival VN? Videogame
I only have a few shaky details based on my memory about this... But I'll try regardless.
Basically, several people are trapped in some kind of building. Everything is locked, and they have to play the game if they want out. Most people I asked said Dangan Ronpa according to this description, but one thing I clearly remembered from the game I am looking for is a girl with short white hair, who looks like she knows more than she lets on.
Kirigiri from DR fits most of that bill... except the hair, and the name of the character I am looking for is (iirc) only around 4-5ish letters.
Any ideas?
openHelicopter rail shooter Videogame
There was a game on the N64 that i remember playing at a friend's house a lot where up to four players controlled the guns on a helicopter (I think that's what it was on the cover) and it was a rail shooter. I remember the first area was a canyon, then a city, a buch of caves and a frozen region, and one of the bosses had some weird starfish form, and another was a sphinx.
openOld 3D mini golf game on PC Videogame
I used to go over to my cousin's house when we were young, back in 2001 or 2002. He had a PC minigolf game that I particularly remember. It was 3D and one level I distinctly remember was a haunted house, or at least the exterior of a haunted house. The player could putt straight through the opening/closing front door of a spooky looking house.
openPs2 Matrix Game Videogame
Someone remembers a ps2 matrix game were you start kinda like an office and you have to hide in cubicles from other guys
openOld video game with ducks Videogame
I remember a sidescroller game where you play as a white duck, but I'm pretty sure it's not Donald. The first level had you running through a mansion with a gun, and in level two you're running through an ancient ruin with a large stick used for both fighting and for climbing narrow gaps. In that second level, there were also giant duck golems that you could control after defeating them.
openA hunter game featuring a cartoon moose? Videogame
There's this rather cartoon-y PC game that features a cartoon moose (I think), and I'm pretty sure it dates no later than 2005 or so (it may be from the 1990s or earlier, but it may have been in the 2000s instead).
If I remember correctly, you're a moose out to hunt for humans (complete with a rifle or whatever hunters use to hunt buck) in a winter-y forest. During gameplay, you have a view that scrolls around in a panoramic view; in other words, it scrolls like a sidescrolling game but you're actually turning around in a circle like in a 3D game. At the bottom of the screen there's an interface with various option thingies, but I only remember 3 of them:
- One option that takes you to a white map of some sort (you can change your location here, and I think there's an image spot that may show a picture of empty beer cans in the snow)
- A compass with a cartoon moose whose arm works like a compass needle, showing you which direction you're facing
- Some sort of icon/action with said moose shown from the back that changes to an icon of him farting when you hover your mouse pointer over it. I have no idea what use it had.
open"Will it ever end" Videogame
This is kinda vague but I have a memory of some game where you are fighting a seemingly endless swarm of enemies and one of your companions says "will it ever end" or possibly "will they ever stop". I thought it was Star Fox 64 but I have played multiple times and haven't heard that line. Can someone tell me what it's from and if it is from Star Fox 64 where that line occurs?
openNES Space shooter Videogame
When I was a kid, I had this Gameboy cartridge filled with popular NES games such as Contra, Super Mario Bros and Joust.
One of the games I played the most, however, is a space shooter which is unlike Phalanx or Galaga where the ship moves left and right, this one moves in a circular motion, orbiting the middle of the screen where the enemy appears. Does anybody know the name? Thank you in advance.
openDark, Freaky, Animal Crossing-y Game Set At a Hotel Videogame
I've been trying to remember a game, PS 2 or Gamecube-level graphics, that I saw gameplay of on You Tube years ago. For the life of me, I can't remember the title, butI remember you played as a human in a run down, sort-of haunted hotel out in a dark forest. The hotel is populated with anthropomorphic animals and is managed by a bespectacled, old rat. Other things I remember:
- You meet a cat with purple fur, a red and black-striped shirt and stitches in his face.
- The first night, the main character has a dream where a Grim Reaper offers to help him leave the hotel in exchange for collecting a number of a kind of object
- The game eventually starts running on an internal clock and the other characters have certain routines set to that clock
- The first "boss" of the game was dressed as a nurse and carried a huge syringe
openSome Game with Dragons and Cards Videogame
So, there was a game that I found on my mom's iPad one day, only for it to disappear without a trace. It was sort of a Pokémon-esque RPG game where you could choose between three elemental baby dragons at the beginning of the game. The only one that I know for a fact was there was the fire dragon, but if memory serves, there were also electric and ice ones. You used cards to capture monsters in random encounters, and had to level them up in order to defeat all of the Dragon Overlords scattered across the map. I keep remembering the title as "Dragon Island", but I've been told that was wrong.
openGame where the boss is already dead Videogame
All i remember about the game is that it was a metroidvania, and i think the boss was a skeleton by the time you got there.
openEducational Mystery Game Videogame
I'm looking for a game thats for elementary-middle school age children. It is an online game, that is either entirely or partially educational. It was a mystery game that was focused on the ocean and I believe whales. It could be found and played online for free., but I remember also that you could possibly buy a physical copy.
openAmiga game involving bubbles (not Bubble Bobble) Videogame
I remember a game where there were bubbles bouncing on screen, and your task was to shoot them down. When hit, each bubble split in two, then you had to shoot them again and again, till they disappeared completely. Any ideas?
openOld computer game about dreams Videogame
I remember this old computer game that I played on the Mac, almost certainly Mac OS 9. It was about dreams. There were several characters, probably all girls and probably wearing pajamas, and everything was drawn in a very realistic way. The game was outdoors in a woodsy, girly, magical and fairylike fantasy world. I don't really remember if there was an objective for the game moreso there was activities you could do, like writing and saving your dreams in a dream journal or using a drawing program similar to Kid Pix to draw your dream. I also remember there being dreamcatchers and maybe wood chimes in the game, maybe as the icons on the menu for the different activities?
openNo Title Videogame
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!
I played this game on Kongregate once, but I can't find it under the Idle category. The game takes place in some kond of dungeon or temple, and there's a big floating crystal that you have to protect from waves of monsters trying to destroy it. You kill the monsters by clicking them to shoot magic bolts at them and by hiring heroes to fight for you. There are dozens or heroes to hire, but you and they are sorted into categories and get bonuses when they're in the same party.