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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!
openPsychedellic PC Game Videogame
One summer at a programming camp, my instructor was playing this really trippy 3D platformer. It had something to do with mushrooms. Anyways, it was on PC, I can't find the game on Steam, the objective of the game was to collect objects (i can't remember if they were mushrooms or crystals.) Like I said, 3D platformer. It was set in a... a small village, I think? It was either a village or a ranch. No NP Cs, it looked like. There were giant mushrooms. I just can't remember the name!
openStrange video game console/game Videogame
I've been trying to find the name of a console (and hopefully a game) I used to play when I was a child. I can only remember a few things. One: It was an educational console for sure. The logo was a square with a smiley face. Two: There was a Winne the Pooh game for the console (2D sidescroller, involved collecting honey). Three: The game I am looking for involves some sort of cgi cutscene involving what I can only assume is some sort of mad scientist, but that's it.
Even just knowing what console this was would help me find this game. Thank you!
openA Dreamcast Spy and Strategy game Videogame
I'm looking for a Dreamcast game that i once read in EGM. It was strategy game set in the future where Corporations rule the world. You play as one corporation controlling a group of spies with different skills like fighting and hacking where you direct the spies to infiltrate buildings owned by rival companies to steal important data inside.
opendressup/rpg game Videogame
This isnt a show but an online game. it was a cute dress up game, i think it was multiplayer. You made an avatar and dressed them up, you could buy new clothes and accsesories. you earned money to dress your character up. i played it a few years ago, i think around 2010-2012? i remember there was a "fame" meter, thats one way you could earn powerups. and you walked around a map. not much to go on, i know, but i wonder if it rings any bells.
Edit: oh yeah and the avatars had big heads, they were maybe 4 heads tall, not realistic proportions. and it was flat (2d) not 3d rendering.
Edited by PistolsAtDawnresolved Flash game with dinos and UFOs Videogame
There was this Flash game I played probably some time in the late 2000s-early 10's. I can't remember which website I played it on.
It was a side-scrolling shooter/platformer. You're playing as a baby T-rex. I think the game begins with you popping out of your egg. There are some wooden crates to the right, which give you some guns and ammo. Then these UF Os come down and start shooting you. The goal is to shoot down as many UF Os and survive for as long as you can.
Every time you defeat a UFO, it gives you either a new gun, health, or a forcefield. When you've caused enough damage, you do a Limit Break and turn into an adult T-rex that shoots lasers from its mouth.
The UF Os sometimes drop little robots to attack you.
There are no "levels", the game only takes place in a small, rocky arena.
Does anyone know what this game is?
openEducational Game for Windows Videogame
There was an edutainment game I played when I was younger with a title that completely escapes me. All I remember is that there was a fish minigame (I think about weighing and balancing) that had mahi-mahis, a PDA like device with a girl I'm pretty sure of a darker complexion, and a bus minigame where you had to pay the driver in exact change and he would say "Oh how I just love exact change! Thank you!" I know it was geared toward elementary school students. I also vaguely recall something about a city, but I'm not sure.
openWestern RPG involving samurai Videogame
I remember reading a review for a video game on pc sometime between 2000 and 2006. It was a western RPG set in either feudal Japan or a Fantasy Counterpart Culture, and it had a story involving samurai battling demons. I seem to remember it being named Throne of Blood, or Kingdom of Blood or Empire of Blood. Or possibly bones or fire... anyway, it had a pretty grim title. I can find nothing under those titles however.
Edited by AlbertosaurusopenWeird game in spanish from my childhood Videogame
So, I'll try again to find this (just posted this very same text at /x/):
"Have you guys ever played a game that nobody even remembers about it and you can't find for shit anywhere?
I have an odd one giving me some trouble. If I record correctly, the name of the main character of the game was Max. He is a pale green alien that appeared to use some kind of... belt on his crouch and had a weird an apathic facial expression.
The game was educational and I played on my PC (Windows 98), but had some really strange stuff going on, and when I played, it was like back in the year 2000, and it had a very charming 3D aspect even for that time (besides my computer having 16MB or less of video at the time, it also ran just fine).
Thing is, about the weird stuff in that game, is that it was... dark. There was a segment where you would assume control of the character after he goes to a park to play, and after a certain scene, make a choice.
The scene was that a strange man whose face cannot be seen, comes in a car with very dark windows and call for you with his hand. The narrator tries to alert you that you should go back home, but suddenly, you are presented with the choice of either going to the car, or turning back home.
I don't remember what happens after you refuse do go to the suspicious figure in the car, but I do remember that, if you choose to do so, you would be presented with a black screen, which would turn into a scene where this same alien stares a static TV in an unknown house (where he appears to be in a pitch-black room or hall), while the narrator says he made a wrong decision in going to a strangers house like that. The game restarts at that point, and you have the same sequence in the park.
I completely forgot about this game until some months ago, when I had a very weird nightmare re-calling the time when I played it.
I asked my mom about it, and, surprisingly, besides reminding of a lot of other educative games she bought at the same time I've played it, she doesn't know anything about it.
At the time she actually listed me which educational games she bought, and the list included an english game called "Steps 1" (on how to learn english, there was a penguin in there), the "Reader Rabbit" series, a game with a deformed wizard in brazilian portuguese (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bffku4cxJ1Y) [Embed] and some Rugrats ones there were not really educational.
In any case, I couldn't even remember many of these, besides remembering this weird 3D alien game. Doing some research in some forums and asking even on yahoo answers for it, I've even drawn more or less how does that character seemed to be like. Zero answers from anyone. Nada.
Eventually, my PC broke, so I forgot about it for some time in order to organize some IRL stuff until I would eventually buy a new one (also giving some time to my research to gain any attention from anyone (I visited and posted on forums in 4 different languages I knew well: Portuguese, Spanish, English and Italian).
Well, here is where the issue becomes a little bit interesting. None of my questions, which I also got bookmarked on chrome in an specific folder, were there any longer.
They were completely gone. "The Page is invalid", "This page doesn't exist", hell, even internet wayback machine couldn't do shit (the question on my yahoo account also got removed, and besides having a save image of one year ago or so, I couldn't see it, since the question list was private.
I'm working on making a new drawn of it (I suck a lot on doing this shit though) and will soon post it in here, since all the other copies are pretty much not where they should. "
Edited by danpmssopenSome Educational Game I can't remember. Videogame
This was a game I've seen at school a lot from the late 90s/early 00s. You dressed up as a guy in red adventuring through a snowed-in mountain, where you had throwable snowballs as your weapons, and the peak of the mountain had treasure and you parachuted off the top.
Anyone remember this game? I could have sworn it was a Sierra game, but it wasn't that sadistic to be Sierra.
openA real time war computer game. Videogame
The game looks like it was made in the 90s & I believe it was in an isometric over view. One of the objects of the game that I remember is to not let an eagle be shot down by the enemy.
openHarry Potter Game Videogame
When I was on a trip to the Philippines back in 2002, I bought what appeared to be a Harry Potter game on the Game Boy Color. It was a side-scroller where you play as Harry riding on his broom. It had an artstyle that severely contrasted with the series' usual look. It was Super-Deformed and the game is never mentioned on Wikipedia. It's possible that it's a pirated game.
Edited by superboy313openTeens in virtual reality band Videogame
so the show was like a videogame/live action tv show. I watched it a bunch when I was younger. recently, it popped up into my head again and I could not, for the life of me figure out its name, or anything about it for that matter! It was entered around a group of 4-5 teens who were all in some sort of virtual game together. They all went to the same smoothie bar frequently and played their game there. Each character played a certain instrument that you would find in your typical band, and the instruments had a power. The group was always faced with challenges throughout the series, and I remember distinctly of one episode where they had to battle enemies with powers (sound waves that give off a special "energy" in the game) from their instruments. Outside of the game the owner of the smoothie bar frequently helped them to solve their problems. please help?
Edited by jdizzlec
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: