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openPSX game, sub simulator, set AfterTheEnd Videogame
I recall playing a Play Station 1 game about submarine warfare that was set on Earth after a cataclysmic flood (you could find ruins of modern cities on the bottom in some places. Your submarine was upgradeable, and one of the weapons was a guided missile that launched upwards and dropped on the target from above the water surface. IIRC, the ending somehow caused the sea levels to drop again, leaving your sub stranded on top of a ruined skyscraper.
openIt's not Battlezone, as far as I know, but similar. Videogame
So the newly launched update of Battlezone awakened a long forgotten memory in me. It was a Playstation 1 game, set in space. You played as a futuristic battle tank basically a super prototype.You were bluegrey, if that helps, and your enemies were red. Your tank had a ton of different weapons, but the ones I remember best were a beam weapon similar to Cyborg's arm canon from Teen Titans, which fired from the left side of the tank, then the right side, alternating. The other one that I remember best was a weapon which fired almost like "miniature suns." It is familiar to me because it had a very distinctive sound. It made a "Fwoom" sound.
However, the part I remember most, which will be of the most help to you is this. As you drove your tank around, you could find these pads laid out in RTS style, and you could capture them. Once you had captured the main pad, you could place a tower there. at will, as long as you were in ranged, you could swap from the Tank to the Tower. The tower was stationary but had massively improved firepower. Once in the tower, you could build building around it, which could summon different forms of units. The interesting part was that once you had built these buildings, and got back in your tank, you had hotkeys which would summon the units to your tank. So when things got too much for just your tank, you could summon something to help you fight. There were fighters, and bombers, that much I remember.
Finally, I remember the final boss. It was a very loud, angry man, piloting a larger, much more powerful version of your tank. It was distinct in that it was bright red to your bluegrey.
If anyone knows what this is, I would be eternally grateful.
openPuzzle Game with Past-to-Future Psychic Link Videogame
A puzzle game where some time in the future/past (?) another person is solving the same set of puzzles, which helps because of what I think was a psychic link?
openCurtain Shooter for the Atari 2600 Videogame
I have not played this game in 25 years but still remember some vague details from it. It was a typical "defeat the invading aliens" space shooter with vertical scrolling, had 4 levels, and the final boss was defeated in 1 shot. The 3rd level had some kind of C-shaped enemies that latched onto your ship as well.
openFinding a game Videogame
Okay, there's a 16 bit RPG that I believe was on the SNES (Maybe Genesis as well). If I remember right, it was in an issue of Nintendo Power, which would put the game's release between June 1994 and June 1995. I remember that there were 4 characters in your party, and one was a mermaid. The mermaid was the only one that could enter an underwater dungeon, until she found an item that would allow her companions to join her.
I know it's not much to go on, but someone may know what game I'm talking about.
openGame about debates Videogame
I don't know if such a game exists as I'm posting this message more to check if I'm one of the first people to have such an idea. Does a Role-Playing Game-esque game about political debates exists?
openDice/math DOS Game Videogame
My daycare, for a few years when I went there, had a DOS computer with 10 games on it. That included CD Man, Jetpack, Duke Nukem, Crystal Caves, I think some sort of Pong game. There was also a game similar to the board game Shut the Box, where you have to roll dice and use addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of the two dice numbers to represent each number from 1-10. It was a two player game, and whoever got all 10 numbers first wins. Does anyone know what it's called? I've looked at a bunch of lists of math and educational and puzzle DOS games, but no such luck.
openReading Railroad Edutainment Game? Videogame
I'm trying to find a computer game that I played when I was a kid, in the early 2000's. It was on CD-ROM if that helps any. I feel like it was called Reading Railroad, although I can't find anything when I search for that. It was definitely supposed to help teach reading, and was based around a train you'd travel to different destinations and complete different activities. The only thing I remember for sure is that the game was very long, I think you might have gone through locations for every letter of the alphabet, and that at one of the locations you heard a woman singing the song "Early One Morning". Sorry I don't remember more, but does anyone know of a game like this?
openGothic PC Shoot 'Em Up Game Videogame
Back in 2005, I played this strange shoot 'em up game during a vacation to the Philippines. It was a top-down shooter with a gothic atmosphere, pre-rendered graphics, and you played as a winged creature that looked like a baby. Does anyone have any idea what the title of this game might be?
openA Few Edutainment Games Videogame
There are a few edutainment games that I vaguely recall but can't remember the name of at all — hoping you all could help!
The first is one of those "learn-to-type" games. The main feature I remember of this game is that there was a character for each letter, and you would unlock them as you learned how to type each key. There was an evil one, I think, but I can't remember who it was. I remember the characters all being pretty quirky. I think your hands/fingers were characters too, or at least they had faces? One of the games I think had to do with you typing, and if you got a letter wrong the character would fall from a line or something. It's super fuzzy. I probably played it around 2003-ish.
Another game I remember is one where you could send postcards to kids from different parts of the world. That's literally the only thing I remember about this game. I don't even think you could do anything else. You'd send a postcard and you'd get a postcard back.
The last one is a game about talking cars. I thought it was a Tonka game, but I looked at the list of Tonka computer games on Wikipedia and it didn't come up, so I don't know which company it was from. It featured a kid car (I think he was red and wore a hat?) and an evil green truck, or something like that. The kid was trying to save something or other from the evil truck. Along the way, he had to go to like a nightclub for cars and talk to a pretty singer car, design a monster truck, and shoot ghosts in a house. I remember the game vaguely terrifying me as a child. The game ended with a "th-th-th-th-th-that's all, folks!" joke, I think. Really weird.
And yeah, that's about it! I'm sorry if those are vague, it's been over ten years since I played any of them and it's all super fuzzy. Hope someone can help! I can also answer any questions if necessary.
Edited by Numbuh9494openMussorgsky music in a game Videogame
I'm looking for a game that contains in its soundtrack "The Great Gate of Kiev" of Russian composer Mussorgsky. I used to play it in my childhood in the beginning of the 2000's. I would have said at first Sim City but there's no music sounding like it in the 4 games.
openNo Title Videogame
Putting this in for a buddy of mine.
Near as he can remember, he says it was a 3D-ish shooter for the SNES in which you controlled a spaceship and shot at 3d boxes that came at you. Your ship was always in the same place, vertically, and you'd shoot the boxes to be able to continue. Apparently at the end of the second level there was a boss that he refers to as a "fire snake", and he only once got to the third level because this boss was really difficult.
He seems adamant that it's not the original Star Fox, as well.
openNo Title Videogame
A game I played once or twice two or three years back.
It was for the PC-98/Turbografx, a platformer, with very bright, anime colors, and I remember it was kind of rushed. The manual apparently mentioned an item that was never used in the game, I think it might have had something to do with saving.
open90s or 00s Fantasy RPG Videogame
This one was on the PC, and around in either the late 90s or early 00s. As I recall, it was a third-person realtime RPG, with a "mission map" thing - different levels in different locations, and you could repeat. The plot involved either undead rising, or eldritch portals opening, or both, and a wake of destruction across the land - levels like a city on fire while the monsters are destroying it.
openTop down command game Videogame
I have in memory what the title says. If I remember right, it was about a colony of robots trying to return to Earth while going through abandoned ships. Some have to stay in one room powering others rooms while some could analyze a room to detect enemies and lure them to another room.
openOld Mac Kids Drawing Program - Obscure and Not Game But Driving Me Crazy! Videogame
I am on the hunt for an old Mac drawing program. It was definitely aimed at children. I remember having it on an old Mac computer I was handed down by one of my relatives. I used it in the mid 2000's, but the computer was probably from the late 90s. It was a kid's drawing program with a yellow user interface, and whatever tool (Markers, crayons, etc.) you had selected was displayed at the bottom, in an array of colors arranged like a box of crayons. There were a bunch of different shapes of brushes or stamps you could draw with (I specifically remember one was a simple christmas tree shape), and there was one setting in the colors that caused your brush to constantly change colors if you held the mouse button down. If you held it down while drawing you would draw long rainbow lines. I am 100% sure it made some sort of noise while doing this. I absolutely love this program when I was a kid, but no longer have the computer and don't have any memory of what it may have been called. I am sure it was not Kid Pix or Tux Paint. I feel like I hallucinated the whole thing, so I would really really appreciate it if anyone remembers this program, or may have used it or loved it as a child like I did.
Edited by thecuriousostrichopenOld platform game (DOS? NES?) Videogame
All I can remember is that at several points you have to walk across ceiling fan blades, but first you must fire at their gearboxes to make the blades seize up to make platforms.
There are some iPhone apps that for the life off me I can't find.
First one was a game that was like a pet simulating game. Your pet was this black piece of fuzz that would bounce around the screen. You could change the background and feed it food like strawberries. The cool thing was is that if you shook you phone hard enough then the fuzz would blow up into confetti.
Next app is an app about a bee. You play as like a round bee and you tilt the phone to control him. You carry fruit around with you and you have to try not to squish the fruit. There were also evil bugs in some levels that would try to squish you.
Next app is a whack a mole app I can't find. What you'd have to do this is hit the moles while avoiding the other animals. There were also gems like sapphires and rubies you could collect. Later in the game the moles get ninja masks.
Next app is a ninja game. It had a Multiplayer arrow shooting game where you would try to shoot arrows over a wall and hit your friend's ninja. The app had an in-game trailer for the full version with the line "Time to get your big boy pants on!".
Next game was a game where you would have to find a dog named Gumbo by touching the things where he was hiding
Next app was an app where you had to try to stop a mouse from getting into mouse holes by placing mouse traps. If you lost a level, you would hear recorded laughter.
Finally, there was an app where people would be parachuting and you'd have to blow wind on them to make them land on ships. They would get eatan by sharks if they landed in the water.
Hope you can help me, and thanks!