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There was an old CD game for Windows I played as a kid in the mid 90s which involved some kind of Einstein-esque professor or scientist and different puzzles to complete.
The only puzzle I remember clearly is a jigsaw of a candle, which you complete whilst standing by the sea.
The colouring of the whole game was very grey/low saturation, but there is one scene involving a lab with glass bottles of brightly coloured liquids.
I think the game starts with a funfair style shoot the ducks type game as well.
Hours of googling has brought nothing, and if it wasn't for the fact my sister has a vague memory of the game (although unfortunately not the name) I would think I'd made it all up.
Anyone got any suggestions?
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Late 90's or early 2000's western rpg on PC. It was in first person and set in a fantasy setting. Standard humanity vs the supernatural plot. There were three playable characters. One was a man with bandages around his head and started with a staff, the other was a mage/alchemist woman, the third was a hulking brute. The plot was about how humanity was celebrating some festival(?not sure) because of some eclipse(? not sure) but somehow, demons managed to enter our world and your standard wrpg begins. Can anyone remember?
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There was this game I played once as a kid (mid-00's). It was a 3D platformer on PC where you played as a chimpanzee or some other type of monkey. I believe it took place in a jungle and the player was on a quest to search for something, but I don't remember any other details.
Anyone know what I'm talking about?
EDIT: There's another game that I remember playing once. It was also on PC, but it was a 2D (adventure?) game. The graphics looked like the game was made in the early 90s. All I remember about the gameplay is that the player had to buy some things, one of which is a pickaxe to climb a mountain. I'm not sure if it was just this one area of the game, but the village where the player bought the pick was covered in snow. Again, does anybody know this game?
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Hello guys, i've been thinking about a very old game i've played and couldn't ever remember the name, it was about: 1- Some kind of astronaut guy 2- His enemy was a wolf guy, or something like that 3- The objective was to go through stages collecting parts for his rocket ship I even remember the green background in the screen that you see the ship's parts (i used to call it the green game) Does anyone else remember that game?? I'd really love to go on this nostalgia trip
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I remember reading on this site about a video game about this toddler who trying to escape from horrors of his alcoholic parent (don't remember whether it was the mother or the father) alongside his sidekick: a living teddy bear.
I've looked on all the trope pages I remember the game using, like Children Are Innocent, Security Blanket, and Living Toys, but I can't find the game anywhere on those pages. Does anyone remember the title of this game?
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This is one of those things that is gone forever, but I'm kind of curious to see if anyone else remembers it, and could give me more information about it.
There was a game on the Nickelodeon website, around the year 2000, that I have vague memories of, but I don't really know a ton what its deal was, because I couldn't read at that point.
It was this top down sorta shooter thing with 3D graphics where you played as a kid with some sort of water gun weapon going around a city. You could teleport by going into subways, iirc. I think there was probably more than one gun, and probably some sort of water balloon projectile. I don't remember if you got to choose who you played as, but I remember pictures of some creepy looking colorful CG kids. They looked like you'd expect a kid in something from 2000 would look.
There was one thing that made it stick out though. I don't remember there being a single enemy. I remember playing multiple times, but not once was there every anything you were actually supposed to shoot. My assumption was (and still is) that it was an online thing, where you'd fight with other players, but not a single time did I ever run into another soul. So it wasn't very fun to play, because there was nothing to do aside from wander around, and honestly, the environment wasn't very large.
Even weirder, there was another game that was exactly the same, except it was re-textured to be Rugrats in Paris themed, where you ran around as Tommy, and your weapon was a squirt gun. It had the exact same emptiness issues as the non-Rugrats version.
This, obviously, has not been on the Nick website for at least a decade, so I'm not going to find the game it self anywhere, but I just need to ask, does anyone else remember this, maybe what it was called? I really want to understand what I was looking at.
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So about a fighting game I've seen exactly once, long ago.
It's a 3d fighting game like Soul Edge, but it only had a few characters (like, 8 or 9) and they fight with martial arts weapons. I saw a sai fighter, a sansetsukon (3-section staff) fighter and a kendo sword fighter among others. I saw it in an arcade, not sure if it was ported to a console.
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This is a huge longshot, but I really can't remember much. There was a PC game, I think a puzzle platformer kind of thing. The main character was a young boy and the whole thing was his dream. I remember there was a construction site themed level of some sort. This would have been late 90s - 2000s. Any of this info may be misremembered so any suggestion you can throw out is welcome. Thanks a lot.
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I remember playing a Bullet Hell game when I was a kid, probably on the Dreamcast. It scrolled upward (rather than left-to-right), and you flew through the sky fighting enemies. There was a character selection, and you picked two characters (whether to tag them in and out or what, I don't remember) and I distinctly remember thinking it was really neat that the characters had dialogue that was unique for every combination of two characters you could pick. And at least one of the characters was a witch on a broom.
Does that ring any bells for anyone?
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Out of all the things I can remember from the years when I was probably a toddler, it was a video game on the Playstation. All I can remember from my memories was that it was a snowboarding/skiing game that was on the PS 1. I wish I could provide any more information about it, but that's all I can remember about it.
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i've posted this before ut haven't got an answer.
this was a pc game i had in kindergarten in was 2000. it was about these creatures that lived in this house. you clicked dofferent ibjects in the house and they do different things
it was aimed at litte kids, so lots of bright colors.
there was 3 creatures, a red,blue and green(? may have been yellow?) one.
the game was named after the creatures.
but i just can't remember what it was called.
it might have came in one of those learning packets that they give you at the end of the school year.
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I remember a game I played when I was a kid, but the name slipped my mind. The character you play as is a blueish blob with Rayman Limbs like "hands". The blob could bounce by jumping from a high distance to get to an even higher distance, and your main "weapon" was a handful of magic beads that functioned similar to boomerangs, and you could collect up to four of them over the course of the game. I forget how the plot goes, but he befriends a yellow humanoid... thing, who gives him the first bead. There are also alternate forms for the blob that are unlocked through getting certain point scores (?), like ninja, robot, and cactus. No, really. I'm pretty sure the game is named after the main character. I played it on a PC and I'm half certain we got it off the web. Then again, it was back in the mid 2000's I think.
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This has been killing me. There was this Barbie horse riding game I played as a kid, but looking through lists of all Barbie games I still can't find it. It was for the PC, it had a mini game with frogs on lily pads where you had to get one with a gold coin to the top lily pad, and the end goal of the game was to follow a rabbit through a bush to find a hidden path to an old house where there was a secret horse. Sadly that's all I recall in detail. No matter how hard I look all I find is Mystery Ride and I know that's not it. Please help.
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My cousin was playing this sci-fi horror game several years ago and I barely remember it, but there was this one scene where you're standing behind a glass and you see this woman stuck in a machine and get impaled by... something, I forgot. And there were organic weapons you could pick up and I think the ship was part organic but I can't be sure. And I think the woman comes back assimilated into an alien, but only her upper body is showing. Scared the heck out of me and was pretty gory and graphic. The impalement is what I remember best.
I'm actually not entirely sure on the medium here - think it was either a game or a story? I read about it somewhere. It was sci-fi, and basically the setting was that humans were in a spaceship and went into cryo for the waiting time until they arrived at their destination, however the system malfunctioned and actually woke them much much later, as in billions of years later, shortly before the death of the galaxy. That sounds really cool actually but I can't remember where I read it or what it was. (Also, in general if you have any suggestions for works of any medium that take place in a similar setting - like, a LOT of time in the future, but in our world, nothing fantasy - feel free to suggest too, I really like that idea).