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openOffice Chair Game? Videogame
Trying to remember the title of a game that was installed a secondhand PowerPC Mac. All I remember is that the player character is permanently sitting in one of those swivel office chairs with wheels, and you moved by making him do things like spin around and push off walls. There was also a cartoony cutscene at the beginning where your character is on a flight, possibly going on vacation, and gets called back to the office.
Edited by SumanuilopenWeight Loss Related Flash Game Videogame
Which web game is this? It's from 2000-2005 and is a game about a morbidly obese man who goes on a diet. I think he could play video games, exercise, etc. It was a sim-type game.
openDeconstruction Game of River City Ransom/Kunio (Found it, it's VideoGame/TheFriendsOfRingoIshikawa) Videogame
It's about a Japanese gang that fights other gangs, but it doesn't glamorize the fights, people get hurt. If I recall, the end has the main characters friend? Boss? In a coma, and the credits roll with him endlessly fighting; with the implication being he'll probably get killed.
I think the title is The X of Y format?
Edited by wren_locklearopenThis one computer game (SOLVED) Videogame
This one has been stewing in my subconscious for a long time, but I'm finally ready to ask.
There was this one PC game involving... well, a lot of things in one setting. It starred a little boy in which I think his name started with "A", who had his own theme song, and had a squirt gun that needed to be filled with water in order to scare off a tree-like monster named "Bossy Grump" or something like that.
Other little events included a blue baby bird learning to fly and eventually succeeding, leaving his parents with a literal empty nest, a robot that would warn you if it was about to rain, and a mailbox with it's "flag" flashing red whenever you got mail.
You could also play songs such as "Naughty Little Kittens" inside your house, and that's pretty much all I can remember.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
Edited by Monolaf317openBubble Gum game?? Videogame
Ok, I remember playing this game a few years ago probably around 2013-2014 (maybe...) and you were this piece of gum and the gum was pink and monster-like. I believe you had to click on walls and platforms and the bubblegum monster thingy would shoot out gum almost like it was stretching its long bubblegum arms to stick to something. The game wasn't that fun but I really do I want to play it again for some reason. Please even if you don't know exactly what I am talking about just give me any answer you have or any other questions!
openBomberman clone with beach resort theme Videogame
It was an online video game in the Bomberman/Playing With Fire vein, with a beach resort background and relaxing BGM. Oh, and IIRC the walls were beach chairs and/or tables.
Edited by ZarbiNeradaopenSurvival game on an alien desert against hordes of bugs Videogame
The title describes most of it, but I remember one distinguishing detail being that you can upgrade your sleeping quarters, with the first level sleeping quarters just being your ship's pilot seat.
openPooh game (SOLVED) Videogame
For little kids - it had you help Owl bake cookies or pastries. I think either Pooh, Piglet or Roo needed you to help tell a story? Also Eeyore lost his tail again
Edited by pingastroperopenFantasy/Modern RTS Mashup Videogame
Back when PC Gamer was still a physical magazine and handed out demo disks, there was this one RTS game demo on it where you were playing what felt like a generic fantasy setting. The demo map was you fighting a retreating battle against a large force when it ended on a cliffhanger of a modern tank coming out of nowhere, blowing the loving hell out of the advancing enemy and then disappearing again.
I would have thought it was a game based on the anime/light novel GATE, but this was at least two decades before that series was conceived.
Anyone know what this game was and if it ever got released? A lot of those PC Gamer demos never saw the light of day as an actual game.
openDS Game with monster and trees Videogame
So, when I was little (think 2000s, around 2005 to 2010) I vaguely remember playing this game where you play as a monster that fights...I think they were robots? The robots were ruining the monster's home by polluting it and the monster has to fight them to save it. You mainly fight the robots to protect trees that art scattered around the area and the game has a top-down perspective
openVideo game that has a naming system that lampshades an easter egg name Videogame
All I know about it is that in the naming system has something to the effect of it asking you to type a name and you literally typing "a name" or something along those lines and it says "Very funny, pick another name"
openShimeji/desktop pet walks in game window from offscreen Videogame
I know it's an oldish Japanese game, maybe a visual novel, that installed a desktop pet on your computer to have a character "walk" into the game window from offscreen. I think she was holding a baseball bat, and the game was a horror game.
openSkyrim Mod - Use Bones to Summon Bone Creatures Videogame
I'm looking for a specific Skyrim Mod. I remember it being showcased a while back, but I can't remember the name.
You could pick up bones from fallen creatures and enemies, then use either restoration or conjuration magic to summon an amalgamated creature made from those bones. If anyone knows what this is or has it installed, it would be most helpful.
openOld Halloween Game with Bathtub Enemy Videogame
It's been so long I'm not sure I'll get all the details right, but I'll try:
When I was a kid I watched a movie on a VHS tape. I don't remember which movie, but a (unrelated) Halloween themed game was advertised in a commercial before or after the film. It's a children's game, but it was still creepy to me at the time. I don't remember if the bathtub enemy was a living bathtub with teeth or if there was someone laying in it. I think the game is set in a house, but it possibly may have been a castle. I also think Don La Fontaine, that famous old movie trailer narrator that was everywhere at the time, also narrated this game's commercial.
I'm mainly looking for the game, but if you happen to know which movie it was that would be great also.
Edited by EverdreamopenReally Old Prince of Persia mobile game (solved) Videogame
I distinctly remember back in the early 2000's when the phone screens were still black and yellow (a couple of years before flip phones became wildly available) my mom playing a pre-installed game on her Nokia which looked awfully a lot like Prince of Persia. 2D platformer, the middle east inspired art style, a "save the princess" by Storming the Castle plot, and traps such as hidden spikes and timed doors. There was this one trap we could NEVER get through that was one of those floors with the hidden spikes that popped way too frequently right next to a door that remained locked longer than open. Does anyone have any information about this game?
Edited by LermisopenGame about waiting for a really long time SOLVED Videogame
I remember going on a game developer's website and one of their upcoming games was this game where your character was a weird humanoid creature (may or may not have had black feathers?) and they lived in this underground temple thing. The story was that their god (or something like that) was dormant in the form of a statue and you had to guard it for a very long time (at least a hundred days or something like that) in real time. You could explore the caves and work on several projects and there would be puzzles to complete that had you wait for several days for some mushrooms to grow or for a spider to make a big enough cobweb. There was also some way to use some sort of magic to speed up the process that was hinted at in the trailer, or that you could even escape.
The game was 2d and had a really dark and strange art style.
Please help, I literally lost sleep thinking about this game last night and the only reason I made this account was because of this.
EDIT: SOLVED!!! It's called The Longing.
Edited by justanotherteenopenA Soulslike BossGame with a Level Down mechanic. Videogame
I saw an article about this and can't find it again, the gimmick is that you start out with all abilities and can choose which order to fight the bosses but you gain a permanent debuff for each one you beat.
I posted this two years ago, but never got a response, so I'll post this again:
I think I remember something about a first person perspective game, where you at one point see female arms hanging from the wall, with her elbows pointing at you. Like she was trapped inside the wall, or something. Probably 90's game, or early 2000's.
The graphics were pretty good, so it might have been FMV.
Edit: Also, it was for the PC, either DOS or Windows 95.
Edited by BreehcNicdoll