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openEdutainment PC Game About Cats Videogame
There was a demo of an edutainment game I played on PC in the late 90s. I found it on the disc with some Muppet ABC's game (something like Muppet Kids: Capital and Small Letters or something), but for the life of me I can't remember what the demo game is called.
The game was structured like some kind of game show, and it was intended to teach the player about various species of wild cats. Before anyone comments as such: the game was NOT Garfield's Mad About Cats. The game had nothing to do with Garfield in any capacity. The host of the game was a suave/cool-acting leopard or cheetah or something (he was kinda like Chester Cheetah to be honest) in a fancy suit, with an assistant who was like some kind of brown... bobcat or something in a safari outfit who was silent. There was a minigame where said bobcat walked across some sort of isometric grid maze or something.
I vividly remember this game demo, but every time I tried to look it up, or look up this Muppet game to see if they were made by the same developer, I always came up empty on the cat game. It's made me wonder if the game even exists, since every time I look it up I always get directed to Garfield: Mad About Cats, which I am positive is a completely separate game. Has anyone heard about this or am I going crazy?
openA weird video game with dogs Videogame
I remember when i was like 2, 3 or 4 on A Leapster (an educational video game system for kids that was so thick because this was 2008 or something) and one of the games that came with it was about dogs, you could pick 1 of 3 dogs. A Husky/Malamute maaayyybe a corgi and one other. You could teach your dog shapes by drawing shapes on the screen, and once a dog learned a trick you could use it in a dog show. I know there was some sort of guy (i'm not sure in what context he appeared in) but he played a saxophone in this continuous jingle i can remember even today! Sometimes, if it was a while since you last saw your dog, your dog will poop on the floor. That is all I remember.
openNo Title Videogame
This was an Edutainment Game I played in Kindergarten (around 1999 or 2000). I think it was on Mac. I can only remember two parts about it: in one, you're on a space station in zero-gravity, and if you click on something, Strauss' Blue Danube plays (recently figured this out). The other part is clicking on a radio transmitter will cause a guy to say "This is [I've forgotten the name, but it was something like "Big Bad Joe"] reporting live from Springtown!" and talk for a little while about... something. The name of this game has been bugging me for a long time. I also remember there being a guide, and I think it was a talking frog. Oh, and before you say Microsoft's Explorapedia: World of People, that's not it; I tried it, thinking that might be it, and it wasn't. I don't even think it's Mac-compatible, anyway.
Edited by thevisualboy37resolved Creepy, surreal game on Newgrounds Videogame
There was this game I played on Newgrounds years ago (maybe 2-5 years). You're playing as a psychic who is tasked with (actually, more like forced into) solving murders by reading the victims' minds.
Every time you look in someone's head, you get this very surreal scene of warped imagery and faces. You have to pay very close attention, because one of the faces that appears is the murderer's face.
Then you get a view of a police lineup, and all the characters are very Gonkish. You have to pick the one whose face matches one of the faces in the victim's mind. Whichever one you choose gets the electric chair.
If you guess wrong, your boss - who seems to be a normal human, but he's covered in shadow - tells you that You Have Failed Me, and that he would do the paperwork to fire you, but what he's about to do is easier. He then shoots you to death, and you get a Game Over screen.
The whole game had a pixellated, monochromatic art style, like the Game Boy. Does anyone know what this game is?
openGame on App Store (FOUND) Videogame
I think this came out about two years ago, when iOS 8 was released. They had some games featured on the App Store, and there was this one that I wanted to download, but couldn't since I didn't have enough memory to download the latest iOS. It was called something like "Special Delivery," and it was pixelated with a good bit of pop culture references thrown around in there. The protagonist was a man with short dark hair that is spiked in the front with a five-o'-clock shadow. The in-game camera view was top-down. I think the object of the game was to deliver food to people(?). Anyone know what this is?
Edited by GitarooHeroopenChildren's Reading Computer Game, early 2000s? Videogame
So this has been bothering me for a while now! I remember playing a game as a kid where it was one of those story computer games? You know, the ones where you can interact and have kind of a point-and-click screen as you read a book? It was one of those and I remember the plot vaguely. It was about these monsters who all had noses that were like instruments. (Think Squidward's clarinet style.) and they all rejected this one monster. He eventually went on to be a conductor and stuff and it was really cute.
It's DEEPLY bothering me that I can't remember what it is!
openYou know that video game with the Bear-Aliens? Videogame
I'm looking for this old PC platformer video game. it's probably a 90's game There's this blonde kid on a pink Marty-Mc Fly hover-board... he's got a pink visor and an energy pistol white shirt + blue jeans he's flying around colorful levels inside an alien craft that invaded planet earth and all the aliens are evil breeds of Bears... with bear insignia and picnic basket paraphernalia
anybody remember that?
openCebeebies Maze game? Videogame
So I remember playing a game on the Cebeebies websites years ago where you had to go through several mazes to deliver things to people? There was a polar bear maze, and others I can't remember. In one maze, you have to get to a picnic. It's not longer on the site and I don't remember what show it is associated with.
open90's edutainment computer game? Videogame
I seem to recall an Edutainment game I played in the 90's or early 2000's. I don't remember many details, but I seem to remember that one section of it involved having to try to make a cake for someone (though I think there were several on the screen. The environment may have had clouds around that point but I'm not sure about that. I can't for the life of me remember what the game was, and I know I played something like that...
openSomething about blocks Videogame
When I was younger, my grandma would play this computer game all the time. I can't remember much of it, but I think the little symbol thing on the desktop was a red block. I can't describe what the game itself was about, but i remember one level where there were layers of blocks that were always shifting left or right on alternating layers. I think it also had an overworld where you could select levels. Finally, I think it was a Popcap game because some of the other games my grandma played (Zuma, Peggle, Bejeweled, Chuzzle, etc.) were from Popcap.
openVideo game with bad voice acting Videogame
I saw this video on Youtube about bad voice acting in video games and there was this one sound clip where a man was moaning "I grieve, I mourn, help me gods!" in a really melodramatic way. I remember the game had a horse on the cover or someone riding on horseback. I've looked for the video on Youtube but couldn't find it. Help? I'd love to hear the sound clip again, it was hilarious!
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?
openTop Down Motorcycle Arcade Game Videogame
A top down motorcycle game released for arcade in the late 80s or early 90s. There are about a dozen other motorcycles on screen at once, and the sprites are rather small. It's top down, but there aren't really any turns in the course, you just move left and right to dodge around the other racers. It's definitely based on track based motorcycle racing because it takes place on a race track, as opposed to being based on motocross and being set on a dirt track. Similar in appearance to Rally Bike, but it's not Rally Bike. The game I' thinking of is zoomed further out, and has more bikes on screen at a time.
Edited by WillKeatonopenIndie IOS Puzzle Game Videogame
I think this game was released two year or three years ago. The English translation (originally a Japanese puzzler) was pretty bad, but the concept was super cute.
Basically, you move around two characters, a boy and a girl whose names aren't mentioned, and you help them overcome obstacles such as locked doors, rain, and road blocks in order to meet. At the end of each level (when they finally meet) they do this "after-school dance" thing.
Does anyone know this game? Thanks!
openChildren's PC game with orange alien slime woman in space Videogame
When I was kid, I remember opening up what I'm pretty sure was an edutainment game on a public library computer. All I remember is the intro, where there was this thing that might have been a robot strolling casually through space. At one point, some orange slime drips down onto him, he tries to brush it off, and then he gets captured by this large slime alien woman who kept him trapped as a part of her body. I think the game was math related, and might have been part of the math blasters series but honestly I'm pretty unsure.
openWIndows Detective Game Videogame
So in this game, you play as an old detective. As always, you're trying to solve a murder. I kinda forgot the gameplay but roughly, in each room, there's some sort of clue, and you click the wrong clues to make it disappear. You can listen to the characters' testimony to determine the right answer. If you click on the wrong answer, there's a thunder sound. Oh, and also, after you finish the stage, there's a footstep representing the murderer's actions.
Thanks in advance.
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.
open90's Educational PC Game? Videogame
There was this point-and-click educational PC game I remember playing in grade school back in the 90's. I can't remember the title, but I remember the plot: there were these little round aliens called 'Bumps' who were basically a bunch of multicolored round blobs with googly eyes and mouths. They were flying in a spaceship and crashlanded on earth, and their spaceship got taken by this young girl who dragged it back to her shed. The Bumps meet up with this little nerdy rat character who tells them that their spaceship is inside the shed, and the girl was an artist who would probably turn it into a sculpture or something, so he helps the Bumps get inside the shed through various physics-based puzzles- using different-sized Bumps to move and lift objects, weigh different things down, and balance platforms to get across to their goal. It was all done in cartoony 2-D graphics, with (I think) pre-rendered 3D backgrounds, like some of the Jumpstart games.
I remember the Bumps being featured in at least one other, similar game too, one that was themed around an alien carnival where you played different games with the Bumps and some other aliens too- the only ones I remember are this one "villain" who looked like a purple anteater who sucked up Bumps through his snout, and a yellow dragon-like Ringmaster character.
I remember playing this one find-the-object game years ago. I can’t remember if it was a flash game or a downloadable game.
The game took place at a family’s house. The art style of the game had that realistic-shading-on-unrealistic-character-designs style to it, and I think it had a dull, cool color palette.
I think the first level of the game took place outside the family’s house, while the second level was in a room in the house’s attic.
I remember that there was also some minigame you could play. The minigame featured a picture of the family, and random funny stuff would be drawn on the family. It started off with only one thing drawn on it, but when you clicked on it, another thing would be drawn on. You had to click on the newly-drawn thing every time, which became challenging when there was a large amount of things drawn on the picture.