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openRecollections of a Dream. Videogame
Okay, I know I dreamt this one, however, I do have this strong feeling that said dream was based on a real game. All I can remember was that it was a platformer game that had a(n incomplete) Easter Egg were the player would have to go to random locations and do crazy stuff to manage to get a password to access a secret location, this Easter Egg might have been popular or might not.
Edited by megagutsmanopenMascot Racer with cute animals Videogame
A game in the Mascot Racer genre. Way back in my memory so I may not have a clear picture, but gameplay was very Mario Kart, with wild tracks full of obstacles, and I remember the character selection screen, which featured a very repetitive banjo riff as all the characters swayed back and forth rapidly to the rhythm. They included a turtle, a tiger, and a rooster, I think.
openOnline Video Game-Making Video Game Videogame
I’m looking for an online game I found a while ago, I think it was set up like a browser-based MMO. You played as a character named Alex who could be male or female (I remember this because one of the opening storylines was called “Alex Joins the League”) and it was about you making platforming games. I believe it took place in a school or research facility (can’t remember which, but I believe the aesthetic leaned more toward a research facility or military base) with a light steampunk aesthetic? The only thing I definitely remember are the platform game-making sorts and the “Alex Joins the League” thing. Update: I think I remember the name of the place where Alex worked… sort of. I think it was “Copper-something” Industries… but I’m probably wrong.
Edited by CommanderPeepidotopenSidescrolling Elf Platformer Videogame
This computer game was a platformer where you played as an elf-like character. The player character was very small on the screen, their face being maybe one or two pixels. I do remember the elf having a running animation, as well as an elf hat, but my memory when it comes to these childhood games is always a little spotty.
Pickups included gold pixels that made a noise whenever collected, and keys that would open doors. The game started outdoors, but quickly progressed from left-to-right into a castle or fort. I remember gameplay being smooth - not today's 60 fps or anything, but not like Treasure Mountain, either.
I've made this query before on this site, and gotten many helpful suggestions, including the aforementioned Treasure Mountain (which I also played a LOT as a kid), Elfland and Hocus Pocus (in both of which the player characters are too big) and Solomon's Key (too old). The game I'm looking for would have likely been released in the 90s, as my dad's collection was primarily DOS games like Monster Bash and Commander Keen.
Edited by FortyTwoFortyopenearly 2000's Scify fps Videogame
I remember someone playing a game as a kid on a computer that had better graphics than anything I've seen at the time. I remember metallic rooms and interesting looking gun designs. I don't remember there being any fighting in the rooms he traveled through, but I think he showed me a couple of the weapons on empty rooms he traveled through, maybe he cleared them before. I think there was some kind of gun that launched deadly disc blades. I think there were some windows in one of the rooms that had some Nevada-type desert landscape with mountains or something but it could have just been sunlight with no landscape visible underneath, could have filled in some blanks in my memory and assumed it involved aliens,but I don't really know for sure. I expected to experience a fun weapon like this in the Halo series, being a Scifi series with aliens, but it didn't have the interesting futuristic guns I remembered so it's not that. Anyone got any ideas? The main console out at the time that I knew of was the N64 and the reflections seemed beyond that system's capabilities from what I remember, and I had a couple games that required it that were out at the time too: Jet Force Gemini and Donkey Kong 64.
It could be possible that I remember the graphics being better than they were though, but I think it was probably a PC game.
openGame similar to that of g5 games Videogame
An adventure game similar to those of g5 or whatever. So we play as a character working in the child helpline phone service. One day a kid calls and we go out to help them and as long as i can remember the kid was a mutant, he had telekinetic powers. Im not sure if it's one of the G5 games, but the gameplay is similar to that.
openCancelled Alien Video Game Videogame
I remember watching a youtube video about this really interesting looking, but unfinished, video game about taking care of a lost alien woman. I think the game was being shown off on a smaller channel, just due to how obscure the game was, but it also could have been one of those ‘Internet Mysteries’ channel like Nexpo.
It was a real game, not an arg. Graphics looked like they could have been from the early 2010’s, but they were also unfinished. The alien woman had a long neck, and was bald. She was naive about the ways of the world and you had to look after her. I think it was made by the guys who made Heavy Rain? It had that sort of mechanic where you can influence the alien to be nice or mean depending on what you gave her. The video showed you giving her a bar of chocolate. You also had to hide from Area 51 (or some government agency) squad because they wanted to recapture your alien friend.
openQuirky space pirates/cowboy/mercenary multiple-choice pixel art story game Videogame
If most of this sounds familiar but something doesn't match, PLEASE still tell me what's the game it made you think of.
This was possibly a browser game, I'm not fully sure - but it was at least free-to-play, I think. It had a pixel art artstyle, and was about this group of space pirates or cowboys or mercenaries - you played as a cowgirl. It was pretty silly and quirky, with some adult humor too. They had a mission to bring a bunch of cows to a planet. You could make choices along the way which could make this mission succeed or not. If I recall correctly, if you succeeded in delivering the cows, you'd find the people in the planet needed them to reproduce or do a weird sex ritual. One of the threads would also let you make out with one of your crewmates (also a woman), I think. At some point, you met another crew which was trying to stop you and had to talk your way through them, or fight them. There's vague memories of a weird alien thing being in your crew, but I can't recall it clearly.
This is about all I can remember. Hopefully it's enough!
openHindi Scott Pilgrim Game Videogame
So I remember this indie video game that looked like a Hindi version of Scott pilgrim, at least story wise… about a young woman fighting for love… I vaguely remember something about a coffee shop and an overbearing mother. I know it was very cartoony.
openA Japanese Game on Apple Several Years Ago Videogame
I remember this one game where it teaches you Japanese, I'm pretty sure. I found this game in an iPad that I used to have - there's a person running like a 2D platformer as well as two buttons in the bottom, and there are these signs in the map where, if the player passes in front of it, you have to tap the right Hiragana (?) character. When that is succeeded, there's a voice that comes up and says it. I don't really know much about this game anymore as this is in the back of my constantly fuzzy and absent-minded head, but a little remembrance wouldn't be so bad. If you guys have any idea what it is, please hit me up with it.
openMinigame Collection that Was on Steam I Believe Videogame
I remember one game included multiple minigames and one has a woman flying through space on some kind of space bike to deliver something requiring multiple trips with a really trippy background akin to the boss areas in the gba castlevanias. I remember a bunch of gamers in You Tube a couple of years ago playing it. Now I can't remember what it's called.
openOnline Flash game Videogame
Adventure game with a tone that stood out compared to others in the vicinity. Took place (at least as far as I got) on a boat in a river. Someone else gets hit with a blowdart from an unseen source and...
Could only get a few minutes in before I was stuck between the crewman I was trying to save having disappeared (but in a way that was clearly part of the game) and the heroine saying enigmatically, "I forgot something," as if I was that close to moving forward.
Seemed ambitious (maybe to the point of "is this actually going to tell a full story"). If it tied into anything I don't recall it.
Edited by CaswinopenMr Pencil and Mrs Brush Videogame
I remember playing a game with two characters named Mr Pencil and Mrs Brush. It had different minivans and one of them was about Mr Pencil hurting himself trying to make a circle and Mrs brush says “you better go put some ice on that.” Does anyone know the game?
openFrench kids' flash game about a crew of robot Videogame
I remember playing this series of flash games when I was really young and taking Grade school French that were found on Radiocanada.ca in the Kids section. The games were about a crew of space robots but I can't tell you very much about the plot because I didn't know French very well (still don't). The gameplay though was basically like that of an adventure game, but each robot brought different abilities and mechanics that changed the emphasis slightly.
EDIT: I found it! The games were called "Widget's Oddyssey" (L'Odyssée de la Ferraille). There doesn't seem to be a way to play these games now online but ESRB claims that they were released for the PS 3, PSP, and Vita.
Edited by A_Really_Big_CatopenWhat game is this enemy from? [unsolved] Videogame
There's this old Doom mod called Aeons of Death. It takes a whole bunch of weapons and enemies from many different FPS games and dumps them in Doom with little rhyme or reason. The problem is, as far as I can tell, there is no complete list of monsters in the mod, so identifying a specific one can be quite difficult.
What i'm wondering is what game the green-winged enemy seen in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV_RZkGF8ls
comes from. It appears around 4:58 mark and is killed at 5:22. I never encountered it in any of my playthroughs and only seen it in this one video.
Note that, although there are two mods used in the video, the second one (Oblige) is only a map generator and it doesn't add any monsters.
openSci-Fi Post Apocalyptic 3rd Person Game With Female Lead Videogame
Does anybody recall an announcement/trailer for a video game that:
- starred a female protagonist who was in some kind of post-apocalyptic scenario
- had the protagonist narrating the trailer
- was not Horizon Forbidden West
- was not Returnal
- was not Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- was not Recore but I think had a similar premise
Because I have been trying to retrace my steps through Youtube for a month now where I found the trailer and no luck.
I figure "female protagonist/third person/sci fi/post-apocalyptic" would give me some results but... no.
openMotorcycle racing PC game (2000s or earlier) Videogame
I played this game somewhere in early 2000s, but obviously it could've been released earlier. Things I remember:
- The game was on a single CD.
- The vehicles were only motorcycles.
- The maps weren't realistic and weren't trying to be. The road twisted like a rollercoaster track and I distantly remember a map where a piece of the road was floating in a pool of lava or something.
- There were powerups. They were flat and round (or maybe octagonal) with different symbols on them, and you had to drive through them to activate them. Some of these powerups had arrow-shaped symbols on them, and they gave you weapons.

I'm pretty sure this is a Video Game, but can't remember. The plot was basically this: in the future, instead of having wars, countries resolve disputes by having their best fighters fight in some kind of tournament to the death. Whichever country's fighter won got their way. I can't remember anything else about it. I honestly can't even remember if I actually played the game, or if I just read the plot somewhere and thought "that sounds cool". And yes, I did look in Combat by Champion, but couldn't find anything that looked like it.
Edited by Bootlebat