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Fighting flash-game from early 00s. The protagonist is a monk and has to defeat a demon king/warlord. There are four levels, each of them ends with a boss fight.
The first level is forest location. There is an upbeat Chinese song playing in the background. The second level is a beach with relaxing background music. The third level is another forest and re-uses the song from the first level. The last level is Big Bad's castle and background music is generic "epic" song.
There is a password system for accessing levels. If you finish the game with low score there is a prompt telling you to go do your homework. Finishing game with high score unlocks another playable character.
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I remember a game from PS 1, JRPG genre i suppose. I think you can choose between boy or girl at the beginning, and there's a blue-haired girl named Reena, IIRC. It was started in this chick's hometown, then she was wandering to the forest near her town. Then she was attacked by a monster but the boy avatar saved her. Then later in the game, you meet some people that you can choose to add them in your party, one of their name was Celine I think. You can walk through the overworld, the town and dungeon is a small area from overworld. There's some islands too, and you can reach them by an airship. Also, the final boss (not counting the game plus) was named Gabriel or something.
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A very old game, I think it was for windows 95 or 98. You had a yellow anteater (at least I think it was an anteater) as your pet. You could flatten him with an anvil, give him stuff to eat, sometimes he would even go somewhere past the screen and bring a new thing with him. There was also this gimmick, that when you opened the exit door from your house it would always show a different scenery outside and you could sometimes find a gift at your doorstep. I've been looking for this for many years now, it's a game I held really dear in my childhood.
He looked pretty similar to this: img29.imageshack.us/img29/2033/anteater12.jpg
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Well, Internet game, actually. Or at least I found and played it on the internet, I'm not sure if it originally was an arcade game or anything.
Either way, I just remembered this game I played on the net back in 2004-2005, but it was likely older than that. It had 8-bit graphics, and you controlled a worm through a maze, trying to collect "food" things (I think they were just dots) The worm was made out of circles, and I think it had a smiling face, and round "ears"(antennas?) It might have grown whenever it ate something. The goal was to eat all the food in the level. Thinking about it, it's kind of like a mix of Snake and Pac-man...
I'm not sure if there were enemies/obstacles, but if there were they weren't in every level, and it took a few levels before they first appeared. I think the name of the game might have been a name, as in the "name" of the worm, but don't trust me on that one, I don't remember.
So anyone know what this might be? I feel like playing it again for nostalgia's sake.
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Okay. This has been bugging me for ages now. Back when I was younger, about 3 or 4 years old, I would play a game on our kindergarten's computer with my friends every time we got the chance. I can remember it being about a group of kids, about 4 of them. I think it was either three or all of them that were boys. The opening sequence of the game had the kids playing baseball outside an old house and accidentally smashing the window, which was followed by them talking to the player and asking them to click on the house or something similar. Anyone know what it is?
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This was a flash game on the old Bonus.com before something happened to it and the whole site seemed to vanish. I'm almost positive this game still exists because I've seen other games from that site on other sites. It was a tournament fighter a la Street Fighter with a Japanese name and it was the third or fourth installment of its series. It had three or four characters, all of which were cute little chibi animals (one example is a round yellow duck-like creature and another was a blue bear-like creature). The final boss was a shadow thing that looked somewhat like a common Heartless from Kingdom Hearts. If you beat it, or if you did a code on the character select screen, you could play the game as that boss. I swear I'm not making this up, does anyone else remember this?
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I'm looking for a game I played when I was younger. (I'm 20 now) I don't remember much. The only things I'm 100% sure about was that I played a wizard that could call rocks down from the sky and that it was a multiplayer game that I played with my brother.
I vaguely remember a level that might have been a farm (or maybe it was a graveyard). I think it might have had a corn patch. I also think zombies might have been enemies, but I'm not sure. I think you could open chests.
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I don't really have an interest in playing this game but the name stumps me and it is getting annoying. Like having a song stuck in your head.
It was a Computer game I played in elementary school where you played a guy in green with a brown beard. You gathered knights by completing challenges and then non-violently stormed a castle to get the Big Bad out.
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I never actually played this game; all I remember are the ads and reviews I saw for it in magazines. I think you played as some kind of blue guy, and he had a staff. No, it wasn't an Avatar game; it came out near the beginning of the PS 2's life cycle, so it would've come out in 2001, 2002 at the latest (I would guess). As I recall, you explored some kind of magical world. I believe the general consensus in the reviews was along the lines of, "Eh, it's okay I guess."
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I'm looking for a very early PS 2 game that I remember very little about. The main character was a knight, and the whole game was on a time limit. You chose the time limit at the beginning, from anywhere from 10 Days to, I think 60 Days. I might be a little off on the exact amount, but it was a number of days. The goal was either to find a cure of a disease that was killing you, or the princess, or a magic curse that was destroying the land. I really don't remember much of it. It probably didn't sell all that well, I remember getting it for Christmas from my mom, who used to buy a lot of those bargain games that were So Bad It's Good. Nobody I've talked to seems to have any idea what this game is. Any ideas?
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While on a video game exhibition with a lot of playable games, I played a game that I liked, but I can't remember the name of anymore. Also my memory might not be the most reliable, so a lot of them are "might be" and "possibly". It's a Japanese game, made in either late 80's or early 90's, with 16-bit sprites. They only had a Japanese-language version, so it might not have had a western release... I can't remember the console, but it was NOT SNES, and I'm also PRETTY SURE (95%) it wasn't any Sega console.
The main characters were two girls, who were mostly palette swaps with different-colored hair and dresses, I think one of them had brown or green hair and a blue dress, and the other one might have been blonde or with a red dress. At the start of the game, you could choose who to play as, but it made no real difference since their attacks and everything were all the same. The game was called *name of character 1**name of character 2**some other (English) word*, sadly I can't remember any of them, except that the girls had similar names (a few letters difference). Actually, the last word MIGHT have been "beat" or "crush" or "punch" or something like that, but don't trust me on that one. It was a platformer (not sidescroller) where you jump up and down to attack enemies. You could attack by throwing a ball at them, which would stun them so you could jump on them and kill them, I think this ball was some kind of creature since I think it had eyes. I remember one of the enemies being a traffic sign - a lot of the enemies were various strange objects, actually. You could collect candy (?) to fill up health and/or get points. Some levels were bonus levels with no enemies where you tried collecting everything in the time limit. I also think you could pop balloons to get points/powerups/something. If you got hit, your character would start crying, and you lost a life and respawned on the starting point of the level. You had 3 or more lives/hearts for each level. In general, it had a colorful, cute/funny style.
There was also a 2-player mode where each player would control each their character, and trying to beat a stage together, while trying to collect the most points for yourself.
Also, if you waited on the intro screen, you'd see a short animated clip with the main characters, I think one of them had a magical girl transformation or something.
So, anyone know what this might be?
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I'm trying to find a videogame that was heavily promoted by a dressup doll/tween social site called Cartoon Doll Emporium in summer 2009. There were ads for it on almost every page and I think they had a contest to win it. I think it was only for Playstation 3, but I could be wrong. The graphics were really Uncanny Valley, like Sims but with real flesh and hair. It was an ice skating game that said it was inspired by real girls. There were 4 girls you could play as. I think one of the character names was Madison. One of the characters had loose blonde hair. Another girl (this might have been Madison) had deeper skin(if she was supposed to be black her skin wasn't very dark), and had hair tied up in a small bun, she had green eyeshadow going up to her brows. The characters were reffered to as "diva girls", and I think that was in the name. Does anyone know what this was? Thanks.
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I'm remembering a Japanese SFC game that I think got a fan translation, but I can't remember the name and Google isn't helping. In it, you build and maintain a dungeon to sustain life in the land above, while defending it from people who incorrectly believe it poisons the land. The Chinese elements and feng shui were a gameplay mechanic. I think it might've been rereleased for the Saturn at some point.
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Ok, this is one of my first posts, and I am desprete for an answer.
So anyway, I remember this game, I know it was on the PS 1, I had got it from my dad, shipped from Korea while he was in the army, so it MAY have been only released there, or not released in the US. A 2Dish game, might be an RPG, I know it had character selection, and multiple stories, but I don't remember much about it (This was when I was four, so bear with me here.) I asked my dad recently if he had the old games, but he sold them a while back, since the PS 1 broke.
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Two queries! The first one is an edutainment game with logical puzzles that I played when I was young - it involved a number of blue-colored egg people solving puzzles to move across a map. There was a really ecstatic announcer who would praise you every time you got a puzzle right. It was also possible to lose some of the eggs during puzzles. The puzzles themselves I don't remember - I do vaguely recollect one which dealt with pizza and ice cream. Oh, and you could customize the egg people at the beginning of the game.
The second one is a freeware stick fighter game with an animation editor that let you fully animate your personal stick figure, using keyframes and joints. You could right-click one of the joints to designate a "collision", which meant that damage would be dealt to the enemy, should he touch that joint during the animation. It was so fun creating overpowered stick figures - I don't really remember if it had a multiplayer or not.
Does anyone know where I can get those games? The first was not freeware, iirc, the second was. Many thanks in advance!
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There was an old Game Maker program I used to have back in the late 1990s when I was very young. I think it was called "Games Factory", but I never found it since. I recall one of the games that came with it was called Zed or Zeb or whatever it was called, which was a side-scrolling platformer where you shoot enemies, and the first half of the game took place in some jungle while the second half took place in some sort of purple factory setting. I never did beat it, but I looked in the editor itself and saw that the Final Boss was a yellow Humongous Mecha or something like that.
Another example game that came with it was a top down shooter and had the player as a magician shooting enemies. I recall the Final Boss being a giant skull.
And there were these small examples on how to build a game or something like that, in three categories ranging from "Easy", "Medium" and "Hard", and one of the platformer examples had the player character from Zeb or Zed.
Does anyone remember this old Game Maker?

This was an edutainment game from when I was a kid. I don't remember much, except I think a witch was involved at some point, but anyway the graphics were pretty pixly, so it wasn't one of those more modern games that look like a cartoon on TV; and the background music was "House of the Rising Sun," almost certainly without the copyright. Also, I remeber seeing a castle or mansion from the side all the time, as in the camera was fixed, not changing the angle or moving to the side. You played by solving maths problems or spelling or something, but while you had a character that was "you", I don't think you moved him around or anything like that. You just solved math problems and spelling stuff.
EDIT: I'm almost 100% the system was Windows. I first played the game in 1994 or 1995.
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