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opensuperhero themed game from the 8 bit era (solved) Videogame
The two things I can remember for certain: 1) the game revolved around superheroes, but had its own original characters and wasn't a licensed game based on actual comics, 2) I don't think it was a multiplayer game, but there was a character select screen with multiple heroes to pick from. I think the idea was you recruited more heroes to your team as you got further through the game, and they had certain powers that would be useful in certain levels / against enemies. I'm pretty sure it was for the NES, I would guess release date would have been the late 80s or early 90s as it had relatively good graphics.
Edited by MikeKopenNinja/shinobi ps2 game Videogame
So this has been bugging me awhile for the past couple of months. When i was a kid we had this ninja game about the son of some clan that got wiped out by the villain of the story. I never got past the tutorial because i was very bad at games...still am now that i think on it.
Anywho the main piece of contention in searching this game down is that i keep confusing its name with Kameo. I can vaguely remember the cover of the game having a persons eyes over the title, then below the title 5 spheres holding the symbols for fire, wind, water, earth, and soul. The instructions basically said that the soul ability has never been used in the backstory to my bad memory.
I don't know why i keep confusing it with Kameo and the elements but i do and that is seriously getting me angry at myself for the confusion. I think the name of the game is some five letter and then some subtitle. But not sure on the subtitle bit.
If i could please get this figured out so i can actually find and play said game that would be great.
Sorry for the trouble.
openA CD-ROM point and click game with fairies and emeralds Videogame
I played this game on my computer (windows 95/98/XP) when I was a child in the early 2000's. I may have got this game as a freebie in a cereal box or something similar, but I can't confirm that. The CD-ROM is long lost, but I never had a proper game case for it, which is why I suspect that.
I remember a fairy in a pink(?) dress led you through the game, and you had to save the forest by finding emeralds. You went through a series of places that were drawings of rooms or fictional places and you had to click all over the picture and sometimes you'd get an emerald. It would sound like a really typical coin dropping in a bag sound each time you found one.
You got about 30 seconds to a minute to find as many emeralds as you could. I vaguely remember a tense "10 seconds!", and then madly clicking as fast as I could all over the screen. I imagine it gave you an emerald randomly for some percentage of clicks, but to my child-mind it felt like they were hidden in particular places, if only I could figure it out.
At the end of the game depending on how many emeralds you found, the forest would grow back, the more emeralds you got over the course of the game the more it would grow.
openThis one line on a Deltarune trope page Videogame
Maybe this doesn't count for the purposes of this forum, but there's this one line on some page or other about Sans' Medium Awareness in Deltarune about how addressing him as an old friend has him react in a way "that implies that you just set off massive alarm bells in his head". I can't remember exactly what page that's from, I can't find it, and it's driving me completely nuts. Please help.
openEarly Era Flip Phone 2000s/2010s Vampire Game Videogame
This has been wracking me for a solid minute now. Nokia/Motorola/LG fl era late 2000s early 2010s flip phone game. Vampires in New Orleans, you play as one. You build a city simulator where you'd buy stores like sub shops, etc and they would generate money for you. Think it was Gameloft who developed it but I remember the logo as being an old orange phone keypad. Woman in the thumbnail was a red or brown haired vampiress to the left side looking at you with a New Orleans street in the background behind her. My brain won't let this go, help please >.<
openTeam Fortress 2 custom game mode where each team has a "boss" that helps. (Solved) Videogame
Similar to VS Saxton Hale Mode or Freak Fortress, except both teams had multiple members and each team had a "boss" character, and I remember seemingly being CTF rather than arena (The only maps I remember playing it on are 2Fort and Double Cross).
I specifically remember it being run on a few of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic-centric servers that existed back in the day, all of the "bosses" were MLP characters.
Edit: I think's it's "MLP Heroes" and was, from it's title, specifically MLP themed.
Edited by datadoggieeinopenA strategy video game about girls at war Videogame
The tagline of the game's article was something similar to "Your enemy is the one trying to get you killed! Take the grenade and throw!" or possibly "Your enemy is anyone trying to kill you"
This was used later and specifically called out as a heel/face turn in the article when the story involved attacking the group forcing the playable characters to fight.
open3D online base defence game with humans vs aliens/monsters Videogame
I remember my brother and me playing this a lot probably around 10 years ago, ish? It was online multiplayer, no voice chat, just text.
The setting was a generic grassy/rocky hill environment. The teams were humans ( I think vaguely scifi-knight ish?) vs monster-alien sorts with a bug/reptilian vibe? Nothing super unique. The classes were the standard soldier, stealth, healer, magic and I remember the monsters' big tank class being the "Behemoth": A slow moving, giant ogre with a club - tended to be used to smash buildings. I think the humans had a tank. The bases had different buildings supplying health, upgrades, weapons, classes and there was a top down build mode for one lucky player.
I think you could also play it with NP Cs and just build your base and have the computer control the enemy, whilst sending out your own units. Might have been labelled a "practice mode".
We probably would have downloaded from a website like kongregate or similar; it was it's own client, not part of website.
I don't think it was related to War Hammer but was likely trying to mimic that sort of game.
openUnidentified RPG Maker game Videogame
The Ludd Was Right trope page contains the following video game example. It's for some game made in RPG Maker, but without any title given. Can someone identify what game this is?
"RPG Maker: Appears as a possible outcome in a certain game. While all aspects of society become automatized, this makes the majority of the population "superfluous" and without employment (everyone except the owners of the machines, presumably, and even those are hinted to have been "terminated" by their automatons at some point). The masses of former workers and employees are forced to re-create a new parallel society on a much more primitive technological level, contending for resources with the machines. Depending on the actions of the player, the machines could either be convinced to provide their production to humanity for free (which is the "good" ending), or else, they can be convinced that their existence is no longer "required", as their entire point was to perfect the efficient production for consumption and in their own perfection they have defeated their own purpose as nobody benefits from their production. This will convince the machines to shut down (the "bad ending"), allowing humanity (as is implied in the ending) to rebuild on the remnants of the terminated machine civilization and eventually re-create a primitive society."
openhorror-ish puzzle point and click flash game, about 2010s Videogame
just gonna copy from my website lookin for it bc im too lazy (again... i did the same thing when i first posted this on reddit)
This one part just stuck in my mind for so many years. There was a man standing in an all-dirt field. You had to dig out a corpse of an animal, I think it was a rabbit or dog, and you had to stick your hand in there and dig out a key. It just had a black screen and squelching sounds the entire time, and the only other thing onscreen was a text box at the top. Literally all I remember aside from this was that Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy was playing over the entire game, aside from the black screen part.
openIncorrectly Rated Game Videogame
What was that one game about anime girls that was rated E but still had a bunch of stuff about nudity listed?
openThat Norse Mythology game that came out recently that has nothing to do with God of War Videogame
I'm trying to find a game that I know is on this site, but for the life of me I can't remember the name. It's a story following Norse Mythology, where Ragnarok happened and the world is basically on the brink of collapse. The basic plot involves a cult sacrificing kids regularly to stave off the end of everything, otherwise Fenrir will eat the Sun (he's also disguised as a mountain in-game). I remember it came out in I think the last five years or so, but the name completely escapes me.
Edited by hunter139openPrint Ad with Superhero, Laser Beams, Fish Bowl, Ice Cubes Etc. Videogame
The title tells you what it looks like, but it's more insane than I can possibly describe. It's an advertisement scanned from an old magazine or comic book which has appeared online in lists of the worst or most ridiculous video game ads. The subject of weird vintage ads came up recently, and it's bugging me that I can't relocate this one. It was probably for an Atari game or something from that era. I don't think it was a well-known title. Of course the promotional art often had nothing to do with the actual game.
openWhich Wolfenstein? Videogame
There's already a heap of Wolfensteins out there so I kind of lost track which one is about what.
In which installment one of the weapons you can possess, is a drum-magazine submachinegun which can be Guns Akimbo-ed? The smg itself looks like an oversized TEC-9 crossed with MP-40 and its barrel has a "heatsink" with round holes.
openonline game about death Videogame
It was an online, probably flash, game where you played as a man who was dying from i think a car crash and was in limbo or something like that. The gameplay was one of those games where you are on a grid with squares and you go from square to square to get to the end trigger, but when you step off a square for the first time it disappears. Also his dog and I think ex-girlfriend show up at one point and you have to take them to their end triggers too.
Edited by BeaCandyopenmission/scene from resident evil Videogame
does anyone know this one mission/scene from a resident evil game where ur fighting human-looking monsters with tentacles coming out their mouths (or smth similar to that) ???? im not rlly sure if thats the exact appearance bc it was a long long time ago (probably around 2009-2013)
openLEGO flash game set on a train during the Wild West. (Solved) Videogame
This was very long time when I most visted the LEGO website for stuff relating to BIONICLE. I would occasionally wonder off the Biooncle site and into the main LEGO site.
I think they had a general "games" section the included games from every theme. This game was from a "Trains" theme. You where on a passenger train and had to stop this outlaw who had boarded with and I think was trying to rob it.
I remember there where these cards that would play whenever something happened (Not sure if good or bad, but I think bad) that said "You've been X." I do not remember the third word. There was also a scene where you push one of the bad guy's henchmen out of the train and they get caught on a rope on a post outside. This disturbed me at because I though he got hanged, but I realized it was around his waist rather then his neck.
Edit: It's Tales of the LEGO Express: The Heist
Edited by datadoggieeinopen3D beat 'em up set in Japan, possibly part of a series? Videogame
It was probably for the Playstation 2, possibly late Playstation 1, and I think it had "Brothers" in the title. On the surface it was fairly down-to-earth (i.e. all the enemies, at least from what I had seen, were regular humans), but it had a bunch of over-the-top special moves. The one move that I remember in particular involved the player character knocking the target's soul out of their body (I want to say that it was done via a slap, but I'm not 100% certain), which I think reduced the victim's stats or otherwise left them more vulnerable if they still had health afterwards.
Edited by Radayam

I think this was a Big Fish or Wild Tangent game? All I remember is a white haired girl and trying to fix a broken mirror/glass where you had to move rope where they didn’t cross over each other? The girl was like cursed or something? It may have had an anime style.
Edited by Steampunker