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It was a computer game I played a few times at my cousin's house when I was younger. You start out a carnival or something, and there's a creepy old man there who talks to you at the beginning of the game and gives you all the background information or whatever. I think at some point you get transported to some other world or something? Sorry I'm being vague; it was a long time ago. This was probably about 8 or 10 years ago, if that helps at all.
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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.
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Trying to remember a freeware game I downloaded and played a few years ago. The player character was a small creature that, if I remember right, looked a little like Q*bert. Anyway, the gameplay was fairly standard platforming, with the addition of special places you could stand and "distort" the world around you. This was necessary to get through the levels for various reasons (for example, distorted clouds might become solid so they could be walked across, or previously solid blocks might crumble when stepped on to allow you to drop through a floor). The game forced you to progressively distort further and further all the time, so much that the final levels were seriously creepy.
The only other thing that I really remember is the ending and secret ending. The normal ending goes like this: you finally reach the princess, the screen flashes dark, and you discover that she's some kind of demon. Presumably, she then kills you. In the secret ending, if you collect all the whatever-you're-supposed-to-collect-in-the-levels, the same thing happens, but the player character is also revealed to be a demon. So I guess they live happily ever after or something. Also, I -think- the title had something to do with music, but I'm not totally sure about that.
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This was a game we used to play in school, when I was maybe in third or forth grade. I think it was supposed to teach you grammar or spelling, I'm not really sure. Anyhow, there were different games you would play, and if you did well, you'd be rewarded with a cut scene of some characters enacting a twisted version of a classic story. The ones I remember were a "Charlotte's Web" where the pig gets eaten, and some version of The Wizard of Oz. One of the main characters of the game was a spider, and I think there was also a brain-type thing.
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There was this computer game I played as a little kid. You play a guy who has to travel up a mountain, often using convoluted means. When you reach the top, there's the room with a giant. You take something from him and make your way down. When you reach the bottom, a huge meter goes up by a tiny amount and you have to do it all over again.
There were several games similar to that, but that's the one I can remember the most.
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I have entered yet another query. This time I will attempt to try to be as not jackass-ish as possible.
This game was on the Nintendo 64. It might have been multi-platform but my mom rented it for me from...Blockbuster. It involved chameleons (or some other kind of lizard thingy) that could extend their tongues very far as the playable characters (not Yoshi...). There were multiple chameleons that were different colors. I think it was a 3d platformer like Super Mario 64. It may have just been playing Follow the Leader depending on when it came out.
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Might have been for the PS 1 or Dreamcast. Main character was a animal-superhero hybrid maybe, something like a spaceman. I think he wore a purple suit. It was a side-scroller, and the first level involved hopping/running/jumping through a junkyard full of tires. When you weren't playing the game, a demo played of him jumping through the tire yard.
That's about all I know.
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I recall playing a demo for a game that came on the demo disk of several issues of the official PS 1 magazine (the UK one). You played as a guy who could plant bombs anywhere. Parts from the demo I can recall include;
- In a tutorial, a wedge shaped ship enemy appeared right in front of the character, causing him to tell his Mission Control "Enemy at close range". It helpfully sat there while you practised planting a bomb on it.
- If you died, the screen would fade to white and the player character would say "So this...is how it ends..." before collapsing.
- At one point you have to blow up an obstacle, leading to this exchange (paraphrased);
Mission Control: "Blow it up with a 'stack'"Character: "Stack?"MC: "A technique using multiple bombs for a more powerful blast [explains controls]."
- At the end of the demo, the main character comes up to a building, his MC tells him it's an enemy stronghold. It then fades out to him standing outside a burning building with people on fire rushing out, screaming that they're civilians. The mission control character tells him to calm down and the demo ends.
I'm about 76% sure that the title had "Bomber" in it somewhere.
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A PC-based video game from the mid-1980s, this was in monochrome colors and had (probably) 8-bit graphics. The story was that this guy would take a train (always at the top of the screen) from one station to the next, then he would have to take these crystals (diamond-shaped) he had with him and spread them out on the ground. The goal was to get as many crystals as you could and the more you spread on the ground, the faster they would grow, but at the same time, the more you spread, the faster the bad guys would come and steal the crystals from you.
I played this game on a computer in the public library in the summer of 1986. I thought it was fun then.
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A pinball game on DOS, around 1994-1995, probably it was a few years old at that time. There were a few tables with a space-like setting, mostly in dark blue and black. The graphics were not cartoonish, and I think they were better than in Epic Pinball, but that could be just my memory (no pun intended).
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A really old 2D platformer, probably released around the time of Commander Keen and distributed via floppy disk. Ah, the days before the internet.
You played as a spy (or a James Bond kind of person), trying to track down blueprints for... I don't know, something diabolical. I can't really remember that much about it, aside from there being one level featuring indoor shark pools. And there were a LOT of keycards (that you might have needed to take back to their respective computers?)
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I used to play this Arcade game when I was younger. It was a shooter with airships, and I remember that I could choose from a few different pilots, one of them was even a dolphin, I guess. Each one of them had a different special power, and a different bullet. You could pick up two power-ups, one for bullets and another that summoned the ultimate. One of the ultimates was a huge blue laser, the other was some big airplane which bombarded everything. I don't remember the others. One of the bosses was a huge spider/crab-like robot, and I believe it was green. There was also a huge airplane and a ship... althought I'm not sure about the last one.
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A Sega Genesis game with no ending. Basically, there were various worlds (Outer space, Jungle, Child's playroom, Castle in the sky, Underwater and something else) you went to and you played as a rubber glove and filled the worlds with objects, animals, people, mythical creatures, etc and you could color them and animate them by clicking on them. Also, Sonic the Hedgehog was also involved.
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Two actually. One is a really old PC game, like 8bit on Windows 98. It involved an "amazon-ish" woman, blonde with green clothes, picking up I think crystals and going through one castle.
The other one is a Disney game on the consoles (Around SNES or N64) where Mickey and other characters go through an amusement park for the first stage beating up some enemies. It then transitions to a haunted house with vacuums then an iceland. I've been searching for this, but I'm not even sure the game uses the Disney or Mickey name.
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Does anyone know what the following videogames are? I have fond memories of them, but just can't seem to find them.
- 1. Is a Gameboy, maybe Gameboy Colour, game, I think it's a kind of RPG that's kind of similar to Pokémon in regards to running around an overworld map and turn-based battles and having a team of animals, but the player character is also an animal. I think when you defeated an enemy you could either choose to recruit them or eat their meat and transform into whatever species they were, but I'm not entirely sure...
- 2. A compilation of games for either DOS or early Windows. I only remember 2 of the games on it, though I think there were more. One was where you play as these two little yellow submarines, and the other was kind of like Pac-Man, only it was a smiley face that faces the viewer and it played the Entertainer tune in the background.
- 3. This one I'm not sure if I somehow made up as a child and grew to remember it as a real memory, but I remember a... I think Megadrive/Genesis game, where at some point (I remember it as being like an options screen), where it's black aside from a little man wearing a big tribal mask and a hula skirt in the corner, that bent and unbent his knees while a sound byte that said "OO-ga BOO-ga" played.
I'd be really grateful if anyone knows what these could be. Thank you so much for your time~

This troper played a demo for a game when she was a child, and can't remember the name of it for the life of her. The game was an edutainment one for computers. The graphics were very bright and cartoony, and the characters were all animals that talked and acted like people. The "main character" (that is, the one who instructed the player on what to do) was an otter, if memory serves. The game seemed to have been made to teach the players about other countries. The demo was limited to some Central American one (most likely Mexico, because the otter starts the demo by saying "I can't wait to eat some tacos!")
The game was point and click, with no actual plot beyond the visiting of other countries that this troper remembers. The gameplay was centered around minigames, like one where the player colored a stained-glass window (done like a coloring book)
The demo was included on a disk of demos from the magazine "CD-Rom Today". This troper is almost certain it was a 1995 issue, so the game was likely released around that time.
If anyone has heard of this, any news would be welcomed. :)