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This one came out around 1994 or 1995 for PC. It was a game where you go on a quest of some kind and the main character spends a lot of time walking around and the screen doesn't really follow him so you start on one side of the screen and then walk to another edge of the screen and it would change to that screen. I don't remember ever really accomplishing anything in the game other than stopping to talk to people and if you typed "join" they might join your party and then follow you around the screen all the time. I think you could even hack them with your sword and kill them if you wanted and there was a later version released where if you did that, this wizard guy would show up in a fireball and kill you on the spot. I guess the people who designed the game didn't like you to be able to kill off their characters.
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A flash game online. I played it back in like 2006 or 2007 or something. Maybe earlier... You played as a spiked ball and bounced on wooden platforms in order to crush all of the medieval knights. Had to be careful of sharp platforms though because the ball could pop and you only had three lives. It was bloody fun.
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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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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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I've got two games that I'm curious about. Both are PC edutainment games, probably from the mid-to-late 90s.
The first was one of those games where you had a central area, and could access a number of minigames from there. It had a space theme, and the central area was a spaceship. There was one minigame where you were on this planet with a lot of craters, and you were playing a kind of "whack-a-mole" thing. These weird, brightly colored, cartoony-looking aliens would stick their heads out of the craters, and you'd hit them with something. I don't remember if you had a bludgeon or if you were shooting something at them. I can't seem to remember any of the other minigames, or what exactly the goal of the game was. I think there must've been more than one of these games, because I remember a friend having one that looked similar, but had different minigames.
The other one is similarly hard to remember, and again, all I have is bits and pieces. It had the same kind of "central area" format as the other one, but that's the only thing they had in common. This central area was mostly dark, I think, with spotlights on the things you could do. I know there was at least one minigame that involved music, but I don't remember anything about it besides that. The thing I remember most clearly was some weird little game where you were making these fluffy critters. I think they were fluffy, anyway. You were in a building, and people would come to the door and ask you to make them one. They'd tell you the specifics, and you'd give it to them. I remember that those things eventually got their own spinoff - something to do with a town full of them. Aside from that, I remember there being more than one of these games, but I only ever played this one because I was too young for the others.
Come to think of it, the one with the music minigame and the one with the critters may have been two different games, but I'm not sure.
I know this isn't much help. I'm not too concerned about finding out what these were, but if anyone knows what I'm talking about, I'd appreciate it.
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I'm looking for a fan-made Pokémon computer game I played as a kid, I remember finding a download on the net years ago (back in... 2004-5-6? A good few years ago at least)
It starred Pikachu running through different stages, trying to avoid the Pokéballs getting thrown at it. You had to avoid them until the time ran out, and then you continued to the next level. If you lost (I think you had several lives), you got a "game over" screen with a countdown and a hurt/tired Pikachu, if you clicked continue you would start again from the same level. It had different themed stages, some with obstacles or other Pokémon in the way (I remember a water-level with a Shellder). Various trainers from the anime also made apperances, I remember Gary being somewhere in the game. I think it might have had "Pikachu/Pikachu's" in the name, but I'm not sure. Anyone knows what this is?
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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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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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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 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'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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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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there's this video game i read about in a magazine years ago, think it was PS 1-era. protagonist was a teenage girl with blue hair and a large crescent-shaped barrette which she could throw like a boomerang. the plot was her being trapped in another world and looking for her brother. NP Cs are cat-dog crossbreed-looking things. the only thing that escapes me is the name.
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I have two (possibly three, as I'll explain below) arcade games that I have been struggling to remember for years now. All of my searches on the web over that time have turned up nothing, not even the smallest breadcrumb. This is my last resort, and I don't have much faith that anyone will find what I'm looking for. I apologize in advance for my vague information.
- The first game was a lightgun shooter that I'm fairly certain was in a similar visual style to the Area 51 arcade games. One area was a desolate city where you fight bikers that were possibly mutants or zombies. In that same area, I distinctly remember a boss encounter with a tentacled school bus, as strange as that sounds. There was also a segment where you are backpedaling down a corridor away from a multi-armed creature. I hate to say it, but that is all of the information I can muster from my faded memories of the game.
- The next game may in fact be two games that I have mixed together, so bear with me. I recall that the cabinet came with two hefty lightguns that included shoulder straps due to their size. I strongly believe that they were purple, if that helps. I remember a boss encounter with a large yellow robot that chases after you as you ride on a hovercraft. It may have been called 'The Tower' or some such. Another boss was a giant octopus that attacks a seaside amusement park. Again, I regret that this is the extent of information I can offer, but it truly is all I can remember.
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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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Just watched Wreck-It Ralph with Vanellope using her glitch powers to win the race, and a thought crossed my mind: was there ever a videogame about glitches? A game where things that happen accidentally in other games and ruin them are acknowledged and used as a part of the game's actual mechanic? I'm not sure if such a game exists, but I can't be the first one to think of it, right?

I know chances are slim but here goes nothing...
Back in 2000 or 2001, there was a game I played on some kind of console. I don't know which one it was but it must have been then current-gen because it was in a supermarket (they placed consoles with certain games in the games section so kids could play while their parents shopped). The game must have been fairly recent, too. I think it was on a cartridge rather than CD but I am not sure. The game was a Third-Person Shooter with elements of Action-Adventure (I think you had an inventory of some sort).
In the game, you played as some kind of futuristic super-soldier. As the game started, you were dropped in a colorful landscape on an island with a handgun. There was a house nearby which you could explore, I think there were some nondescript blob-like enemies there, too. There was also a car around it somewhere and the hero did some crazy jump-flip in the air to get in and out of it. The island was surrounded by water, which you couldn't swim in, so you had to find a way to lower the bridge (I think there was a lever in the house). Beyond the bridge lurked another, bigger enemy whom I only managed to beat once. I have never been able to get farther than that. :(
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