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openObscure edutainment game with space pandas and static man Videogame
So, I just remembered this old game I used to play with my brother: it was some kind of educational web game, likely about protecting the environment. I think it was set in space on a planet of space pandas called something like 'bambuu'. I don't recall the main villain's name, but I know that he had a ball of static for a head. I'm pretty sure the game had a custom character maker, but I'm not completely sure about that. I think the main villain got redeemed at the end? It was a fairly short game, probably no more than an hour. Those are all the details I can remember at this time, but I hope someone else knows about this.
Edited by ThatDerpyFoxopen(FOUND) Mid-90s DOS game: First-person maze combat (1v1, mech-themed) Videogame
I remember an MS-DOS game from early-mid 90s that was a first-person perspective combat game where you'd seek out your rival in a maze and fight to the death firing green and orange blobs. The game used PC speaker sounds and had EGA or VGA graphics. You fought in mech-style robots (mostly visual theming than actually feeling like you were piloting a mech); not sure if this was a demo or had a full version with additional robots, but I remember a "Cobra" and "Jackal" model you could choose from at the very least. Primitive 3d-model-turned-into-sprites were used as a 'select your robot' screen as they rotated.
Once you found each other, simply spamming green and orange fireball globs would often win the match, at least on the difficulty I played on as a kid. The keys were Numpad 7 and Numpad 9 for each weapon/attack type. It's odd I can remember the mech codenames or even the keys for attacking, but nothing comes to me on the game's name.
Edited by CeekuropenCar brand kids' game/visual novel? Videogame
For years now I've had this distinct memory of playing this one (I'm assuming Flash or Shockwave) game as a kid, but I've never been able to track down anything even remotely similar. Maybe someone on here can help or at least back up my memories.
I remember a visual novel-style game where you play as either a player-friend of the main character or the main character herself. The main character was a kid with really androgynous vibes (still not sure if it was a boy or a girl, but I'm going to go with girl for now), blonde hair that was straight and shoulder-length, and a short name. I'm guessing it was like that so kids of any gender would be more likely to play the game.
I didn't understand much English back then, but I distinctly remember the game being tied to a car brand. For a long time, I was convinced that the brand was Mercedes Benz, but again, nothing comes up when I look for "Mercedes Benz kids game from the 2000s". I also remember the backgrounds for scenes being almost like photos, if not actual photos. Very gray, very real looking, with no fantasy aspect whatsoever. I think it might have taken place in Germany. There might have been a sort of global travel thing going on where you and/or the main character met with kids from different countries, but I might be totally wrong on that note.
I understood virtually nothing of what was going on, but I think I was intrigued by the fact that it was a game made by a car brand, yet had no racing aspect (none that I remember) and the main character was quite girly-looking.
If anyone has any clue what I'm talking about, please let me know!!!
openEarly acces game about managing a young girl social interactions in a truman show situation Videogame
I think is a korean game. From what I remember it wasn't fully translanted, but the gameplay was akind to a management sim where you have to decide where to locate your paid actors so this girl will run in to them (under the pretense of a normal life) and you will get to raise her according to some agenda.
openThose Two Games With The Choices Videogame
Now, the two games I'm going to mention are completely separate, only being connected because they both have choices at the end of the game.
The first game was some web game where there's an old guy you can choose to spare to kill, as well as asking them questions. This person turns out to be the last player, and you will become the old guy for the next. There's also a girl you can Mercy Kill, but even if you don't choose to, you get blood spilt all over you.
The other game, I remember way less of, only an end sequence where you are placed in a Hopeless Boss Fight until other players (who sacrificed themselves) say inspiring messages while helping you beat the boss, and afterwards, you can choose to escape or become one of them.
openCaveman vs. big lizzard on C64. Videogame
I faintly remember playing a 2D platformer on Commodore 64 featuring a caveman (or something thereof) navigating a series of dark bluish caves and facing a lizzard as big as a rhino at the end (or was it? I never managed to beat it). The game probably wasn't scrolling but switching rooms.
Rings any bells?
openold pc game Videogame
okay so this is a game that I played on an old block computer, the game logo was I think an orange dinosaur footprint, and the game had you play as a dinosaur as you walked around the landscape. There was an area that had a lake, an area that had a carcass lying around, and I think there was an area where another dinosaur would attack you if you saw it?
open(Solved)Magical Girl Crossover 3D Fighting Game Videogame
There was this 3D Fighting Game that had several characters from Magical Girl franchises, and at least a few who weren't but were Magical Girl-adjacent(such as Naga from Slayers). The main thing that I remember was that Cardcaptor Sakura had a super move(possibly an instant kill?) that sealed the opponent in a card.
Edited by RadayamopenObnoxious PC platformer (solved) Videogame
In the mid-nineties or so I found the box and manual for a PC game that leaned heavily into Mascot with Attitude, this time in the form of a wacky white rock musician with a huge screaming mouth and wagging tongue dressed in a backward cap, a white tank top and jeans if I remember correctly. The goal was to rescue his monster bandmates, the only one I remember being a reptilian drummer named Surf. The marketing was especially forced, starting with something like "Get lost hedgehogs, earthworms and donkeys! The real action platformer hero's here!". Clearly, the game went nowhere given how I've never seen any sign of it since then. I hope to find what it is so I can add it to the Mascot with Attitude article.
Update: I just found out it's Arcade America. Got a lot of details wrong about the player character's appearance but the line from the back of the box finally lead me to it. I swear I searched for it before and didn't find anything...
Edited by S-J-FujimotoopenRetraux Bullet Hell Videogame
Been trying to find this game for a long time. Also, the screen moves horizontally rather than vertically.
openTrying to find a battle Royale game. Videogame
Battle Royale game (I think). One player character was a serial killer girl wielding a chainsaw.
openTank stragity game PC Videogame
It's a strategy wargame that takes place in a fantasy version of World War I. Or possibly in World War II, the main character drives a custom-made tank of some kind that's old but it's better than what the other people are using.
Do you guys know what it is and can you recommend a let's play?
openVideo Game OST Videogame
I'm trying to find a song that I briefly heard in a youtube video. The title of the video was "female singers in video game soundtracks" or something like that, but I can't find that video anymore. The song I'm trying to find is basically a video game OST, is sung by a female singer, and has the words "in the world above" mentioned several times. I remember the video game was from a Western developer. Does anyone know this song? Sorry if the clues are super vague because honestly I can't remember things very well.
openFish Game? Videogame
There was this game where you play as a fish (you can choose which fish to play as) and go around eating other fish that explode into meat when you kill them. It was an online game, and there was a river and ocean map.
openHelicopter game on Windows/PC (Not resolved) Videogame
This is another one that has been sitting in my head and taunting me with basic memories but a forgotten name. In this game you pilot a helicopter, and there was one mission I could play (so it might've been a demo). The goal of this mission was to prevent the enemy from crossing a large body of water; there were gunboats/carriers in the water, and tanks on a long bridge suspended between two lands. As far as I can remember, when you start playing you'd spawn on the bridge with some sort of turret shooting at you. If you failed the mission (whether through being destroyed or otherwise the enemy winning), the camera would swivel or pan to show the object or occurrence that caused you to fail, such as a turret that destroyed you or gunboats/carriers reaching your shore. The game is pretty old, no later than 2007-2010 I think.
I've tried searching it up to no avail. I thought it would've been Comanche Gold
- in fact, it comes extremely close - but from checking it out it doesn't seem to match what I remember, so either it's not what I'm looking for or I'm missing something. I'd really appreciate it if someone could tell me what the name of this game was!
openNo Title Videogame
Fighting game that I played on a friend's Sega Genesis/Mega Drive in the 90s. It had an Excuse Plot about a tyrannical leader with access to time travel, who had abducted 8(?) of the greatest warriors from throughout history and told them he would only return one of them to their own time, and only if they could demonstrate they were the strongest by killing the other 7. One of them was a stereotypical Viking with an axe, and one was a praying mantis-like alien from a race that had colonised earth in the distant future. Mid fight dismemberment was possible - fighter's limbs could be cut off limiting their ability to fight for the rest of the round, and some attacks could decapitate the enemy for an instant victory. Any ideas, tropers?
Edited by AstarothopenStacking game with animals on Windows Videogame
I just remembered this stacking game with animals, but I can't remember the name of it. It was on the Windows platform, and I'm fairly confident it's not newer than 2010 (probably not older than 2000 or so either but I'm not 100% sure). Basically there are circular pieces of different colors, most likely having pictures of animals on them as well but I believe there were pictures of the actual animals elsewhere in the game too. These pieces can be stacked on top of one another with your mouse and need to be cleared somehow, I've forgotten the exact method but probably placing multiple of the same color together. You lose the game by having a stack run too high - if it's close to falling over, the stack shakes and wiggles around a bit. As far as the graphics go, they were pretty colorful and cartoony.
That's all I can remember at the moment.
openNot-Very Hidden Objects Videogame
It was a mobile game where each level had a big picture. When you would zoom in, it would show that the image is made up of a lot of small objects. Your goal was to find some specific objects in the clutter.

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