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open(Solved) Children's PC game in factory Videogame
I have extremely vague memories of a PC game I played as a kid, but I barely remember anything about it. All I remember is that the game begins with an outside shot of a factory while music plays, the game contained difficulty buttons that sung a barbershop quartet "Hello..." "Hello..." "Hello..." when you started a mini game, and that it might have had some kind of cartoon gorilla as a mascot character.
Does anyone have any idea what this game is?
Edited by JankyKongopenIndie French Trench Management Game Videogame
Does anyone familiar with an isometric management game where you need to manage a small french unit stationed in a trench, like their rations, what are their tasks, do they get sleep or night watch, etc? I think it's an indie game but i have trouble in finding what's the game on other sites.
openPs1 Game thats eluding me. Videogame
I remember my brother had borrowed a game from one of his friends once. I remember there was a battle song that I liked too, an ear worm. But that game eludes me.
Details
- Released on the PS1
- An RPG, top down perspective.
- The back cover had a screen shot if a lady holding a spiked club, bluish in colour. One of her hands was holding the spiked head.
If anyone has any idea, let me know.
Edited by TheFarmboyopenStrange homebrew religious entertainment racing game themed around noah's ark (solved) Videogame
The official trailer to this was on youtube, but I may have gotten there via the creator's homepage, which may have been linked to on Something Awful or Portal Of Evil or some such site. The trailer starts with a cutscene, with a man going to a library and asking the librarian for books about Noah's ark. The librarian, a woman, is a condescending Straw Atheist who lectures him about how Noah's ark is a children's story and he should study scientific facts. Somehow this leads up to the man and the woman being turned into animals (I feel like the man was a hippo, no recollection of what the woman became), the library turning into an ark, and God commanding the animals to race each other. This transitions into a montage of gameplay footage as animals race around a track full of obstacles and God acts as the race announcer. Both the cutscene and the actual gameplay featured some pretty primitive looking 3d modeling, and I remember the segment with the human characters being particularly out of the Uncanny Valley.
Edited by MikeKopenHorror game. Videogame
There was a series of advertisements in early 2014 depicting reactions to a horror computer game. The camera is on someone in a dark room; off-camera Jump Scare, reaction.
For a while, you couldn't get away from it.
Edited by CaswinopenNo Title Videogame
There was this simple video game aimed at young children. I think it was handheld ( it was a standalone game not like a ds or switch or anything) I think there were multiple games on this thing, but the part that stands out the most in my memory is this. You would choose between a number of animals, including a human, that would race each other. After the race the game told you how fast the selected animals could run at maximum speed. ( again this is an older, very simple, game.)
openPossibly lost doctor/hospital video game Videogame
It was a kids' game and was released for PC. It came on a disc and the cover had a female cartoon doctor with brown hair and it was mostly white. The game was entirely 2D, and the doctor on the cover was the player character. The game revolved around curing patients, and you may have been able to buy or unlock different things for the hospital. The patients' names were almost always puns based on what their sickness was. The only ones I can remember are a mom and daughter called Mrs. Worry and Molly and a guy with a headache. I believe the game was released around 2009-2011. It was NOT Theme Hospital or Hospital Hustle. I have been looking for this game for a long time and I really hope some tropers can help me find it!
Edited by EeveeTraineropenHorror game: One where you were asleep and something talked to you Videogame
I don't recall the exact details, but I distinctly remember this one horror game where the protagonist was lying in bed, something entered the room to speak with them, and you only saw what it looked like at the end. That ring a bell to anyone?
openWild Tangent game with penguins Videogame
What is the name of the Wild Tangent game about penguins?
openMonkey Handheld Game Videogame
I can barely remember from when I was a kid (like 2005-2010).
"Handheld game" doesn't mean like a DS title. It means a relatively inexpensive toy with a small selection of themed electronic minigames. I remember it being cylinder shaped and mostly blue.
The visuals were monochrome black. sprites were maybe 4 or 8 bit? we're talking like $20-$30 level of quality/content for the time, not $3 quality.
I remember one of the mini-games or events being Bonanza (or Bananza?), and another had "Hazard" in the name.
It's possible I'm misremembering things, which sucks to say given how scant my memory is anyway.
openFishing in a Desert Apocalypse Videogame
This app was found on the Google Play store in 2020-2021, but I never downloaded it. Had I done so, this would have been a lot easier of a search.
The game took place in a desert wasteland, and you fished for fish-like monsters in the sand. I thought the game was very unique, but somehow, I forgot every detail. I believe it had an anime-like art style, and the colors were warm in the screenshots. I believe the oceans all disappeared, and the main character was in leather. They were either fishing on a cliff or a boat in the middle of a vast sandy environment.
I can compare this game to A Girl Adrift, a similar post-apocalypse game, where the Earth floods instead of drying up.
The art and feel were similar to Mobfish Hunter, a game where the objective is to kill monster fish.
I couldn't get an APK of this game, and Google isn't very helpful. Hopefully, this was a real game at some point!
openOld MMORPG Videogame
All I remember is that shortly after creating your character, you could speak to this woman with white hair and otherwise dressed in black. Your character would ask where they were and what they were supposed to do. The woman would say something to the effect that there was no main objective and that you could explore the world as you pleased. A lot of physical activity apparently granted you strength. Just a brief run across the open fantasy world gave my character more stamina or something.
openBlack and white platformer with lanky character Videogame
My memories are very fuzzy, so hopefully this is accurate. A sidescrolling platformer that you would go through big sparkly doors to reach other rooms/levels, maybe a hub world. The main character was tall and lanky, and when you fell a long distance (into a pit or something), they would spin on their heels and fall on their back, holding a flower over their chest like a Looney Tunes character. The perspective was very flat
I feel like it was in black and white, so surely a gameboy game? Or if it had color it was very muted.
Edited by KieroniopenAlice in wonderland game? Videogame
I remember playing a very old PC game that I think was about Alice in wonderland. The only thing I can remember from that game was falling burning cards
openVideo game about ALS? Videogame
Could have sworn this existed but searching hasn’t turned up any results. This was around the 2010s, I believe it was a short flash(?) game that was created to raise awareness for ALS- I can’t remember where I played it, but the protagonist was this yellow hamster / bear-like creature who was the father of a family. The gameplay was about doing various tasks, and as the game continued your ability to use the controls were reduced and eventually removed, so you weren’t able to use specific gimmicks and it made doing the tasks much harder. I think the player character was bedridden by the end. Help would be appreciated.
openDimly recall this one horror game on TVTropes Videogame
I don't recall the specifics, but I believe that there were various areas with different themes and enemies, and the enemies might've had different appearances depending on something or other (my memories of this are very dim). I found it on TV Tropes and haven't been able to find it again, but does anyone have an idea of what it could be?
openWhat Are They Referencing In Each Line? (SOLVED) Videogame
So, I was browsing and I came across this comment: "This reminds me of toasters.
And toasters that float. (SOLVED: After Dark screensaver)
And toasters that burn bread. (Note: They probably meant "burn toast".)
And a toaster's nightmares.
Just toasters in general, OKAY??"
I know the "a toaster's nightmares" is a reference to a game made for a game jam
, but I don't know what "toasters that float" and "toasters that burn bread" are referencing. Can anyone help me out here? (Please don't suggest The Brave Little Toaster. I'm 90% confident that the commenter was only referencing video games, and anyway the Brave Toaster doesn't float and hasn't ever burnt The Master's toast.)
openTwo Games Where The Protagonist Is A Candle Videogame
So, I'm looking for two different games where the Player Character is an Animate Inanimate Object candle.
1. (SOLVED) This is from a Youtube comment: "This kinda reminds me of that game where you're a candle and you're running through and hiding in the dark, hiding from the light that is produced by lightbulbs." (Whoops, this one actually WAS Candleman, the lightbulbs are from a later level that wasn't visible in the trailer for it.)
2. This is something I saw a while ago. It's a 2D platformer where the background is purple. It generally gives off a "mystical" vibe. I believe it was from one of Game Makers Toolkit's game jams, and if it isn't he must've just used gameplay footage from it in one of his videos. The video couldn't have been any more recent than this March (March 2022, for those reading in 2023 or beyond.) Edit: It wasn't from a Jam. He must've just used game footage in one of his videos.
Right off the bat, I know these are NOT:
Wick (2020) (although for all I know one or both could be named "wick"),
Candleman
,
Candlelight
openRecollections of a Dream. Videogame
Okay, I know I dreamt this one, however, I do have this strong feeling that said dream was based on a real game. All I can remember was that it was a platformer game that had a(n incomplete) Easter Egg were the player would have to go to random locations and do crazy stuff to manage to get a password to access a secret location, this Easter Egg might have been popular or might not.
Edited by megagutsman

I remember playing a game with a girl from a fantasy world being teleported to your world. There was a dialogue with the protagonist basically being surprised that there were no chips in her world. I also remember a bad ending in which you accidentally touch a poisonous plant and a doctor rescues you and says he did a a nude full body checkup. I think you got that ending by choosing to follow 1 of 2 girls in a forest like area.