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openSpace sim/shooter where a character says "Will it ever end" Videogame
So I have a memory a game (pretty sure it's a space sim) where at point you face a seemingly endless onslaught of enemies, and one character says "Will it ever end" I thought for sure it was something Slippy said in Star Fox 64 but I have played it numerous times since and its not there. I am thinking it may be Starsiege but I don't have the game anymore to check.
openScuba Videogame
A diving/mining Flash game, similar to Video Game/Minecraft but 2D. It had a 3x3 crafting grid and items would stack up to 64, just like Minecraft. Your goal was to craft a new engine for your crashed ship. I also remember it being possible to craft anything out of dirt if you had enough of it.
I remember it being titled "Scuba", but I can't seem to find it anywhere. I need a link.
openSome handheld RPG Videogame
I remember this being either a DS or PSP game. My knowledge of it is incredibly limited. I remember there’s being 4 party members and a lot of banter between cast members, and I don’t think any one member was a designated PC. There was an area populated by lion people and an area where any NPC that spoke to the party turned into snakes. I also remember there being a spell that took control of one of your party members, since there was an animation of them getting down on their knees and bowing. I remember the art style being a bit ugly and cartoony. Any ideas?
opena magical bakery game Videogame
so ur this magical girl with a long blonde hair and purple dress. Strongly reminds me of rapunzel, but the game is old af... like it's back when I am in elementary (I am not in college). So the magical girl is using her magic to run a bakery, and you sell em. There's a lot of magical properties, with colors of purple. The game is really simple, it's really similar with the usual bakery flash game but with beautiful colors of purple, and magic.
openOnline Flash game Videogame
Adventure game with a tone that stood out compared to others in the vicinity. Took place (at least as far as I got) on a boat in a river. Someone else gets hit with a blowdart from an unseen source and...
Could only get a few minutes in before I was stuck between the crewman I was trying to save having disappeared (but in a way that was clearly part of the game) and the heroine saying enigmatically, "I forgot something," as if I was that close to moving forward.
Seemed ambitious (maybe to the point of "is this actually going to tell a full story"). If it tied into anything I don't recall it.
Edited by CaswinopenMega Man fan-game with female character. Videogame
I am searching for a Mega Man fan game. This is what I remember:
- It had a playable female character. She was blonde with a ponytail and she wore an armor similar to Mega Man's but hers was red and pink.
- Mega Man might or might not have been playable (am not sure). If he was, then I remember that the playable character was kinda flirty with Mega Man.
- The female character might have been Roll but am not sure.
- The art-style was similar to that of either Classic Mega Man's 3-6 or to that of Mega Man X1-X3.
- I think it had a female Boss that was either themed on a plant or an insect.
And that's all I can remember. Also, I know for a fact that it wasn't Rokko-Chan or a game like Mega Man Rock & Roll (because Roll's armor doesn't fit my memory).
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?
openWeird game, need help Videogame
So, I'm looking for this one mobile game that I used to play a lot when I was little. Basically, it was a game where you moved into a shoddy, run-down house and a cute little ghost guy helped you renovate it and help your family flourish. You collected coins and purple gems. The art style was lineless and everyone had Black Bead Eyes, if I recall correctly. I remember soap operas being a thing on the old TV. It connected to Facebook, like a lot of the odd social games I played at the time. I have a pretty vivid memory of it, but I cannot for the life of me find it on the app store nowadays. Somebody help me?
openCancelled Alien Video Game Videogame
I remember watching a youtube video about this really interesting looking, but unfinished, video game about taking care of a lost alien woman. I think the game was being shown off on a smaller channel, just due to how obscure the game was, but it also could have been one of those ‘Internet Mysteries’ channel like Nexpo.
It was a real game, not an arg. Graphics looked like they could have been from the early 2010’s, but they were also unfinished. The alien woman had a long neck, and was bald. She was naive about the ways of the world and you had to look after her. I think it was made by the guys who made Heavy Rain? It had that sort of mechanic where you can influence the alien to be nice or mean depending on what you gave her. The video showed you giving her a bar of chocolate. You also had to hide from Area 51 (or some government agency) squad because they wanted to recapture your alien friend.
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."
openNo Title Videogame
I had a children's game about 15 years ago. I can't remember the exact OS, but it was windows and couldn't have been newer than XP. I had two installments of this 'franchise'. It was a point and click game, but each screen was another 'scene', so you could only move forward.
Each installment started with a brother and sister with their grandfather. They were anthropomorphic, and were either rabbits or mice. One installment started with them making pasta sauce in a kitchen, and another with them eating ice cream on a park bench. The grandfather would then start telling a story.
The first story was about a princess who had no interest in princessly things, much to the dismay of her father (I remember there was a scene in a garden where they sang, and her father said "Why don't you join the other girls? They're putting on a play!"). At one point she asks her father to learn to use a sword, and possibly a violin? (in this scene they were watching people make wine, which her father offered to teach her. At the prospect of learning swordplay, her father said something about a sewing needle instead). She goes on an adventure, which I think was to rescue a prince? I remember she encountered a chubby cartoony dragon with two heads and bib. At the end she gets married and she and her husband go off on an adventure on a magic carpet.
The second story was of a boy. It started with him and his family in their house, and the mother was making pies. She placed a pie on an open windowsill to cool, and a witch came and ate the pie. She then insisted on staying in the house, eating all the pies she wanted unless they told her a story she'd never heard before, which was far easier said than done. So the boy went on a journey to find such a story. I remember there was one part where he slept under a tree, which turned out to be home to fairies. Eventually he returns home and tell the story of his adventures to the witch, who promptly leaves.
I can't remember many details other than that, but I'd love to find this game, cause it seems pretty nice, from what I remember.
Edited by xrainxofxbloodxopenObscure RPG Maker game featuring playing card themed characters wearing white masks Videogame
I think I once saw a gameplay of it on Youtube, all I can remember was one of lines of the game was "Hello Ace" and a character who got his name mispronounced as "laundry"
Sadly I can't find it on RPG Maker wiki
Edited by FredericaopenA weird video game with dogs Videogame
I remember when i was like 2, 3 or 4 on A Leapster (an educational video game system for kids that was so thick because this was 2008 or something) and one of the games that came with it was about dogs, you could pick 1 of 3 dogs. A Husky/Malamute maaayyybe a corgi and one other. You could teach your dog shapes by drawing shapes on the screen, and once a dog learned a trick you could use it in a dog show. I know there was some sort of guy (i'm not sure in what context he appeared in) but he played a saxophone in this continuous jingle i can remember even today! Sometimes, if it was a while since you last saw your dog, your dog will poop on the floor. That is all I remember.
openEdutainment PC Game About Cats Videogame
There was a demo of an edutainment game I played on PC in the late 90s. I found it on the disc with some Muppet ABC's game (something like Muppet Kids: Capital and Small Letters or something), but for the life of me I can't remember what the demo game is called.
The game was structured like some kind of game show, and it was intended to teach the player about various species of wild cats. Before anyone comments as such: the game was NOT Garfield's Mad About Cats. The game had nothing to do with Garfield in any capacity. The host of the game was a suave/cool-acting leopard or cheetah or something (he was kinda like Chester Cheetah to be honest) in a fancy suit, with an assistant who was like some kind of brown... bobcat or something in a safari outfit who was silent. There was a minigame where said bobcat walked across some sort of isometric grid maze or something.
I vividly remember this game demo, but every time I tried to look it up, or look up this Muppet game to see if they were made by the same developer, I always came up empty on the cat game. It's made me wonder if the game even exists, since every time I look it up I always get directed to Garfield: Mad About Cats, which I am positive is a completely separate game. Has anyone heard about this or am I going crazy?
openFind-the-object game that took place at a family’s house Videogame
I remember playing this one find-the-object game years ago. I can’t remember if it was a flash game or a downloadable game.
The game took place at a family’s house. The art style of the game had that realistic-shading-on-unrealistic-character-designs style to it, and I think it had a dull, cool color palette.
I think the first level of the game took place outside the family’s house, while the second level was in a room in the house’s attic.
I remember that there was also some minigame you could play. The minigame featured a picture of the family, and random funny stuff would be drawn on the family. It started off with only one thing drawn on it, but when you clicked on it, another thing would be drawn on. You had to click on the newly-drawn thing every time, which became challenging when there was a large amount of things drawn on the picture.
openDog themed flash game site? Videogame
I used to play on a website that had a dog themed mascot I think. On each side of the sceeen when you visited it there was a nature-themed pattern or photo like leaves or rocks and the photo changed every time you refreshed. Some of the games were fetch (where you could pick a bone, ball, toy, frisbee, etc) to throw to a dog who would run after it. Another one was a mining or ancient Egypt game where you had to look around in the dark for gems or the exit. There was also a postcard or birthday card maker where you could pick a background and stickers with different themes.
openNo Title Videogame
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.
Edited by thevisualboy37openLearning Company Game? Videogame
A game we played on the old Apple computers in elementary school. This was prior to the 2001-2002 school year, when those computers were replaced with iMacs. You played as a Sherlock Holmes expy (deerstalker, pipe, etc.) wandering around an old house. If you talked to an NPC, they'd ask you a math problem. Solve it, you got a clue to solve the murder (I think). The graphics were 2D cartoons, but rather well-done. Does anyone know the title? It might have been made by The Learning Company, but I'm not certain.
openTentacles and portals Videogame
Hi guys. I'm looking for a game (if I remember correctly it is 2D and has graphics like Final Fantasy VI) where there is one or more example of monsters that are basically tentacles that peek outside a dimensional rift. Please help

Does anyone know which games I'm thinking of? I'm having a hard time finding anything on them online. I remember them being Teen Nick (The N?) games circa 2008-2011.
One was a dating sim. I remember it being on The N's website.
The other was probably on The N as well. I remember you being able to create a character. It was a high school sim. You could date and other things. I don't think it was a MMO.