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openNo Title Videogame
Ok, I've been trawling the interwebs looking for this one...help me tropers, you're my only hope.
The game I'm thinking of came out for PC in the 90s. It was either for Windows 95 or 98, though I think I played it on a later version. Regardless, it was a collections of puzzles/riddles/brainteasers, and I remember it being animated in a cartoonish way. In fact, I believe your cursor was one of those cartoon-character gloves, the white ones with the three fingers instead of four. There's one puzzle in particular I remember: there was a red-yellow-green traffic light, and you had three unmarked switches, with one going to each light. You had to figure out which switch went to which light, but you couldn't see the lights from the screen with the switches, and you only had opportunity to flip them: you could flip any or none of the switches, go back to the screen with the lights, and then return to the screen with the switches in order to label them. You only had one chance at this, for some reason...I think there may have been a dog that would chase you away from the lights?
The solution involved switching one light on, leaving one off, and turning the third on then off. I think you had butter, which you would then take with you outside. One light would be on—that was the switch you left on. Two would be off, but one—the one that you'd switched on then off—would still be warm, which you could find out either by burning your hand on it, or by melting the butter on it.
Any ideas?
openNo Title Videogame
I remember getting one game in the early 2000s. I was a young kid, and got them with a pair of Hush Puppies shoes. The game was a point and click affair, which you playing as a boy. There was a speaking inanimate object (I think it was a book) was a book which could give you either a hat or a pair of shoes (given where I got the game, probably the latter) which allows the main character to understand them. However, said inanimate object requires a picture of the animal in question, as well as a recording of the sound they make (I think) to create this item. The main character's family is also around the place, asking for items such as a toffee hammer, but I never progressed far enough to find out anything major about the plot.
openNo Title Videogame
I'm looking for a video game with a blue-haired protagonist whom I'm pretty sure had a monkey tail. When they lost health they'd turn into an actual monkey, and when they powered-up they'd glow and their hair flashed in pink and yellow. They somersaulted instead of jumping normally and the game had a jungle setting. I think it's a Japanese game because the style looked like anime.
I don't know the year or the system; I played it on a CD that had PC versions of old video games.
Edited by nillipadopenNo Title Videogame
A Web Game; you have to find nine people. you start in a dark bronish area, with neon blue mazes. the people are orange, and to find them all, you don't get anyone. you find a maze somewhere where the 8th person is, and eventually, you get to find all nine of the people.
i can't find it anywhere. it's on kongregate, im 100% certain.
openNo Title Videogame
Evening everyone, today I'm looking for 2 things, the problem is that I have very vague descriptions.
1. This one I am asking for a friend. She says it's a game around the NES or SNES era, it's anime-ish and apparently you play as a girl throughout different points of her life; elementary school, high school, university and such. Also she remembers having to escape a building (possibly a school) that is on fire.
2. This one has tortured me for long. I played this game around 15 years ago, it was on PC and it was a 3D space shooter. As a kid I never got a handle of it so I never got past the intro stage. You are a red (I believe) spaceship outside, what I suppose to be, a space station and try to defend it from an army of ships.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tanks in advance.
Edited by ZeroZmmopenNo Title Videogame
This one is for my friend who is not an internet person so sorry I don't have any more details.
The story goes that around middle school/early highschool (which would be 2005-2010ish for us) she would watch game trailers with her brothers, or AM Vs made with game trailers, something like that, and she really liked this one with like, fancy armor, and a love story and two cities fighting each other.
She thought it was Final Fantasy but it doesn't sound like any of the main series FF games to me. I'm guessing it had anime-realism graphics in the trailer. I actually spit balled Dragon Age because she kept talking about the armor, but it's definitely more anime-esque. The armor was more western middle aged, but fancier like roman armor. Her words not mine.
openNo Title Videogame
I remember playing this game when I was in kindergarten. It was a computer game, and it was about this kid who's obsessed with a superhero, and has a lunchbox of said superhero. Somehow, he gets transported into another world, where these jerkish trees take his cape(?) and lunchbox. I think there were multiple endings, and I definitely remember a talking minecart. I think the game was a point in click and/or puzzle game.
openWeaponizedCar RacingGame Videogame
I am looking for this one old racing game that I was shown by my friend once when I was young. It featured heavy use of weapons for the cars including rocket launchers, spiked wheels, flame throwers etc. The one thing I manage to remember of the game that might make narrowing down the candidates somewhat easier is that one of the weapons that was clearly shown in the games opening was a kind of mine with a very distinct shape that one could use that would latch on to any car that happened to be directly behind you.
openA Playstation 2 mech game. Videogame
Rented this from blockbuster ages ago... that should say alot.
Gameplay: It was a "virtual mech" game, where you controlled customized robots that would fight in a virtual battlefield against an AI. I also remember a part named "Umbra" or "Penumbra" or something.
Story: people would pit these virtual bots against each other in virtual arenas. Losing seemed to have some sort of psychological effect. Also, I remember a dramatic twist: the whole town was secretly inside a giant dome, and the rest of the world experienced some sort of apocalypse from one of these rogue robots. You eventually exit the dome to fight it, but I only got so far before returning it.
My Google-fu has failed me for years, as have other forums. Hopefully the TV Tropes hivemind can help.
openLooking for an old game from a CD-ROM compilation of numerous other kids games. Videogame
Remembering a game I played long ago, around the early 2000's (around '01 to '03). I played it on a CD-ROM that contains 200+/2000+ other kids games (like a demo for Jazz Jackrabbit). It was a vertical Shmup and it had two bars, one was for health and the other is for a replenishing (what I think to be) weapon charge. Each shot deducts a certain amount and if the consumption is greater than the charge, the weapon won't fire. The last thing I recall since my sister played this was that she had just finished clearing a snow-set stage and her next stage begins at a city-themed on. She also had just unlocked a burst shot with a very wide coverage but it was Cool, but Inefficient.
I think it was called "Redemption" or something else that starts with "R"
openold PC game Videogame
I played a pc educational game in the mid 2000s it was about riding in a train through different lands the only thing I can remember is one of the lands was themed to math rulers
openWhat was that one game Markiplier played? Videogame
In about November 2013, I watched Mark played this one "Sci-Fi trip" game that was so absurd, that it actually scared me. The start of the game had some one speaking in Mandrian, and the game had a Raggae song playing in. It's somewhere on Gamejolt, and it supposedly has a sequel to it. What's the game's name?
openPsychedellic PC Game Videogame
One summer at a programming camp, my instructor was playing this really trippy 3D platformer. It had something to do with mushrooms. Anyways, it was on PC, I can't find the game on Steam, the objective of the game was to collect objects (i can't remember if they were mushrooms or crystals.) Like I said, 3D platformer. It was set in a... a small village, I think? It was either a village or a ranch. No NP Cs, it looked like. There were giant mushrooms. I just can't remember the name!
openPS1 Possibly PS2 Game Set in Lab Videogame
Hey fellow Tropers, I can't stop thinking about this old Playstation game. I think it was set in a lab where mutations had run wild and you were sent in to kill them or something. You could play as a man or woman (Pretty sure about the male/female) and depending who you picked determined your starting location and that also had other effects, such as going to the starting point of the other character you end up finding a person dead who you meet as the other character. I know it was definitely on Early Playstation because that's what I had growing up. A shooter, cannot recall if Third or First Person. Sorry I don't have much details.
Edit: I think one of the characters gets thrown into a boss fight almost right away, I think an elevator is an important part of getting around the map. (The characters start on different floors)
Edited by ZinnopenCurtain Shooter for the Atari 2600 Videogame
I have not played this game in 25 years but still remember some vague details from it. It was a typical "defeat the invading aliens" space shooter with vertical scrolling, had 4 levels, and the final boss was defeated in 1 shot. The 3rd level had some kind of C-shaped enemies that latched onto your ship as well.
openWhat is SomniCorp? Videogame
Most YKTS are for stuff you remember but can't find the name of. What would a YKTS look like as an Inverted Trope? Well, exactly like this... https://player.vimeo.com/video/98081922
This little video is quite obviously an Alternate Reality Game clue. The only issue is that I have no idea which game that would be. Even /r/arg didn't respond (though that may be due to their customs or the way I worded the question in my post), and search engines, wikipedia/infogalactic and This Very Wiki have given literally no results of use. The Vimeo account holder is a fake name with no photo, and some other "True Art" videos are also on the account with no rhyme or reason; either the owner is a professional marketing designer posting miscellaneous works to attract clients yet has no face to the name nor lists themselves as having an occupation, which makes little sense, or its an ARG clue of unknown origin.
Additional Info usually considered important in AR Gs: "Project Vrij" "Groep 4" Is there even an IRL person behind the videos actually named "Keni Voermans"? Or are they simply a character in the game's plot?
NOTE: This is under video game because the creepy 3D graphics part that interrupts the main video clearly has arrow buttons on both the left and right side of the screen, which suggests it has a smartphone app component or at least an interactive thing for plugin-based browsers.
Edited by SimYouLateropenLooking for a children's video game from the early 2000s Videogame
It may have been a Jumpstart game. It was a 3d free-roaming/open world edutainment game where you wandered around a small area and played minigames. I remember clearly a minigame with an elephant girl (possibly Eleanor the Jump Start All-Star?) where you'd run around in a field catching flutterbyes- not butterflies, that's what she called them. I also vaguely remember a 2d space-themed minigame where you'd press the spacebar to do something. I think it was a space invaders rip-off. There was... something involving tubes? And something with keeping pets? And a restuarant/cafe thing I could never enter without the game crashing? That's about all I can remember.
EDIT: i found it its jumpstart 3d virtual world pack it up boys were done for the day thanks
Edited by TheReaperSutcliffopenEdutainment games Videogame
1. There's this boy and girl investigating some hauntings or something in an abandoned mine. I don't remember what the minigames were, unfortunately. I think in the ending, the ghost/monster turned out to be the town's mayor (or his son?) dressed up in a costume. Or, something like that. Basically the twist was like in Scooby Doo, where there's someone under the mask. I played it in the mid-2000's, but the game's probably older.
2. This one I played during computer class during 5th-6th grade, around 2009, 2010 or so. You play as a penguin trying to defeat falling...words. You type the word as fast as you can before it hits the ground.
openRacing game about cartoon pigs Videogame
It's an educational racing game where the characters are anthropomorphic pigs and after every race you have to solve math problems to refuel. The characters I remember are a farmer pig, a football player with a quad, a robot pig with a hoverbike and a greaser warthog with a motor-trike. Please help, I loved this game so much as a kid.
Edited by lashdragon

There's this Japanese video game that starts out as a cutesy dating-sim, but once you choose one of the lovers, the [[Yandere]](s) remembers your choices even if you start a new play through, and she plays with the Fourth Wall. What game is it?
Also, what's the trope when one playthrough affects subsequent playthroughs, à la Undertale?