When you find yourself trying to remember a show (or any works) that's on the tip of your tongue but just out of reach, come here - the collective brain of the TVTropes community can probably help. Post all the details you can remember (examples help). If you're looking for a trope, head over to Trope Finder. Have general questions about tropes? Visit Ask The Tropers!
Find a Show:
openWeird old PC game Videogame
No one will probably have any idea of what I'm talking about and this might just have been some crazy dream I had, but there was this really weird game I played when I was really young in like 2004-2005. One of the few things I remember from it was that it had a version of MS Paint with sound (or it gave MS Paint sound, I can't remember) and it's own paint thing with different kinds of erasers and weird brushes. One certain eraser I remember from it was something eating the color with a chewing sound and burp sound when you stopped using it and one of the brushes I remember was cartoon footprints using footstep sounds. I also vaugley remember it having other weird games as well, but I don't remember what they were, unfortunately.
Again, I don't think anyone knows what the heck I'm talking about and it's probably just a crazy dream I had. I also probably sound like a weirdo for even asking about it, but I wanted to ask about it anyway in case it does exist and someone happens to know about it
Edited by Sidosido11open2010s puzzle(?) game Videogame
I'm having a hard time remembering the title of a game my sister discovered a Let's Play of some time ago. The game had an interesting concept, in which the PC is a young girl with impaired vision, who uses glowing Ridiculously Cute Critters to help her see. That's pretty much all I can remember about it.
openPenguin game where you raise an egg Videogame
There's a flash game in the early 2000's where you were a penguin and you had to raise an egg, you had a few colors like hot pink to choose from, the NPC penguins were black, and could also push you off the egg. The egg had a warmth meter that would go down if you got off the egg. You also had a hunger meter. If either of the bars emptied you lost. In the later stages there was a polar bear who would eat you and the other penguins. There was a mode where you could play as said polar bear. This has confounded me for years!
openJapanese flash game Videogame
So, I found this game a couple months ago, and I ended up completely forgetting the name. It was a Japanese flash game with NES-style graphics, which took place entirely in an item shop. The player character would have to obtain coins (can't remember how) to buy items, one of which was always a key that would let you access the next stage. If I remember correctly, it was made by a somewhat established indie developer.
openOld PS3 Game Videogame
I'm looking for a game about a young boy who wants to become an adventurer, because his dad was an adventurer and his mum was a pirate. So he goes on an adventure with his young friend. They meet an adventurer who gets kidnapped to be married by the head of the adventurer's guild.
openFree the people from mirrors difference game Videogame
I'm trying to find a game where a town is trapped in mirrors. I believe that it's a find a difference game mostly. One of the levels was in the dark. At the end of the game, I think you encounter a witch that tries to trap you in a mirror, only for it to back fire and trap her in a mirror. You have to save her. I think the art style is colorful and slightly cartoonish, at least in the cutscene just described.
openObscure Gamecube Game Videogame
It was Japan-only, involved a tropical island, you start the plot having been put in and taken out of jail. Oh, it wasn't a Mario game at all, and at some point Wikipedia claimed that the currency in the game was Bells but doesn't anymore, and it wasn't an Animal Crossing game either, but had a similar POV.
I actually played it on an emulator back in the mid-2000s, which was impossibly slow for obvious technical reasons, so it did exist and I know it was not from a well-known franchise. The name "Poptropica" comes to mind, but the page for that lists a game for smartphones made more recently. Unfortunately Google can't find a trace of it, and searching "poptropica gamecube" just brings up a DS game related to the smartphone game.
Edited by SimYouLateropenStrange blob game? Videogame
There was a game on the Xbox Live Arcade about an alien girl that was a prisoner on a ship, and there was also a blob creature, and they paired up and the blob creature slowly grew and became stronger? It was a 3D game. I forgot the name. It was cool.
openREALLY old Disney game? Videogame
It was an incredibly old Disney computer game starring Mickey Mouse - we're talking floppy disks, MS-DOS, Mario is Missing era. It was set up sort of like a Choose Your Own Adventure game, except that everything was really mundane - it was just Mickey going through an incredibly normal day, doing things like getting up and brushing his teeth and going to the park for a picnic with his friends. No combat. You had these menus where you could pick a list of words, and that was how you made choices about how his day played out.
openVideo detective game involving paintbrush robots Videogame
When I was younger I used to watch a friend play a game on his PC. The game was a detective game where you had to find a bad guy inside a building (school or something), but the bad guy was disguised as one of several robots that roamed the halls of the building. These evil robots were all designed as giant sentient paintbrushes, and they would attack you if they came across you. You search the building for clues, and when you have enough clues you can choose to accuse one of the robots as being the bad guy. If you get it right, he is unmasked (and if you do it quickly enough, he gets a custard pie thrown in his face).
If anyone can identify this game based on this description, I would greatly appreciate it, thanks.
openNES Shoot 'em Up Videogame
I'm looking for a shoot 'em up on the NES. Unlike others at the time, this one wasn't auto-scrolling. Instead, it played sort of like VVVVVV where you would be teleported to the next screen by touching the border. Your ship looked kind of like a blue alien head. I also remember there was gravity involved, so your ship was always constantly falling and (I might be getting this one wrong) you couldn't shoot.
Edit: Found it, it's Cybernoid.
Edited by FernandoLemonopenDriving Game with Good and Evil Missions Videogame
I remember this driving game where you could play as "good" or "evil." When playing "good," you could give gifts to other cars; when "evil," you shot fire at them instead. Also, the missions changed depending on whether you were playing "good" or "evil." When playing good, you had to deliver something to help people; when evil, you delivered stuff to hurt or sabotage people.
openTrying to recall an old game I played Videogame
I'm trying to remember an old game I played a little bit a long time ago.
It either starts out with you as a divine being stripped of your divinity and sent to the mortal realm, or a mortal gaining limited divinity (wanna say it was the former, can't remember). The overall gameplay style and look was similar to Ultima 9; Open-world medieval-themed RPG with a third-person camera (might've been first-person, but I seem to remember it being third-person). You'd start the game on a pier in a small village, getting some initial exposition from some god or somesuch, and then you'd be on your way. I wanna say you also were stuck playing a female character, you did not have a choice between playing a male avatar or a female avatar.
You could play a demo version of the game up to a specific point and, if you wanted to play further, you had to buy the full version on the developer's website.
Edited by EradrazilopenTrying to remember an old game Videogame
There was this old post-millennial game about a guy with long orange hair In Space I'm pretty sure we follow him around on a distant planet. Surprisingly enough, it has nothing to do with anime.
Edited by ZeanobiaopenWhat videogame is this? Videogame
I was at GAME ON exhibition, when right before the end was this big poster. Unfortunately without a tag or description. imgur.com/p3igZTQ.jpg
Edited by MartyriusopenSahuagin Based Game? Videogame
I somehow recall there being what looked like D&D based video game on sahuagin sometime in the 1990s or 2000s. It seemed unique but ended up not buying it. It looked 3D. I remember when looking up video game reviews and the cheats for it notably only included .ini line entry to control display of seashell bikini tops.
openplatforming game played by jacksepticeye Videogame
a video game, played by youtuber Jacksepticeye, where you play a series of knights attempting to find the holy grail. each level requires one or more knights to die, whereapon their body is used to bypass obstacles by the next knight. at the end of each level you grab a cup, that has a name like 'cup of happiness' or 'cup of never spilling' and all of your knights (that is, all of your lives) have randomly generated names and noble titles.
openA game I vaguely Remember. Videogame
I remember A game from back when I was younger, It had several playable characters and some of their story's merged together I think. I can remember some of the characters, There was A guy who I think was named Lute A girl with purple blood, a woman who was framed for her husband/boyfriends murder and a monster guy with green fur/maybe feathers covering his body. It's been bothering me for a long time now so some help would be nice.
openRacing game Videogame
I'm trying to remember a game from the ps2 era that was basically a normal racing game with cars, only if you were eliminated (by crashing or by another player) you were out of the race but could come back as an attack helicopter and attempt to get revenge on the other player by shooting them, any ideas?

There was this adventure game I read about years ago; the graphics looked like an animated movie and the characters were the kind of strange little figures that you see in old Russian kids' shows. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
There was no dialogue as far as I know, and the puzzles that you needed to solve were apparently pretty darn tricky sometimes.
EDIT: Also, I think that this
◊ picture is from the game in question. At any rate, the style of the pic definitely resembles the design style from the game.
Edited by MichaelKatsuro