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resolved [Solved] Tanks with (optional) anime girls Videogame
After being in the Xbox Insider program for a while, I got the chance to try some early versions of some games. This was one of them.
In the game you control a tank/APC of one of five countries (USA, USSR/Russia, Canada, France and Denmark, I think) and fight against bots, either in teams or solo in a wide variety of maps, which can be either day, night or rainy in some cases. Since it was in early development, it didnt have arcade or story mode. You just choose a tank, map, settings and started playing. You could also play in multiplayer, but only in one map that looks artificial (unlike the offline maps, who look like battlegrounds, either in nature or the middle of some cities).
A bit unrelated: I remember this guy who had its tank look like Pikachu and was the best between all the players. In half an hour, he died only once, while he alone killed me at least 6 times.
The anime part is completely optional: you can have anime voices, anime graphics, anime-looking tanks and a hud with an anime girl, or normal voices, real-ish looks and no hud.
The box art showed the title with a close-up of 4 girls, from head to shoulders/chest: one of them had a beret, another was smiling while next to her was one that looked bored and the last one had brown skin. They were fully dressed with military uniforms, either as a tank commander or some general that gives orders. Im not sure if one of them had an eyepatch.
The game is also on Steam (or was, I cant find it).
Edited by Braylovskyresolved Game where you travel between islands and rebuild cities Videogame
In this game for Wii, you travel between a series of islands with their own theme and you have to help the citizens build things so their lives can be happy. You build by placing items and you build things like buildings and bridges. The first island prominently features a castle.
resolved (Solved) Pico 8 game about fighting a magic mask Videogame
note Interesting how I first made my account to post queries here. It's nice to be back on this side of the site I suppose
So this may be a simpler one, one that I could solve myself if I stumble on it again. There was this one Pico 8
game I found on coolmathgames.com
that centred around a boss fight against what I think was a floating mask with Floating Limbs, maybe just gloved hands. It summons a magic wand in one hand and there you are, a little guy on a board right in front of the mask, dodging attacks that it magically summons on you.
Such tricks include falling coins, sprouting roses, flying cards - all of which are related with magic tricks. It gets progressively trickier as time goes on, and there are different difficulties one can select from. I can't recall the name; putting "pico", "magic", "wizard" or "mask" into the coolmathgames search bar doesn't help, but I could possibly bump into it again with the help of the random button, or looking for a list of Pico 8 games specifically?
Edited by BlackFaithStarresolved Pogo Climbing Block Puzzle Game (SOLVED) Videogame
I remember this old game on the website Pogo, where you would take control of 1 of 5 (6?) ninjas (I think); a red ninja, green, pink, blue, black, and MAYBE yellow. All of them had the same goal- climb a mountain. How do they do that? By stacking blocks of course!
The game played somewhat like Not Tetris; the shaped blocks were to be stacked and balanced to a dotted line acting as a checkpoint, where if the blocks stay above the line for about 3 seconds or more without (or while) toppling over, then all blocks turned into solid gold and you got to move on. Each ninja had a special ability to help stack the blocks- I specifically remember the green ninja was able to wrap a group of blocks in vines, keeping them in place.
It's probably been gone from the website for a long time, but it's been bugging me that I can't remember what this was called.
UPDATE: I FINALLY FOUND IT ON THE WAYBACK MACHINE! It was called Puck's Peak!
Edited by SleepyFoxresolved Chocolate Broccoli Tycoon game (SOLVED) Videogame
So this would be around 2006-2009, I remember this restaurant-management/tycoon game where you would buy and upgrade these like candy stands? The final tier was a machine that dipped broccoli in chocolate for each customer, but that's the only specific one i remember. It was also Isometric top-down, though most of these type of games are. I believe it was either hosted by disney or it was from a disney affiliate because it was linked from the disney games site. It also featured a pair of hosts that walked you thru the tutorial, and a light educational theme. I can't remember if there were multiple stages, but i do rememeber a cityscape map.
- EDIT* It's called Hot Shots Business. I found it on the Wayback Machine, but the version with the candy factory that i remember is lost media unfortunately
resolved 8-bit style 3DS game [Solved!] Videogame
Here's what I remember about a game I really liked and would like to play again. The whole game was in 8-bit style, like a NES game. It actually started with a little segment where you'd put the cart in, and then you'd simulate blowing into it to fix it. There were a few different types of heroes to choose from, like an old man knight, a stereotypical fighter character, a scantily clad "amazon" class I think?, a mage, etc. The writing in the game was very tongue-in-cheek with the medieval RPG setting. The gameplay was top-down style, and you'd roam around the map to defeat monsters and defend the princess in a castle.
Edited by HolyHeadcrabresolved Space-Based Board Game with Three Different Races Videogame
I remember this is a board game with three different races trying to grab territory from each other. One race is a race of mole-like people who build stargates and send them to other worlds via slower than light means. Another race is race of bird-like people who use fragile faster than light starships to get from world to world. The third race is humans who have no faster than light travel but can reverse engineer it from either of the other two races.
If anybody can remember the name of this game, I'd be grateful.
resolved *Solved* PS1 Breakout clone? Videogame
So this is going back quite a bit for me but I'm trying to remember this game i played as a kid. I was a breakout clone where your paddle was like this rainbow forcefield thing, there were scrolling backgrounds that I wanna say were pre-rendered, and an over all theme of magic and wizards. I'm pretty sure it was on the Playstation though i may be mistaken on that part. The stage i remember best was this like dead forest area when the like game board was flying thru the trees in this kinda brown-toned landscape full of dead trees. There were standard breakout power ups but they were all given a magic flavor to fit the tone, and I think there was a narrator kinda like in bejeweled that would say the names of power ups whenever you got one.
Edited by gert10resolved (Got it :))Educational computer game about geography Videogame
This was more than a decade ago, give or take somewhere in 2008-2010. I think I bought it off a Toys R Us store, and I later got a similar game themed around history instead, but that's for my next query. It is entirely possible, however, for me to be able to find it from this query alone.
The game starts with you in a bedroom, perhaps after having filled out a sort of "passport" beforehand. Then there's this boy who gives a briefing about him being an explorer/traveller or something like that, and what you can do in the game, before vanishing into the world map on the wall.
There's loads of interactives in the room that can be accessed when viewing different sides of it, perhaps 4 in total. There's a table with a collection of mini-games, one of the three or four being to safely coordinate a ship to where "X" Marks the Spot. Lesser interactives in the room include a toy train which may have moved to the next side of the room each time it was clicked. A TV on the opposite side of the room is used to watch mini-movies, one being about the Inuits in the frozen lands of North America for example. That example was mostly live-action I believe, but there were more animated flicks as well, such as the ones about flying fishes and underwater volcanoes. The little films were mostly a mix of animation and live-action. I'm not certain, but it is possible, that they had to be unlocked first through exploration of the world map to be viewed again later.
The interactive map on the wall above the bed is the main attraction. Each of the several panels of the map's display can be viewed individually, each containing intriguing interactives on land or sea. A black bear in Alaska, a spooky castle in Romania, and a mermaid statue in Denmark are of the few interactives I remember. Each interactive undergoes a brief animation before displaying a corresponding window of information. (Some other features I remember: Eagle, Mount Rushmore in USA, maybe a paddle-streamer in the Mississipi, long train in Russia, jerboas in Mongolia, Great Wall of China, some castle that shot cannons in Scotland? to indicate time?) The map also features the use of postcards, which can be found later on a bedroom wall, and the use of transport like planes and boats to use as shortcuts, and each different journey would be catalogued in the passport you made earlier.
From the moment the boy leaves, the telephone by the TV starts ringing. I may have left out a detail in the boy's briefing that we'd be on a quest to find wherever he was in the world. Accepting to start that quest on the phone call would provide you the first clue of his whereabouts. Clicking the interactive correct to the clue gives the next clue in the form of a letter or something else he supposedly left behind for us to find. It's a lot easier to do this once you've become accustomed to the map, so you don't have to start this "scavenger hunt" straight away. Each victory you get from finally finding him (the quest can be taken more than once) is saved in one or a few big books on a shelf at the TV's side of the room.
I suppose it got lost along with the history counterpart while moving, or they were given away, but I really held my memories of those games dear to me and I wanna take a trip down memory lane for them.
Edited by BlackFaithStarresolved Game where you can go straight to the final boss from the start, but is easiest that way. Videogame
Found it! Demon's Crest!
Game where you can go straight to the final boss from the start, but is easiest that way.
Because he's not done getting ready...
I think it was a sprite-based RPG, but I"m not sure.
I'm sure I read about it on this site, though.
If I knew what trope I was describing, I think I'd be able to find it...
Zero-Effort Boss? Doesn't seem right...
Edited by Maladyresolved A JRPG where the final battle is against first the BigBad and then a dragon. Videogame
I remember seeing it touted as an example of Woolseyism where the original had the Big Bad's pet dragon appear out of nowhere to avenge him and the translated version had him turn into the dragon as a Limit Break; but also seeing that this Woolseyism was just a rumor and the Big Bad turned into a dragon in both the Japanese and English versions.
Any idea what game this is (and which one is the true story)?
Edited by Chabal2resolved 2000s or older Platformer Videogame
I may not get the details right, but this is what I've remembered. Problem is, the title isn't one of them.
The story is a boy name Billy entering into a dream world.
The gameplay is platformer with ladders. You dig a hole on one of the grounds for one of the enemies to fall into, then you fill the hole to make to fall a level (or more for the harder ones) to their death. The goal of the game is to kill all enemies this way. After a time limit where will life-threatening obstacle such as a construction level having a wrecking ball that tries to hammer down onto the player.
The levels are themed after jungle (where the enemies are fruits), contructions (where the enemies are themed after tools), cave (can only think of a pickaxe as the enemy).
resolved Bouncing Robots (Solved) Videogame
Does anyone remember this game?
It is an RPG where you start with a round Robot Buddy, and whenever you get into a random encounter, you have to bounce your robot on the walls to tackle your opponent and defeat it.
Edited by ElBuenCuateresolved Cutesy fantasy Android fishing game? Videogame
When I was a kid (like around 2010-2012), I played the hell out of this one fishing game on my mom's Android. The main things I remember are:
- The fisherman was some rounded, yellow(?) Cartoon Creature
- There was a huge variety of fantastical fishing rods, many of them seasonal
- You could catch things like mermaids and fish themed after sweets
I don't remember the title, and I can't seem to find it on the Google play store. Does anyone know what the game is called (and if it's still even running)?
Edited by ronisresolved Boy, girl, boat and moon Videogame
A web game. There's a boy in a boat on the water, playing either to the moon, or to a girl who is sitting higher up — on the moon? You can drag elements around to get different endings. Put the girl in the boat so they can be together. Put the boy on the moon so they can be together. Put the boat on the moon. Bring the moon down to Earth.
Edit: found it! I wish I were the Moon
. misremembered some details.
resolved NES game w/ Character creation Videogame
I don't remember a lot about this game, but I saw a streamer play it once. It was a 2D platformer, and the main appeal of it was that you could build your own character with different attributes. You'd pick out a head, then your body could be a dragon's or have wheels for legs, you'd pick out different weapons etc. Then you'd play through a level with the character you made. Also, I think the enemies dropped eggs when you killed them. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
Edited by HolyHeadcrabresolved PS1 RPG? (SOLVED) Videogame
Not posting for myself, but for my boyfriend who wants to remember this game he played when he was younger. Here's his description: "It was single-player, definitely a fantasy RPG. One of the first bosses was this giant metal sort of knight thing but I always viewed him as more of a robot. After the battle, the hero throws one of his ball weapons at him and says "That's what you get for messing with me!" later he ziplines out of the cathedral on his swords. He had two of them. There's a part early on where he climbs this temple and draws a sword from a pedestal the moment he does an Indiana Jones-like segment unfolds with a giant boulder rolling towards this guy and you have to, surprise, run from it and any enemies you were dealing with previously also run out of your way to escape this boulder. And while there were other supporting characters and NP Cs it's not like it was a party of characters, just the one."
EDIT: Found it! It was Brave Fencer Musashi
resolved Office Chair Game? Videogame
Trying to remember the title of a game that was installed a secondhand PowerPC Mac. All I remember is that the player character is permanently sitting in one of those swivel office chairs with wheels, and you moved by making him do things like spin around and push off walls. There was also a cartoony cutscene at the beginning where your character is on a flight, possibly going on vacation, and gets called back to the office.
Edited by Sumanuil

Again, as part of the Xbox Insider I tried some games on development. This is the second and last of them.
You start the game and choose if you are either a man or a woman. After that, you are inside what looks like a private jet. Everything's good, until turbulence kicks in and you crash on a tiny island. And from that point onwards, you do your best to survive.
Some gameplay elements:
When I realised that I didn't managed the island resources in a smart way, I tried to swim to a another island that looked pretty close (Do not do this in real life. Distance in océans are very tricky). A shark bite my ass and I started to bleed.
When I reached the other island I was dying, and tried to get something to patch me up. In the way I found the skeleton of another human, and a wild animal that attacked me. After killing the animal I just waited to die. And that happened.
After that the game showed me the message Thank you for playing and didn't let me play again.
Some days later the game dissapeared of my console without a trace. Any idea?
Edited by Braylovsky