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resolved No Title Videogame
This is an arcade game that is very similar to CarnEvil, but it's not that game. The graphics were much smoother, so I'm guessing that this game is newer.
I didn't actually play this game, I just watched 2 other people playing it, so I don't remember much, but this is what I remember:
It's a 2-player shoooting game that takes place at an Amusement Park of Doom. There was one part in the game when the two protagonists come across a ferris wheel, and see that a Monster Clown is keeping a person hostage in each car. The heroes get out their sniper rifles to kill the clowns, but the challenge is that you have to avoid shooting the hostages.
In another part of the game, the heroes are in a Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs-themed cottage. There are these midgets dressed as the Seven Dwarves, and each one has An Axe To Grind. One of the dwarves turns out the lights, so the heroes activate the night vision on their guns so they can see the dwarfs and kill them. I remember this being the scariest part of the game to me, as the dwarves' costumes are very Uncanny Valley-provoking, and the way they slowly walk toward you in the dark, swinging their axes.
Not sure if this will help, but I'm pretty sure I saw this game at a Dave & Busters'.
Sadly, that's all I can remember. Does anyone know what this game is?
Edited by DrNoPumaresolved No Title Videogame
A PC Edutainment Game I first played some time in the late 2000's. It was part of a collection of other edutainment games, including a revamped version of Super Solvers Midnight Rescue. I can't remember what the collection was called.
Anyway, the game starred a German scientist who basically served as The Host. It was meant to teach logic, and was comprised of several short games where you would have to solve a certain problem. Here are some of the problems you had to solve:
- Keeping a prisoner from escaping prison.
- Beating a chess champion.
- Helping a Non-Ironic Clown cross a tightrope wire - with a tightrope that isn't long enough.
- A guy tries to mail food to a friend in a foreign country, but the mailman keeps opening the packages and eating the food. You have to figure out how to get the food past the mailman without making it impossible for the foreign friend to open the package.
- A man wants to marry the daughter of a medieval banker, who agrees to let them marry if the man solves a puzzle: There are some bags of coins and a scale. You have to figure out which bags contain real coins and which ones are fake, but you can only use the scale a limited number of times.
Does anyone know what the name of this game might be? And, better yet, does anyone know what the name of the collection might be?
Edited by DrNoPumaresolved Flash game with dinos and UFOs Videogame
There was this Flash game I played probably some time in the late 2000s-early 10's. I can't remember which website I played it on.
It was a side-scrolling shooter/platformer. You're playing as a baby T-rex. I think the game begins with you popping out of your egg. There are some wooden crates to the right, which give you some guns and ammo. Then these UF Os come down and start shooting you. The goal is to shoot down as many UF Os and survive for as long as you can.
Every time you defeat a UFO, it gives you either a new gun, health, or a forcefield. When you've caused enough damage, you do a Limit Break and turn into an adult T-rex that shoots lasers from its mouth.
The UF Os sometimes drop little robots to attack you.
There are no "levels", the game only takes place in a small, rocky arena.
Does anyone know what this game is?
resolved Strategy Game I can't remember the name of Videogame
I'm trying to remember the name of a strategy game I played on Wii Classic Console many years ago. All I can really remember of it is that it was like Advance Wars, but set on the moon and without C Os. It was also really hard.
resolved Flash game about paper and drawing Videogame
There was this flash game I loved playing, probably some time in the early 2010s. You're playing as a wadded up ball of paper, and you have to roll it to the finish in each level. You can draw with the mouse to create platforms for the ball of paper. I think there were pencils and/or erasers as obstacles. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
resolved Power Rangers Side-Scroller Computer Game Videogame
Alright, this might be a little vague, but I'm looking for the name of a side-scroller game for PC featuring the Power Rangers. It would have been made/ released between 1998 and 2005. Probably.
The game mechanics are pretty simple: you navigate a Power Ranger riding on a flying jetski (a jetjammer?) up/ down to avoid obstacles, while shooting at the enemies who are flying in from the right side of the screen. I think the enemies had grey, humanoid bodies (perhaps putties from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers?). The blaster had only one sound effect and I can remember it clear as day: two mechanical clicks followed by two muted explosions, like "chick-chick pew, pew." (My siblings, who remember the game about as well as I do, used to joke that it sounded like a robot saying "kitty-bow-bow," with stress on the "KIT" part of "kitty.") I think the scrolling background was of pixelated brick walls, fire escapes, and other generic urban scenery.
The game was very cheaply made/ cheap looking, and I think it might have been the sort of game you get as a CD that comes in a box of cereal. Any help figuring out what this game was called would be appreciated!
Edited by Leporidaeresolved hidden objects mobile game Videogame
This is a mobile game that I got for free on the Google Play Store about a year ago.
It's a hidden objects game, but instead of looking for everyday things lying around a room, you are looking for objects - they can range from animals, to food, to household appliances, and so on - in a huge clump of objects positioned and colored to look like one big object.
In some levels, you have to find all the objects listed. In other levels, you have to find as many specific objects as you can before the time runs out.
There's a hint button that dims the lights a little, and creates a spotlight to indicate where an item is located.
After completing a certain number of puzzles, you must solve a jigsaw puzzle. Once you solve it, you unlock a new level. (You start out with two levels, and one is chosen at random each time you play.)
I could have sworn it was called something like "Little Things", but I tried searching that and couldn't find it.
resolved Creepy, surreal game on Newgrounds Videogame
There was this game I played on Newgrounds years ago (maybe 2-5 years). You're playing as a psychic who is tasked with (actually, more like forced into) solving murders by reading the victims' minds.
Every time you look in someone's head, you get this very surreal scene of warped imagery and faces. You have to pay very close attention, because one of the faces that appears is the murderer's face.
Then you get a view of a police lineup, and all the characters are very Gonkish. You have to pick the one whose face matches one of the faces in the victim's mind. Whichever one you choose gets the electric chair.
If you guess wrong, your boss - who seems to be a normal human, but he's covered in shadow - tells you that You Have Failed Me, and that he would do the paperwork to fire you, but what he's about to do is easier. He then shoots you to death, and you get a Game Over screen.
The whole game had a pixellated, monochromatic art style, like the Game Boy. Does anyone know what this game is?
resolved Shareware breakout clone Videogame
There's this game I played like twice as a kid, and all I remember is:
- It's a clone of breakout from somewhere in the Windows 3.x-95 era
- One of the blocks used a badly squashed graphic of a mouth with bared teeth and instantly ate your ball
- Probably because of the above block, it gave you a bucketload of balls, to the point of Meaningless Lives
- For some unfathomable reason, it had a transhumanist Author Tract in the about box
anyone else remember this?
resolved Victorian Steam Heists *Solved* Videogame
There was a game that i believe i saw a year or so ago on gog.com, but i cant find it there anymore. It was set in a sort of steampunk world, but you played as a human thief, and your goal was to clear out all the cash in each area by hacking into security stuff. I wasnt a very colorful game, but i think its art style was fairly distinct.
Edited by gert10resolved What DOS game has mechanics like SCP-1539? Videogame
From SCP-1539 Comments:
- A very old DOS game. You went around with a fairy, much like manic miner, except she had a wand - you could soak up a single square of anything on the map with one key, and shoot a beam that gave those properties to something else. If you did something specific, you could make hunks of map disappear, too.
resolved Final Boss Linked to Greed? Videogame
So, I read about this game in a Trope description, but I can't remember which game it was.
Basically, the difficulty of the final boss was directly linked to a room full of treasure. If you opened all the chests and took everything, the boss would be INSANELY hard. If you bypassed the room, the boss would be super easy, like killing a Mook.
Does anyone know what this was?
resolved An obscure video game where a character regrets her past actions (Found!) Videogame
There was a somewhat obscure video game (maybe an RPG?) that I'm pretty confident that there was a TV Tropes page for a few years ago. But I forgot to bookmark it. The game has an Asian setting in 19XX (Not sure of the actual year). It has two protagonists: a male and a female, both went to the same school. Back in their school days, they had an oppressive government or something along those lines. So some of the students of this school and their teacher started a secret club to rebel against the government's unfairness. Later in the game, it is revealed that the female protagonist had been the one to betray the club and all of the members (because of jealousy or envy of someone else?), and that the male protagonist had been one of the club members and was arrested. The male protagonist is nearly dead, and the female protagonist had actually returned to the school to lament on her past actions that took most of her classmates' lives. That's the most I can recall about it. Please help!
Edited by StrayShardresolved 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 NSFW-ish shoot-'em-up Videogame
I tried Deep Space Waifu, but got a little confused, because I was thinking of this entirely different game where you fly a ship and shoot yellow blocks to reveal more of the background (which was of anime girls), and it seemed to control more like Asteroids than a normal scrolling shmup, so you had to carefully steer through the level. I think part of the description/premise was that you're trying to "liberate" the girls from aliens or something, and I swear Total Biscuit did a video on it years ago and that it was on Steam.
resolved A Retraux cyberpunk Shoot'em Up. Videogame
I recently saw a trailer for this game but i can't find it anymore. The protagonist is a bounty hunter in a 80s themed cyberpunk world and collects cyborg skulls from gang members he kills. The trailer had several gangs with different themes, one were punks with a leatherman Giant Mook, another was a biker gang, the third was a sports hooligan themed gang with sports shirts and hockey sticks as weapons and the last ones were martial artists/ breakdancers whose boss had a samurai armor and mirror shades. IIRC the biker gang were called The Heatseekers and the martial artists were The Repeat Offenders.
resolved Help with a curious cube puzzle game. Videogame
As the title says, am trying to remember the name of a series of puzzle games. What I remember is that it was a point-and-click game, it had to do with this cube that the player was trying to open, with a lot of cool advanced puzzles that tested the players knowledge on various fields, it had to do with demons (apparently) and each time the player completed the puzzle they would get teleported inside of it. It also had this beautiful 3D HD graphics. And each part of the puzzle was its own game. Please help.
It was a computer game, from probably the late 90's. It involved pirates, and (I think) consisted mainly of various mini games. Like, you would see the deck of the ship, and you could click on various things and characters, which would either take you to a new area, or would say something humorous. There was a girl pirate who would say "What are you doing?" and some animal, I think it was a mouse, said "Ahoy there."
I don't know if it was a Mac or PC game, as it was on my cousins' computer, and I don't remember what they had. I also can't remember what any of the mini games were. One may have involved shooting things with a cannon.