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resolved No Title Videogame
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.
resolved No Title Videogame
I can't remember what video game this is. I'm pretty sure it's the kind of game where you have some sort of super meter you expend to perform special moves. One character has some kind of super prostration move; it expends the energy meter (if this game has such a thing), then the character does an extremely elaborate prostration animation, that can't be interrupted, does no damage, and leaves you completely vulnerable. The very definition of a joke move. I think it's probably a game made in Japan.
(If you're unfamiliar with it, prostration, in this instance, is submissively bowing down in deference.)
resolved No Title Videogame
Not just a video game, but a series of two or three promo videos for the game. It was a fantasy RPG with online co-op, and the videos had short snippets of gameplay as experienced by four players. The first player is a serious role player, but he's not very good at it. At one point, in reference to the area they're exploring he says something like, "The Cave of Darkness is a damp, dark, den of depravity!" The second player is a guy with a very effeminate way of speaking, who's more interested in looking at the scenery than slaying monsters. At one point he gets the other three to pose for a picture with him, which I think may have been intended to show off a screenshot feature the game had. The third player is a typical online idiot, refusing to wear armor and instead preferring to run around in his skivvies. The last player, and the group's leader, more or less, is a pretty average gamer who just wants to play the game, but he takes his teammates quirks in stride.
I'm pretty sure this was a console game for the PS 3/360 generation.
Edited by shigmiya64resolved No Title Videogame
An Edutainment Game that I loved very much as a kid. It was a camp where you could trace the constellations and make cave paintings with the flowers that you collect. The characters were a blue dog and a yellow puppy who would accompany you with your adventures. On the way, you could take photos of the wildlife and see if you can catch Wonder Rabbit, though the film was limited. Not only that, there was also a racing game a la Pooh Sticks. I'm not sure if it's Ranger Rick, though, because the park ranger's a human, not a raccoon.
resolved No Title Videogame
Another Edutainment Game that I loved as a kid, but sadly, didn't finish. In this game, a kid who was turned into a "wimp" (a green one-horned humanoid) has to rescue his parents by going to a haunted house. He investigates by jumping on ghosts with matching synonyms and antonyms to open the catacombs and piecing the sentences together with a typewriter. Along the way, he collects PlotCoupons, one of which is a styrofoam cup, that may hold the answers to the whereabouts of his parents. Probably not Jump Start, since its title is a generic "3rd Grade Reading," but if it has a specific subtitle, please let me know. Thanks!
Edited by TroperNo9001resolved No Title Videogame
Memories of my childhood flood in as I try to remember my favorite EdutainmentGames:
1. Which Pajama Sam game has the main character throwing a rock at the prison gate and wearing a pumpkin to sneak past the guards?
2. This other game is a science game featuring two green astronauts, both male and female, and a blue robot. There are songs about coke and the (then) nine planets and different minigames. There's one where you arrange the events in order; one where you sort the healthy foods from the junk foods, paint the eggs, and deliver ice cubes by freezing the water drops; a weather station where you dress up the blue robot for different climate conditions; and a size comparison chart where you line up other animals against the biggest, smallest, and longest creatures. Does this ring any bells?
resolved No Title Videogame
A NES game where you play as a pig that has to shoot down wolves that fly using Balloonacy. It is parodied in Neopets in the minigame "The Usul Suspects."
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There was a game I played with some college buddies on the X-Box 360. It was a side-scrolling Beat 'em Up with four (magical?) girls who fought (monsters?). I can only remember what three of the girls had as weapons: one Dual Wielding, one with a BFS, and one with a hammer. The first areas (and only areas I played) were in a modern city.
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 PSX game, sub simulator, set AfterTheEnd Videogame
I recall playing a Play Station 1 game about submarine warfare that was set on Earth after a cataclysmic flood (you could find ruins of modern cities on the bottom in some places. Your submarine was upgradeable, and one of the weapons was a guided missile that launched upwards and dropped on the target from above the water surface. IIRC, the ending somehow caused the sea levels to drop again, leaving your sub stranded on top of a ruined skyscraper.
resolved 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 What Sonic game is this? Videogame
In this
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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 Old fisher-price video game Videogame
When I was a toddler, say 2005, I had a Fisher Price video game that involved a pad that was connected wirelessly to my tv. I put different cards onto the screen of the pad, and that made different games show up on the tv. There was a game about Barney the dinosaur throwing a surprise birthday party, a game where Mr. Krabs forces Spongebob to capture all the jellyfish in Bikini Bottom, and a game about Cookie Monster. I had others that I don't remember. The cards on the pad had different buttons that you could choose. When you touched something on the pad, it made something happen on the tv.

There's an indie(?) fighting game I discovered a couple months back on You Tube in the form of a compilation of instant kill attacks. It showed around 6-8 characters with monstrous designs, but not classical movie monsters. The ones I remember are:
- A ghostly girl resembling Sadako from Ring.
- A slender woman in black who turns into a spider for her instant kill.
- A giant worm with a fanged mouth.
- A humanoid creature with tan/brown skin, long claws, no facial features other than a grinning mouth. Looked sort of feminine as well.
- A short humanoid figure with a white face and three large black dots for the eyes and mouth. Sort of like those "bobblehead" nature spirits from Princess Mononoke.
I remember the instant kill required the opponent to be near death, and characters actually had distinct idle animations when they were that weak. Can't find the name of the game now. I originally came across the video through the "related videos" sidebar while searching randomly for other fighting game super move/instant kill compilations. Edited by UltramarineAlizarin