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resolved DS Zombie Game Videogame
I remember a DS game I used to play. It was a side scroller where you were a zombie hunter attacking zombies with weapons that had limited ammo/uses, like a shotgun or a whip. Other than that, it camd out in or before 2009, it was rated E10+, it had a cartoonish but dark art style, and the first boss was supposed to be a zombified version of Whispy Woods from Kirby. Any ideas?
Edited by SwiftSeraphresolved Fantasy Educational Game From Childhood Videogame
I think the game came in a set of similar educational games that I played in the school computer lab (Australia). I probably played this game in the late 2000s too alongside ones like Kid-pix and Numbers Up... The main one I'm thinking of was a strategic turn-based game with wizards and dragons and you had to set up all your moves before activating them and the battle would play out and you would see if you countered everything. There were different types of wizards and dragons which had different abilities. I think wizards got burnt to a crisp a lot. The levels got progressively complex. I think it was set in a forest? The graphics weren't high quality but I loved the game. I think some of the games with it were stacking acrobats? Or a seal pool? I think they had minimal text and a predominantly white background. I really loved this game I hope someone knows it! :)
resolved Trying to find a video game I saw a video of. Videogame
Oh boy, will this ever be a long shot. It's been long since I last saw this, so excuse me if my memories are vague. Also, yes, I'm trying to find a work that isn't a foreign TV show or cartoon of some sort for the first time.
So, back when I was younger, I saw a YouTube video of some kind of a video game. For starters, the video game was possibly a Japan-exclusive game, which probably explains why I can't find it. The game is a 2D platformer, and the levels looked like the insides of anthills, or ant farms, or something similar to those. I'm not sure what the player character looked like, but he/she/it could climb up walls in these anthill-like levels, so he/she/it was probably an ant. The only other thing I can remember is that there was also a world map, which was a big island, I think. As for what console this game was on, I certainly have no idea, but I think it's an arcade game.
Again, sorry for the extremely vague info, but that's all I can really remember of it. I really can't confirm if this was just a dream I had, but who knows? Happy searching either way!
UPDATE 10/01/24: I think this is, in fact, something I dreamed up.
Edited by SparkPlugTheTroperresolved Old Star Trek Game Videogame
It might have been based on the original series, it was a really old game I played early 2000s. It was a point and click adventure a bit like the Monkey Island series. I remember when you clicked on the wrong thing it would say 'nothing happens'. There were battles between other ships. There was an option to teleport a party to negotiate peace with another ship or a bomb. There was a scene where you took a severed hand to open a door with it.
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 Hercules game for the PS2 Videogame
I don't remember if it was for the PS 1 or PS 2, but in this game, you played as Hercules, Atlanta, or Jason and traveled around Ancient Greece, starting at the top of a mountain where there were cyclopses. Somewhere in the late game, you could go to the edge of the world, and if you died at any point of the game, you had to fight your way out of the Underworld.
I loved this game as a kid, and even if I didn't finish it, I remember hitting the NPCs with my weapon because it was funny watching them say, "Pick on Someone Your Own Size!"
Edited by TroperNo9001resolved 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
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- 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 A videogame about a princess. Videogame
The plot of the game is that the princess is a spoiled brat who gets turned down by a prince and tries to prove her worth by going on a quest. One of the game mechanics is that she can use her tantrums to warp reality to change conditions in dungeons and overcome obstacles.
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 Village prepare for monster Videogame
There was a limited amount of days/turns It was decision-based Multiplayer There were many different endings that could happen A medieval village? Relatively modern
Edited by Super_Troper404resolved 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.
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 Sumanuilresolved 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 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 HolyHeadcrab

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?