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resolvedAPP I Found This From a VIDEO GAME I don’t Know the Name BUT I Know The Trope for This Videogame
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 Mobile game about trying to connect living jelly(?) Videogame
I remember playing this one mobile game about trying to connect what I think was a bunch of square living jellies? It started on just a table and after each chapter it would get larger and larger in scale. I remember that on what I think was the 2nd to last chapter they added a gimmick that let you clone the jelly.
resolved Sad video game music Videogame
What's the background music in this part
of Schaffrillas Productions's Steven Spielberg movie ranking? I know I've heard it in some game before, most likely an SNES JRPG.
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 1990's Fighting Game Videogame
I'm trying to find the name of a fighting game I came across a demo of as a kid. I remember it being around the same time I found a demo for Tekken 2, so it was in the 90's. It was on PS 1, and being a demo, I could only select one of three characters. After choosing my character, they, being in the top-left corner of the screen, would tilt their head towards the centre of the screen and make a sound (not sure if it was either laughing, or saying something in their native language). Then there would be a quick select of their opponent (in the top-right corner), and said opponent would also turn to the centre and (I think) say something in their native language.
resolved pokemon snap rip-off Videogame
i had a game on my ipad around maybe 6 years ago? it was a pokemon snap rip-off in the woods and you ride a horse and you can feed the horse, and wash the horse. it might have been taken off the app store, but idk
resolved 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 Flash Game About Firing Hedgehogs(?) to the Moon Videogame
When I was about 10, I used to play a Flash game involving firing small creatures (I think they were hedgehogs) out of a cannon in order to reach the moon. On your first shot, the game warns you that your "first few shots are always terrible" and encourages you to upgrade your equipment for better results. The ending cutscene when you eventually get to the moon is pretty atmospheric, with more downtempo music compared to the rest of the game.
resolved (SOLVED) Possible lost media Flash game about Ray-Man... no, not that one Videogame
EDIT: the name of the game is Greymond! my mind must have turned "Greymond" into "Ray-Man" over the years. however, I cannot find anywhere where it is still playable. if anyone has backed this game up, saved it to a hard drive, etc. etc. that would be fantastic! here was the original URL I played the game on:
https://www.abc.net.au/gameon/greymond/
EDIT 2: the game is available on Flashpoint, thanks so much everyone!
note: this is probably going to be a bit long winded, so I apologise. I'm also Australian, so this may be Australia-centric as I don't recall the game ever being uploaded to any other sites
there was this Flash game I used to play back between 2008 - 2010. it was titled something to the effect of "Ray-Man and the Seven Colors"; the latter half of the title I'm not sure on, but I'm 100% certain the main character's name was Ray-Man, hyphenated. the art style of the game was very toony, pretty similar to Homestar Runner. I remember quite a bit from this game so I'll list out everything I can recall:
• I played this game on a website for an Australian broadcasting channel like Rollercoaster (rest in peace) or the ABC • it required something like Adobe Shockwave or Microsoft Silverlight to play as I could only play it at home, school computers didn't allow downloading of executables • Ray-Man was small and fully white, no clothes or anything like that • the game's story involved Ray-Man recollecting colored orbs back from 7 bosses who stole their respective color of the rainbow from the world, turning everything monochrome • the game played like a boss rush where each boss had their own level involving different gameplay. I was absolute trash at this game and only ever managed to get up to the second boss • the first boss represented indigo, and took place in the ocean. you had to jump across platforms to reach the boss before the tide caught you in an auto-scroller • the second boss represented yellow, and it was a race across sand dunes. I could not beat this level for the life of me, I only ever managed to beat it once but had to turn my computer off so my progress wasn't saved. this boss was a lot bigger than the other characters, kind of being The Big Guy of the bosses. I believe he had hair covering his eyes as well. I never advanced past the yellow stage so I have no clue who the other bosses are or how their levels played out • there were little animated cutscenes inbetween each stage
for years I've tried to find this game again, but of course Googling is made difficult when there's an actually mainstream game series that is also called Rayman lol. I've tried checking everywhere and doing Wayback Machine on all the Aussie websites I can remember playing Flash games on as a kid to no avail. if anyone has any leads or even possibly a way to play this game again I'd be eternally grateful, all I've wanted is to beat this game
Edited by p0megranatesresolved An Edutainment Game about asthma Videogame
I remember that I played an Edutainment Game that was designed to teach children about asthma close to 20 years ago. I don't know why we even had it since nobody I knew at the time had asthma. The plot of the game is that a supervillain named Mucus Airgone is using a machine to release huge amounts of asthma and allergy triggers into the atmosphere apparently just For the Evulz and you have to defeat his minions in order to find the pieces of the code to stop his machine. Each of the minions are anthropomorphic asthma and allergy triggers such as mold, cigarette smoke, car exhaust (that one was also a basketball player for some reason), and cat dander. To defeat each of them you have to correctly answer questions asthma and living with asthma and once you take the code from them Mucus shows up and kills or otherwise punishes them for failing. After finding all the code pieces you have to fight your way through into Mucus's lair and enter the code to stop his machine before it goes off and ruins the atmosphere (although the countdown to stop it never reaches 0 so it's impossible to actually fail this part). Entering the code causes the machine to work in reverse and clean up the atmosphere and suck up Mucus himself too. In the end credits we see that all the villains are still alive and we learn what they all did afterwards. I think the title was something like Asthma: Quest for the Code but I want to be sure. I remembered this game when I was looking at the Alphabet Soup Cans trope page and I think it is a very good example of that trope.
Edited by legendaryweredragonresolved Game I saw on youtube Videogame
Hi, I need help remembering the name of a game I once saw a playthrough of on youtube. You play as radio host in a town that has a serial killer running around. You get calls from citizens, and you need to prevent them from being murdered by the killer. I'd like to watch that video again, so please remind me of the name.
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 You play as a robot wearing a red cloak, with a golem as an ally Videogame
See title, but I remember the intro pretty well: the golem opens a vault containing your character, revealing that the world is covered in purple goo of some kind. After some basic tutorials, the goo attacks the PC, and the golem has to cut off their arm, replacing the robot's missing arm with one of their own. Additionally, your character has a sword, and it had some platforming elements, as well as an upgrade system.
resolved reverse angry birds Videogame
title says it all pretty much, it was like a reverse angry birds game where you had to build a structure with a set of given parts that would stand up to an attack, that attack being from cats and the structure being made of household objects
resolved Pollution Pirates Videogame
There was an Edutainment Game I vaguely remember playing at school in the late 90s (97-98?). I think there were like four missions but the only one I remember playing was called Pollution Pirates.
It had like a live-action video of these two guys on a boat one was older and the other was tall and skinny. They were dumping stuff in the water.
I don’t remember the gameplay but I remember at the end when you won they showed the two guys getting locked in a jail cell.
resolved Wild West Game Videogame
In the late 90s - early 00s, my family went to Wall Drug and there was a Light Gun arcade game there. It was Wild West themed. The Attract Mode had this big Fat Bastard type yelling, "They call me Nasty Ted!" and then it cut to a handsome guy who said, "I'm too good-looking for jail." I always wanted to play it or find a longplay of it but never found it again.
resolved 8-bit(?) game with an abandoned house and an island full of monkeys Videogame
there's this game i remember watching my dad play, likely around 2011-2016. i think it was 8-bit or at least in a pixelated art style.
the main things i remember about it are 1) there was an abandoned/haunted house with a harpsichord song playing in the background, and 2) there was a tropical island full of monkeys that threw bananas at you.
i also vaguely remember there being a fast travel mechanic where you could watch your character on a boat, and the sun/moon would rise and set to represent the days passing.
anyone have any ideas what game this is?

I remember a gameplay video of an indie game where a small girl was supposed to wait in her room for her parent to come home. But the room was haunted or something and depending on your interactions with it, there were different outcomes.
The graphics were minimalistic, looked like hand-drawn and the environment was mostly white.