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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 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 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 A 2d point-and-click adventure flash game that ends with the player hitting an old woman in the head Videogame
I'm copying and pasting from this reddit forum because it's sound like the same game im trying to find.
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- Platform: Online flash game.
- Genre: Point and click adventure
- Estimated year of release: can’t be later than 2015
- Graphics/art style: 2D, cartoonish, lots of dark colors, mostly blacks and greys. Everything seems all worn down and abandoned in my memory. Imagine a set from Courage the Cowardly in grayscale.
- Notable characters:
You play as a small black gremlin-thing. Imagine Scratchy from the Simpsons but with the height, proportions, and handless arms of a Power Puff Girl. I don’t think it ever made any facial expressions, it was just kind of cross eyed. I’m not entirely sure whether or not there was some sort of villain protagonist situation going on or not.
There were these enemies, they were these kind of ape-like blobs made of shadow. You either had to avoid them or shine light on them, and they’d turn into these cute little teddy bears in the light. At one point you use a flashlight on one blocking your path.
This old woman, in a pink nightgown I think, was at the end. I think killing her was your goal the whole time, but it came as a kind of surprise. I don’t know if she deserved it or not. It’s like it’s blocked from my memory.
- Notable gameplay mechanics: there was of course the light shining. I think you had to hide before hitting the old woman.
- Other details: This game feels like a dream, I was on a road trip with family and we’d stopped at somebody’s house and they let me play on the computer.
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I been looking for this game for a while and i don't if i broke any rule here by copy and pasting.
resolved Single-word title Videogame
There was this semi-recent game that I'm trying to see again because I've all but forgotten about it, and the title completely eludes me.
The title of the game was some synonym for the word "hurting" or "suffering", I'm pretty sure it was a verb or noun of some sort that refers to pain and agony. You're in a world of fleshy suffering mutants and you control one of them, I think yours was a pair of heads with arms and nothing else. The game is a 2D platformer so you need to overcome various terrain and puzzles. One of the things you can encounter early on is a big "mole-like" mutant that charges at you, and you have to back off or it kills you. The first "boss" is a singing one that's also suffering, but you help them by destroying nearby pustules; once they're all gone, they smile in gratitude and open a path in the bottom allowing the player to progress. I think there was also a section involving rats.
resolved Shmup game Videogame
It was available on the Xbox 360, had a Latin name, a red rose(?) logo with red text on a white background and was 2.5D.
resolved I played a Timon and Pumbaa game on an airplane ride Videogame
As in, this game was available in the built-in screen on the back of the seat in front of mine, and there was likely a remote control of sorts to control it, there are films, games and other sorts of entertainment on it. I forget what airline this was, but in years I'd estimate 2008 - 2014? (That's about the time I was flying most often anyway.)
This game features Timon and Pumbaa, where you control the latter to move left and right on the ground as objects (mostly food) falls from the trees above (I believe it was Timon that was shaking the trees to do this?). One inedible object (that would knock out or weaken Pumbaa for a bit if it hits him) was a wooden sink of all things.
One prominent game mechanic made use of Pumbaa's farts. I forget if it's a charged ability that requires hold and release or a meter that accumulates the more he eats, but sending green fart clouds upwards can knock out bugs that would otherwise hurt him when they fall. Bigger fart cloud = wider knockout area.
Edited by BlackFaithStarresolved "What a weak and miserable boss you are!" Videogame
Another from my dad. He says he and his brother played this NES game a lot during the 80's or around that era. He describes it as a Kung Fu fighting game with a translation he explicitly compares to Zero Wing in the sense of being done in an overly literal way. The thing he mainly remembers was that you had a servant, and when you get a Game Over, you get a screen of your servant saying "What a weak and miserable boss you are! I'm leaving!", though he fully admits that he might be remembering this line wrong; he says his brother used to quote this line at work.
Given my last question had a bit of a Mandela Effect to it, this may also have one, which, again, he fully admits can be the case.
resolved Rabbit game Videogame
I dont remember much of this game. Just that the main character is an anthropomorfic rabbit, I think he used a laser gun, and you fight against chameleons.
Edited by ElBuenCuateresolved Beat bad guys up, use the pile of bodies to get out of the hole Videogame
Does anyone know the name of an independent PC videogame, probably from around 2005-2015, with this mechanic?
The game's a Low-polygon 3D Beat 'em Up with no plot or real setting. Characters are composed of basic shapes like cubes and octahedrons. From what I remember, the only difference between the player character and the enemies was the character color. The player starts out in a hole a few cubes deep, and enemies keep jumping in. Once you beat an enemy, his body falls apart and becomes part of the terrain. Beat enough enemies and you'll have enough bodies to climb out of the hole. After beating a level, you move on to a wider, deeper hole. I never got to the end, and for all I know, new levels can keep generating randomly forever.
Edited by Mac_Rresolved What Sonic game is this? Videogame
In this
◊ picture, what game is being parodied?
resolved Trying to find a Pokémon spin-off. Videogame
I vaguely remember hearing about a Pokémon spin-off that was apparently a Programming Game, yet I cannot find any information about it. The only other detail I can recall about it is that the protagonists had an Orange/Blue Contrast (boy wore blue, girl wore orange). Anybody willing to help me find it?
resolved Point and Click adventure game with lots of references Videogame
It was a point and click adventure where you played as a skeletal kid who had died because your friend accidentally gave you plums(?) which you were deathly allergic to and your goal was to find your friend before halloween ended. It took place on the day and night of halloween and a few big youtubers played it.
resolved Top down Space Immersive Sim Videogame
It had its own article and you were either a bounty hunter or a rebel. I remember there were assassination missions you could do and you could completely blow off parts of a ship with the right tools
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 Creepy giggle Videogame
Where is this laugh
from? I know I've heard it in a game before, but I can't put my finger on it. I thought it was either Boos or Midna, but I searched those and they don't match.
resolvedAPP I Found This From A Video Game I Don’t Know The Name BUT I Know The Trope for This Videogame
resolved jrpg with a mean cat sidekick who turns out to be evil Videogame
not OFF, let me explain.
a while ago i was browsing some trope or other and saw an example of a JRPG with a cat character, i think described as irish, who was openly mean, and later turned out to be evil. the entry said this was an Obvious Judas for western audiences, but caught japanese audiences completely by surprise, because the cat appeared to be a harmless annoying mascot character they automatically tended to ignore.
the game itself was japanese, and i'm pretty sure it was a later installation in an established series of games.
i can't remember exactly what trope it was. i ctrl+f'd "cat" in ObviousJudas.Video Games, The Dog Was the Mastermind, AmericansHateTingle.Video Games, LostInTranslation.Video Games, and TomatoSurprise.Video Games, but found nothing.
Edited by iwantedtoaddsomethingresolved physics videogame that takes place in a body? Videogame
im pretty sure it was on the switch but not a nintendo title, but it also could have been on itch.io. the game takes place in like a body? it had really cool pixely graphics like qomp and eatgirl. the gameplay is like you shoot blocks at the wall and they stick and you can make like bridges with it. anyone know what game this is?

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.