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NES video game similar to Wizards & Warriors [duplicate]
Some time in the second half of the 1980s, I remember playing a video game on the Nintendo Entertainment System, and for many years I had thought the game was Wizards & Warriors II. There had ...
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Short story about MMORPG sweatshops
I read this short story in a Czech translation before the year 2010. It was included in a collection aimed at "younger readers", but sci-fi and fantasy collections in Czech and Slovak ...
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Old online fantasy board-game
I'm not sure if this site is the right place to ask.
I am looking to find an old video game I was playing as a teenager, about 20 years ago.
It was an online-only board game, similar to chess, but ...
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Video game with sentient boomerang-wielding androids
I'm looking for a 90s video game (either on the Game Boy Color or the Game Boy Advance) where you played as a robot equipped with a boomerang or a boomerang-like weapon. The weapon could be upgraded ...
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Game where you play as the Nutcracker and swat fairies
I remember playing, or at least spectating, a PC game in the mid-to-late 2000s set in the fantasy world of The Nutcracker. In it, you would play as the eponymous Nutcracker and swat/kill various ...
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PC Game: Skeletons as Enemies at start and in a dream or dimension with third person sword fighting
I have been trying to find a old pc game, with the description: A third person sword fighting with skeletons (just beginner enemies ig) as enemies and waking up on a empty street, traps where you have ...
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Identify a Sonic game which featured Silver in a dystopian future
I remember playing a Sonic game in which Silver was there, but in a dystopian future. Here are the details I can recall:
Almost all Sonic characters were there including Silver.
Time travel was part ...
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German first-person pre-rendered 3D adventure puzzle game with a boy protagonist investigating an abandoned city that I played in 2003–2008
These are actually two games (possibly more) in a series of adventure games. I remember one more than the other, so I'll be talking about that one first.
I played both games sometime between 2003 and ...
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Flash game based on the 2004 TV series Lost about staying alive on the island
I'm looking for a flash game which I played on the Internet some time between 2004 and 2010, based on the events of the 2004 TV series Lost.
The idea was that we are one of the survivors of the plane ...
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In what game do you play as a knight inside a ghost castle and you're supposed to save a girl
You're a knight fighting ghosts (white) in a ghost castle and you need to save a girl I think her hair is white and she is white too (kinda pale I think) It's probably in ps1 or ps2.
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Video game based around the Turing test where optional information says that you never interacted with any humans to begin with
A friend and I are looking for a video game based around the Turing test, where you can find or discover an audiolog or text or something (not sure) that reveals that the whole time there were no ...
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Help me identify 90s or early 2000s japanese 2D turn based PC game with RPG elements that has mech fighting
Between 1999 and 2007 I got multiple CDs with multiple games for my birthday. One of those games was "Mortimer and the Riddles of the Medallion," which came out in 1996. But I am interested ...
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PlayStation 1 Game about a boy who gets amnesia
Correct me if I am posting on the wrong Stack Exchange. I am looking for a certain game that I'm pretty sure was on PS1. Around 10 years ago, I just watched the intro of the game. It is a story where ...
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Earlyish ‘90s PC Space War / Battle Game
This was a PC game I remember from the earlyish '90s (1992–1993 or somewhere around then). I remember some specific pieces but not the overall gameplay. It was a game where you built up your army (or ...
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Fantasy Adventure game involving a puzzle with a man in a mirror
I played this on a TRS-80 Color Computer 2 or 3 somewhere in the late 1980s to the early 1990s. It was one of those adventure games where you either typed commands in (e.g. "GO NORTH" "...
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Ps2 survival game I need the name!
Im trying to remember the name of this ps2 game I used to play as a kid it was a 2 player game and it had a fat white character and a skinny black character and we worked together killing skeletons in ...
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PC game about a boy that uses a magic book while exploring different planets
I played this game when I was a kid so I probably misremember some of the details. What I do remember is that this boy wakes up and gets this enchanted book as a gift or something and throughout the ...
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A 2000 ish Chinese show about a kid's house who gets struck by lighting due to playing games late at night and gets transported in the game
I remember watching about it about a long time ago.
The beginning was a kid playing some kind of game on his computer. His parents came to his room and told him to turn it off and go to sleep. He then ...
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Time loop text-based adventure game about preventing a car crash
I'm trying to see if I can find an elusive game I've long wanted to play. It's a text-based adventure game, but not one from their commercial heyday back in the eighties or so. It was described to me ...
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Real-time strategy videogame for iOS involving conquering and robots, with 2D cutscenes
It might have two teams of red or blue, but don't rely on that information.
App for iPhone
I think it was about at least 3 or more years ago probably more.
Pretty sure it was out before the iPad, but ...
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1990s squad superhero game that may have been advertised in Videogames and Computer Entertainment, never released, mentioned "superhero curse"
I used to have a subscription to the Video Games & Computer Entertainment magazine (later retitled VideoGames - The Ultimate Gaming Magazine). It might have also been Computer Games Magazine. I ...
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2010s Point & Click Pc Game
I played this game on a netbook around 2008-2014. The layout is similar to Stranded Sails. The character is a warrior(?), and you point & click to move or interact. It involves various NPCs of ...
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Soldier vs. Warrior
I remember a conversation between two characters in an RPG a "Soldier"(Lawful good type) and a "Warrior" (neutral-evil type).
I don't know the exact dialog but:
Warrior:
Talks ...
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3D PC Game on Steam where you play a muscular jester in a magical medieval world
I was recently watching a compilation video of weird PC games, which included Jinx, a Europe-exclusive platforming title where you play as a jester. This suddenly reminded me of having played a game ...
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Warhammer 40K game
I saw a brief clip of a WH40k being played in a Youtube short clip. However, the uploader of the video did not say what game it was. The clip was of a FPS game and showed the player character engaging ...
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Which PC game had an island surrounded by swamps, skeletons, pinkish giants and huge spiders?
Game Mechanics: This is a third-person perspective game (similar to this) that I played about 10 years ago. The main character is initially placed in a small island surrounded by swamps. The tasks are ...
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Early 80s computer game, possibly called "Hobbit"
I can tell you straight away, it's NOT the 1982 illustrated text adventure "The Hobbit". This was out before that. It may even have been late 70s.
What I remember:
I played on a friend's computer. I ...
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NES game with town building between RPG/Hack-and-slash levels
I'm trying to identify a game I've played as a child, most likely on the NES. The time when I would have played this would likely fall in the 1992 - 1998 range. Sadly, I remember only a small part of ...
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Game identification Playstation alien FPS game in urban setting
I'm trying to find a game I used to play with a friend around ~2008 on a PS2 or PS3.
At first I was almost certain it was in the XCOM universe, but I couldn't find matching screenshots. Here are the ...
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Old obscure 90s cartoon
There was a cartoon I used to watch as a kid in the 90s that had a featured two boys and I'm pretty sure a girl. They played a VR video game where an UFO would land and they'd go through waves of them....
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Old pc game featuring a pirate
A game from around 2012 or older where the player controlling a bulky-old pirate in 3rd person. The graphic is not cartoonish. I think its similar with RE 4. In the early gameplay the pirate is inside ...
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Looking for a specific post-apo game cutscene/trailer
I am looking for a specific sci-fi videogame-related cutscene or trailer.
As I recall it, the video features "realistic" graphics for its time (between late 2000s and 2016), mostly greyish, ...
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Touchscreen-controlled dentist office snowman collector game
In 2009-2012 I went into a dentist's office in the United States of America. There were a few touchscreen game systems. One of them had one of the Luxor video games, I think Luxor 2 or Luxor 3. I ...
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Sci-fi fantasy game with a durian consumable that ended with the MC getting abducted by aliens
I don't remember much about this game as I played when I was rather young, but I remember really enjoying it, so I'd like to play it again. I believe it was a side-scroller game and it was either on ...
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Video game RPG, fast travel via fairy flatulence
I initially conflated this with RPG where one of the party members has his powers enabled by making dolls, but somewhere in the mid to late 1990s, I remember reading a review about an RPG, I'm pretty ...
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RPG where one of the party members has his powers enabled by making dolls
I was reading the TV Tropes entry for Madden into Misanthropy, which mentioned that Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen had a pedophilic doll-maker as a character, which suddenly catapulted my brain into a ...
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Science fiction game involving a family of aliens on a trip who are separated by an evil guy in a spaceship
I remember being obsessed with this game from 2017-2019. It was a puzzle game that I played in school but I don't think I was allowed to, and it was supposed to be for kids but it was actually really ...
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Steam Game (I think with a mobile version) where you play a neophyte hero who has to balance training and work against missions and a time limit
I think the last time I played this was 2-3 years ago, on my old computer, but I think I got it closer to 8 years ago, in some sort of software bundle, involving being a new superhero working their ...
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Please help me identify this Android party-based turn-based dungeon-crawler
I have played an Android game some time in the past, on one of the phones I previously used that no longer works now, and I want to play this game again.
If I remember correctly, I played this game in ...
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90s Cyberpunk TV Series or Video Game ID: Hooks for surviving subway passage
I recall, as a kid in the late 90s, seeing a clip on TV showcasing either a live action TV series, or a video game with full-motion video elements, involving a gritty cyberpunk setting.
The scene took ...
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Spaceship chess game identification
I faintly remember the game, I played it as a kid in the early 00s. The game involved a chessboard where at first you could play chess as you normally would. When a piece would take another piece ...
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Shareware fantasy RPG from around 1993
Around 1993 or 1994, I remember getting a copy (probably downloaded, but it's possible that it might have been on physical media) of a shareware fantasy CPRG. I don't remember that much about it. I ...
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90s PC game: point and click diagonal layout
I remember playing a game where I believe you play as a troll. (I might be wrong about the troll, I just remember the playable character was ugly looking.) Potions were involved. I remember ...
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Third-person action fantasy videogame about afterlife factions in a war?
I played this game around 2010 or so, at my brother's Windows PC. It looked like PS2-era 3D graphics, but I don't know if it was in any other platforms. Decidedly western in style.
The story was a war ...
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1988ish PC RPG that starts with navigating a raft to shore and has a scene where a village festival gives you food poisoning
I played this around 1988 (it could be as late as 1991, but that's unlikely) or so at my Uncle's house in California. I remember Autoduel also being on the machine. I think it was an IBM PC. I've ...
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RPG with a rune that left a "brand" on you at the cost of Health damage
This is a bit of a longshot, as I only remember a fragment on it. It was an RPG that I played in the 90s, probably on either an IBM PC or the NES. The action was top-down with multiple characters in ...
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NES Game Identification: Top down, green/jungle on cover and maybe title screen
I remember that I think the sticker on the cartridge and possibly the title screen or even world select had a kind of jungle underbrush look to it almost exactly like the cartridge/title screen for ...
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Looking for a puzzle game for young children
I am trying to find a game again I played as a young child. I played it roughly in 1992-1994 in Germany on Windows 3.1 from a floppy disk. I was around 4 years old.
Here is what I still remember:
It ...
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90s PC space game where the enemies resembled Imperial probe droids
I have been trying to find a 90s pc space game. All I can remember is that your spaceship was in the middle of the screen and enemies that looked like Imperial probe droids. (But they were not and it ...
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Video game with a black female police officer who starts out fighting gangs, but then fights "Men in Black" with sci-fi weapons, and eventually demons
I played this at least 15 years ago on a Windows PC, installed from CDs. The protagonist is a black woman who is a police officer in a large city. I remember some of the early bits were tutorials for ...
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