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Tagged with story-identification video-games
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Five kids are sucked into video game and must retrieve a vial to save the creator's dying daughter
The book starts with the main character (a boy) living, I think it's like a foster home or boarding school. He doesn't have much money, however he manages to get ahold of a video game. This video game ...
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Trying to identify early SNES fantasy game with a shape-changing blob boss
I remember playing (actually, mostly watching a friend play) a video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, pretty soon after the SNES was released in America. My friend who owned it was ...
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Cartoon: 4 kids transform into video game characters to save the world from a hacker and an evil program
There are 4 friends: 2 girls and 2 boys who play video games. A virus program escapes and, with the help of a programmer boy, transforms the world into a video game. But a good program in a white robe ...
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70s/80s short story about a mysterious arcade game
Does anyone know the name of this short story for children which I read in the 70s / early 80s?
It is set in a seaside arcade where an old lady, who minds it, has fallen asleep and a spider is making ...
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2002/2003 PC Game about Super-soldiers winning against aliens but losing Earth coming back?
A long time ago I remember playing a PC game around the time of HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED clones... one stood out in particular.
The story preface revolves around a war between Earth and aliens. Humans ...
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Browser game where you play as a brain jumping over hurdles
In first grade (it was definitely in 2010 or 2011), I remember playing some sort of two-dimensional autorunner-platformer game where you play as a brain with legs on an obstacle course. There were ...
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Seeking a game like Hunt the Wumpus but with graphics, RPG elements, and a balrog
I'm trying to locate a game that I played on a computer at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) in the 1980s. It was like the classic BASIC game Hunt the Wumpus, but it was much more ...
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Searching for video game like Xevious but with more interesting bosses
I am trying to find an arcade game that I saw in the 1980s that made a strong impression on my with the innovative appearance of its bosses. It was a top-scrolling shoot-'em-up,
I saw it somewhere ...
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In what game do you play a knight fighting skeletons in a cemetery at night?
Trying to find a game I played as a kid, most likely on a PS2 (99% sure).
It's an old game where, I believe, you play as a knight, and during the first few levels it is night time and you fight ...
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Tandy CoCo 2 game that replicated the Death Star trench run, maybe also landspeeders on the Endor moon?
I was trying to provide the name of this game when someone I know on a message board asked about the best Star Wars games (admittedly, I was trying to make a point about nostalgia filters), and I ...
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Manga about a guy trapped in a video game and is looking for a way out
This must have been at least two years ago, but there was this one manga I was reading that I lost touch with and am trying to find again.
The story is the usual "guy is trapped in a video game and ...
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90s (or earlier) computer game where a troll turns you into a frog
This was a game I played in school aged 5 or 6 (in year one or two), which would be in 1991. I believe it was on a BBC Acorn, though it might have been some other computer; it seemed old fashioned to ...
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CoCo 2 Fantasy Computer Game - Real-time, puzzles - Had a sequel
I'm trying to remember a Tandy CoCo 2 fantasy adventure game, from somewhere in the 1980s. It was a largely puzzle-based game. I don't remember any combat in it, just puzzles that you had to solve ...
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Flash point-and-click game where you are a newly risen ghost
I don't remember exactly when I played it... within the last decade and a half. It was a game that I played online in a browser, almost certainly in Shockwave Flash. I'm almost entirely certain it was ...
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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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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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