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Game ad on television about a racing game with an environment that can be changed [closed]
When I was younger, I saw an ad on television, most likely on Jetix or Disney XD between 2008 and 2012. This video game ad was about a racing game where you could drive cars and where buildings could ...
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Video game for PS4 with anime transforming military girls fighting against robots
In 2017-ish, I came across a Hack-and-slash video game with Anime-style girls as a budget game on my PS4.
The characters were military girls and they fought robots. They could also transform like they ...
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Video Game where you program small robots on a space station using wired components
I believe I bought my copy in college, between 2002 and 2006. It was a hardcopy manual, and a CD as I recall it. The premise is that some workers on a space station (I'm pretty sure it was a space ...
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PC Game where you are transported into a fantasy video game, and it's made clear that you're not the hero
The art style was 2D pixel art, and not terribly sophisticated. It was fairly colorful and bright as I recall it. The basic story is that you get transported into a video game as the hero, but the ...
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NES game- martial artist fights ghosts
I saw the ad for this in a comic book (possibly the comic adaptation of the first ninja turtles movie, I'm not sure), the ad showed a screenshot of a man dressed in what was meant to be clothed in the ...
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River City Ransom clone for the Windows PC that included zombies, toxic vomit, and the ability to tear an opponent's heart from their chest
I think I played this in the early 2000s, although the memory isn't firm. It used the large cartoony graphics like River City Ranson, including oversized heads. And, as with that game, you could buy ...
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Seeking 90s game about flying in high speeds down a valley or trench
This was a game of the 90s, early 3D, most likely before Descent. It was NOT Terminal Velocity, which had 360o control; instead, in this game you could only strafe left or right (and maybe reduce ...
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What is this turn-based, hex-based iOS strategy game? Light-hearted fantasy RTS about wizards and towers
I played a really great turn-based strategy game on iOS several years ago (mid-noughties) and i'm trying to find it again. I can't even see it in my list of previously-downloaded apps (which does show ...
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Elder Scrolls-like game. Kickstarted in the mid 2000s. Had a plot aspect of an uncrossable chasm and included mechanics for waystones
I remember backing the game at the time, and it finally releasing after some years of development, although I think it never got too far out of beta. The initial graphics were very similar to The ...
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Game identification from scene: two soldiers forget that they're enemies while in a dungeon
I'm looking for an old fantasy computer RPG that I played in the 90s and only remember from a particular dungeon. The party is trapped in a magical labyrinth (could be a psychic prison), where they ...
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Game identification in which the human protagonist gets infected by an alien green virus, eventually giving Hulk-like powers
I am starting a video-game remembrance series with my father. After recalling Inca, Discworld and still looking for other that I might ask for here, we have looked a lot for this one to no avail. ...
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Video game where the hero gets transported to another world with his sister to aid a king in a war
I remember playing a game, similar to Vestaria Saga, both in gameplay and style. The story is typical isekai, where main hero gets transported to another world with his sister to aid a king in a war.
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Dark, cynical video game taking place in the medieval ages
I saw this video game years ago (less than 10 but it may have been older than that) but never got its name. It was an RPG. The enemies looked like half-melted mutated animals but the protagonists were ...
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Android (and maybe other phones) game - side scrolling, primary attack being punching, limited ability to control, fighting monsters
At least 5-6 years ago, I had a game on my Android phone, maybe through an Amazon service that offered me frequent free and discounted games. It had colorful cartoonish artwork, and a frenetic pace ...
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2D 'Worms' battle like game with anime cartoon tanks circa 2005?
There was a game I played as a child on the internet back in maybe 2005, where it was a 2D worms wmd style battle game, but the characters were different types of tanks with eyes in cartoon art style, ...
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Old management game in which you could send fairy critters to do work, like chopping down trees and building a house
Roughly in 2005-2008 I was playing a game, but I remember very little about it and I've been looking for it since forever.
What I remember:
Might have been a DVD/online game, it ran on Windows XP ...
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Point and click exploration game from the 1990s
Facts I'm confident of:
I never played the full game, but I played a demo of it some time between 1994-1998.
It was for Windows 95.
It was a first-person point-and-click adventure game set in some ...
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Finding a BASIC program for teaching middle schools students about environmental science
When I was in seventh grade in Salem, Oregon, one unit in our Life Science class involved playing a game programmed in AppleSoft Basic, about managing a large colony on an alien planet. It was ...
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Text Based Game about Synthesizing Fuel from Scratch?
In the summer of 2019 a professor of mine described a text based game wherein the goal was to learn enough of an alternative chemistry system to synthesize fuel before your ship lost power. He said ...
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Video game where you are a part of a group of astronauts stuck on some other planet and you need to build a house and discover stuff
The title pretty much says it all. I once saw the game being played on an indie game YouTube channel, which I'm pretty sure was Pravus.
It was 3D and singleplayer. You view the game from a third-...
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Recent Lovecraftian video game where the objective was to investigate a town or manor or lighthouse and solve a mystery
One or two years ago, I came across a modern video game trailer which I now can't remember. The trailer was for a future game that had not yet been released.
It was a detective/mystery game in the ...
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Tandy CoCo 2 text adventure game where you have to evade zombies
This is one of those things where the details are on the tip of my tongue. On our Tandy Color Computer 2, somewhere in the late 1980s to the early 1990s, one of the games was a text adventure where ...
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PS2 game (probably budget title) where you start off on a beach, open a cave up with cannons, and then wind up fighting skeletons and worms
I think I played this about 15-17 years ago, when I first got my own PS2. I'd proudly bought some games for what seemed like quite the bargain, only to find out that there was a good reason that they ...
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2000s starship co-op game with ships like red and blue fighter jets and a human-face ship boss on a desert planet and in space
I need help trying to remember an old starship computer game. I wish I could remember how the title screen looked, but it was a co-op game. Player 1 was controlled by mouse, and it was a red fighter ...
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Manga/manwhua where a boy and his uncle are transported into the video game they both play
So I remember part of the beginning plot. A brother and sister live with their abusive uncle. The boy plays a game that is not pay-to-win and is in first place. His uncle also plays the game and ...
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Children's game about a hotel for fantasy creatures
I remember an old computer game that seemed to be geared towards children. It was about managing a hotel that would be visited by fantasy creatures. The goal is to ensure that all of the guests are ...
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2010's flash game, either on Discovery/History Channel website
This game was similar to a tower-defense game. The towers however, were in a fixed position and could be controlled by the player/computer/neutral depending on whose resources were occupying the area ...
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1990s/2000s PC strategy game in which you build a village, discover new lands, and fight knights
I'm looking for a game that I used to play in the early 2000s. It was a strategy game like Medieval: Total War.
I remember that I needed to build a village and start procreating. I remember also a ...
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What is this 90s shareware turn-based strategy vehicle tactics game?
I'm trying to dig up a game I played as a child. Things I remember:
The game used conventional Windows UI and buttons, a bit like Castle of the Winds.
I would have played the game on Windows 98 or 95....
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Early 2000s sf game with kangaroo-like enemies
Late 1990s or early 2000s (not later than 2005) PC game (could be console as well, I played on PC).
Set in a Sci-fi setting. Shooter. If I remember correctly 1st person.
I only remember what I think ...
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Fantasy kids' game for Nintendo DS in which the occupants of a duck or chicken town are sucked into a book and you have to play minigames to save them
This game was out on Nintendo DS; I played it like seven years ago.
You live in a duck (or chicken?) town and this magician guy brings a book out to read a story to you and your friends, but the book ...
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What could be this 1990s MS-DOS (or maybe Windows) 3D FPS (Doom WAD maybe?) with floating gray spiky polyhedra that I think was set in cyberspace?
Wondering if you folks could work your magic to help me identify a 90s first-person shooter based on this list of my not-so great memories of it:
Timeframe, region, and technology:
I played this ...
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An early 2000s PC game in which you had to kill Smurfs and Care Bears
This was some kind of weird PC game which was very typical from the early 2000s.
From what little I remember, the game started out in a level in which you shot Gargamel dead, after which he blew off ...
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Sci-fi first-person shooter set in the future: father dies saving kid, kid is saved by a captain, final mission is to kill the president
I can't remember the name of this game, but it had to be between 2015–2017. The game was like an adventure sci-fi first-person shooter in a future world. The story was about a father who saved his kid ...
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Shareware computer game where you play a starfighter pilot
For those who were born after the mid 90's, shareware games were games that the first chapter you got for free or real cheap and, if your curiosity was piqued, you bought the rest later.
In this game ...
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A top-down video game from early 2000s or earlier, in which you can absorb defeated foes with a straw to replenish your health
This is some kind of video game I barely saw being played on a computer between 1998 and 2004 (although it could have been released earlier).
The game featured a kind of top-down view, but not like ...
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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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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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1990–2000 space shooter game with a mouse-controlled fighter and "stargates"
I am desperately seeking a space shooter game that I played when I was young (between 1990 and 2000). The game takes place in space. You have some kind of fighter that you control with the mouse. You ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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1990s Hentai game involving characters based on traditional European fairy tales
I played this in early high school, around 1994-1998, on a Windows PC. Recently, I keep having it pop up in my memories, so I'm hoping putting a name to it will put my brain to rest. The protagonist, ...
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Video game where you play a miniature female demon with regular handgun (but large compared to her)
A few years back (around 2015-2017, I think), I ran into a game on Steam that sounded interesting, but not enough for me to spring for the full price. The gameplay shown in the video had a miniature ...
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