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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 Shareware breakout clone Videogame
There's this game I played like twice as a kid, and all I remember is:
- It's a clone of breakout from somewhere in the Windows 3.x-95 era
- One of the blocks used a badly squashed graphic of a mouth with bared teeth and instantly ate your ball
- Probably because of the above block, it gave you a bucketload of balls, to the point of Meaningless Lives
- For some unfathomable reason, it had a transhumanist Author Tract in the about box
anyone else remember this?
resolved Video game where villain turns people into wolfman minions (including the heroine in a Game Over) Videogame
The main villain blasts people with a transformation beam thing that turns them into wolf like creatures that are under his control. There's a Non-Standard Game Over where the if the heroine gets blasted in a particular fight (I think against her brother, who just got transformed as well) we see her transform and then get booted to the Game Over screen in a complete aversion of Heroic Willpower. I think the game was a pretty standard PS 2 era action game with a slightly cartoony art style.
resolved 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 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 RPGMaker(?) Game set in a monster-filled office Videogame
I played it years ago and I can't remember the name, but I do recall a lot of details. I think all the characters were anthropomorphic animals, and you were a new office worker. The atmosphere was very bleak; it seemed like a satire for oppressive work culture. Early on in the game, you get a revolver in order to fight invisible monsters in your company. You had to listen for sounds, and then hit a key; the game would shift to a first-person perspective, and you had to listen closely for where the sound would be centered to hit the monster.
resolved Dungeon crawler with fighting game random encounters? Videogame
I'm not sure if any of this will make sense but earlier today I was talking about Ehrgeiz: God Bless The Ring with some friends and how that game had a dungeon crawler mode. That conversation reminded me of a game I remember seeing / reading about that had 3D dungeon crawling but whenever you got into an enemy encounter the gameplay would switch to a 2D fighting game playstyle.
I'm not sure if the dungeon crawler thing was part of the "main" game or if it was simply a side mode in a game that's otherwise entirely fighting. I also think the game was for the PS1 or PS2 / had low-poly graphics? I don't remember anything else about it so I might've just thought it up, but any help would be appreciated!
Edited by Rex-Blanchimont-ZEROresolved 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 Video game about a little blob Videogame
There's this game I remember seeing, whose main character we play as is a little blob-like creature. The backstory (revealed in comic form) was that this blob was actually a scientist that was forcibly turned into this creature as the head researcher for this spaceship (?) noted that she was the only one with a compatibility for some energy source they had found and were studying. i remember that the blob ends up fighting a lot of different enemies, and even a robot, in order to reach the end. the end consists of a battle with a creature that looks just like the blob, but doesn't have all its memories. this final boss had actually been sending out iterations of the little blob character in order to rescue it, and with each one it loses more of its memories. the good ending consisted of the playable blob giving the final boss its memories, i think. the soundtrack was really amazing in the game, and this game is also the only one that the sound design studio has composed the ost for. Does anyone remember what this game was called? I believe the name of the blob was in the title, followed by a : and the rest of the title. I'd really appreciate the help!
Edited by StrayShardresolved 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 A sci fi roguelike Videogame
I remember the game is 3d with an isometric view, you fight your way through some huge sci fi building and the enemies and decor is based on Babylonian mythology or similar.
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 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 Nintendo DS game set in Paris around the time of the Great Exhibition, Layton-esque. Videogame
There's a game I vaugely remember that was somewhat like Professor Layton set in Paris around the time the Eiffel Tower was built but I'm blanking on everything else. I think it was called Doctor BLANK and the BLANK of the Labyrinth but that's as close as I've got.
resolved Game with Retraux mode Videogame
So there is a game which in a moment all the characters' current style changes to a Retraux style. I don't know if it is a mode that you can change, but I think it involves an arcade or something like that (IDK). It is also a 3D game.
EDIT: Nevermind, I found the game, it is Hi-Fi RUSH
Edited by StalkerGamerresolved 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.
resolved Small girl waits in her haunted room. Videogame
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.
resolved 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?
resolved [SOLVED] A Famicom/NES game from Contra series Videogame
I remember playing it as a kid, but it was on a borrowed cartridge, and I wasn't able to find it on the Web. What's worse, it could've been ported unofficialy from some other console.
It was definitely a Contra game, I think it was just called "New Contra". As far as I remember, it only had about six levels. First level featured a city, with attack helicopter as a boss. Later levels involved underground bunker with metal walls, something akin to ancient sewers, and later an even more decrepit abyss with jumping satyr-like enemies.
Another notable difference was that flamethrower (F weapon) wasn't like in, say, classic Contra. Typically F weapon sends a projectile flying in circles, back and forth, while inching forward, but in this game it just shot an expanding ball of fire.
Edited by Vindicar
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.