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Children's Online Game? Videogame
So, this is a really random thing from childhood that popped into my head. I vaguely remember a series of online mini-games from the 2000s featuring commercial mascots. I do not remember all of them, but I just barely remember one where one of the mascots was a girl with I think blonde hair that had a spring for legs. You know, like those spring riders from children you see at the park. I think the goal of her game was to launch riders into the sky. I think the whole point of these mascots was they were naughty children turned transformed into ridiculous things.
I think there was a total of five mascots and I want to say they were for a juice pouch company like Kool-Aid or Capri Sun. Not sure which one. And I want to say there was a way to access these games from the Nickelodeon website, but they didn't actually belong to Nickelodeon
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 BlackFaithStarAnimal mask riot game Videogame
I remember watching a video long ago that was about this game involving a riot crowd fighting against robots (I think), and there were animal masks in it, anybody have any idea what that may be?
Dinosaur hunting Videogame
Dinosaur Hunting has Tyrannosaurus with a feather mohawk. Surprisingly, in this game they are mere mooks (although one is a mini-boss), and easy to bring down if you have the right formula. Later near the end, two T. rex corpses were found, torn to pieces by an unknown gigantic predator. Implied to be a giant mutated ceratosaur who the final boss, which also kills a Spinosaurus. I was trying to find any video that showed this ceratosaurus but couldn't find the game or had any clue where to see it so long as its legitmate and legal.
Edited by oneforneutralpeaceitch.io visual novel Videogame
It was about purchasing an android and you would either romance it(?) or treat it as your child, everything was shown as a diorama and in the ending i got it was revealed that the entire story's framing device was that of a diorama presentation your android kid was giving in class. i think there was something about civil rights for the androids in the story too.
it was hosted on itch.io or gamejolt i don't remember which
Edited by masterpenguShmup 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.
MS Dos Point and Click Game (Solved) Videogame
All I can remember about this game is that there was a tree house in the back yard. If you went in the tree house, one of the things you could do was drop food out the door. If you did, when you left, there'd be garbage on the ground, with ants going to it.
Edited by TylendalWeird module for ZZT Videogame
This is probably gonna be a hard one but here goes: There was this game/module/whatever someone made for ZZT where you are a kid in this school where the teachers are really mean so you go around shooting them. I remember at one point you face the principal whose name is something like Mr.Dias. When you talk to him he asks a riddle "Is a sphinx good" and says he will rip your heart out if you answer wrong your possible answers are Yes, No, and Nope. If you say Nope he says "yes but you used improper grammar and rips your heart out. Only if You guess No do you beat him. I played it around 1995
Edited by BootlebatZombie Hunting Video Game With Tycoon Characteristics Videogame
Yes, I am serious, I remember a game just like that. In that game, you had to go to various maps and kill all the zombies. You even got a jetpack for the task at hand. That was the zombie hunting part, now the tycoon part. When you kill the zombies, they would be turned into juices which you must then sell to various customers, unaware of the origin of the ingredients. With the money your business earns you, you can then buy more stuff to kill more zombies and make more money. Pretty sure it was a free game.
A PSP game about finding train pieces Videogame
This is for a friend.
According to her, it was a 3D, PSP game.
The main character was an angel that could see what happens in Earth using a portal. At some point we travel using a train to go to a city, but this had some sort of problem and falled from the skies. After that we arrive into a lake, and someone helps us to get out.
The point of the game is to gater the train pieces scattered around to fix the train, hop on it and return to Heaven.
It had a third-person pov, and she is sure that is not a game called Riviera: The Promised Land
She doesn't remember anything else.
Hunting Game With Story Mode Videogame
When I was younger, back in 2016 or 17, I remember watching a zero-commentary Youtube video on a hunting game with a story mode. It had pretty decent graphics even for today and the cutscenes resembled pages from a novel. The main story is that a boss contracts the Main Character to hunt some wild African animals for him. In the end, the Main Character becomes The Starscream and kills their boss with a gun. He then settles down with their One True Love and they lived Happily Ever After somewhere in Africa. I remember that one of the missions had the player battle with wild buffalo to retrieve an Ancient Artifact.
Edited by PiotrHeatThis one game I used to play Videogame
It was a kids game and I think it started with some bird or something flying on top of this boys chimney and then the game went inside of the house where the boy was in his bed sleeping. I think the game was about this boy that was invited to a birthday party but he woke up sick and couldn’t go and I remember the beginning of the game was where you would wake up and go to the bathroom and try to find medicine for him because he was sick or something. There was also a closet that had like a doll that was Easter egg to another game. I also think that he had some sort of animal friend or something (I think it was the bird in the beginning of the game) I remember he really wanted to go to the birthday party so I think he decided to go anyway and I remember there was something to do with the boy hearing a wolf or something like that following him around and he was trying to catch the wolf or find out what was following him but i think the wolf ended up being good or something. And I remember that there was a part of the game where the boy went to the dentist or something. The characters were also animals sort of like tumble leaf from what I remember? I think the style of the game also kind of looks like the tumble leaf style. But I really don’t think it was specifically a tumble leaf game. That’s all I remember from this game
Edited by Some11111111111Video game about ALS? Videogame
Could have sworn this existed but searching hasn’t turned up any results. This was around the 2010s, I believe it was a short flash(?) game that was created to raise awareness for ALS- I can’t remember where I played it, but the protagonist was this yellow hamster / bear-like creature who was the father of a family. The gameplay was about doing various tasks, and as the game continued your ability to use the controls were reduced and eventually removed, so you weren’t able to use specific gimmicks and it made doing the tasks much harder. I think the player character was bedridden by the end. Help would be appreciated.
Knight against dragons Videogame
It was an old 2D mobile game, that was remove a few years back from the Play Store.
The player was a knight, jumping and swinging a sword between two rock walls, from which dragons of different kind emerged. There were flying dragons and green ground dragons, all of which spit fireballs at you. Once you defeated a boss that arrived every fifth wave, you would get coins that you could spent at a shop to get stronger, like more health, more damage, or cool combos.
I remember it was created by people who did a club-penguin like game, which was also shut down. I'm not sure if it was french-only or not though. I do remember that the players had the same appearance as the game, which is a ball for the head, two feet, and that was it.
Edited by r4d6Mobile Game (J?)RPGs from the early 2010s Videogame
I'm thinking about this series of RP Gs, they may have been JRP Gs, that I used to play like 9 or 10ish years ago on iPad I remember there were like 4 entries, each one with a different story. It was a top-down OG Zelda-like traversal system with a western fantasy setting and somewhat Japanese sort of designs? I remember very little except that in one of the entries you play as a dark elf who eventually changes his ways. And in another entry you play as some sort of (probably) blonde ranger. Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?
Edited by syrus372Sidescrolling shmup... IN SPACE Videogame
It was a somewhat older game, where you could modify and upgrade your ship between levels. I remember very clearly it having a more industrial aesthetic and one of the levels had a heavy metal concert as the background.
Edited by Naspah18 Wheels of Steels gameplay video Videogame
Hey, i'm trying to find a certain two-part 18 Wheels of Steels (or probably other trucking simulator video game like it but I definitely doubt there were more) gamplay video. I think it might be deleted, but i'm not so sure. I can't remember much about those videos, but all I do know is that I first watch them somewhere around 2007 at least to 2010 at most, have no commentaries, and feature different songs with one of them (I think) being Eleven Fingers Paralyzer. Can someone help me with this?
Game Design Software with Rocket: Robot on Wheels Videogame
In my high school programming class we were given access to a game creation tool, it wasn't part of the curriculum I think the company that made it was distributing it to classes like mine and there was some associated contest we were encouraged to submit games/levels to. I only ever played around with it for like one day so my only real memories are the sample levels all being 2.5d Mario-like platformers but believe it was capable of more, the stock assets were all generic rounded platforms floating in the skybox with a basic blue sky texture. Assuming it was new software at the time that puts it around 2011-2013.
But why it sticks out so much and I wanna find it again is, like the title says, the default character and a lot of the tutorials/help pop-up things were of Rocket: Robot on Wheels. There's an outside chance it was a similar red monowheel robot but I'm like 99.999% sure it was licensed because I remember my teacher and the software itself making a big deal about it, but no one in the class recognized the character so we were all confused.
Rocket was of course developed by Sucker Punch, published by Ubisoft, and a lot of that class was sponsored by Microsoft, I have no idea who actually holds the IP so I've been trying to research down those rabbit holes but no luck. Considering it's history I'll also bet a selling point of the software was a physics engine.
Puzzle game in video Videogame
So, I was watching a youtube video of a tournament where they competitors play random games. The last game for this particular video has a puzzle game with colored mice that the commentators didn't seem to know. (Beginning at 1:06:42) Does anyone know what it's called?
Pixeline Videogame
Played the first two games in the series as a kid. A cherry, feminine little girl with (in the Norwegian dub, at least) weird voice teaches kids about stuff in various screens and games. Also remember some of the songs (especially the bicycle one from the second game). An edutainment game series from the mid-90's from Denmark, similar to the edutainment games from America.