Questions tagged [video-games]
For questions about the plot or backstory of a game with science-fiction/fantasy elements. Questions about playing the game or the mechanics are off-topic here, but may be on topic at Arqade (https://gaming.stackexchange.com/). Use to either identify the media on a [story-identification] question or disambiguate works where the tag covers the game and its form in other media.
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Looking for an old game in which a fat man bullies a slim man [closed]
There was a game in 1900s or 2000s in which a fat man bullies a slim man. The slim man takes revenge by planning against the fatty man through strategizing
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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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What caused King Shark to turn on his teammates with the Green Lantern ring in "Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League"?
In the video game Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, there is a scene where King Shark temporarily becomes a Green Lantern and manages to use his Green Lantern ring to create a huge shark-shaped ...
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Is there any explanation of what the one- and two-headed monster statues at the entrances to Kraid's and Ridley's hideouts represent?
In the Metroid games taking place on Zebes, the entrances to the "hideouts" of the minibosses Kraid and Ridley are often decorated with monstrous heads—a single-headed, blue monster at Kraid'...
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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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