Does anyone know if there's anything like a re-make, or any game that's very similar in gameplay/mechanics to SimEarth? [more inside]
posted on May 13, 2008 - 5 answers

What's the name of that guy who does videos of game reviews; whose visuals are made entirely of stick cartoons, and who is hilariously funny? [more inside]
posted on May 10, 2008 - 6 answers

Are there any good online resources for "Mystery Object" games? [more inside]
posted on May 9, 2008 - 5 answers

i am searching for a video game console repair preferably in or around ephrata/denver (pennsylvannia)area but within lancaster will do (specificly repair for a nintendo wii) [more inside]
posted on May 5, 2008 - 9 answers

Where can I get a set of loteria cards in Toronto?
posted on May 4, 2008 - 4 answers

Help me remember this game and find something similar. [more inside]
posted on Apr 28, 2008 - 5 answers

When playing games with my friends, I tend to get very competitive and bitter. In that moment of frustration, what are some things I can tell myself so I calm down? [more inside]
posted on Apr 22, 2008 - 26 answers

OldArcadeGameFilter: I'm trying to find a video/arcade game that my mom used to love back in the mid-1980s. [more inside]
posted on Apr 18, 2008 - 9 answers

Help me find this NPR story about making movies from video game footage. [more inside]
posted on Apr 16, 2008 - 7 answers

Please help me determine the best software (windows) for an interactive video/video game art project. I'd like to have participants use a video game controller to create a realtime animation by cycling through different sprites and "drawing" their paths on a single scene. Or better yet - where can I find someone skilled in programming who might want to collaborate on such a project? I can't seem to determine whether to look at game-construction apps or interactive video apps (vvvv, Processing, etc.) [more inside]
posted on Apr 14, 2008 - 3 answers

What is the game these people are playing in this parody video? http://bayimg.com/IAJocAaBe
posted on Apr 2, 2008 - 7 answers

I'm looking for narratives (books, movies, games) in which the protagonist is dead, dying or unconscious, and discovers they are not in the 'real' world at all, but Hell, heaven, purgatory, a coma, a nightmare, memory, or similar. Examples which contain spoilers below the fold. [more inside]
posted on Mar 28, 2008 - 63 answers

I'm trying to remember an early-mid 90s puzzle game for the Macintosh that was possibly published by Disney (or an offshoot). [more inside]
posted on Mar 25, 2008 - 2 answers

Please recommend some 2D RPG's I can play on my PC. [more inside]
posted on Mar 22, 2008 - 12 answers

What happened to Majestic? I mean, I know it ended, but HOW? [more inside]
posted on Mar 17, 2008 - 7 answers

I'm writing a little shareware game for Mac/Win/Linux. But I have no idea how to promote it apart from putting it on Download.com and del.icio.us. How do I get people to notice it? [more inside]
posted on Mar 13, 2008 - 9 answers

The Mrs. and I are hosting "game night" for our Church group Friday. We need help figuring out what to play. [more inside]
posted on Mar 11, 2008 - 20 answers

I'm searching for little games playable over a network. Little games as Tetrinet,, so if it's over 30 MB, it's way over the charts. So what do you suggest?
posted on Mar 10, 2008 - 5 answers

I'm trying to find an old computer game that we used to play in school (probably around late 80s). It was a text based RPG with puzzles and magical items. [more inside]
posted on Mar 5, 2008 - 14 answers

Is there a name for people who, for ethical or environmental reasons, will only eat meat if they have hunted it themselves? Do significant numbers of these people exist? Do they have web sites?
posted on Mar 5, 2008 - 13 answers

Asking this on behalf of a friend of mine: can you help him out with a quiz that will give him an accurate description of how someone will stand on a DNG/SA scale that he's created--where DNG stands for Dork, Nerd, Geek, and SA stands for Socially Acceptable? (Bear with me for a second, will you?) [more inside]
posted on Feb 28, 2008 - 18 answers

What is the perfect wii (or maybe ps2) game to play with my lady? [more inside]
posted on Feb 28, 2008 - 38 answers

I'm looking for a free web-based Flash game that I used to play. You're a miner in a cave, throwing pickaxes at colored blocks that advance towards you. You get points for hitting groups of blocks that are the same color, which also removes them and makes the blocks above them drop down.
posted on Feb 27, 2008 - 3 answers

wiiFilter: Where can i find a Wii in Dallas today?? BTW..Dont want to use craigslist.
posted on Feb 22, 2008 - 14 answers

Board game filter: What's a good strategic board game for 3-4 players with moderate attention spans? [more inside]
posted on Feb 19, 2008 - 39 answers

I am trying to prototype my own board/card game. I need a way to design a card format onto 4" x 6" and 3" x 3" spaces. Something like the software CCG maker but different sizes and not Magic specific. [more inside]
posted on Feb 17, 2008 - 9 answers

I'm trying to find a keychain game that I once played as a kid. [more inside]
posted on Feb 9, 2008 - 1 answers

Game Design: In an MMO, how do you build an economy that will 'balance' itself? Obviously, having solid inputs and outputs are one thing, and balancing those inputs with the demand for the item, but what other things need to be taken into account? [more inside]
posted on Feb 9, 2008 - 23 answers

I'm looking for a XP-friendly version of the old "virus war" games. [more inside]
posted on Feb 9, 2008 - 10 answers

When I was very young, my family had a TI 99/4A home computer. One of the games we had on it was this version of football. I need to find something like it. [more inside]
posted on Feb 6, 2008 - 5 answers

Help me use game theory to better understand the seemingly irrational behavior at my workplace [more inside]
posted on Jan 30, 2008 - 16 answers

Help me remember how to play A-Train! I downloaded FreeTrain, but don't remember how to play it.
posted on Jan 18, 2008 - 3 answers

What video games feature Los Angeles as the setting? [more inside]
posted on Jan 13, 2008 - 14 answers

Can you help my sister & me identify this half-remembered DOS game? [more inside]
posted on Jan 6, 2008 - 14 answers

Where is the best resource that will clearly explain the differences between all the different XBox 360's? What comes with all the bundles and packages and what doesn't. Elite, Pro, Arcade, Holiday bundle. what does it all mean?
posted on Dec 21, 2007 - 7 answers

Illustrator CS3 Filter: Process recommendations for a novice Adobe Illustrator user on building/using a "tile-set" (like you'd see in a 2d video-game) in AICS3... [more inside]
posted on Dec 19, 2007 - 6 answers

Suggestion for a Real-time strategy game to play with my GF [more inside]
posted on Dec 17, 2007 - 19 answers

Help me shoot my wife: suggest a first-person shooter we can play against each other. I'm on a Mac (pentium macbook pro); She's on a PC (about four years old, without the latest and greatest graphics card). We have a home network. [more inside]
posted on Dec 13, 2007 - 27 answers

Name that Apple //e edutainment software (Troll gems? Driving? Townhouses? Looking stuff up?) [more inside]
posted on Dec 12, 2007 - 9 answers

Recommend Flash (or otherwise web-based games) suitable for an 8 year old autistic (and ADHD and developmentally delayed) boy? Needs to run on public library computers with 'net access. [more inside]
posted on Dec 9, 2007 - 9 answers

I'm a social psychologist looking for some advice about where to find a programmer to write what would basically be a very simple flash-type game. The game itself would require some simple user-interactiveness (e.g. selecting options), a fairly low level of graphics (maybe not stick figures, but nothing too artsy), and the ability to collect and store user data. Any suggestions? [more inside]
posted on Dec 5, 2007 - 5 answers

What is the best way to transport a an arcade game cabinet (Ms. Pac-Man, if you must know) across town and then up the stairs? [more inside]
posted on Dec 5, 2007 - 16 answers

Can Microsoft put anything negative on my credit history if I owe them $8.30 for a month of unpaid Xbox Live Gold membership? [more inside]
posted on Nov 30, 2007 - 15 answers

I want to say I played this game around age 12 or 13, so that would be right around 1990 or so. It was a computer game where you played a character in charge of a group of people who are sent back through time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. [more inside]
posted on Nov 27, 2007 - 4 answers

What board game would my friends and I enjoy next? [more inside]
posted on Nov 21, 2007 - 62 answers

Help me remember that arcade-game-name filter... [more inside]
posted on Nov 14, 2007 - 12 answers

Does anyone know where I can find a Tron arcade game to play in the Chicago area? I know about MAME, but it's not the same without the stick, dial, etc. I watched the movie the other night and I must play the game.
posted on Nov 8, 2007 - 12 answers

Help me find an old computer game. [more inside]
posted on Nov 8, 2007 - 11 answers

Playing this game makes my eyes see things differently afterward. What's the cause? [more inside]
posted on Oct 28, 2007 - 7 answers

is there a book on the mathematics of chess? [more inside]
posted on Oct 18, 2007 - 6 answers