Recommendations for "let's play videogame X" videos? [more inside]
posted by Baldons on Nov 21, 2009 - 11 answers

Seeking old jigsaw type puzzle from my childhood. Possibly Mad magazine related, or drawn by Al Jaffee... slim details inside. [more inside]
posted by routergirl on Nov 16, 2009 - 6 answers

How to simultaneously exchange information? [more inside]
posted by deadweightloss on Oct 26, 2009 - 40 answers

Help me identify an older mac shoot-em-up with procedurally generated levels. [more inside]
posted by metacollin on Oct 10, 2009 - 4 answers

Identify this game. I played it in the late 90s on the PC or the Amiga. It was an isometric puzzle/action/adventure game set in the future in a tall skyscraper where all the robots (cleaning bots, security bots etc.) had suddenly gone crazy. [more inside]
posted by gentle on Sep 26, 2009 - 4 answers

Best (association) football game for the xbox 360? [more inside]
posted by pompomtom on Sep 10, 2009 - 6 answers

Recommendations for an obsolete video game system for a 5-year-old [more inside]
posted by notcomputersavvy06 on Aug 24, 2009 - 24 answers

I'm trying to remember a game I played a few months ago that I can't find. It involved loading up the game within websites of your choosing, then running around as a stick figure who rescued other figures from monsters that circled the page. [more inside]
posted by Shesthefastest on Aug 20, 2009 - 3 answers

Old-mac-game-filter: please help me rediscover an odd shareware game that I once played on the classic mac platform! [more inside]
posted by jordanlewis on Aug 20, 2009 - 3 answers

Help me find the perfect videogame for my boyfriend. [more inside]
posted by cobain_angel on Aug 18, 2009 - 39 answers

I'm trying to find a game I played when I was younger. It was on the PSX (I believe), and consisted of switching between different animal bodies to navigate the world. The graphics were cartoonish, and you were a "soul." When you weren't inside a body you looked like a black spider, and if you stayed out too long you would die. [more inside]
posted by biochemist on Aug 11, 2009 - 3 answers

Help me remember the name of the classic, meditative OSX game, where you float from level to level of black space through a swirl of coloured shapes to soothing gamelan-ish sounds, trying to catch stars in order to reach the next level? [more inside]
posted by progosk on Aug 2, 2009 - 2 answers

Name-That-Game Filter: Trying to remember the name of a late 80s/early 90s black & white "adventure" game. Involved outer space. [more inside]
posted by Nelsormensch on Jul 14, 2009 - 7 answers

(Vistafilter) Cannot full screen with dual monitors [more inside]
posted by fearnothing on Jun 23, 2009 - 4 answers

Looking for a flash game from a few years ago that was a kind of top-down view of battles, where you set your army up in formation at one side of a grid, and command them to do different tasks. The enemy is at the other side of the grid. IIRC it was medieval-esque, but possibly as you progressed through the game, you might have traveled forward through time as well. [more inside]
posted by Petrot on May 20, 2009 - 12 answers

What is the video game theme played at 0:43 (during the spy hunter bit) of this video? Only plays for five seconds until. I know I played this game endlessly as but I cannot remember what it was and it is driving me insane right now.
posted by neustile on Apr 29, 2009 - 4 answers

Trying to find a certain monochromatic 3D / isometric puzzle game I saw a video of once... [more inside]
posted by TheTorns on Apr 12, 2009 - 3 answers

I'm trying to figure out the name of a table top game we played as kids with just pencil & paper and involves cannons, tanks and soldiers... [more inside]
posted by hrbrmstr on Mar 23, 2009 - 11 answers

Help us get through the "Great Escape" level of Rolando! [more inside]
posted by AmbroseChapel on Mar 23, 2009 - 3 answers

Help me identify a toy! Around 1980 (in the northeastern United States) there was a line of small games contained within sealed plastic boxes approximately five inches long, two and half across, and perhaps half an inch thick (13 x 6 x 1cm, about the size of a pocket calculator back then). Many contained one or more small steel balls. Some, with flippers, took the form of a pinball or basketball game. Others were mazes or other puzzles. Some contained plastic beads floating in fluid. Some involved magnets. I had a bunch of these at one point but I cannot remember who made them or what they were called.
posted by Songdog on Mar 18, 2009 - 11 answers

Back in the 80's I played a text based college basketball game on the PC. Anyone remember it? [more inside]
posted by unceman on Mar 17, 2009 - 3 answers

In the movie version of The Handmaid's Tale, Richardson and Duvall play an aggressive card game against each other that involves slapping cards down in a common pile. [more inside]
posted by CarlRossi on Mar 7, 2009 - 6 answers

Is there a program that will take an already solved sudoku and create a medium difficulty unsolved puzzle? [more inside]
posted by team lowkey on Feb 27, 2009 - 7 answers

Help name the first computer game I ever played. In preschool. Circa 1985. A few sketchy memories inside. [more inside]
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur on Feb 2, 2009 - 4 answers

Trying to remember the name of an old mac computer game: Like chess, but the board could be set up differently, with blank spaces around which pieces had to move . Pieces moved like both checkers and chess. Some of them were "magical" -- could teleport to other spaces or serve as a wall. Certain spaces on the board were also magical -- destroying pieces, etc. Any ideas? Thanks.
posted by gb77 on Jan 15, 2009 - 9 answers

I'm trying to remember the title of a space combat and exploration shareware game for the PC from the early 1990s. [more inside]
posted by greycap on Jan 12, 2009 - 6 answers

Is anyone doing real-time emotion detection in video games? [more inside]
posted by By The Grace of God on Nov 16, 2008 - 10 answers

What is the name of this search engine game? [more inside]
posted by abirae on Oct 22, 2008 - 8 answers

What is this old computer game that was a top-down open space shooter? Note: I am fairly confident it is not Escape Velocity. [more inside]
posted by stresstwig on Oct 21, 2008 - 6 answers

Need help getting a handle on the many options for a self-arranged trip in Kruger National Park, South Africa. [more inside]
posted by Mngo on Oct 13, 2008 - 5 answers

I'm trying to remember a PC game I played about 15 years ago. What I remember is an interface like Breakout or Pong with some logical puzzles to be completed with the ball going back and forth and passing over items that would then change states. The only puzzle I remember was entitled "Get Your Ducks In A Row" that involved just that, getting an array of ducks in a row. Does anyone remember this game? I'm in a bit of an abandonware mode right now, and would love to play it again.
posted by avocet on Aug 22, 2008 - 3 answers

Who was that girl sitting next to Jack Nicholson at last nights Laker game (game 3)? [more inside]
posted by Plug1 on Jun 11, 2008 - 12 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 by fiercecupcake on Dec 5, 2007 - 17 answers

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

Help me find an article that appeared in Rolling Stone magazine a few years ago (maybe 2004?) about a special and very exclusive "game." It was an annual adventure game where participants paid the entry fee (maybe $10K) and went from place to place looking for clues that would lead to the next location. [more inside]
posted by jroybal on Jul 28, 2007 - 7 answers

Back in my OS 9 days, I played a game in which you controlled a factory. Raw materials would come out of a pipe somewhere, and you had to control the conveyor belts, chutes, and other machines in the factory to make a certain quota of items by the end of the day. Incorrectly made items, of course, were deducted from your score. Can anyone else remember this game, and (even better) tell me where to find it?
posted by Johnny Assay on Jun 25, 2006 - 8 answers

I'm trying to remember an old PC game, but the details that I can remember are rather vague. [more inside]
posted by Lotto on Nov 7, 2005 - 18 answers

ObscureMacGameFilter: when I was in college, I spent too much time playing an old Mac game with a somewhat... unique ending. I've forgotten the title — can Mefi help? [more, including spoilers for the ending, inside] [more inside]
posted by Johnny Assay on Feb 12, 2005 - 4 answers

I'm looking for a certain java game. [mi] [more inside]
posted by punishinglemur on May 11, 2004 - 2 answers