Help me find a table-top sliding tile game from the 70s involving connecting "pipes."
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posted by rleamon
on Apr 29, 2009 -
8 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
What are some suggestions for coordinating a "dating game" or fun "speed dating" activity at an outdoor camping event this weekend? The general intent of the activity is to laugh, get people more familiar and comfortable with each other (platonically or romantically), and maybe even make some matches. Attendees will be grown women and men of assorted social persuasions.
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posted by anonymous
on Apr 27, 2009 -
5 answers
Trying to find a certain monochromatic 3D / isometric puzzle game I saw a video of once...
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posted by TheTorns
on Apr 12, 2009 -
3 answers
I need a simple Easter game that my whole family can play. The winner needs to be determined quickly. Any ideas?
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posted by banished
on Apr 10, 2009 -
17 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...
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posted by hrbrmstr
on Mar 23, 2009 -
11 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
My son and I love playing in the cars on Lego Batman: The Video Game (Wii). What other "vehicle toy" games are there?
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posted by BaxterG4
on Mar 17, 2009 -
13 answers
Back in the 80's I played a text based college basketball game on the PC. Anyone remember it?
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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.
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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?
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posted by team lowkey
on Feb 27, 2009 -
7 answers
Help me remember the name of a game/puzzle from the early '70s that featured dice-sized clear acrylic cubes.
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posted by DandyRandy
on Feb 27, 2009 -
6 answers
MacGameFilter: Please help me find a new action/adventure game to play on my iMac.
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posted by jammy
on Feb 26, 2009 -
12 answers
A friend really wants me to get into World of Warcraft with him. My wife has graciously agreed. I know little to none about the game, never played an MMO before (RPG, yes, MMO, no). My friend plays Hoard characters. As a rank amateur, what do I need to know? Give me the works...
posted by Spyder's Game
on Feb 26, 2009 -
29 answers
Does this book exist or did I imagine it? It was a book of fiction about a 20(30?)-something loser who's working on an obsessive (and as yet unpublished) encyclopedia of every arcade game ever made, or something similar...
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posted by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
on Feb 22, 2009 -
3 answers
How do I get tickets to see a live taping of a Japanese game show? My husband and I will be in Tokyo in April. The stranger the show and its premise, the better.
posted by babysingsing
on Feb 5, 2009 -
5 answers
I'm looking for a very specific sort of game for the iPhone: one that (a) takes almost no conscious brain power and (b) doesn't interfere with my iTunes music. I want a game I can play while listening to iTunes.
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posted by grumblebee
on Jan 31, 2009 -
28 answers
SciFiFilter: I'm not usually a fan of SciFi, and yet I loved Ender's Game. Where to next?
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posted by jeffderek
on Jan 26, 2009 -
44 answers
My favorite part of Rock Band is creating different characters and choosing crazy outfits, face paint, and tattoos. Are there any games that have very detailed character creation? How about any that focus solely on the character creation?
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posted by agropyron
on Jan 19, 2009 -
27 answers
I'm looking for the name of a Commodore 64 game (although it might have been a vic-20 game.) The player character was a little green blob with legs and no arms (as I remember it).
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posted by the_W
on Jan 17, 2009 -
6 answers
Idle nostalgic curiosity is driving me crazy - looking for at least the name (at best, a working version) of a late 80s/early 90s DOS (not arcade) 2-d ninja game - very simple, and the most notable characteristic is that the entire game was in uber-simple orange-red-green VGA palette colors against a black background.
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posted by ab3
on Jan 16, 2009 -
13 answers
What's the significance of the watermelons? In the game Half-Life 2 there's an abundance of watermelons in some of the levels. How come?
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posted by Rabarberofficer
on Jan 16, 2009 -
23 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.
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posted by greycap
on Jan 12, 2009 -
6 answers
If someone wanted to start out playing the Pokemon trading card game with their 7 year old kid, what is the minimal optimal current per-person set of purchases required to be able to have an interesting and enjoyable time?
posted by felix
on Jan 2, 2009 -
7 answers
SO... what good cards have been released for Magic: the Gathering since ~Ravnica Block? Have not really played in a while, nor kept track of the cards, need a sort of briefing on the state of magic.
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posted by JoeXIII007
on Jan 1, 2009 -
4 answers
My father used to play a two-player game with us when we were little where he would make a pyramid with matches and then each player would take away two matches at a time until there were none left. The last person to take away two matches won. He cannot remember the name or rules. Is anyone familiar with this game. It seems to be a two-person version of the old-fashioned peg-pyramid game.
posted by earlygrrl
on Dec 30, 2008 -
6 answers
What do I do with thousands upon thousands of collectible trading card game cards? (Mostly from the Star Trek TCG.)
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posted by lou
on Dec 28, 2008 -
4 answers
So I played Professor Layton and the Curious Village on DS and I think it's one of the funnest game on the system.
Which other game is similar, for older system that can be emulated, or maybe even a website with a good collection of puzzles?
Hook me up! I need to satisfy my puzzle solving urges.
Thanks!
posted by PowerCat
on Dec 27, 2008 -
6 answers
I loved Legend of Zelda on the SNES. I loved Secret of Mana on the SNES. What other RPG's for the SNES might I like?
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posted by Solomon
on Dec 27, 2008 -
31 answers
Is there a Sega Genesis emulator that runs on Mac OSX and supports Game Genie cheat codes?
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posted by paulrockNJ
on Dec 23, 2008 -
1 answer
Nostalgia has left me attmepting to rediscover a series of online point-and-click adventure games I played when I was younger. Its basic premise was a spoof on Sherlock Holmes and Watson, and you solved murder mysteries in Victorian era England. Anyone remember anything?
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posted by Rocky Dennis Memorial Inner Beauty Pageant
on Dec 19, 2008 -
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I'm trying to remember a DOS game I used to play. It was an adventure type game where each level you had a task to complete in a dungeons-and-dragons type setting, so mages, archers, skeletons, that sort of thing.
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posted by fvw
on Dec 17, 2008 -
21 answers
what is the name of an early first-person shooter where in one stage you must race against the clock and a good way to save time is by crossing a huge grass field, only, when you cross it you get killed by a huge serpent monster?
posted by mnnrm
on Dec 14, 2008 -
9 answers
Childhood BookFilter: A sci-fi choose-your-own adventure book with snippets of BASIC code that would be a complete game in the end.
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posted by pravit
on Dec 12, 2008 -
7 answers
I've finally convinced myself that it's time to get Civilization IV, but after reading some reviews I'm worried about the lag/crashing problem (although even the reviewers that complain about the lag still seem to love the game). I've read
this question and
this question, but was wondering if anyone has more recent info - new patches, newer Macbook eliminates the issue?
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posted by spinturtle
on Dec 1, 2008 -
11 answers
Last Xmas I bought my sister a DS Lite. She got it mostly for Brain Training and loves puzzle games, but hates all others (she gave away the platform games I got her her). Any personal recommendations for a nice game I can get her this year that isn't Brain Training 2? Maybe a compilation of good high quality puzzles? If it helps, she's 40 yo, so not a kid.
posted by deeper red
on Dec 1, 2008 -
24 answers
