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MoeDantes

You could take your trolling to TV Tropes. They love trolls.

Anyway, new quiz! See if you can ID these games, folks. And remember, no Googling!

GAME 1 - "I always wanted a thing called tuna sashimi!" Glowsquid got this one.

GAME 2 - He dances, throws stars from his boots, saves kids, and if you catch a falling star he becomes a giant laser-shooting robot. Noimporta got this one.

GAME 3 - You're, like, this gnarly kid whose being trained in magic and, like, one day these demons come and try to take over the world and it's totally not cool. Luckily you've got all these bodacious powers including three Henshin transformations. Oh, and there are cutscenes between each level. That's like radical or something, right? Trigger_Loaded got this one!

GAME 4 - Lighthearted side-scrolling levels with a currency/shopping mechanic... and then you get the Nova suit, and the game becomes a dark, mechanical-themed platformer. Glowsquid got this one too.

GAME 5 - Despite this game's title being an amalgamation of the titles of two arcade games, it has nothing to do with either of them. In case that description is too vague, here's a hint that basically gives it away: The Angry Video Game Nerd has reviewed this one. Abyss_Worm figured this one out.

Glowsquid

GAME 1 - "I always wanted a thing called tuna sashimi!"

Darius II.

Lighthearted side-scrolling levels with a currency/shopping mechanic... and then you get the Nova suit, and the game becomes a dark, mechanical-themed platformer.

Keith Courage in Alpha Zone?

Noimporta

He dances, throws stars from his boots, saves kids, and if you catch a falling star he becomes a giant laser-shooting robot.

Moonwalker

RedEyedAbyss

"Despite this game's title being an amalgamation of the titles of two arcade games, it has nothing to do with either of them."

Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight

Schitzo

GAME 3 - You're, like, this gnarly kid whose being trained in magic
and, like, one day these demons come and try to take over the world and
it's totally not cool. Luckily you've got all these bodacious powers
including three Henshin transformations. Oh, and there are cutscenes
between each level. That's like radical or something, right?

... Magician Lord?

MoeDantes

All righty! So the only one that hasn't been guessed is Game 3.

Schitzo

Ugh... Senkoku 1 and 2?

Glowsquid

making one because I'm really bored:

VIDCON 1: A redhead and a guy who looks like MC Hammer way too much beats up mutants in a devastated city. The game was made by a popular developer of fighting games and inspired the main character of one of its mainstay series.

VIDCON 2: A busty scientist is strapped to a nuclear missile by her perveted assistant and sent to eradicate the source of a worldwide epidemic. Share its name (or part of it, depending on the region) with a metal band. Trigger_Loaded got it.

VIDCON 3: You play as some astronaut with a jetpack infiltrating the space station of some alien race with a ridiculous name. Its home port starred Capcom's first mascot. Moe Dantes guessed right.

VIDCON 4: The female gender has been mostly eradicated by an unknow virus except, conveniently enough, your fiancee. Are you sweet dude enough to form a militia and roam the post-apocalyptic U.S to rescue her?

VIDCON 5: An elite jet pilot team is formed after a terrorist group managed to melt the polar cap. The last instalment of an oddball shmup series and significantly strayed from its formula.

MoeDantes

VIDCON 3: You play as some astronaut with a jetpack infiltrating the space station of some alien race with a ridiculous name. Its home port starred Capcom's first mascot.

Section Z.

The others feel like I should know them but they're escaping me at the moment.

Trigger_Loaded

Hot damn, this is what I was made for...

Too bad a few of these were already guessed at. I wanted to fangasm over Commander Keen. He's the grandson of B.J. Blaskowitz from Wolfenstein, you know. Also wanted to talk about Bad Street Brawler. One of my favourite bad games.

A space combat game where every level starts out as a space combat sim where you go around to different planets for fuel and weapons and have to defeat all the enemy ships in the sector. Once you do that a new planet opens, and when you dock here the game turns into a side-view shmup. Additional hint: it's an NES game

Hmm.... Sounds like Solar Jetman, but from the playthrough I saw with Deceased Crab, it doesn'ts seem quite right.

4. NES: A drunk duck wanders through a mysterious world to find his companions, free them from brainwashing, and defeat a bunch of bosses that look vaguely alike, by throwing heads at them.  (Bonus hint: This is a metroidvania.)

Ufouria?

Oh, and for a little quizzy game thingie.... I've only EVER once in my life cried at something in a game. 
All sorts of bonus points to anyone who can identify it (by guessing, probably).

Rei's death in Phantasy Star 2? Or when the father kills his own daughter and kills himself in grief?

Anyone remember Raptor: Call of the Shadows, or Descent II?

I do remember Raptor. Only played the Shareware, but it was quite a bit of fun. Good shoot-em-up, and all sorts of fun toys to purchase.

I've played a bit of the original Descent, but not Descent 2. Man, even the first boss was murder.

GAME 3 - You're, like, this gnarly kid whose being trained in magic and, like, one day these demons come and try to take over the world and it's totally not cool. Luckily you've got all these bodacious powers including three Henshin transformations. Oh, and there are cutscenes between each level. That's like radical or something, right?

Dude! That's, like, Totally Rad! Bodacious!

What's fun is that the Japanese version was a completely humdrum platformer called Magic John.

VIDCON 2: A busty scientist is strapped to a nuclear missile by her perveted assistant and sent to eradicate the source of a worldwide epidemic. Share its name (or part of it, depending on the region) with a metal band.

Machine Head.

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Here's some of the remaining questions from previous pages/posts...

MoeDantes:

A top-view RPG where the screens flip instead of just scrolling. Has day and night cycles and your character has limits on how much he can carry--this raises as you level up. The intro has the words "arise young hero. What this land will lose, you will recover." Additional hint: It's a suprisingly good sequel to a notoriously bad game.

Codename:

2. This game is a sequel to another game made by a different company. The original version is touted as a very hard game, and has three characters to play as (all from the previous game, but only one of which was playable in that game). The bosses are either very huge or normal-sized, including a largeminecrawler, a giant purple alien, a brainiac alien with a clone of one of your characters, and others. Ultra Hint: The final boss is named from a character from Peewee's Playhouse.

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My turn, my turn!

1) Play a fresh new superhero, and struggle to get enough popularity to be acknowledged by the locals. Fight sexy ninjas, dapper gents, Egyptian reliefs, and mutant rats. Escape from deathtraps for extra lives.

MoeDantes Guessed Correctly. Nightshade

2) Climb a tower, kill Satan, climb the tower again, kill God.

2.5) The sequel. Climb a tower. Kill all the gods. Make a new god, then go down into the tower's basement to fix it.

MoeDantes Guessed Correctly. Final Fantasy Legend I and II

3) Hop in your Giant Robot suit and reverse gravity while blowing up robots.

Codename M308 Guessed Correctly. Metal Storm

Codename_M308

3) Hop in your Giant Robot suit and reverse gravity while blowing up robots.

Metal Storm.

Forzare

2)

Ghosts'n Goblins?

Kinkajou

Speaking of old games I'm playing Settlers 3 now.

glennmagusharvey

U-four-ia / Hebereke has been guessed!!!

glennmagusharvey

From my list, the only one that remains is this:

5. GB: Prevent others from stealing your girlfriend/boyfriend
by...creating a contiguous single color path between you and them.  Or
something.  You start off with a checkerboard and pan rows and columns
up or down, and your opponents do the same thing.

MoeDantes

Okay Trgger_loaded, you need some special commendations!

But first:

1) Play a fresh new superhero, and struggle to get enough popularity to be acknowledged by the locals. Fight sexy ninjas, dapper gents, Egyptian reliefs, and mutant rats. Escape from deathtraps for extra lives.

Dude! Nightshade!

2) Climb a tower, kill Satan, climb the tower again, kill God.
2.5) The sequel. Climb a tower. Kill all the gods. Make a new god, then go down into the tower's basement to fix it.

I'm guessing The Tower of Druaga.

Also, for the sake of convenience I'm going to relist all the unguessed games from my own previous lists:

1. A space combat game where every level starts out as a space combat sim where you go around to different planets for fuel and weapons and have to defeat all the enemy ships in the sector. Once you do that a new planet opens, and when you dock here the game turns into a side-view shmup. Additional hint: it's an NES game

2. A top-view RPG where the screens flip instead of just scrolling. Has day and night cycles and your character has limits on how much he can carry--this raises as you level up. The intro has the words "arise young hero. What this land will lose, you will recover." Additional hint: It's a suprisingly good sequel to a notoriously bad game. Trigger_Loaded got this one.

glennmagusharvey

GMH9. A shmup where you get a starmap, but that only indicates the sets of levels you go through, connected by straight lines.  Each planet is a set of a four levels; in three of them you duel an enemy spacecraft while firing around obstacles, and in the fourth you fight a boss (which may come in multiple units).

Trigger_Loaded

Yep, Moe, you got Nightshade correct.

Sorry, my second game isn't Tower of Druaga, or Ghosts 'N Goblins. Here's a hint: Both games are Game Boy games.

I'm guessing Solar Jetman wasn't the correct answer for that one game, then. Darn, it sounds a whole lot like it...

MoeDantes, for that second game... I didn't google the phrase, but I did quickly check the game itself... Would it be, perhaps, Hydlide 2: Shine of Darkness? Maybe even Hydlide 3: The Space Memories? (Apparently that's how it translates...)

MoeDantes

Whoa. Yes, it's Hydlide 3: The Space Memories (or, as it's known in the states, Super Hydlide).

Since you used the Japanese title... you have access to an MSX Computer? Or you're using an Emulator?

For your mystery Gameboy game about god-killing, the only other games I can think that fit that criteria are The Final Fantasy Legend 1 and 2 (aka SaGa something or other)

Nyarly

Sorry, my second game isn't Tower of Druaga, or Ghosts 'N Goblins.
Here's a hint: Both games are Game Boy games.

With that, I would guess SaGa/FFL too, but the only thing I really know is that god is final boss in the first game.

Trigger_Loaded

Since you used the Japanese title... you have access to an MSX Computer? Or you're using an Emulator?

Sadly, no. Never played any of the games. I just made the connection reading the description of top-down RPG and notoriously bad game with sequels. And then I quickly checked on GameFAQs if Hydlide had a sequel.

For your mystery Gameboy game about god-killing, the only other games I can think that fit that criteria are The Final Fantasy Legend 1 and 2 (aka SaGa something or other)

With that, I would guess SaGa/FFL too, but the only thing I really know is that god is final boss in the first game.

Ding, ding, we have a winner! Sorry, Nyarly, but Moe beat you to the punch.

Yes, The Final Fantasy Legend, or the SaGa series. In the first game, you climb the World Tower, and at the top you fight Ashura, who is pretty much the Satan Analogue of this world. Then you're sent back down to the bottom to climb it again, and there you kill the Creator. So, yeah, God.

The second game you repeat the process, climbing the tower. Here, though, you kill multiple gods on your way up, pretty much wiping out the entire Pantheon. Then, at the top, you make a new god, and then you have to go back down into the tower's basement to stop the whole things from blowing up.

glennmagusharvey

GMH10. (1) dig holes. (2) wait for aliens to walk into them. (3) bury aliens.  HEIANKYO ALIEN

GMHB1. (bonus!) Windows, freeware: The barrier between life and death, and crossing this barrier...are now gameplay features.

GMH11. You are a walking bridge.  Your friend is an idiotic Kirby-looking creature that crosses every bridge it comes to--even if the bridge is broken, teleports its passengers, reverses them, or even contains death.  you must guide said friend home by positioning (and locking in) yourself at appropriate locations, so that it doesn't meet its doom instead of its home.

Icalasari

GMHB1: Why the hell do I want to say one of the versions of excel's easter egg?

Trigger_Loaded

GMH10. (1) dig holes. (2) wait for aliens to walk into them. (3) bury aliens.

Also just saw a LP of this by Deceased Crab. Heiankyo Alien.

GMH11. You are a walking bridge.  Your friend is an idiotic Kirby-looking creature that crosses every bridge it comes to--even if the bridge is broken, teleports its passengers, reverses them, or even contains death.  you must guide said friend home by positioning (and locking in) yourself at appropriate locations, so that it doesn't meet its doom instead of its home.

Reminds me of Lemmings... But doesn't sound like any particular game I've played, or heard about.

glennmagusharvey

Yes, it's Heiankyo Alien.  Stupid little game.

No, it's not Lemmings.

IanExMachina

IXM1: You sometimes ride a motorbike, rock paper scissors also features quite primarily. Nyarly gets it.

IXM2: Where Bulletstorm got their laser grapple idea from. A game for Sadists.

nohaynicklibre

Beat'm'up set in a future where somehow dinosaurs exist. Has the best driving level in history

Nyarly

IXM1: You sometimes ride a motorbike, rock paper scissors also features
quite primarily.

Alex Kidd in Miracle World. That or it's Mega Drive sequel.

Strangely enough, despite Miracle World being more popular, I never owned it (I had a MS with Sonic instead of Alex Kidd built-in), even though I had Alex Kidd in Shinobi World.

IanExMachina

^

Yup Alex Kidd in Miracle World, it was programmed into the Master System I had by default.

Trigger_Loaded

Beat'm'up set in a future where somehow dinosaurs exist. Has the best driving level in history

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs?