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Wario Land 4

Wario Land Advance: Yooki no Otakara

Wario Land Advance

Single player

Puzzle

Adventure

ghosts

anime

minigames

egyptian

flight

time limit

multiple endings

blocks

portals

pixel art

sequel

mad scientist

high score

swimming

boss fight

digital distribution

transformations

male protagonists

countdown timer

transforming boss

collectibles

virtual console

sprinting mechanics

ice stage

treasure chest

melee

unbeatable enemies

female antagonist

moving platforms

sequence breaking

minions

anti-hero

pinball stage

disorientation

domino

unskippable cutscene

sliding down ladders

super strength

book adaptation

overweight character

platform

nintendo 3ds ambassador program

wii u virtual console

Game Boy Advance

Nintendo 3DS

Wii U

Side view

Wario's back for more...and more...and MORE!

Hey! You! Yeah, you! Listen up when Wario's talking to you! I just read about this legendary Pyramid of Gold, and you're gonna help me go explore it. There's lots of treasure in there for the taking, and I want it all. I'm sure there are gonna be all kinds of weird enemies and big, bad bosses in there, so if you don't think you can hack it, put the game down now. I don't want any losers making me jump into bottomless pits, you hear me?

-Wario invades the Game Boy Advance! See Wario in all his greedy glory as he explores vivid worlds made possible by the power of the GBA!
-Flex your muscles! Wario is no longer immortal, so you'll have your work cut out as you roll, punch and jump your way to tougher and tougher challenges. Wario will get stung by bees, zombified, bitten by bats, set on fire, and much more - what a way to make a living!
-Over twenty enormous stages await! Hunt down CDs for your listening pleasure, or collect treasure to spend on all-new items that you can use against the most bizarre bosses ever!

Action

Chiyo-chan's Key

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Chiyo-chan's Key is heavily based on Solomon's key, a game developed by Tecmo in 1986. The goal is the same: grab the key and reach the goal while avoiding obstacles.

Stretch Panic

Hippa Linda

Freak Out

Freak out (Europe)

Hippa Linda (Japan)

female protagonist

singing

female protagonists

polygonal 3d

superdeformation

profanity

instant death

multi-phase boss

physics manipulation

e3 2001

PlayStation 2

Stretch Panic is an action/platform video game designed by Treasure Co. Ltd. It was a landmark title for the developer as it was their first game to feature movement on a 3D plane; prior to Stretch Panic they had exclusively been a developer of 2D titles. The game revolves around a girl named Linda who has the power to pinch, stretch, and bend objects and enemies with a magic scarf as she battles her evil sisters.

Comedy

Klonoa: Empire of Dreams

Kaze no Kuronoa Yumemiru Teikoku

Klonoa of the Wind: Dreaming Empire

platformers

mascot

puzzles

side-scrolling

cute

dreams

talking animals

anthropomorphism

protagonist's name in the title

grapple

A colorful and fun puzzle game with inventive level design, filled with great ideas that bring joy and delight to any gamer that enjoys a challenge.

Jurassic Park III: The DNA Factor

Jurassic Park 3

Hack and slash/Beat 'em up

dinosaurs

side scroller

death

brawler

prehistoric

licensed game

Bird view / Isometric

Jurassic Park III: The DNA Factor recreates the Jurassic Park world and takes players into an interactive pre-historic adventure. The game is a fun and unique mix of side-scrolling adventure stages and intense puzzle action. Jurassic Park III: The DNA Factor includes more than 10 species of dinosaurs and 12 huge levels to explore.

While averting a museum robbery, Lara is wounded ever so slightly by what seems to be a cursed sword. Now, her worst fears are beginning to come true, as a bizarre cult based out of New Orleans is plotting to steal her soul. Help the lovely and talented Ms. Croft save herself as you control her through worldly adventures of all sorts.

Tomb Raider: Curse of the Sword

Tomb Raider : La Malédiction de l'Épée

Tomb Raider: Fluch des Schwerts

museum

acrobatics

Game Boy Color

Tomb Raider: Curse of the Sword is a video game based on the Tomb Raider series. It is a sequel to the first Tomb Raider for the same system. You'll experience the usual amounts of ledge jumping and rope climbing that one expects from a game in the Tomb Raider series, as well as a number of activities unique to this particular release, such as boss battles, demolitions, and submarine piloting.

Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Saves the Day

rabbit

adapted from television

cartoon character

tie-in

Can these cartoon cuties ever catch a break? Not in this tough game for the Game Boy Color. It seems that the nefarious Max has kidnapped the TINY TOONS bunch and imprisoned them somewhere on the campus of ACME Loonyversity. Buster is the only Toon that has managed to evade Max, and now you've got to help him rescue the other characters before it's too late. Guide everyone's favorite wisecracking rabbit through multiple stages of adventures, armed only with his ability to think quickly and hop. ACME Loonyversity makes for an excellent video game setting, using the campus as a springboard to utter hilarity. There are plenty of familiar faces along the journey, as well as a handful of power-ups to make your task a little less daunting. Designed specifically to appeal to younger gamers, cartoon fanatics, and folks with an offbeat sense of humor, Buster Saves the Day is one rollicking good time.

Shrek: Fairy Tale Freakdown

Fighting

princess

ogres

human

games based on movies

The wackiest computer-animated film of all time has its own classic hand-held game! Boasting fast-paced thrills and the most hilarious characters ever portrayed in a video game, SHREK: Fairy Tales Freakdown turns the story of the movie into a fighting game that players of all ages will love. Taking six familiar faces from the popular film, Fairy Tales Freakdown pits the unlikely combatants in a series of battles against one another each fight taking place in a classic SHREK environment. Solid gameplay will earn you the right to play as one of three locked characters, and each brawler is characterized by a unique (and highly comical) fighting style. The mostly non-violent fighting closely mirrors the humor of the film, resulting in some truly memorable melees. Using animations that are straight from the film, the game delivers the look and feel that made SHREK so successful. Play alone or take on a friend in this lighthearted, tournament-style fighting game.

This game has a story that is only told in the Japanese version. Here is an excerpt, translated from Japanese:

AiAi, MeeMee, and Baby are a good family and live peacefully in Jungle Island. One day, out of the distant islands, GonGon, leader of the Gorillas, brought in a raid to the island. They intend to hog all the bananas for themselves! AiAi escaped from the spot, and got tired and fell asleep. In his dreams, AiAi was told in his dreams there is a paradise called "Banana Island" in the sky from the "Grand Monkey". But in order to go there, you have to go through a couple of traps and gimmicks. But the Grand Monkey taught AiAi a magical spell: "Ei Ei Poo!" That protects him from any danger. AiAi wakes up quickly, and as he says "Ei Ei Poo!", A big ball flies out of the sky He gets insides of it and flies high above the sky. Now, survive several traps and tricks, and aim for it! Banana Island!

When the player completes the Master Stages (in which the setting is above Banana Island), if they play as AiAi, MeeMee, or Baby, they will be able to go to Banana Island and enjoy all the bananas it has to offer. However, if you play as GonGon, he will be locked out of the place in which the bananas are kept while the other monkeys enjoy the bananas inside.

Monkey Ball

Sega NAOMI

Arcade

arcade game

pinball

Third person

Monkey Ball is a 2001 platform/party video game developed by Amusement Vision and published by Sega. The game debuted in Japan at the 2001 Amusement Operators Union trade show as Monkey Ball, an arcade cabinet running on Sega's NAOMI hardware and controlled with a distinctive banana-shaped analog stick.

Kids

Dr. Eggman has teamed up with Shadow, a dark hedgehog with a mysterious past, and is aiming once again to rule the entire world with the power of the Chaos Emeralds.

Sonic Adventure 2

Multiplayer

Split screen

gravity

robots

virtual pet

multiple protagonists

achievements

on-rails

amnesia

climbing

bats

action game

explosion

split-screen multiplayer

playstation trophies

60 fps on consoles

character select screen

voice acting

licensed soundtrack

hedgehog

multiple storylines

original soundtrack release

checkpoints

downloadable content

black market

instant kill

level select map

rock music

speed boost

punctuation mark above head

villain

xbox one backwards compatibility

temporary invincibility

not-so-bad guys

villain turned good

spiky-haired protagonist

teenager

flashback

women in refrigerators syndrome

grind

pax prime 2012

playstation 3

police chase

product placement

running towards the screen

planet destruction

re-numbered franchise

vmu support

Dreamcast

Sonic Adventure 2 is the sequel to Sonic Adventure. It was the final Sonic game for the Dreamcast after Sega discontinued the console. Two new playable characters were introduced, Shadow and Rouge, who would go on to become two of the most recurring characters in the Sonic series. The story features good vs evil: Sonic, Tails and Knuckles attempt to save the world, while Shadow, Doctor Eggman and Rouge attempt to conquer it. The levels are divided into three gameplay styles: fast-paced platforming for Sonic and Shadow, multi-directional shooting for Tails and Eggman, and action-exploration for Knuckles and Rouge.

Fantasy

X-Men: Wolverine's Rage

super hero

mutants

superhero

games based on comic books

comic book character

adamantium

One of the most feared X-Men, Wolverine, is out on a quest all his own. Using his infamous claw, Wolverine will take on enemies of all shapes and sizes in this side-scrolling epic for fans of the X-MEN comics and gamers alike. Use special combo attacks and swift maneuvering to take out wrongdoers over the course pf each perilous level. Armed with supernatural agility and his adamantium-reinforced skeleton, Wolverine will encounter gruesome enemies of varying difficulty levels. As you control Wolverine, you'll be given access to a unique Rage Attack. Use it sparingly, or else subject yourself to the dangers of low energy and paralyzing weakness. The goal is to reach the final conflict a showdown with an all-too-familiar foe. Loaded with stellar graphics, the game's animation stays true to the comics that spawned it. The game is designed for one player, although the time limit and distinct level checkpoints lend themselves to comparing progress with fellow players.

Blue Shift begins in a similar manner to Half-Life, as Barney Calhoun rides a train through the Black Mesa facility to reach his place of work. After reporting for duty, Calhoun is instructed to assist in maintenance on a malfunctioning elevator. As Calhoun finishes repairs, however, Freeman's experiment takes place and results in a "resonance cascade", causing massive damage to the facility and teleporting alien creatures into the base. The elevator is badly damaged and fails, sending Calhoun plummeting into the depths of Black Mesa.
Calhoun regains consciousness at the bottom of the shaft and begins to fight his way to the surface to escape. Emerging near Black Mesa's classification yards, Calhoun learns that Dr. Rosenberg and his colleagues plan to escape the facility using teleportation technology. After freeing Rosenberg from the captivity of the US Marines detachment sent to silence the facility, Calhoun escorts him to a decommissioned prototype teleportation laboratory, where several Black Mesa employees have already gathered. Rosenberg then teleports Calhoun to the Xen border world to calibrate research equipment needed to pinpoint a teleport destination outside of Black Mesa. Upon his return, Rosenberg informs Calhoun that the teleporter's battery power has been exhausted, and contact has been lost with a team sent to acquire a new power cell.
Calhoun travels to the power generators on a lower level to find a fresh power cell while firefights rage between the Marines and the forces of Xen. After returning with a new power cell, Calhoun assists Rosenberg in evacuating the few surviving personnel through the teleporter. Calhoun is the last to enter the portal and as he does so, Marines breach the laboratory and fire on him, causing the teleporter to explode. As a result of the teleporter's destruction, Calhoun enters a "harmonic reflux", causing him to be rapidly teleported to a variety of locations in Xen and Black Mesa. At one location, he witnesses Freeman's capture by Marines mid-way through Half-Life, before eventually stabilizing at the intended teleport location with Rosenberg at the outskirts of Black Mesa, where they then escape the facility in a company SUV.

Half-Life: Blue Shift

HL: Blue Shift

HL: BS

GoldSrc

Shooter

aliens

helicopter

Half-Life: Blue Shift is an expansion pack for Valve Software's science fiction first-person shooter video game Half-Life. The game was developed by Gearbox Software with Valve Corporation and published by Sierra Entertainment on June 12, 2001. (It was originally set for release in Spring.) Blue Shift is the second expansion for Half-Life, originally intended as part of a Dreamcast version of the original game. Although the Dreamcast port was later cancelled, the PC version continued development and was released as a standalone product. The game was released on Steam on August 24, 2005.

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