Describe a video game

[Max Rockatansky]

A carpenter's pet gorilla gets loose, steals his girlfriend and ruins a construction site. 

[JayhawkCO]

A dog laughs at you from behind a bush every time you fail to provide food for your family.

I had dismissed this thread out of hand until I saw this.

You're welcome.

[Henry]

From a certain starting point, you race against the clock and a rival as you drive east or west around the world and encounter lots of forks in the road along the way.

[kirbykart]

A carpenter's pet gorilla gets loose, steals his girlfriend and ruins a construction site.

Donkey Kong

[plain]

A scientist is kidnapped by aliens and it's up to his nephew to rescue him and save the world by visiting various islands and fighting monsters. He is armed with.... a yo-yo.

[Max Rockatansky]

A scientist is kidnapped by aliens and it's up to his nephew to rescue him and save the world by visiting various islands and fighting monsters. He is armed with.... a yo-yo.

Better hope you have the letter from the manual to dip into a sink for the C-Sub reboot code (747).

[plain]

A scientist is kidnapped by aliens and it's up to his nephew to rescue him and save the world by visiting various islands and fighting monsters. He is armed with.... a yo-yo.

Better hope you have the letter from the manual to dip into a sink for the C-Sub reboot code (747).

The pain in the ass for me was figuring out what keys to push on the giant organ after giving the parrot a worm.

[Max Rockatansky]

A scientist is kidnapped by aliens and it's up to his nephew to rescue him and save the world by visiting various islands and fighting monsters. He is armed with.... a yo-yo.

Better hope you have the letter from the manual to dip into a sink for the C-Sub reboot code (747).

The pain in the ass for me was figuring out what keys to push on the giant organ after giving the parrot a worm.

I seem to recall just cheesing that with a copy of Nintendo Power.  The real game was in the dungeons anyways. 

[kirbykart]

A dog laughs at you from behind a bush every time you fail to provide food for your family.

A hilariously accurate Duck Hunt description!

[kirbykart]

A ball of cotton candy brutally murders anything in sight and steals its powers, going on to fight an obese penguin.
[Kirby]

[triplemultiplex]

A main gets away with heinous crimes simply by getting a fixed distance away from the police in pursuit.

[formulanone]

As a square that behaves like that of a chameleon, you will find excitement in picking up keys, magnets, and cups. You'll wield an arrow to defend thyself from a floating domino mask, or perhaps against a very large duck-chicken hybrid. If you're good at this, hold on tight to a tiny object obtaining the magic to display credits.

[kirbykart]

As a square that behaves like that of a chameleon, you will find excitement in picking up keys, magnets, and cups. You'll wield an arrow to defend thyself from a floating domino mask, or perhaps against a very large duck-chicken hybrid. If you're good at this, hold on tight to a tiny object obtaining the magic to display credits.

Legend of Zelda?

[Max Rockatansky]

The people of a world in the midst of a industrial revolution don't believe magic is real.  A clown proves to them that magic is real and instigates the apocalypse. 

[formulanone]

As a square that behaves like that of a chameleon, you will find excitement in picking up keys, magnets, and cups. You'll wield an arrow to defend thyself from a floating domino mask, or perhaps against a very large duck-chicken hybrid. If you're good at this, hold on tight to a tiny object obtaining the magic to display credits.

Legend of Zelda?

Older than that...

[plain]

As a square that behaves like that of a chameleon, you will find excitement in picking up keys, magnets, and cups. You'll wield an arrow to defend thyself from a floating domino mask, or perhaps against a very large duck-chicken hybrid. If you're good at this, hold on tight to a tiny object obtaining the magic to display credits.

Legend of Zelda?

Older than that...

Kid Icarus

[Max Rockatansky]

As a square that behaves like that of a chameleon, you will find excitement in picking up keys, magnets, and cups. You'll wield an arrow to defend thyself from a floating domino mask, or perhaps against a very large duck-chicken hybrid. If you're good at this, hold on tight to a tiny object obtaining the magic to display credits.

Legend of Zelda?

Older than that...

Kid Icarus

The original Legend of Zelda is a couple months older.