A clown god forces kids into his world to retrieve his magic bag when he could easily do so himself:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.C._Kids
https://www.gamesradar.com/wrong-end-joystick-games-described-badly/3/
An anthropomorphic dinosaur attempts to murder two Italian plumbers, before passing the whole thing off as a car accident.
A 11-year-old Japanese immigrant to Hawaii decides to enroll in the local pet training challenge. On the way, hijinks ensue involving multiple shadowy corporations, heroin addicts, ghosts in an abandoned department store, and interdimensional travel. After winning the challenge, the yakuza reappears there after a long absence for some reason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Ultra_Sun_and_Ultra_Moon
A pizza listens to repetitive music in the dark, takes drugs and sees ghosts.
A rodent with a jewelry fetish keeps dropping his rings every time he gets scared.
An island occupied by two rival families descends into conflict when the head of one of the families steals the other family's food supply. The other family gets it back and kicks the rival family off the island. In the sequel, the displaced family become pirates, populate an island of their own, and kidnap the member of the rival family that defeated them.
You start in a pristine world and manipulate it entirely to your benefit with no regard for the environment (usually) while other creatures try to prevent you from doing so... one of which also has no regard for the environment. However, you may be a god, as you just come back to life after dying, can fall 10 feet without getting hurt at all (not even a tiny bit), can grow trees in under two days, walk at 2.5 times typical human walking speed by default, never get tired as long as you eat every once in a while, and can swim up waterfalls.
Pigs have done something to offend you, so you throw birds at them. Normally birds can fly, but whatever
Food items chase a fat chef around while he tramples the parts of hamburgers.
Quote from: JayhawkCO on June 17, 2022, 10:38:57 AM
A rodent with a jewelry fetish keeps dropping his rings every time he gets scared.
As a Sonic the Hedgehog fan, that is hilariously accurate!
Hungry ghosts chase around a pie shaped guy through a labyrinth as he eats little pieces of PEZ-type candy. The big ones make him hungry to eat the ghosts and makes said ghosts feel a little blue.
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on June 18, 2022, 12:54:01 PM
Hungry ghosts chase around a pie shaped guy through a labyrinth as he eats little pieces of PEZ-type candy. The big ones make him hungry to eat the ghosts and makes said ghosts feel a little blue.
If I'm not mistaken, formulanone referenced the same game above.
2 plumbers and a large reptile forget their rivalry and get together for some friendly go-kart racing.
It's Fight Night as an unnamed boxer goes punch for punch before taking on the most dangerous of them all, the one called Iron Mike.
People live in constant fear and trembling in master-planned communities of an all-powerful entity who can make hospitals appear on empty city blocks, plow down subdivisions without so much a peep from NIMBYs, raise taxes to ungodly amounts, and send meteors, tsunamis, and tornadoes wherever he wants; however, they still take the time to complain about the cities' rubbish trash service without fear of reprisal. They also carry bicycles and cars in their pockets, among other things.
A boy from the forest goes on an adventure and spends the majority of his time breaking into homes to smash pottery.
An amphibian plays in traffic, then goes to the river to try to find love on the back of an alligator on his way home.
A flat wall of spaceships goes back and forth while progressing downward toward the planet, with a constant womp-womp-womp sound in the background.
A dog laughs at you from behind a bush every time you fail to provide food for your family.
Link awakens from a deep slumber and a mysterious voice guides him to discover what has become of the ruined Kingdom of Hyrule Kingdom. He then must speak to the Old Man, who tasks him with visiting various shrines so he can collect Spirit Orbs. He then receives special runes which will give him powers. When he collects them all, he returns to the Old Man, who disappears and reveals himself as the spirit of the deceased King of Hyrule, King Rhoam. Link learns from King Rhoam that 100 years prior, a great evil known as the Calamity Ganon rose up and laid waste to the kingdom and its people. After escaping the confines of the Great Plateau, Link is directed to meet the wise Sheikah elder Impa, and learn about the Guardians and Divine Beasts: 10,000 years prior these machines were created and successfully used by another Hero and another Princess to defeat the Calamity Ganon. But throughout the ages, knowledge about the ancient technology was lost until excavations in Hyrule Kingdom brought them to light once more, coinciding with the expected return of Calamity Ganon a hundred years ago. The Guardians were reactivated and four Champions were chosen to control the Divine Beasts: The Zora princess Mipha, the Goron warrior Daruk, the Gerudo chief Urbosa, and the Rito archer Revali. Then he enters Hyrule Castle and defeats Calamity Ganon.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
A tiny figure carrying the black void of permanent, eternal death inside of his stomach eats everything in sight and and steals souls from his enemies, sometimes even becoming his enemies in order to kill further.
Quote from: BlueOutback7 on June 19, 2022, 05:04:44 PM
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
I thought about doing this one, but mine was going to be something along the lines of "An elf wakes up with amnesia in the middle of nowhere, then a voice in his head tells him he should attack a cloud in a nearby bit of architecture. Along the way he can choose to accept the help of the ghosts of a pretentious bird, a tall buff woman, a guy that eats rocks, and his fish girlfriend."
A little kid pretends his toys are fighting. Also, he's the final boss for some reason.
[Super Smash Bros.]
Quote from: Scott5114 on June 19, 2022, 05:35:38 PM
Quote from: BlueOutback7 on June 19, 2022, 05:04:44 PM
[...]
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
I thought about doing this one, but mine was going to be something along the lines of "An elf wakes up with amnesia in the middle of nowhere, then a voice in his head tells him he should attack a cloud in a nearby bit of architecture. Along the way he can choose to accept the help of the ghosts of a pretentious bird, a tall buff woman, a guy that eats rocks, and his fish girlfriend."
I think that is far more the tone this thread intended.
Quote from: JayhawkCO on June 19, 2022, 04:48:58 PM
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.
A carpenter's pet gorilla gets loose, steals his girlfriend and ruins a construction site.
Quote from: Rothman on June 19, 2022, 05:57:08 PM
Quote from: JayhawkCO on June 19, 2022, 04:48:58 PM
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.
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.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on June 19, 2022, 06:48:13 PM
A carpenter's pet gorilla gets loose, steals his girlfriend and ruins a construction site.
Donkey Kong
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.
Quote from: plain on July 20, 2022, 03:22:32 PM
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).
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 20, 2022, 03:27:40 PM
Quote from: plain on July 20, 2022, 03:22:32 PM
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.
Quote from: plain on July 20, 2022, 03:37:05 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 20, 2022, 03:27:40 PM
Quote from: plain on July 20, 2022, 03:22:32 PM
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.
Quote from: JayhawkCO on June 19, 2022, 04:48:58 PM
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!
A ball of cotton candy brutally murders anything in sight and steals its powers, going on to fight an obese penguin.
[Kirby]
A main gets away with heinous crimes simply by getting a fixed distance away from the police in pursuit.
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.
Quote from: formulanone on July 20, 2022, 06:55:22 PM
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?
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.
Quote from: kirbykart on July 21, 2022, 07:11:34 AM
Quote from: formulanone on July 20, 2022, 06:55:22 PM
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...
Quote from: formulanone on July 21, 2022, 09:33:17 AM
Quote from: kirbykart on July 21, 2022, 07:11:34 AM
Quote from: formulanone on July 20, 2022, 06:55:22 PM
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
Quote from: plain on July 21, 2022, 12:09:57 PM
Quote from: formulanone on July 21, 2022, 09:33:17 AM
Quote from: kirbykart on July 21, 2022, 07:11:34 AM
Quote from: formulanone on July 20, 2022, 06:55:22 PM
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.