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Ah, video games. No other media allows [[Refuge in Audacity]] so often. [[Better Than It Sounds|And most of the time it works]].
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* {{spoiler|''[[N]]''}}: A pacifist stickman ninja runs and jumps across simplistic monochrome landscapes, dodging killer drones and collecting lots of gold.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Neo Geo Battle Coliseum]]''}}: Mascot characters of varying obscurity have to fight each other for five minutes in teams of two. Then you have to fight a cloned nihilist, an alien with a god complex, a [[Blood Knight]] and a ripoff of a certain someone. [[SNK Boss|Good Luck]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Nethack]]''}}: A single link {{spoiler|[http://alt.org/nethack/topdeaths.html on NAO]}} proves that there are over 5,000 ways to lose. And only one way to win.
* {{spoiler|''[[Neutopia]]''}}: A ROM hack of ''The Legend of Zelda'', featuring no nonlinearity and 90% of the secret hidden passageways don't give you anything.
** {{spoiler|''Neutopia II''}}: A ROM hack of ''The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past'', featuring no dark world and the secret passageways still don't give you anything. The hero from the first game dies and leaves his son some of his defective equipment as inheritance.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Night Trap]]''}}: The player helps a former child star fight vampires that are slightly less threatening than Count Chocula using tactics straight out of an episode of [[Scooby Doo]]. A very small number of the vampires can shoot lightning out of their hands for some inexplicable reason.
* {{spoiler|''[[NiGHTS Into Dreams]]''}}: An androgynous creature enters the minds of children and absorbs their spirits into itself. And he's the ''Good Guy''.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors|Nine Hours Nine Persons Nine Doors]]''}}: An eight year old uses time travel to solve a sudoku puzzle.
* {{spoiler|''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' (original)}}: Everyone good and bad wants you dead, and all you want is your family heirloom, which inadvertently tries to destroy the world.
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** Said duo then fights a [[Giant Spider|giant spider-lady]], [[Dem Bones|a cow skeleton in armor]], a multiheaded snake who you must get drunk, a [[Cool Sword|sword]] inside [[Womb Level|a sleeping rulers' stomach]], a [[Cunning Like a Fox|fox with alot of tails]] who [[Creepy Crossdresser|dresses up as a priestess]], [[High-Class Glass|two]] [[Clockwork Creature|aristocrat]] [[Owl Be Damned|owls]], and [[Anticlimax Boss|a giant metal ball with a fish fetus inside it.]]
** {{spoiler|''[[Okamiden]]''}}: A wolf pup gains many friends, populates a small town and saves the world.
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* {{spoiler|''[[OneChanbara]]''}}: [[Hot Chick with a Sword|Hot chicks with swords]] fight zombies while trying not to get their clothes dirty.
* {{spoiler|''[[Oni]]''}} [[Ghost in the Shell|Motoko Kusanagi]] [[Captain Ersatz|ersatz]] fights terrorists and her former employers, mostly with her bare hands.
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** Or: The princess has been kidnapped by demons. Are you a bad enough samurai to save the princess?
** {{spoiler|''Onimusha 3''}}: Samurai from medieval Japan ends up in today's Paris, a policeman from today ends up in medieval Japan. Timetravel extraordinaire to beat even more monsters and the [[Evil Overlord]] from the previous game. Again.
* {{spoiler|''[[Operation Flashpoint]]''}}: You're fighting to prevent [[World War Three]] and liberate [[Ruritania
* {{spoiler|''[[Orbiter]]''}}: The Free Spaceflight Simulator. First, you study ''loooong'' instruction manuals. Then, you finally fly various missions. Most of them are mundane hard work. Piloting a spacecraft is not an easy job.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Oregon Trail]]''}}: Five men travel west. Everyone dies of dysentery or a broken leg, and [[Grave Humor|the leader gets a silly epitaph]].
* {{spoiler|''Outpost''}}: God drops an asteroid on the Earth. Your onboard Windows 95 computer won't let you take the off ramp to Mars so you spend about a hundred years flying to the next equally barren rock where you build an <ahem> outpost of civilization.
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** {{spoiler|''Pajama Sam: Thunder and Lightening Aren't so Frightening''}}: The same kid goes into the attic and gets involved in office politics.
** {{spoiler|''Pajama Sam: You Are What You Eat From Your Head to Your Feet''}}: The kid is kidnapped by a box of cookies and tasked with averting a war.
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** {{spoiler|''[[Tetris Attack]]''/''Pokemon Puzzle League''}}: Developers decide [[Dolled-Up Installment|this plot won't sell in America, so they let]] [[Yoshi's Island|a dinosaur]] and [[Pokémon|an animal trainer]] save the day instead.
* {{spoiler|''[[Pangya]]''}}: Players celebrate the exploits of an island hero by playing a game most of us refer to as "golf".
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* {{spoiler|''[[Phantasy Star Online]]''}}: You're hired to find out what happened to the daughter of the head of the spaceship you live on. You commit genocide on the planet you're trying to colonize only to discover {{spoiler|the daughter's been absorbed by the [[Eldritch Abomination]].}}
** {{spoiler|''[[Phantasy Star Online]]'': Episode 3:}} Later, you use trading cards to discover {{spoiler|everything's a government conspiracy}}.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Pikmin]]''}}: A cargo deliveryman escapes from being stranded on an alien world with a poisonous atmosphere with the help of an army of carrot-creatures.
** {{spoiler|''Pikmin 2''}}: The cargo deliveryman and a fellow employee return to the planet from the last game, and enslave the carrot-creatures to dig for "treasure" that is actually worthless junk.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Plants vs. Zombies]]''}}: Gardening is your only hope of surviving the [[Zombie Apocalypse]].
* {{spoiler|''Plaque Attack''}}: The game of dental hygiene.
* {{spoiler|''Pochi and Nyaa''}}: Raining cats and
* {{spoiler|''[[Pocket God]]''}}: Be a dick to some islanders.
* {{spoiler|''Pocket Tanks''}}: Tiny vehicles with guns destroy the world with ridiculous weapons yet always come out unharmed. Fireworks ensue.
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** {{spoiler|''[[Pokémon Trading Card Game (video game)|Pokémon Trading Card Game]]''}}: The player takes on the role of a different child in a world where card games are [[Serious Business]].
*** {{spoiler|''[[Pokémon Trading Card Game (video game)|Pokémon Trading Card Game]]: Here comes Team Rocket!'' (2001 video game)}}: The player takes on the role of a young man or woman in a world where card games are [[Serious Business]]. Now you have to do a Pokémon-themed rendition of the entire plot of Yu-Gi-Oh's second season. Now with more cards, more duelists, and no port to America.
** {{spoiler|''[[Hey You, Pikachu!]]''}}: In this same world, a child must befriend a baby mouse with the help of buggy voice-recognition technology.
*** {{spoiler|''[[Pokémon Channel]]''}}: Another mouse must be befriended by a second child. They bond by watching television.
*** {{spoiler|''[[Poke Park Wii]]''}}: A third mouse saves a theme park from being destroyed by a flying cat's home crashing into it, through [[The Power of Friendship]].
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* {{spoiler|''[[Pong]]''}}: Two numbers, three lines, and a dot.
* {{spoiler|''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]''}}: Break the laws of physics repeatedly while being carted around a desolate laboratory by an insane computer.
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*** Alt: Solve puzzles by shooting at walls while your former friend struggles with addiction and withdrawal.
*** I prefer "give a childish asshole a piggyback ride while she argues with another childish asshole."
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** {{spoiler|''Prince of Persia (2008)''}}: An environmentalist and a guy with a Freddy Kreuger glove run around trying to save a tree for someone who's been gone for a thousand years.
* {{spoiler|''[[Princess Debut]]''}}: You have thirty days to learn to dance from a furry. [[Bishounen]] princes want to screw you, but won't, because the game is rated E. There's a flying hamster.
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** Alternatively: Make your underage daughter work at a sleazy bar to pay for her breast enlargement.
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** {{spoiler|''[[Professor Layton]] and the Curious Village''}}: Two Brits are trapped in a town where puzzles are [[Serious Business]].
** Alternatively: The consequences for not being able to arrest for Obstruction of Justice.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Professor Layton VS Ace Attorney]]''}}: [[Professor Layton|Top-hat Brit professor]] and [[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney|spiky-haired attorney]] match wits. [[Giving Someone the Pointer Finger|Finger Pointing]] ensues.
* {{spoiler|''[[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]]''}}: A man in a hoodie has lunch in New York despite the army's best attempts to stop him.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Psychonauts]]''}}: A kid runs ''away'' from the circus, learns [[Psychic Powers]] by [[Gotta Catch Em All|collecting random junk]] to earn merit badges, and must save the world from an angry midget and a mad dentist.
** Alt: [[Circus Brat]] [[Subverted Trope|runs away from home]] in hopes of becoming a [[Teen Superspy|pre-teen superspy]]. As he works his way to the top of an asylum, he is mistaken for a lake monster, eaten by a fish and sneezes out his brain. His dad is ''not'' balding and doesn't hate him.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Puyo Puyo]]''}}: Stacking and killing cute little blobs is a sport.
* {{spoiler|''[[Puzzle Quest]]''}}: Warriors fight for the fate of the world with Match-Three Puzzle battles.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Radiata Stories]]''}}: You and everyone you've ever met including your bumbling mentor and quiet girlfriend wage war against whoever's side you don't take.
* {{spoiler|''[[Radiant Silvergun]]''}}: An arcade [[Shoot'Em Up|shmup]], only port was on a failed console and [[No Export for You|released in only one country]], contains tons of Engrish but no powerups.
* {{spoiler|''Rally Trophy''}}: You struggle with the steering wheel of your old 60s car. You start your racing career in the middle of nowhere in northwest Russia. Your co-driver is a bossy [[Jerkass]] and panics when seeing cows.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Rampage]]''}}: You punch buildings until either they collapse or you fall and turn into a naked person.
* {{spoiler|''[[Raptor: Call of the Shadows]]''}}: An '''''[[Made of Iron|extremely durable]]''''' plane shoots down enemies.
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** {{spoiler|''[[Ratchet & Clank|Ratchet and Clank]] Future: Quest for Booty''}}: Vaguely catlike repairman faces two pirates with the intent of finding where his factory-rejected robot friend is working.
** {{spoiler|''[[Ratchet and Clank Future A Crack In Time]]''}}: Vaguely catlike repairman finds out he isn't the [[Last of His Kind|only one]]. In the meantime, factory-rejected robot is now employed in the exact center of the universe, give or take fifty feet.
** {{spoiler|''[[Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One]]''}}: Vaguely catlike repairman, his factory-rejected robot friend, stupid green-wearing president, and mad scientist [[Enemy Mine|work together]] to stop a man {{spoiler|in search of his lost pet}}.
* {{spoiler|''[[Rayman]]'' series}}: Limbless man fights evil despite disability.
** {{spoiler|''Rayman'' (1995 game)}}: Limbless man must rescue dozens of his fangirls before he can confront the villain, who lives in a fortress made of candy and cake. There, he defeats the reassembled body parts of all the game's bosses, then lets the villain go free.
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** {{spoiler|''Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc''}}: Limbless man has trouble getting his shoes to stay on. He saves the world by making a googly face at a wise-cracking black fly.
** {{spoiler|''Rayman Raving Rabbids''}}: Limbless man is forced to play bizarre sports with screaming bunnies.
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** {{spoiler|''Rabbids Go Home''}}: Cacophonous lagomorphs decide to finally go home. Except that they've forgotten where home is, and decide it's the moon, and build a tower consisting of random junk on the streets and clothing stolen directly off people in order to get there. The limbless man is now apparently absent, considering the rabbits are doing his job for him.
** {{spoiler|''[[Rayman Origins]]''}}: Limbless man, blue frog, and fancily-dressed blue people have a nap that drives a grandma to send the legions of Hell upon them. They all set out to find some pink people so their god doesn't have nightmares.
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** {{spoiler|''[[Rance: Quest for Hikari|Rance]]: Quest for Hikari''}}: The mercenary searches for a missing girl, who turns out to have been the victim of {{spoiler|a perverted lesbian queen.}} He saves her by doing what he does best.
** {{spoiler|''[[Rance II]]: The Rebellious Maidens''}}: Said mercenary finds a town sunk by [[Virgin Power]]. He solves the problem by doing what he does best.
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*** Alternatively, one man's continuing struggle against [[The Loins Sleep Tonight|impotence]], so he can do what he does best.
* {{spoiler|''[[RapeLay]]''}}: Serial rape, and not the [[Black Comedy Rape|fun kind]].
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* {{spoiler|''[[Recettear]]: an Item Shop's Tale''}}: In a world full of adventurers, you play as the shopkeeper.
* {{spoiler|''[[Red Dead Redemption]]''}}: [[Grand Theft Auto]]...[[Recycled in Space|IN THE WILD WEST!]]
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* {{spoiler|''[[Resident Evil 1]]''}}: Cops break into a house and kill everyone inside.
** {{spoiler|''[[Resident Evil 2]]''}}: A policeman arrives in a town and starts shooting its residents. Meanwhile, an evil corporation conspires to invent skin cream.
** {{spoiler|''[[Resident Evil 3: Nemesis]]''}}: A gal in a miniskirt spends the entire game running away from a tentacle monster.
** {{spoiler|''[[Resident Evil Code: Veronica]]''}}: A girl protects a boy only slightly younger than she is because her older brother isn't around to protect ''her'' until the very end.
** {{spoiler|''[[Resident Evil 4]]''}}: The President's daughter has been kidnapped by Spaniards! Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the President's daughter?
*** Or: An American goes to Spain to rescue the president's daughter and meets a man who is eventually killed by a cult leader and his demon penis.
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*** Or: Big Bad explains plan to protagonist and spends several days trying to kill him, when unlocking all the doors and taking a nap would have assured him world domination.
*** {{spoiler|''Resident Evil 4: Separate Ways''}}: A woman uses a [[Grappling Hook Pistol]] to help out the above American behind the scenes while working for the villain behind the first three games, but in reality is a [[Chessmaster]] who is doing it all for own nefarious schemes.
** {{spoiler|''[[Resident Evil 5]]''}}: A [[Magnificent Bastard|very stylish and clever villain]] who [[Large Ham|speaks in a huge, bombastic tone]] plots to [[Take Over the World|control the world]] while wearing [[Sunglasses
*** Alternatively, the first recipient of a gorilla-human arm transplant punches his way through Africa with the support of a local in order to stop Neo from controlling worms. In the end, he fistfights a boulder in a volcano.
** {{spoiler|''[[Resident Evil Outbreak]]''}}: A group of people completely unrelated to all of the above have to put up with the aftermath.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Rez]]''}}: You have to fix an AI that's not working well by shooting stuff to techno music.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Rock Band]]''}}: Tapping buttons on what looks like a plastic toy guitar/bass, hitting plastic drums, making an arrow follow a line with your voice. Making an ass of yourself in the process, of course, but at least you can do it with more friends.
** {{spoiler|''Rock Band Unplugged''}}: Tapping buttons while potentially making an ass of yourself in the process. Unfortunately, you can't do it with friends.
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** {{spoiler|''Sparkster'' (SNES)}}: Rescue a princess from wolf men with a sword that can undress its victims again.
** {{spoiler|''Rocket Knight (2010)''}}: Save your village from wolf men {{spoiler|and the same pig-men from the first game}} with a sword that sometimes undresses its victims and occasionally shoots larger bolts.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Rosenkreuzstilette]]''}}: A church maiden and army official fights her friends who have sided with a vampire. {{spoiler|[[Xanatos Gambit|All for said vampire's daughter's entertainment.]]}}
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* {{spoiler|[[SOS]]}}: ''[[Prince of Persia]]'' <small>[[Recycled in Space|ON A SINKING SHIP!]] [[Xtreme Kool Letterz|WITH MODE 7 GRAFIX!]]</small>
* {{spoiler|''[[Sacrifice]]''}}: Gods have a petty argument. Some guy appears and leads one of them to dominate using an army of monsters.
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** {{spoiler|''[[Sakura Taisen]] 5''}}: As above, <small>IN NEW YORK</small>!
* {{spoiler|''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police|Sam and Max Freelance Police]] Hit the Road''}}: Two sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eyes rescue a sasquatch and his girlfriend from a midget country singer, then help a bunch of eco-terrorists re-forest the Pacific Northwest.
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* {{spoiler|''Samba de Amigo''}}: Mexican and sister compete in dance contests.
* {{spoiler|''[[Samorost]]''}}: A gnome tries to save his home planet. This usually involves him standing motionlessly and waiting for his problems to solve themselves.
** {{spoiler|''Samorost 2''}}: A gnome tries to rescue his dog from fruit poachers. Again, this usually involves him standing around waiting for his problems to solve themselves.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Samurai Shodown]]''}}: An alcoholic guy with an outrageous hair style and an [[wikipedia:Ainu people|Ainu]] maiden thwart a jesuit's evil plan. They encounter 10 other weirdos in the way.
** {{spoiler|''[[Samurai Shodown]] II''}}: The guy and the girl from the previous game fix an evil god's evil doing.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Sands of Destruction]]''}}: Public enemy #1 wants to use an innocent [[Farm Boy]] to turn her planet into [[Star Wars|Tatooine]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Saya no Uta]]''}}: A young man with a crippling disorder meets a lovely girl who makes him feel better. [[The End of the World as We Know It]] ensues.
** Or: The touching love story of a normal young man with a crippling disorder and a Lovecraftian [[Eldritch Abomination]] sent from beyond the stars to [[
* {{spoiler|''[[Scaler]]''}}: Young male [[Animal Wrongs Group|animal activist]] is turned into a [[Lizard Folk|lizard]] by other exothermic creatures. In doing so, the boy reunites with his father (also a lizard).
* {{spoiler|''[[Scarab of Ra]]''}}: An archaeology geek, who moonlights as a sideshow geek, gets himself sealed inside a pyramid and must find nonviolent ways of dealing with kleptomaniacal monkeys.
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** {{spoiler|''Super Scribblenauts''}}: Same boy learns what adjectives are. More stars are gathered. [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|The fandom rejoices.]]
* {{spoiler|''[[Second Life]]''}}: Massively multiplayer online CAD (or so the joke goes).
* {{spoiler|''The Secret Island of Doctor Quandary''}}: You win a doll and a free trip to an island at a carnival shooting gallery. Unfortunately, if you want to go home you'll have to solve [[Stock Puzzle
* {{spoiler|''[[Secret of Evermore]]''}}: A boy and his dog try out virtual reality dating from the 1960s.
* {{spoiler|''[[Secret of Mana]]''}}: Boy is [[You Can't Go Home Again|banished from his homeland]] and persecuted by the government for being the legendary hero.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' series}}: Historical samurai do almost nothing they did in real history and fight [[Obviously Evil|obvious evil]] and each other with the power of [[Engrish]], [[Large Ham|large hams]] and the [[Rule of Cool]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Serious Sam]]''}}: Guy romps through ancient Egypt in search of spaceship, leaves no survivors. In the [[Expansion Pack]], he loses the ship and must search South America, Babylon and Europe for a replacement. When he gets to his destination in the sequel, he finds he needs to collect stuff.
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** {{spoiler|''The Eleventh Hour''}}: Do the same thing, but the house is a total fixer-upper now. And it had sex with a woman.
* {{spoiler|''[[Shadow Hearts]]''}}: A guy saves a girl in a short skirt from a man in a suit, then gets his friends to gang up on him. The [[Bittersweet Ending|bad ending]] is canon.
** {{spoiler|''[[Shadow Hearts]]: Covenant''}}: The same guy gets stabbed with a plant. He gets picked up by an old puppeteer and a German soldier in a quest to stop a minor character from the last game from doing what the guy in the suit wanted to do.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Shadow Warrior]]''}}: An old ninja who is named after a penis says dirty jokes in [[Engrish]].
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** {{spoiler|''[[Shin Megami Tensei]] 2''}}: X Years Later, the world of balance that the hero of the previous game created has [[It Got Worse|gotten worse.]] The powers that be create a Test Tube Messiah, who may or may not [[Rage Against the Heavens|kill God]], that is, if he decides not to run away from the planet first.
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* {{spoiler|''Shufflepuck Café''}}: In the farthest reaches of the galaxy, surrounded by exotic alien beings, you play air hockey.
* {{spoiler|''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]''}}: A sleeping alien god gets a skin disease. It takes decades for it to start scratching and centuries to actually wake up. Meanwhile, [[Captain Planet and the Planeteers|tree-hugging hippies discover that the local fungus is the path to apotheosis, man]]; [[Evil Overlord|Chairman Mao's reincarnation]] is worse than ever; [[The Spartan Way|ancient Greeks]] are apparently lead by a hot Latina; a [[Mad Scientist|scientist goes mad]]; [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Gordon Gekko is alive and well in the late 21st century]]; and [[Eagle Land|American]] [[Church Militant|Bible-thumpers annoy everybody]] ([[Acceptable Targets|just like today]], har har har).
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* {{spoiler|''Sim Copter''}}: [[Most Annoying Sound|This is an alert from central dispatch:]] Give helicopter rides to people who forgot where they put their car keys. Transport heavily-injured people to the hospital when ambulances are unable or just too lazy to do it themselves. End traffic jams by calling the drivers involved stupid idiots.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Sin]]''}}: An angry police officer battles a beautician with [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|a lot of money]], a lot of chest, and no ethics.
* {{spoiler|''[[Sin and Punishment]]''}}: Genetically-enhanced humans kill an onslaught of monsters, followed by killing the army responsible for defending against them. Then they betray the one who helped them do so, [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|turn into a giant monster]] and destroy the Earth by reflecting its attacks. Delivered entirely in [[Surprisingly Good English]].
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* {{spoiler|''[[Sly Cooper]] and the Thievious Racoonus''}}: A career criminal beats up other career criminals to recover a family heirloom.
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** {{spoiler|''[[Sonic Storybook Series|Sonic and the Secret Rings]]''}}: Blue mammal <small>[[Recycled in Space|IN THE ARABIAN NIGHTS!]]</small> Also, he has a really bad case of heartburn.
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** {{spoiler|''[[Sonic Unleashed]]''}}: Blue mammal cursed to become a [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Blue Mammal That's Different.]]
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* {{spoiler|''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]''}}: A red-haired mute with voices in his/her head must save the world. S/he is joined by his/her [[The Ditz|brain-damaged]] childhood friend.
* {{spoiler|''[[Soul Series]]''}}: A [[BFS|big]] (and powerful) [[BFS|sword]] enslaves and maddens its users [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|(naturally)]]. Fight against an opponent over [[Bottomless Pits]] to obtain, destroy, or help it. Maybe you'll get its [[Inverted Trope|good]] [[Evil Twin|twin]] to help. [[Bloodless Carnage|It's hard to tell if anyone dies.]]
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** {{spoiler|''Space Channel 5 Part 2''}}: The President has been kidnapped by robots. Are you a good enough dancer to rescue the President?
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** {{spoiler|''Space Invaders Extreme''}}: Aliens attack Earth with slightly improved but still well-regimented strategy while [[Rez|getting shot to techno music]].
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** ''{{spoiler|[[Star Ocean the Second Story]]}}'': Teenager gets marooned on a fantasy planet. His girlfriend is whomever he sucks up to the most.
** ''{{spoiler|[[Star Ocean: Till the End of Time]]}}'': Teenager gets marooned on a fantasy planet...AGAIN. He and his friends discover
** ''{{spoiler|[[Star Ocean: The Last Hope]]}}'': Teenager gets marooned on a fantasy planet. Only this one happened like a hundred years before all those other ones.
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* ''{{spoiler|[[Star Wars Battlefront]]}}'': Fight wars of attrition with large numbers of infantry in a setting that clearly makes the concept obsolete.
** Alternately: ''[[Red Shirt]]: The Game''.
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* ''{{spoiler|[[Star Wars]] [[Shadows of the Empire]]}}'': Play through never-before-seen areas because the game isn't about [[A New Hope|the]] [[The Empire Strikes Back|original]] [[Return of the Jedi|trilogy]].
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* {{spoiler|''[[StarTropics]]''}}: A boy goes on a tropical vacation. Halfway through the game he must solve a [[Copy Protection|mysterious riddle]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Steambot Chronicles]]''}}: Amnesiac kid walks around during the Industrial Revolution. Sometimes he plays harmonica. Pirates and terrorists show up.
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** {{spoiler|''[[Street Fighter III]]''}}: Stereotypes from around the world explore their grudges in a secret worldwide tournament hosted by a [[Dark Messiah|messianic]] corporate executive [[Stripperiffic|in a banana hammock]].
** {{spoiler|''[[Street Fighter IV]]''}}: Stereotypes from around the world continue their grudges while dealing with [[Watchmen (comics)|Doctor Manhattan]]. The losers [[You Will Be Assimilated|get assimilated]].
** {{spoiler|''[[Street Fighter EX]]''}}: Stereotypes from around the world explore their grudges in a secret worldwide tournament hosted by a dictator...IN 3D!
* {{spoiler|''[[Street Fighter X Tekken]]''}}: A bunch of colorful stereotypes, including a psycho, a couple vagrants and a dysfunctional family fight over a box in the middle of a snowstorm. Most of whom [[Exposed to the Elements|are dressed as skimpily as possible]].
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** {{spoiler|''[[The Suffering]]: Ties That Bind''}}: The guy from the last game returns to his old neighborhood, and finds the monsters from the last game have followed him home. Also, both his old partner in crime and [[The Government]] want a word with him.
* {{spoiler|''[[Suikoden]]''}}: Relatively unremarkable teenage [[La Résistance|rebel]] acquires a [[108|numerically significant]] number of allies to help take down a corrupt, centrist [[The Government|government]] in a protracted and bloody war fought over one or more magically significant [[MacGuffin
** {{spoiler|''[[Suikoden II]]''}}: The most murderous, [[Ax Crazy]] psychopath imaginable gets put in charge of an invasion force, with predictable results.
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** {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario Land]]''}}: One of the duo fights aliens to save a completely unrelated damsel in a kingdom filled with moai.
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** {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]''}}: The duo must save the damsel from the turtle king and his children ''again,'' this time aided by a friendly green dinosaur who [[Extreme Omnivore|eats their enemies alive.]]
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** {{spoiler|''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]''}}: Turtle king decides to re-enact the first time he kidnapped the damsel, only to [[Kill It with Fire|get his skin]] [[Family-Unfriendly Death|burned off]]. His [[Replacement Scrappy|son]] takes over.
*** {{spoiler|''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]''}}: Turtle king decides to re-enact the first time he kidnapped the damsel again, but this time his original seven children return after a long absence and team up with [[Rescued
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* {{spoiler|''[[Super Monkey Ball]]''}}: Tiny primates are permanently locked inside plastic globes and careen around collecting bananas.
* {{spoiler|''[[Super Robot Wars]]''}}: An awful lot of different groups are all working on [[Humongous Mecha|robots]] at the same time. The developers make a bunch of [[Mary Sue
** {{spoiler|''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]]''}}: The Mary Sues get their own game series. Now there's only a few groups, but instead, they're making a ''lot'' of robots.
** {{spoiler|''[[Endless Frontier]]: [[Super Robot Wars]] OG Saga''}}: Multiple sets of [[Expy|suspiciously similar partnerships]] team up with robots, [[Humongous Mecha|giant]] and otherwise, to fight every villain from at least four games. Much [[Gainaxing|fanservice]] ensues.
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* {{spoiler|''[[SWAT 4]]''}}: You lead a SWAT team consisting of often bumbling squadmates, who can (and will) blind you with your own flashbangs.
* {{spoiler|''[[Sweet Home (video game)|Sweet Home]]''}}: Five uninvited visitors enter a private home and anger the lady of the house at the moment of their arrival. They also take photos of the valuable paintings in the house without permission and kill a notable amount of the inhabitants with kitchen utensils. In the end, they evict the lady using the corpse of her child, who was killed in an incinerator.
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** Alternative the second: sit around doing nothing while hoping that you are rewarded with a [[Nice Hat|purely cosmetic reward]] as a sign of your [[Sarcasm Mode|hard work]]. The developers [[Genre Savvy|actively troll their fanbase]] over this.
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** Alternative the sixth: A war between a piss-throwing Australian, a smartass who drinks radioactive soda, a cyclops with a grenade gun, a fat sandwich addict who obsesses over his "sasha", a mad German doctor with technology that hasn't even been invented yet, a [[Ambiguous Gender|gender-unknown person]] who doesn't have the balls to take their mask off, a French pervert, a brainwashed American who thinks a shovel is an effective weapon, a redneck who, again, has technology that hasn't been invented yet, and their hordes of clones.
** Alternative the seventh: Ethnic stereotypes fight to the death in a cartoonish [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs|desert and/or industrial]] [[Zero Punctuation|environment]]. Remember, it's not whether you win or lose, it's how many hats you have.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Tetris]]''}}: Building supplies drop from the sky, and you must use them to erase any sign of your hard work to build the Kremlin. [[Failure Is the Only Option]].
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* {{spoiler|''[[Thousand Arms]]''}}: Son of a blacksmith [[Impoverished Patrician|loses his home and reputation]], has to rebuild it by [[Dating Sim|dating pretty girls]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Threads of Fate]]''}}: A runaway, some dolls, treasure hunters, and a doctor fight over a man's estate.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Time Splitters]]''}}: A guy who looks like [[The Chronicles of Riddick|Riddick]] travels through time and shoots aliens dead. Monkeys are involved. [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|Lots and lots of monkeys]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Today I Die]]''}}: A woman becomes suicidally depressed after a bad break-up. She solves her problems using jellyfish, glowing bubbles, and Mad Libs.
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** {{spoiler|''[[Tokimeki Memorial]] 2''}}: Same as above, but replace the tree with a broken clock tower.
* {{spoiler|''Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero''}}: Explore Tokyo through its highways, with an opportunity to cruise down an extremely-straight twenty-kilometer stretch.
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** ''{{spoiler|Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation}}'': The archaeologist wins by not despoiling the cultural artifact, and is rewarded with {{spoiler|death}}.
** {{spoiler|''Tomb Raider Chronicles''}}: At the start of the game, the archaeologist is still dead. The first part of the game is told in flashback.
** ''{{spoiler|Tomb Raider: Angel Of Darkness}}'': The archaeologist is on the lam for allegedly murdering her teacher.
** ''{{spoiler|Tomb Raider: Legend}}'': Reboot. A gifted archaeologist chases after a phallic symbol.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Ultima]]''}}: The locals have unrealistic expectations about their hero. Said hero [[Lord British Postulate|comes up with increasingly creative ways to assassinate their leader]] in protest.
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** {{spoiler|''Ultima VII''}}: Hero fights the evil forces of Scientology and Electronic Arts.
* {{spoiler|''[[Umihara Kawase]]''}}: A girl swings across an absurd dream world with her fishing rod. Said rod is more flexible than ''[[Bionic Commando]]''.
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* {{spoiler|''[[An Untitled Story]]''}}: An egg travels throughout the world to hatch and fight ghosts.
* {{spoiler|''[[Urban Dead]]''}}: Thousands of warriors face off in a never-ending battle and die, only to get up and do it again the next day. They gather at shopping malls to do so. Basically [[Warrior Heaven|Valhalla]] with less mead.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Viva Pinata]]''}}: You are put in charge of a breeding ranch for party favors.
* {{spoiler|''Volley Fire''}}: Two ships fight across mini asteroid fields containing mirrors. This was made by an animation company.
* {{spoiler|''[[VVVVVV]]''}}: Captain of a wrecked ship rescues crewmates by [[Gravity Screw|screwing with gravity]].
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* {{spoiler|''[[Wacky Wheels]]''}}: ''[[Mario Kart]]'' <small>[[Recycled in Space|WITH]] [[Funny Animal|FUNNY[IER] ANIMALS!]]</small>
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*** {{spoiler|''World of Warcraft: Cataclysm''}}: The natives and immigrants resume their war. A senior official, formerly in exile because of his skin color, decides to return home. This causes property values to plummet. Furries and insane corporate executives join the grassroots campaign to kick him out of the country.
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** {{spoiler|''Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War: Winter Assault''}}: A [[Humongous Mecha]] was wrecked on an [[Single Biome Planet|icy planet]] some years ago. The [[Redshirt Army]], reluctantly aided by [[Our Elves Are Better|Better Elves]], fight against [[Our Orcs Are Different|Different Orcs]] and [[The Legions of Hell]] to get to the 'mech, only to find [[Terminator]]-wannabes with pyramids waiting.
** {{spoiler|''Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade''}}: A planet belonging to greyskins weak in melee gets invaded by [[Our Orcs Are Different|Different Orcs]] and [[The Legions of Hell]]. The [[Redshirt Army]] arrives to conquer the planet but attack their [[Super Soldier]] "allies" in the process. [[Terminator]]-wannabes wake up from a long sleep and [[Our Elves Are Better|Better Elves]] arrive to stop them.
** {{spoiler|''Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War: Soulstorm''}}: A system with four planets develops a [[Negative Space Wedgie]] and [[The Legions of Hell]] show up. The [[Our Orcs Are Different|Different Orcs]] get a stronger leader and try fighting against the human [[Super Soldier
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** {{spoiler|''Warriors Orochi 2''}}: Same giant snake man has to be revived by his old and new lackeys. No one is able to stop them but they do get to beat the tar out of his powered up form.
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* {{spoiler|''[[White Knight Chronicles]]''}}: A boy finds magic armor that lets him transform into a White Knight to fight an Evil Empire who has its own Dark Knight counterpart. You tag along, but only for the sake of going on your own completely unrelated adventures.
** {{spoiler|''[[White Knight Chronicles|White Knight Chronicles II]]''}}: The boy's [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] gets her own Knight while the boy falls into a coma for half the game. You're still there, but the only person who ever acknowledges your presence is [[Genius Ditz|an annoying]] catgirl.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Windom XP]]''}}: [[Humongous Mecha]] that are the "[[Theme Naming|incarnations]]" of Windows OSes blow each other up. Can be a ridiculous [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] with the plethora of sound-only user add-ons.
* {{spoiler|''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]]''}}: [[Mark Hamill]] flies a fighter in the Pacific theater of [[World War II]] [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]] with 7-foot-tall alien furries standing in for the Japanese. There are a lot of cutscenes.
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