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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.
* {{spoiler|''[[Nancy Drew (Videovideo Gamegame)|Nancy Drew]]''}}: A series of games based on classic books that have nothing to do with the books. The best part is [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|repeatedly killing the protagonist, then taking the option of going back to kill them again.]]
* {{spoiler|''[[Narcissu]]''}}: A car thief and his depressed lady-friend wander around the countryside looking at flowers because they have nothing better to do.
** {{spoiler|''Narcissu -Side 2nd-''}}: The moody friend from the first game spends her summer vacation tagging along with a jaded ex-Catholic.
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** {{spoiler|''[[Neverwinter Nights]] [[A Dance With Rogues]]''}}: Spoiled princess gets deposed, her family destroyed, her city overrun with hostile soldiers out to kill her and her friends. This all in the prologue. [[It Got Worse]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]: Mask of the Betrayer''}}: Main character wakes up at the bottom of a ghost-infested cave as [[The Punishment]]. He cannot decide if this is a good thing.
* {{spoiler|''[[Nicktoons Unite!]]''}}: [[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants|Sentient cheese block]], [[Danny Phantom|spandex ghost]], [[Jimmy Neutron|guy with bizarre hairdo]] and [[The Fairly Odd Parents|non-manly guy wearing pink]] battle [[Tim Curry]].
** {{spoiler|''Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island''}}: [[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants|Sentient cheese block, retarded echinoderm, astronaut mammal, cranky six-armed octopus]], [[Danny Phantom|spandex ghost, goth girl, technical wizard]], [[Jimmy Neutron|guy with bizarre hairdo]] and [[The Fairly Odd Parents|non-manly guy wearing pink]] save an island of crabs.
** {{spoiler|''Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots}}'': [[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants|Sentient cheese block, retarded echinoderm]], [[Danny Phantom|spandex ghost, goth girl]], [[Jimmy Neutron|guy with bizarre hairdo]], [[The Fairly Odd Parents|non-manly guy wearing pink]], [[Tak and Thethe Power of Juju|little shaman]], [[The Ren and Stimpy Show|gross kitty]], [[Rocko's Modern Life|wallaby wearing a Hawaiian shirt]], [[My Life Asas a Teenage Robot|girl in blue and white]] and [[Invader Zim|stupid hedonist]] battle Tim Curry's [[Living Toys]].
** {{spoiler|''Nicktoons: Globs of Doom''}}: [[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants|Sentient cheese block, little cyclops]], [[Danny Phantom|spandex ghost, not-Gilbert-Gottfried-honest]], [[Jimmy Neutron|guy with bizarre hairdo, Tim Curry's daughter]], [[Tak and Thethe Power of Juju|little shaman, tall shaman]], [[Invader Zim|green omnicidal maniac and conspiracy nut]] battle alien mucus older than time itself.
* {{spoiler|''[[Nicktoons MLB]]''}}: [[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants|Sentient cheese block]], [[Danny Phantom|spandex ghost]], [[Tuff Puppy|secret agent dog]], [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|bald kid]], [[Invader Zim|green omnicidal maniac]], [[The Ren and Stimpy Show|gross kitty]] and more face-off against real baseball players. [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made Onon Drugs?|No, you are not high.]]
* {{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|''[[Ni GHTSNiGHTS Into Dreams]]''}}: An androgynous creature enters the minds of children and absorbs their spirits into itself. And he's the ''Good Guy''.
** {{spoiler|''Nights: Journey Of Dreams''}}: Same androgynous creature does the same thing again, this time with different children, and also manages to confuse everyone by having [[Viewer Gender Confusion|a woman's voice]]. Also, an Owl constantly reminds them to collect [[Gotta Catch Em All|Dream]][[Collection Sidequest|Drops]], which if done, results in a cameo of the two children from the first game.
* {{spoiler|''[[Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (Visual Novel)|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.
** {{spoiler|''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' (Xbox game)}}: A [[Ninja]] finds much of his extended family dead after he returns from a visit to his uncle's and goes after [[The Empire]] responsible.
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** {{spoiler|''Game Boy Wars 1/2/Turbo''}}: In these 3 games for the price of 3, World War I takes place on various territories. The second of the two nations uses a different color.
** {{spoiler|''Game Boy Wars 3''}}: World War I takes place on various territories, with the second of the two nations again using the same different color. [[Military Madness]] occurs.
** {{spoiler|''Advance Wars''}}: World War II starts when Russia invades America, except it's all a [[Batman Gambit]] by an evil alien robot [[Super Mario Bros.|Snifit]] to take over the world. A key part of his plan is making robotic doubles of an American officer who is 15 and doesn't know what an airport is. When the plan falls apart, he drops meteors on the troops.
** {{spoiler|''Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising''}}: The evil alien robot (who is no longer a Snifit) decides to go with the direct approach, stealing military resources through a series of tubes. As subcommanders, he hires a man dumber than the Hulk, a 12 year old [[Perky Goth]] [[Mad Scientist]], a possibly gay man who wears blush and has no useful abilities whatsoever, and a frighteningly competent and collected lieutenant. Hiring the last one was a mistake.
** {{spoiler|''Advance Wars: Dual Strike''}}: Military commanders discover that by taking turns leading a single army, they can rend the very fabric of time. The hero shoots an old man's wheelchair.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Nintendogs]]''}}: Take care of familiar creatures that never grow up, learn a limited number of tricks, and get freaked out by various things.
* {{spoiler|''[[No More Heroes]]''}}: A shameless [[Anime]] [[Otaku]] wins a [[Laser Blade]] in an online auction, and uses it to carve his way up the leaderboard of an assassins' guild.
** {{spoiler|''[[No More Heroes]] 2: Desperate Struggle''}}: Shameless [[Anime]] [[Otaku]], now hellbent for revenge, carves his way up another leaderboard of an assassins' guild. Along the way, he's helped by his Irish twin brother and a female [[Afro Samurai (Anime)|Afro Samurai]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Noby Noby Boy]]''}}: A giant snake eats people then takes a huge dump.
* {{spoiler|''[[Noitu Love]]''}}: A small child stops an elderly man from inaccurately reversing evolution by beating the hell out of everything that moves.
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** {{spoiler|''[[Oddworld]]: Munch's Oddysee''}}: One legged wheelchair fish electrocutes doctors and Nurses, frees Hairy meatballs with teeth.
*** Alternatively, Slave and One-legged wheelchair fish work together to destroy the economy. This is a good thing.
** {{spoiler|''[[Oddworld: StrangersStranger's Wrath]]''}}: Bounty hunting centaur attempts to bring down water bottling company by throwing animals at it.
* {{spoiler|''[[Odin Sphere]]''}}: Once upon a time, five strangers took up gardening. There were no survivors.
* {{spoiler|''Okage: Shadow King''}}: A family sells their son's soul to a demon in order to free their daughter from a curse causing her to speak [[Pig Latin]].
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** {{spoiler|''[[Okamiden]]''}}: A wolf pup gains many friends, populates a small town and saves the world.
* {{spoiler|''OMGWTFOTL''}}: [[Schmuck Bait|DON'T GENUFLECT. EVER.]] Other than that... [[Mind Screw|good luck figuring this one out]].
* {{spoiler|''[[OnechanbaraOneChanbara]]''}}: [[Hot Chick Withwith a Sword|Hot chicks with swords]] fight zombies while trying not to get their clothes dirty.
* {{spoiler|''[[Oni]]''}} [[Ghost in Thethe Shell|Motoko Kusanagi]] [[Captain Ersatz|ersatz]] fights terrorists and her former employers, mostly with her bare hands.
* {{spoiler|''Onimusha: Warlords''}} A samurai in a quest to rescue a princess gets chosen by some good monsters to fight against evil monster, collecting souls on his way to beat gigantic wasps and humongous snakes only to have another one take the snake's place as [[Evil Overlord]].
** Or: The princess has been kidnapped by demons. Are you a bad enough samurai to save the princess?
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* {{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.
* {{spoiler|''Outpost 2''}}: God drops an asteroid on the Earth ... has a novella backstory.
* {{spoiler|''[[Overlord]]''}}: [[Villain Withwith Good Publicity|The world's most benevolent]] [[Evil Overlord]] and his goofy sidekicks seek revenge on a morbidly obese hobbit, a lecherous knight, a lazy elf, a gold-crazed dwarf, a self-hating thief, a possessed wizard, and a barbarian with anger management issues.
** {{spoiler|''Overlord 2''}}: His son goes up against [[The Empire|the Roman Empire]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Pac-Man]]''}}: All-consuming glutton shaped like pizza takes illicit substances to consume ghosts.
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** {{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.
* {{spoiler|''[[Panel De Pon]]''}}: A fairy princess frees her friends from brainwashing by dropping blocks of garbage on them. Today, the game is best known for a flower that appeared in a more famous video game.
** {{spoiler|''[[Tetris Attack]]''/''Pokemon Puzzle League''}}: Developers decide [[Dolled-Up Installment|this plot won't sell in America, so they let]] [[Yoshis Island (Video Game)|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".
* {{spoiler|''[[Panzer Dragoon]]''}}: The [[Precursors]] learned how to control evolution and the environment, but this ended up leading to a [[Crapsack World]], so it's up to a failsafe program that [[Unpredictable Results|randomly activates]] in some animals to save the day from their mistake.
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* {{spoiler|''Paperboy''}}: A boy bikes down the street and delivers the morning paper, [[Everything Trying to Kill You|dodging a small army of unlikely obstacles.]]
** {{spoiler|''Paperboy 2''}}: Same as above, but now girls can do it too.
* {{spoiler|''[[Paper Mario (Video Gamefranchise)|Paper Mario]]''}}: [[The Everyman|Everyman]] tries saving a land of sentient fungi from a dragon turtle. The characters are flat.
** {{spoiler|''[[Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door (Video Game)|Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door]]''}}: [[The Everyman|Everyman]] hunts down keys for a door, while his love interest gets [[Stalking Is Love|stalked]] [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?|by a computer]] on the Moon, his brother goes on an unseen adventure, and the villain of the previous game parodies the first ever game the four appeared in.
** {{spoiler|''[[Super Paper Mario (Video Game)|Super Paper Mario]]''}}: The wedding of the [[Fan-Preferred Couple]] nearly causes [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]]. [[The Everyman|Everyman]] fixes things by repeatedly breaking the third wall.
*** Or: A turtle marries a princess and dooms the whole universe. The day is saved when a man in a top hat marries a digital butterfly.
* {{spoiler|''Para Para Paradise''}}: Wave your hands to the tune of fast-paced eurobeat music.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Patapon]]''}}: As God, you command dancing eyeballs with weapons to war. You cannot control them directly so you have to use commands more complex than they need to be and be forced to wait after each command.
* {{spoiler|''[[The Path]]''}}: An adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood in which following the game's instructions means [[Game Over]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Pathways Intointo Darkness]]''}}: The talking corpses of your friends give you tips on helping an alien get back to sleep.
* {{spoiler|''[[Peggle (Video Game)|Peggle]]''}}: Various creatures, including a unicorn, a dragon, a cat, and a ''flower'' have a school dedicated to teaching the player how to [[To Be a Master|become a master]] at shooting balls at orange pegs.
** {{spoiler|''Peggle Nights''}}: The teachers of the above school have [[Wish Fulfillment|wish-fulfilling]] dreams.
* {{spoiler|''Peter Jackson's [[King Kong]]: The Official Game Of The Movie''}}: A HUD-less first-person shooter based on a major film by a big-name director where the player uses guns and other environmental objects to kill dinosaurs while exploring a tropical island.
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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}}.
* {{spoiler|''[[Phantom Brave]]''}}: [[Pollyanna|Incredibly cheery]] young necromancer raises the dead to fight and kill for money. [[Hero Withwith Bad Publicity|Her clients are extremely stingy.]]
* {{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.
* {{spoiler|''[[Planescape: Torment]]''}}: An amnesiac resolves to find out how to kill himself in a game based almost entirely on talking.
** Alternatively: Update Your Journal: the Game
* {{spoiler|''[[Plants vs. Zombies (Video Game)|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 dogs--literally.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Pokémon]]''}}: The player takes on the role of a child in a world where [[Free-Range Children|kids are allowed to leave the house at 10 years of age and traverse the world,]] capture, befriend, and battle with special [[Mon|animals]], causing them to metamorphose from adorable pets into grotesque oversized monsters, and beat up the local crime syndicate.
** Alternatively: Step into a world where pets are [[Serious Business]].
** {{spoiler|''[[Pokémon Red and Blue (Video Game)|Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow]]''}}: A young man who grows up to [[Memetic Badass|be a Pokémon master]] defeats a gang of ruthless criminals.
** {{spoiler|''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver (Video Game)|Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal]]''}}: A young man or woman goes on a similar journey to the one above, over two regions and with 100 more Pokemon and supplies.
** {{spoiler|''[[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire (Video Game)|Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald]]''}}: A young man or woman thwarts an environmental crisis caused by two teams of extremists by defeating or catching the Pokemon that one team uses to carry out its plans.
*** Alternatively: Defeat extremist ecological teams who hope to better the ecology of the region in convoluted ways.
** {{spoiler|''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (Video Game)|Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum]]''}}: Another young man or woman embarks on a journey to foil a terrorist organization and bend the ruler of time/space/antimatter to their will in the process.
** {{spoiler|''[[Pokémon Black and White]]''}}: A slightly older young man or woman embarks on a journey to foil an old man's plan to use his son's ability to talk to animals to take over the world.
** {{spoiler|''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]]: Red'' and ''Blue Rescue Teams''}}: A human gets turned into a monster after a personality test and is roped into rescuing other monsters in randomly generated dungeons. Said human nearly distracts a giant sky dragon from saving the world.
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** {{spoiler|''[[Pokémon Colosseum]]''}}: In a desert wasteland, an older boy takes villains' monsters in order to perform therapy for them.
*** {{spoiler|''Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness''}}: The same villains turn a seagull purple. Therapy is now done by a computer.
** {{spoiler|''[[Pokémon Trading Card Game (Videovideo Gamegame)|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 (Videovideo Gamegame)|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.
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* {{spoiler|''Pop'n Music''}}: Press big colorful buttons to create musical effects.
* {{spoiler|''[[Pong]]''}}: Two numbers, three lines, and a dot.
* {{spoiler|''[[Portal (Video Gameseries)|Portal]]''}}: Break the laws of physics repeatedly while being carted around a desolate laboratory by an insane computer.
** {{spoiler|''[[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]]''}}: Hundreds of years later, you team up with a potato to stop an idiot.
*** 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|''Power Instinct''}}: A family feud is settled in the fastest possible way.
** {{spoiler|''Power Instinct Matrimelee''}}: The family beats the hell out of each other for the right to break age-of-consent laws.
* {{spoiler|''Power Pete''}}: As [[Orson Welles]] said of his role in ''[[Transformers: theThe Movie]]'', you "play a big toy who attacks a bunch of smaller toys." In a toystore.
* {{spoiler|''[[Prey]]''}}: Cherokee Guy makes the ''[[Doom]]'' Guy proud. Now with more [[Gravity Screw]] (and [[Memetic Mutation|sphincters]]!)
* {{spoiler|''[[Primal]]''}}: A girl searches for her lost boyfriend while a gargoyle tries to convince her to save the world.
* {{spoiler|''[[Primal Rage]]''}}: ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' <small>[[Recycled in Space|WITH]] [[Everything's Better Withwith Dinosaurs|DINOSAURS]] AND [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys|GORILLAS]]!</small>
* {{spoiler|''[[Prince of Persia]]'' (1989 game)}}: You are a beggar who is in love with a princess and cannot survive a twenty-foot drop. Except the one that threw you in jail. You must fight through a crumbling, [[Everything Trying to Kill You|trap-filled palace brimming with guards]] and fight the evil vizier. In an hour.
** {{spoiler|''Prince of Persia 2''}}: Similar concept as above, only now you have to die to solve some of the puzzles and it takes ''two'' hours.
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** {{spoiler|''Professor Layton And The Last Specter''}}: ''Three'' Brits go to a small country village to stop a Frenchman from opening a garden. Unsurprisingly, puzzles are deathly [[Serious Business]].
** {{spoiler|''Professor Layton And The Mask Of Miracle''}}: Three Brits go to a carnival to keep people from getting stoned. Puzzles enter a new dimension of [[Serious Business]].
* {{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 (Videovideo Gamegame)|Prototype]]''}}: A man in a hoodie has lunch in New York despite the army's best attempts to stop him.
** {{spoiler|''[[Prototype 2 (Video Game)|Prototype 2]]''}}: The man in the hoodie welcomes a very upset man into his family. The angry man shows his appreciation by waging war on ''everyone''.
* {{spoiler|''[[Psychonauts (Video Game)|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.
* {{spoiler|''[[Punch Out]]''}}: Scrawny kid works his way to the top of the boxing circuit. Many of his opponents are blatant cheaters.
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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.
* {{spoiler|''[[QbertQ*bert]]''}}: Jump on blocks in order to change their color while avoiding anything purple.
* {{spoiler|''[[Qix]]''}}: Draw lots of quadrilaterals while sparkly things chase you around. Avoid the color-changing lines.
* {{spoiler|''[[Quake (Video Gameseries)|Quake]]''}}: A single [[Space Marine]] must traverse numerous monotonously decorated Gothic buildings in order to reach a boss who doesn't move or attack at all.
** {{spoiler|''[[Quake II (Video Game)|Quake II]]''}}: A single soldier fights a bunch of guys who all have prosthetic limbs.
** {{spoiler|''[[Quake III Arena (Video Game)|Quake III Arena]]''}}: A bunch of people kill each other over and over again.
** {{spoiler|''[[Quake IV (Video Game)4|Quake IV]]''}}: A bunch of soldiers invade the home of the aforementioned prosthetic limb users.
** {{spoiler|''[[Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (Video Game)|Enemy Territory Quake Wars]]''}}: A bunch of soldiers and a bunch of prosthetic limb users wage war in the soldiers' home planet.
* {{spoiler|''The Queen of Heart '99''}}: The result of dipping ''[[To Heart]]'' into massive (fan-made) [[Character Derailment]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Quest for Glory]]''}}: A guy wants to be a hero.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Radiant Silvergun]]''}}: An arcade 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.
* {{spoiler|''Rama''}}: [[Arthur C. Clarke (Creator)]] teaches an astronaut octal and hexadecimal math.
* {{spoiler|''[[Rampage]]''}}: You punch buildings until either they collapse or you fall and turn into a naked person.
* {{spoiler|''[[Raptor: Call of the Shadows|Raptor: Call Of The Shadows]]''}}: An '''''[[Made of Iron|extremely durable]]''''' plane shoots down enemies.
* {{spoiler|''[[Ratchet and& Clank 2002 (Videovideo Gamegame)|Ratchet and Clank 2002]]''}}: Vaguely catlike repairman acquires factory-rejected robot and saves the galaxy from people who are just trying to make a new home for themselves.
** {{spoiler|''[[Ratchet and Clank Going Commando]]''}}: Vaguely catlike repairman and factory-rejected robot travel to another galaxy and save it from an adorable fuzzy monster.
** {{spoiler|''[[Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal]]''}}: Vaguely catlike repairman and factory-rejected robot return to the first galaxy and save it from a mad scientist and his sarcastic butler. But they need the help of one of their old enemies to do so.
** {{spoiler|''[[Ratchet: Deadlocked]]''}}: Vaguely catlike repairman must win a game show [[Deadly Game|or die trying.]]
** {{spoiler|''[[Ratchet and Clank Size Matters]]''}}: Vaguely catlike repairman and factory-rejected robot get interviewed by a young girl working on her school project and end up finding tiny aliens.
** {{spoiler|''[[Secret Agent Clank (Video Game)|Secret Agent Clank]]''}}: Vaguely catlike repairman gets sent to prison, while factory-rejected robot tries on various costumes, sends the repairman cakes, and plays poker for an empty crate. Meanwhile, [[The Ditz|stupid]] green-wearing superhero tells a bunch of far-fetched tales, and tiny robots help defeat cheating robots.
** {{spoiler|''[[Ratchet and Clank Future Tools of Destruction]]''}}: Vaguely catlike repairman and factory-rejected robot save a different galaxy from a pipsqueak emperor and his army of goldfish. They also find the ultimate weapon of a lost civilization: a hat.
** {{spoiler|''[[Ratchet and& Clank (Video Game)|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}}.
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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.
* {{spoiler|The ''[[Rance (Franchise)|Rance]]'' Series}}: A [[Heroic Sociopath]] mercenary wanders the [[Medieval European Fantasy]] [[Crap Saccharine World]] with his loyal slave doing what he does best.
** {{spoiler|''[[Rance: (VideoQuest Game)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 (Video Game)|Rance II]]: The Rebellious Maidens''}}: Said mercenary finds a town sunk by [[Virgin Power]]. He solves the problem by doing what he does best.
** {{spoiler|''Rance III: The Fall of Leazas''}}: A country ruled by a former perverted lesbian queen is under attack. They hire the mercenary, whose slave was kidnapped by the attacking country. He also gets to do what he does best.
** {{spoiler|''Kichikuou Rance''}}: The mercenary and the former perverted lesbian queen get married so the mercenary's slave can be rescued. He ends up ruling the world all while doing what he does best. Of course, [[Gaiden Game|this game never happened]].
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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!]]
** {{spoiler|''[[Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare]]''}}: [[And Then John Was a Zombie|...and then John Marston was a zombie.]]
* {{spoiler|''[[Resident Evil 1]]''}}: Cops break into a house and kill everyone inside.
** {{spoiler|''[[Resident Evil 2 (Video Game)]]''}}: 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?
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* {{spoiler|''Rise of the Triad''}}: Five special forces agents must stop a cult whose ranks include the former head of a movie studio. Among your weapons are a magical baseball bat and the ability to turn into a dog.
* {{spoiler|''[[Ristar]]''}}: A star defeats invading aliens by grabbing them.
* {{spoiler|''[[Rival Schools (Video Game)|Rival Schools]]: United By Fate''}}: High school kids are disappearing and coming back [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]. The only obvious solution is to beat the crap out of one another to find the culprit.
** {{spoiler|''Project Justice''}}: A lunatic in tight clothing and extendable claws sets out to take over all the schools. The obvious solution from the last game is again the only option.
* {{spoiler|''[[River City Ransom]]''}}: Two high school [[Delinquents]] beat up an entire city worth of gangsters for the sake of one guy's girlfriend.
** Or: Beat up people to hear them barf.
* {{spoiler|''[[Riviera the Promised Land]]''}}: A fallen angel and his harem attempt to stop his old companions from bringing about [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]].
** {{spoiler|''[[Yggdra Union]]''}}: Princess with a [[BFS|big sword]] and a deck of cards has to reclaim her kingdom from an empire with larger numbers (and, obviously, more cards).
*** {{spoiler|''[[Yggdra Unison]]''}}: Empire captures fortress; [[Lighter and Softer|very cutesy]] world war between twelve countries, each armed with a deck of cards, ensues.
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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.
* {{spoiler|''[[Rogue (Videovideo Gamegame)|Rogue]]''}}: A [[Big Eater]] fights uppercase letters. Popular enough to spawn a game genre named after it.
* {{spoiler|''[[Rogue Galaxy]]''}}: After being abandoned by a bunch of space pirates and then rescued by the captain's pretty daughter, a young man finds his true heritage while traveling across the universe.
* {{spoiler|''Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012''}}: A demonic gangster takes over most of America's tourist spots, while an underground organization fights back by offering discount vacations, breaking into said tourist spots with heavily-armed vehicles, and battling each other over the tourist.
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** {{spoiler|''[[Sakura Taisen]] 3''}}: As above, <small>IN PARIS</small>!
** {{spoiler|''[[Sakura Taisen]] 5''}}: As above, <small>IN NEW YORK</small>!
* {{spoiler|''[[The Adventures of Sam and& Max: Freelance Police (Video Game)|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.
** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- Culture Shock''}}: Two sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eyes beat up a bunch of [[Former Child Star|former child stars]].
** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- Situation: Comedy''}}: Two sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eyes trick a chicken into eating cow poop, cheat at game shows, and electrocute a talk-show hostess.
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** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- The Tomb of Sammun-Mak''}}: Two sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eyes watch their great-grandfathers' home movies.
** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- They Stole Max's Brain!''}}: A sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eye threatens a rat, a gorilla, a tourist, and an outdated fax machine because his partner lost a vital organ. Said partner then has to thwart a spoiled pre-teen's plans for world domination.
** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- Beyond the Alley of the Dolls''}}: A sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eye tries to find clones of himself, but finds a [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|dispenser]] instead.
** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- The City That Dares Not Sleep''}}: The other sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eye spontaneously gains psychic powers. And becomes a giant beast.
* {{spoiler|''Samba de Amigo''}}: Mexican and sister compete in dance contests.
* {{spoiler|''[[Samorost (Video Game)|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.
* {{spoiler|''[[Samurai Champloo]]: Sidetracked''}}: A prototype for [[No More Heroes]], based on an anime, doesn't affect the anime's canon [[Gaiden Game|in any way]].
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** {{spoiler|1=''[[Samurai Shodown]] 64-2''}}: The evil dude from the previous game is still alive, the guy and the girl from the first game + a (less) evil demon and some woman with [[Mismatched Eyes|odd eyes]] wants him down.
** {{spoiler|''[[Samurai Shodown]] Warriors Rage''}}: 20 years later, A tiny old man, a possessed half-demon girl with a large blade thing and some other dude screw around. The guy (Now an old man) from the first game go save the younger sister of the girl of you-know-what (Now a fairy) from these three guys. We see the other dude's brother instead.
** {{spoiler|''[[Samurai Shodown]]: Edge of Destiny''}}: A fictional kingdom is pissed up. A girl with a huge sword and a guy with a wooden sword tries to fix this. Weirdos of [[Afro Samurai (Anime)|implausible]] [[Horny Vikings|origins]] are involved.
* {{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 (Visual Novel)|Saya no Uta]]''}}: A young man with a crippling disorder meets a lovely girl who makes him feel better. [[The End of the World Asas 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 [[Endofthe World As We Know It|destroy humanity]].
* {{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).
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* {{spoiler|''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]''}}: A young male teen gains the ability to summon demons and uses it to fight demons. And possibly the [[Rage Against the Heavens|forces of heaven]]. No wonder it got stuck in Japan.
** {{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.
** {{spoiler|''[[Shin Megami Tensei]] 3: Nocturne''}}: A different young male teen-turned-demon survives [[The End of the World Asas We Know It|the world being turned into a giant space womb]] and gets to decide which one of his friends impregnates the baby universe. [[Screw Destiny|Or he can kill the fetus]] and [[Rage Against the Heavens|join Lucifer]] ([[Dark Is Not Evil|who's apparently a good guy]]) in fighting to kill God and stop the cycle. The [[Updated Rerelease]] features [[Devil May Cry|a certain]] [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|White Haired Pretty]] [[Badass Longcoat]].
** {{spoiler|''[[Devil Survivor (Video Game)|Devil Survivor]]''}}: Pokemon-like creatures appear in real life, most likely leading to one of several versions of the Apocalypse over the course of a week while you are stuck inside a part of Tokyo. Your main source of information as to what the hell is going on is an increasingly glitchy mail daemon.
** {{spoiler|''[[Persona]]''}}: A group of kids get struck by lightning and then go off on a {{spoiler|[[Journey to Thethe Center of Thethe Mind]]}}.
** Alternatively: A video game in which you can be killed by an evil, hula-dancing toilet.
** {{spoiler|''[[Persona 2 (Video Game)|Persona 2]]'': Innocent Sin}}: The most... colorful interpretation of Adolf Hitler ever imagined...''anywhere''.
** {{spoiler|''[[Persona 2 (Video Game)|Persona 2]]'': Eternal Punishment}}: A female journalist, her jealous best friend, a cop, a wire tapper, and a shell-shocked senior fight a serial killer. What happens next, well, your guess is as good as any.
*** Alternatively: The Rumor Mill is very, ''very'' brutal.
*** Alternatively: The greatest test of a person's [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]] towards any given form of media.
** {{spoiler|''[[Persona 3 (Video Game)|Persona 3]]''}}: Eight high school students (including one robot), a kid, and a dog try to prevent the end of the world by shooting themselves in the head over and over inside a school at midnight.
*** Or as summarized in the sequel: Blue-haired boy gets stuck in wall.
*** Alternatively: The greatest stair-climbing simulator in history.
*** {{spoiler|''Persona 3: FES''}}: The same bunch (minus two students) are trapped in their dorm and try to break out by shooting themselves in the head in the basement. They are assisted by another robot who tries to actually kill them.
** {{spoiler|''[[Persona 4 (Video Game)|Persona 4]]''}}: Seven different high school students (and a bear) solve local murders by watching TV all night long.
*** Alternative: A boy moves to a small town where he and his friends become obsessed with late-night TV. [[They Fight Crime]].
*** Alternatively: A boy who shows next to no emotion somehow becomes a [[Marty Stu]].
*** Alternatively for the above two entries: {{spoiler|''[[Persona 3]]'' or ''[[Persona 4]]''}}: Get people to become friends with you (and even date/sleep with you) by telling them what they want to hear, all for your selfish personal benefit.
* {{spoiler|''[[Shoot Many Robots (Video Game)|Shoot Many Robots]]''}}: [[Duke Nukem 3D (Video Game)|Those robot bastards are gonna pay for shooting up your ride!]]
* {{spoiler|''Shufflepuck Café''}}: In the farthest reaches of the galaxy, surrounded by exotic alien beings, you play air hockey.
* {{spoiler|''[[Sid MeiersMeier'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 Thethe 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).
** {{spoiler|''Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire''}}: As above, but with [[Sid Meiers Pirates|pirates]]!; [[Cyborg|cyborgs]]!; a [[Creepy Child|child messiah]]!; [[Playful Hacker|hackers]]!; a [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|neo-socialist working-class revolution]]!; and even more aliens!
* {{spoiler|''[[Sid Meiers Pirates|Sid Meier's Pirates]]''}}: [[Wide Open Sandbox|Do what you want]] 'cause a pirate lives free, [[Memetic Mutation|you are a pirate]]!
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*** Alternatively: A man cannot find a way to get out of his room because his front door is locked from the inside. To get out, he must crawl through a plot hole.
** {{spoiler|''[[Silent Hill Homecoming]]''}}: You come home from a war to find your town overrun with more crazy cultists and, also, vaginal imagery. You shoot your mother to get the good ending.
** {{spoiler|''[[Silent Hill: Shattered Memories]]''}}: You go on a hunt for your daughter in freak weather conditions. The town locals make every effort to [[Mind Screw]] you into submission.
*** Alternatively: {{spoiler|You play through a metaphor for a therapy session.}}
* {{spoiler|''[[The Silver Case]]''}}: Almost everyone dies trying to figure out why there are killers in town.
** {{spoiler|''[[Flower Sun and Rain|Flower, Sun, and Rain]]''}}: A man never gets his breakfast, therefore airplanes explode.
** {{spoiler|''The Silver Case: Ward 25''}}: Correctness, Match Maker, Placebo, Transmitter. These words have ''something'' in common, but [[No Export for You|darned if I know]] what they are.
* {{spoiler|''[[Sim City]]''}}: Put yourself in power; receive many complaints about traffic.
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* {{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]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Sinistar]]''}}: A guy in a spaceship gathers shiny rocks to keep a giant roaring head from eating him.
* {{spoiler|''[[Skies of Arcadia (Video Game)|Skies of Arcadia]]''}}: Two pirates and a [[Mysterious Waif|Waif]] go on an epic adventure to collect moon rocks. In the sky.
* {{spoiler|''[[Skullgirls]]''}}: Eight ladies fight each other to gain an artifact who will grant them a wish but also turning them into an [[Eldritch Abomination]].
* {{spoiler|''Sky Blazer''}}: A grumpy old man yells at a gay cousin of [[Mega Man (Videovideo Gamegame)|Mega Man]] to go beat up an indian deity. He concedes.
* {{spoiler|''[[Sly Cooper]] and the Thievious Racoonus''}}: A career criminal beats up other career criminals to recover a family heirloom.
** {{spoiler|''Sly 2: Band of Theves''}}: The career criminal steals the parts to a robot from other career criminals.
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* {{spoiler|''Solitaire''}}: Winning just means you beat the odds against being screwed over from the beginning.
* {{spoiler|''Sonic Blast Man''}}: A superhero saves the day by [[Megaton Punch|punching people and things really, really hard]]. Which is apparently [[When All You Have Is a Hammer|his only super-power.]]
* {{spoiler|''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Videovideo Gamegame)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]''}}: A small blue mammal steals batteries from a fat man. The blue mammal does this because the fat man is using cute little animals as batteries to power killer robots.
** {{spoiler|''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Video Game)|Sonic the Hedgehog 2]]''}}: That blue mammal is now stalked by a two-tailed canid.
** {{spoiler|''[[Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Video Game)|Sonic the Hedgehog CD]]''}}: That blue mammal must save an obsessive fan girl of his through time travel.
** {{spoiler|''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles (Video Game)|Sonic 3 and Knuckles]]''}}: Red mammal punches blue mammal. Then changes his mind.
*** Alternatively: Red mammal throws blue mammal into traps and other conveniences to protect his jewels.
** {{spoiler|''[[Sonic the Fighters (Video Game)|Sonic the Fighters]]''}}: Various mammals (and a bird) fight over who gets to go into space and beat up a robot.
** {{spoiler|''[[Sonic Adventure (Video Game)|Sonic Adventure]]''}}: Water elemental tries to [[Kill All Humans]] to avenge the actions of red mammals. The blue mammal's friends learn that they don't need him. A cat goes fishing for frogs. A soldier heroically kills himself and his entire family ([[Captain Obvious|though not in that order]]).
** {{spoiler|''[[Sonic Adventure 2 (Video Game)|Sonic Adventure 2]]''}}: Black mammal is unleashed and decides to destroy the world. Then changes his mind, after the fat man's ''dead'' grandfather gets close to achieving this.
** {{spoiler|''[[Sonic Heroes (Video Game)|Sonic Heroes]]''}}: The entire cast succumbs to [[The Power of Friendship]]. Characters from the company's least successful consoles drive the plot.
** {{spoiler|''[[Sonic Battle (Video Game)|Sonic Battle]]''}}: Mammals befriend a robot. After a while, {{spoiler|one of them beats it to death}}.
** {{spoiler|''[[Shadow the Hedgehog (Videovideo Gamegame)|Shadow the Hedgehog]]''}}: [[Darker and Edgier]] black mammal saves the world by courageously shooting everyone. He swears every 30 seconds, and sometimes other characters do it too.
*** Or: A black mammal uses a gun to fight The Man. But The Man is an alien. [[Multiple Endings|Sometimes.]]
** {{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.
** {{spoiler|''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 (Videovideo Gamegame)|Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]]''}}: Four suspiciously similar mammals repeatedly change history. The game [[Canon Dis Continuity|erases itself from the timeline]] as a result.
*** Or, a hammy demon executes a complicated gambit that defies common sense to make a girl cry.
** {{spoiler|''[[Sonic Unleashed (Video Game)|Sonic Unleashed]]''}}: Blue mammal cursed to become a [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Blue Mammal That's Different.]]
** {{spoiler|''[[Sonic Storybook Series|Sonic and the Black Knight]]''}}: Blue mammal <small>[[Recycled in Space|IN CAMELOT!]]</small>
** {{spoiler|''[[Sonic Rivals (Video Game)|Sonic Rivals]]'' and ''Sonic Rivals 2''}}: A mad scientist is threatening to destroy the world! So the heroes do the only logical thing, race each other and try to beat the crap out of each other in the process.
** {{spoiler|''[[Sonic Rush Series (Video Game)|Sonic Rush Series]] Adventure''}}: Blue mammal and his canid pal are transported to a dimension where they play at sailors with a purple feline princess and a [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] orange raccoon from the [[Land Down Under]].
** {{spoiler|''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 4 (Video Game)|Sonic the Hedgehog 4]]''}}: Blue mammal stops the fat man again, this time all by himself, in a story that's simultaneously [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|too different from prior installments]] and [[It's the Same, Now It Sucks|too similar to prior installments]].
** {{spoiler|''[[Sonic Colors (Video Game)|Sonic Colors]]''}}: Blue mammal and two-tailed canid team up with one-eyed aliens to stop the fat man from making an [[Amusement Park of Doom|amusement park]] in space.
*** Or, blue mammal decides to destroy exotic resort before opening day.
** {{spoiler|''[[Sonic Generations (Video Game)|Sonic Generations]]''}}: Blue mammal is thrown back in time and meets his younger self. Both mammals must fix the timeline and save their mammal buddies (plus two reptiles, and an insect).
* {{spoiler|''[[Sono Hanabira Nini Kuchizuke Wo (Visual Novel)|Sono Hanabira Ni Kuchizuke Wowo]]''}}: Two schoolgirls fall in love with each other. They have sex. A lot.
* {{spoiler|''[[Soul Blazer]]''}}: God sends you to save the world so he can take all the credit.
** {{spoiler|1=''[[Illusion of Gaia]]/Time''}}: Due to the presence of an evil force, modern day Earth turned out much more interesting. The powers that be order you to correct this.
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** {{spoiler|''Spyro: Year of the Dragon''}}: A rhino-like sorcerer and her furry second-in-command steals lots of eggs to draw power from them. The punk's health bar is controllable for part of the game.
** {{spoiler|''The Legend of Spyro''}}: An alternate universe version of said punk (who is more noble and has a few other new health issues) beats up his future love interest, an ape with a laser eye, and the only other of his kind. Big demon destroys the world by walking around in a circle. The dragonfly is now a cowardly [[Deadpan Snarker]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Stacking (Video Game)|Stacking]]''}}: A Russian nesting doll uses mind control to pull pranks and get child labor outlawed.
* {{spoiler|''[[STALKER|S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl]]''}}: Man wakes up on table, with a note telling him to kill himself.
** {{spoiler|''Clear Sky''}}: Man wakes up, is sent on a quest to stop the place from exploding every hour. Figures out the way to stop it is to kill the previously mentioned man. {{spoiler|He fails at the killing part.}}
* ''{{spoiler|[[Star Control]] II}}'': A young man solves his caterpillar problem through genocide. Sort of like Centipede... [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE!]]
* ''{{spoiler|[[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Star Fox]] (1993 game)}}'': Woodland animals fighting an evil brain in spaceships.
** ''{{spoiler|Star Fox 64}}'': Another way the plot of the first game might have happened. You face the difficult moral decision of abandoning your target to save your teammates. Frequently.
** ''{{spoiler|[[Star Fox Adventures (Video Game)|Star Fox Adventures]]}}'': Our hero saves a bunch of British lizards from a bunch of smaller lizards using a stick. For the money. And maybe a romantic interest/furry [[Fetish Fuel]].
** ''{{spoiler|Star Fox: Assault}}'': Furries set aside their differences to battle the real menace: parasitic insects.
** ''{{spoiler|Star Fox Command}}'': Anthropomorphic animals follow [[Multiple Endings|various plotlines]] to fight evil fish. They almost always end up hating each other, so a [[Shigeru Miyamoto|a Japanese man]] decided it [[Word of God|never happened]].
* ''{{spoiler|[[Star Ocean]]}}'': The Japanese version of [[Star Trek]] minus the science fiction.
** ''{{spoiler|[[Star Ocean the Second Story (Video Game)|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|1=they're NPCs in a MMORPG.}}
** ''{{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|[[Starcraft II]]: Heart of the Swarm}}'': The bitch gets her groove back and goes on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]. [[Running Gag|Korea gearing up to love it.]]
*** ''{{spoiler|[[Starcraft II]]: Legacy of the Void}}'': That [[Apocalypse How|Class X-4]] we mentioned [[Schrodinger's Gun|either does or doesn't happen]]. The bitch's role TBD. Korea will probably [[Running Gagged|lov--]][[Killed Mid-Sentence|*gunshot*]]
* ''{{spoiler|[[Star Trek Starfleet Command|Starfleet Command]]}}'': [[Space Is an Ocean]] -- lucky for you, you can buy yourself a pretty [[Cool Ship|kickass galleon]]. ''Un''luckily, it's also [[Nintendo Hard]], with a [[Viewer-Friendly Interface|viewer-friendly]], yet [[Obfuscated Interface|user-unfriendly]] interface. ''And'' it's [[The Problem Withwith Licensed Games|based on a]] [[Star Trek|TV show]] [[Sarcasm Mode|that you've probably never heard of]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Star TropicsStarTropics]]''}}: 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.
* {{spoiler|''[[Street Fighter (Videovideo Gamegame)|Street Fighter]]''}}: Kickboxing champ hosts secret fighting tournament in order to [[SNK Boss|humiliate]] players around the world.
** {{spoiler|''[[Street Fighter II (Video Game)|Street Fighter II]]''}}: Stereotypes from around the world explore their grudges in a secret worldwide tournament hosted by a dictator.
** {{spoiler|''[[Street Fighter Alpha (Video Game)|Street Fighter Alpha]]''}}: Stereotypes from around the world trek the globe to explore their grudges and randomly fight other stereotypes, while the dictator plays with dolls.
** {{spoiler|''[[Street Fighter III (Video Game)|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 (Video Game)|Street Fighter IV]]''}}: Stereotypes from around the world continue their grudges while dealing with [[Watchmen|Doctor Manhattan]]. The losers [[You Will Be Assimilated|get assimilated]].
** {{spoiler|''[[Street Fighter EX (Video Game)|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 (Video Game)|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 Thethe Elements|are dressed as skimpily as possible]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Streets of Rage]]''}}: Criminal organization takes control of a city. You beat the living crap out of them.
* {{spoiler|''[[Stretch Panic]]''}}: A girl uses her scarf to beat up women with [[Gag Boobs|grotesquely huge breasts]] and save her sisters from their own vanity.
* {{spoiler|''[[Strider (Video Game)Hiryu|Strider]]''}}: A ninja fights the Soviet Union with his lavender outfit and technicolor sword.
* {{spoiler|''[[Strong BadsBad's Cool Game for Attractive People (Video Game)|Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People]]''}}: A sarcastic shirtless luchador runs around his hometown, looks under boxes, talks to people, and messes with his neighbors. His favorite victim happens to be a pantsless whitey.
** {{spoiler|''Homestar Ruiner''}}: A sarcastic shirtless luchador regrets dressing up as a pantsless whitey and running through an obstacle course in front of people.
** {{spoiler|''Strong Badia the Free''}}: A sarcastic shirtless luchador inspires his neighbors (a pantsless whitey included) to start their own countries, then proceeds to conquer them, only to play some Risk against himself later on.
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** {{spoiler|''[[Suikoden II]]''}}: The most murderous, [[Ax Crazy]] psychopath imaginable gets put in charge of an invasion force, with predictable results.
** {{spoiler|''[[Suikoden III]]''}}: Longstanding territorial dispute is seen from multiple viewpoints as outside forces take advantage of the conflict to further their own goals.
** {{spoiler|''[[Suikoden IV]]''}}: Seafaring hero gets [[Cursed Withwith Awesome]]/[[Blessed Withwith Suck]] powers while a merchant with a rather dead look in his eyes manipulates an empire for expansion gain the aforementioned powers that the hero possesses.
*** {{spoiler|''[[Suikoden Tactics]]''}}: Follow up to the previous entry, elaborates on many plot and character points that were left vague, and if you play your cards right, you can recruit the old main character who has achieved Blessed With Awesome control over his power.
** {{spoiler|''[[Suikoden V]]''}}: The prince of the Queendom must unite his people against a usurping noble family whose name gives a good indication of the kind of politics they play.
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* {{spoiler|''Supaplex''}}: A [[Nintendo Hard]] [[Boulder Dash]] [[Follow the Leader|clone]] where you are in a computer and [[Demonic Spiders|scissors and sparks]] are out to get you.
* {{spoiler|''Super 3D Noah's Ark''}}: A senile old rescue ship captain pelts his charges with fruit while answering Bible trivia.
* {{spoiler|Super Columbine Massacre RPG}}: [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]. Built entirely with a cheap RPG design program and scored to MIDI files of songs by [[Nirvana]], [[KMFDM (Music)|KMFDM]], [[Marilyn Manson]], and others.
** Alternatively, kill dozens of kids, then go to hell for it.
* {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario Bros. (Videovideo Gamegame)|Super Mario Bros]]''}}: An evil turtle king has turned all the denizens of the world into bricks. The [[Damsel in Distress]] can only be saved by two [[The Everyman|blue-collar workers]] who [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made Onon Drugs?|do a lot of mushrooms]]. ''OR:'' The hero must eat mushrooms in order to kill other mushrooms in order to save other other mushrooms.
** {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario Bros 2 (Video Game)|Super Mario Bros 2]]''}}: Previously mentioned blue-collar workers fall from the sky into a new land and must defeat an evil frog by feeding him vegetables. [[All Just a Dream|Or do they?]]
*** {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario Bros the Lost Levels (Video Game)|Super Mario Bros the Lost Levels]]''}}: Blue collar workers [[Nintendo Hard|get killed often]] fighting the turtle king, [[No Export for You|leading them to fight the frog instead.]]
** {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario Bros 3 (Video Game)|Super Mario Bros 3]]''}}: The duo must save the damsel again, this time be dressing up in outlandish costumes and systematically murdering the turtle king's children.
** {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario Land (Video Game)|Super Mario Land]]''}}: One of the duo fights aliens to save a completely unrelated damsel in a kingdom filled with moai.
*** {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario Land 2 Six Golden Coins (Video Game)|Super Mario Land 2 Six Golden Coins]]''}}: It turns out the previous game was just a distraction so that a fat guy could rob his house. Afterward, everyone decides the fat guy is more interesting and helps him rob more people.
** {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario World (Videovideo Gamegame)|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.]]
*** {{spoiler|''Super Mario World 2: [[Yoshis Island (Video Game)|Yoshi's Island]]''}}: Everyone decides the green dinosaur is more interesting and [[Badly-Battered Babysitter|helps him look after]] [[Spinoff Babies|younger versions of everyone else]].
*** {{spoiler|''Yoshi's Island DS''}}: Evil turtle travels back to the past and green dinosaur must save the future by pooping eggs.
** {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario RPG (Video Game)|Super Mario RPG]]''}}: One of the duo teams up with the damsel, the turtle, a living cloud who was raised by frogs, and a possessed action figure to beat up giant talking weapons and fix a wishing star.
** {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario 64 (Video Game)|Super Mario 64]]''}}: One of the duo fights evil in paintings in said damsel's castle.
*** {{spoiler|''Super Mario 64 DS''}}: In this [[Oddly -Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo|oddly named]] [[Updated Rerelease]] of the above title, the duo and the fat guy also need rescuing. The hero ends up being the green dinosaur, though one of the duo takes on the villain.
** {{spoiler|''[[Super Princess Peach (Video Game)|Super Princess Peach]]''}}: Everyone decides the damsel is more interesting and helps her have adventures with her umbrella.
** {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario Sunshine (Video Game)|Super Mario Sunshine]]''}}: One of the duo is put to work against his will and sprays everyone with water in the process. The turtle king turns out to be taking a family vacation at the same resort the same blue-collar worker is staying at, but not with his original seven children -- it's [[Replacement Scrappy|a new son]] with mommy confusion.
** {{spoiler|''[[New Super Mario Bros (Video Game)|New Super Mario Bros]]''}}: Turtle king decides to re-enact the first time he kidnapped the damsel, only to [[Kill It Withwith Fire|get his skin]] [[Family-Unfriendly Death|burned off]]. His [[Replacement Scrappy|son]] takes over.
*** {{spoiler|''[[New Super Mario Bros Wii (Video Game)|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 From the Scrappy Heap|his other son]]. The duo enlists the help of two mushroom folk and the dinosaur, but end up tripping over each other.
** {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario Galaxy (Video Game)|Super Mario Galaxy]]''}}: The duo from the above examples find themselves [[Recycled in Space|in space]]. [[Batman Can Breathe in Space|They never acquire space suits.]] [[Gainax Ending|Then the universe explodes.]]
*** {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Video Game)|Super Mario Galaxy 2]]''}}: There is more exploration of space. This time the green dinosaur can be used to travel places. [[Batman Can Breathe in Space|They still never acquire space suits.]] The turtle king's original seven children once again fail to show up despite [[New Super Mario Bros Wii (Video Game)|the previous adventure]].
** {{spoiler|''[[Hotel Mario (Video Game)|Hotel Mario]]''}}: Overweight hero calls his brother [[Mondegreen|a homosexual]] while going out on a picnic. They proceed to shut a lot of doors in order to condemn buildings. [[Read the Freaking Manual|Enclosed within is an instruction book.]]
*** To be honest, it really isn't any better than it sounds.
* {{spoiler|''[[Super Monkey Ball]]''}}: Tiny primates are permanently locked inside plastic globes and careen around collecting bananas.
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** {{spoiler|''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''}}: The trophies are brought to life again, only this time there's an actual plot. Much of it involves trophies being brought to life to fight each other.
* {{spoiler|[http://armorgames.com/play/5379/sushi-cat Sushi Cat] }}: You drop a cat and it eats a lot of sushi before it hits the ground.
* {{spoiler|''[[Syndicate (Video Game)|Syndicate]]''}}: Lead four people from on high to gather a large following, or kill everyone, or both.
** Alternatively: "Persuadatron". Just "Persuadatron".
* {{spoiler|''[[System Shock]]''}}: Man hacks a computer in exchange for an operation. Six months later, he goes on a rampage, killing every moving thing he sees.
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*** Alternatively: Squishy space zombies and insane computer duke it out on FTL ship. Man becomes insane computer's surprise nuke, beats a Russian collectivist, and rebels.
* {{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 (Videovideo Gamegame)|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.
* {{spoiler|''Taiko no Tatsujin''}}: Talking drum has two notes.
* {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Phantasia (Video Game)|Tales of Phantasia]]''}}: A hero chosen by fate receives the blessing of his Gods and sets out on a quest to save his world, the hopes of his people carried on his shoulders. You must stop him at all costs.
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Destiny (Video Game)|Tales of Destiny]]''}}: A boy with a talking sword must save the world from evil businessmen.
*** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Destiny (Video Game)|Tales of Destiny]] 2''}}: [[Kid Hero]] tries to avenge the previous hero. The man who betrayed his father comes back to life to help him.
** Alternatively: [[Large Ham|Big]] [[Complete Monster|Guy]] with a [[An Axe to Grind|big axe]] makes a big mess.
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Eternia (Video Game)|Tales of Eternia]]''}}: The sky is falling. The world's only hope is a guy in a really fruity hat. Failing that, a guy in a really fruity shirt. You are the guy in the shirt.
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]''}}: You fight against angels led by a spandex bodysuit-wearing legendary hero and ruin his plans for world peace.
*** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]] Dawn of the New World''}}: A [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] with a severe bipolar disorder sets off on a quest to [[Gotta Catch Em All|catch'em all]] while his [[Clingy Jealous Girl|Clingy Jealous Girlfriend]] constantly tells him to be a man.
** {{spoiler|''Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon''}}: A fanboy and a fangirl alternately break and fix the timeline through cosplay. ''Extreme'' cosplay.
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of the Abyss (Video Game)|Tales of the Abyss]]''}}: A young aristocrat suffers a severe emotional crisis, is betrayed by his most trusted ally, abandoned by his family and country, treated with contempt by his friends, and attempts to kill himself repeatedly.
*** Alternately: A boy and his teacher agree that the best way to solve the world's problems is to [[Screw Destiny]], but end up having an argument about the best method of doing so.
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Legendia (Video Game)|Tales of Legendia]]''}} An Ex-marine punches things to death while searching for his sister on a ship bigger than some continents.
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Rebirth (Video Game)|Tales of Rebirth]]''}}: A [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] fights racism and [[Say My Name|screams his girlfriend's name in a really dramatic fashion]].
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Innocence (Video Game)|Tales of Innocence]]''}}: A general becomes a schoolboy, then has an identity crisis. His lover and sword follow suit. Don't ask what happened to his pet dragon.
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Vesperia (Video Game)|Tales of Vesperia]]''}}: A hooligan goes on a quest to fix a fountain, but ends up in everyone else's quests. His friend disapproves.
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Hearts (Video Game)|Tales of Hearts]]''}}: A girl's heart breaks, and her friends take her on a journey to put it back together. Later, they save the world from a giant soul-eating flower from space. All this happens by way of [[Power of Friendship]].
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of the Tempest (Video Game)|Tales of the Tempest]]''}}: [[Fantastic Racism]] {{smallcaps|[[Recycled in Space|with werewolves!]]}} Considered [[Canon Dis Continuity|non-canon]]... for a series with almost zero continuity.
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Graces (Video Game)|Tales of Graces]]''}}: A young knight gets in a fight with his best friend. The little girl who follows him around frequently has to save him.
* {{spoiler|''[[Task Maker]]''}}: An all-powerful leader has you run his errands. If at any point you swear, you instantly die and go to hell.
* {{spoiler|''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]''}}: Bring a bat to a gunfight, run very slowly with a gun that's too large for you, die trying to [[Kill It Withwith Fire|set people on fire]], heal the ungrateful masses, stand very still and hope nobody notices you, blow yourself up trying to reach new heights, set bombs in a corner and wait for people to step on them, solve the same puzzle ("[[Zero Punctuation|use rifle on man]]") over and over again, or build some buildings.
** Alternatively, A construction company and a demolition company {{spoiler|which are administered by the same person}} fight over each other's briefcases, land rights, and proper waste disposal procedure, all while the teenager complains about the lack of necessary equipment on his side.
** 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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** {{spoiler|''Tekken 6''}}: World War III is born from a fighting tournament by [[Shotoclone|Shotoclone's]] [[Start of Darkness|son]]. Things don't end very well.
* {{spoiler|''[[Terraria]]''}}: Destroy the environment so you can kill an old man and steal valuables from his tomb.
* {{spoiler|''[[Tetris (Video Game)|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]].
** {{spoiler|''[[Tetris the Grand Master]]''}}: The same thing, but faster. This time, failure is not the only option, as you're now [[Puzzle Boss|being graded for your performance]].
** {{spoiler|''[http://firstpersontetris.com/ First Person Tetris]''}}: The same thing with [[Interface Screw]].
** {{spoiler|''Tetris Worlds''}}: Blocks that form iconic shapes must play the game that made said shapes famous in order to escape from their doomed home planet.
* {{spoiler|''Theme Hospital''}}: Treat ridiculous, made-up illnesses with equally ridiculous, made-up cures for fun and profit.
* {{spoiler|''[[Theme Park (Videovideo Gamegame)|Theme Park]]''}}: You hire fursuiters. Should you run out of biscuits, they'll all go on strike.
* {{spoiler|''[[Thief]]: the Dark Project''}}: Among the citizens of an uncaring city, a boy spends most of his time cowering in the dark, hoping that passing authority figures don't see him.
** {{spoiler|''[[Thief]] II: the Metal Age''}}: As above, but with robots.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Threads of Fate]]''}}: A runaway, some dolls, treasure hunters, and a doctor fight over a man's estate.
* {{spoiler|''[[Time Hollow]]''}}: The protagonist draws circles to try to fix the past. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|He makes it worse.]]
* {{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 Withwith 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.
* {{spoiler|''[[Toejam and Earl]]''}}: Rap enthusiasts throw tomatoes at people as they try to fix their ride home.
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** {{spoiler|''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody''}}: The weather goes out of control. The main character's shrine gets wrecked. Twice.
** {{spoiler|''Subterranean Animism''}}: The goddesses from the tenth game needs electricity badly. She decides to give a bird from Hell nuclear powers to start an Industrial Revolution. The bird decides to incinerate the [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] instead.
** {{spoiler|''Undefined Fantastic Object''}}: The mains + the priestess of the tenth game are off to find a treasure ship. They end up fighting Magical Gandhi instead. Also, [[Fun Withwith Acronyms|UFOs]].
** {{spoiler|''Hisoutensoku''}}: The recurring priestess and the two main [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Ensemble Darkhorses]] sees a giant... [[Rashomon Style|something]]. They then decide to beat the crap out of each other. [[Mighty Glacier|The]] [[I Love Nuclear Power|nuclear]] [[Mighty Glacier|bird]] and [[Confusion Fu|a frog]] also joins the fray. [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|Who ordered catfish?]]
** {{spoiler|''Double Spoiler''}}: The rest of everyone in the series is defeated by the same paparazzi. Then, a blogger is added.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Track Mania]]''}}: Madman builds hellish racetracks. It may be you.
* {{spoiler|''Traffic Department 2192''}}: Well, the title alone belies the nature of this top-down mid 90s shareware sci-fi vehicle shooter, but let's give you the skinny: Bitchy woman uses her car to stop gangs named after scavenger birds.
* {{spoiler|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron]]''}}: An unemployed librarian and his friends fight a downsized blue-collar worker and his friends.
* {{spoiler|''[[Transformice]]''}}: A multiplayer version of ''Lemmings''.
* {{spoiler|''[[Trauma Center]]''}}: Play doctor. No, not in a [[Hello, Nurse!|sexy]] sort of way.
** {{spoiler|''Trauma Team''}}: Play as six different doctors, learn the destructive power of butterflies.
* {{spoiler|''Tribes''}}: In an online game where you fly around like a fairy, a major exploit to move really fast is found in the first week. Sequels would build this feature right into the game.
* {{spoiler|''[[Turok (Video Gameseries)|Turok]]''}}: An Indian goes to [[After the End|Post-Apocalyptic]] alternate earth where ''"Time Has No Meaning"'' to save children from a cyborg viking's armies of robot lizards and the Thuggees from ''Temple Of Doom'' with a crystal-powered Martian death-ray that '''SKULL-FUCKS''' people to death.
** Or: Native American kills dinosaurs with guns. Aliens are involved.
* {{spoiler|''[[Tux Racer]]''}}: An adorable penguin races down customizeable slopes of ice, snow, and rock, often at breakneck speeds.
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** {{spoiler|''Ultima IV''}}: If you don't live by a strict code of honor, you lose.
** {{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 (Video Game)|Bionic Commando]]''.
* {{spoiler|''[[Uncharted Drakes Fortune]]''}}: Lanky guy with a penchant for guns, hand-to-hand combat and one-liners searches for El Dorado with his [[Heterosexual Life Partner]] and [[Intrepid Reporter|April O'Neill]]. They are beaten to it by [[Legacy of Kain|Simon Templeman.]]
** {{spoiler|''Uncharted 2: Among Thieves''}}: Your character and [[Dragon Age|Morrigan]] team up to stop [[Dragon Age|Alistair]] and his new boss from discovering immortality.
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* {{spoiler|''[[The Uninvited|Uninvited]]''}}: Your poor driving skills lead you to stop and ask for help at the first house you find.
* {{spoiler|''Uniracers''}}: Sentient one-wheeled vehicles compete in race and stunt competitions.
* {{spoiler|''[[Unreal (Video Game)|Unreal]]''}}: You are stranded on a planet where the invading reptiles are out to kill you and the natives.
** {{spoiler|''Unreal: Return To Na Pali''}}: You are stranded on a planet where the invading reptiles are out to kill you and the natives, and the military is out to kill you.
** {{spoiler|''[[Unreal Tournament (Video Game)|Unreal Tournament]]''}}: A bunch of people kill each other over and over again.
** {{spoiler|''Unreal Tournament 2003''}}: Same as above, but shinier.
** {{spoiler|''[[Unreal Tournament 2004 (Video Game)|Unreal Tournament 2004]]''}}: Same as above, but with vehicles.
** {{spoiler|''Unreal Championship''}}: Same as above, but in an [[Alternate Universe]] [[After the End]]. [[Canon Dis Continuity|It never happened]].
** {{spoiler|''[[Unreal Tournament III (Video Game)3|Unreal Tournament III]]''}}: Same as above, but grittier.
** {{spoiler|''[[Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict (Video Game)|Unreal Championship 2 The Liandri Conflict]]''}}: They do it again, with melee combat and [[Mortal Kombat|Raiden]].
** {{spoiler|''[[Unreal II: theThe Awakening (Video Game)|Unreal II the Awakening]]''}}: Very loyal military man gathers [[Plot Coupon|artifacts of]] [[Artifact of Doom|doom]] instead of dropping them down the nearest black hole, and is rewarded with the ability to make black holes of his own.
* {{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 (Video Game)|VVVVVV]]''}}: Captain of a wrecked ship rescues crewmates by [[Gravity Screw|screwing with gravity]].
** Alternatively: A blue man who can't jump (and looks a lot like [[Little Big Planet|Sackboy]]) attempts to save some other colored people with strange names. SPIKES. SPIKES EVERYWHERE.
* {{spoiler|''[[Wacky Wheels]]''}}: ''[[Mario Kart (Video Game)|Mario Kart]]'' <small>[[Recycled in Space|WITH]] [[Funny Animal|FUNNY[IER] ANIMALS!]]</small>
* '' {{spoiler|[[Wandering Hamster]]}}'': Hamster with mallet, a water mage, and a dancing canine end a war in the first chapter, conquer the invader's castle in the second chapter, and get eaten in the third. Currently in [[Development Hell]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'s Grand Adventures''}}: A clueless British inventor and his dog do stuff.
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** {{spoiler|''The Bogey Man''}}: A clueless British inventor and his dog join a golf club in order to get the inventor out of [[Accidental Marriage|an unwanted engagement]].
* {{spoiler|''[[War of the Monsters]]''}}: A fuel crisis causes immeasurable havoc.
* {{spoiler|''[[War CraftWarcraft]]''}}: Immigration leads to a race war. The immigrants win.
** {{spoiler|1=''WarCraft II: The Tides of Darkness''}}: The race war expands. Farms make better barricades than guard towers. The natives win. Immigration is temporarily suspended.
*** {{spoiler|1=''WarCraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal''}}: Immigration is possible again, but not for long.
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*** {{spoiler|''World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King''}}: The immigrants realize they have yet to colonize the Arctic and surrounding areas. They seek to rectify the situation. Meanwhile, a group of natives become disgusted with anti-foreigner sentiment and decide to help the immigrants.
*** {{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.
*** {{spoiler|''World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria''}}: The immigrants discover the [[Far East]] and, ignoring the protests of the natives, proceed to fight over colonization rights. Almost all of the immigrants decide to learn [[Bare-Fisted Monk|new things]] from [[Pandaing to Thethe Audience|bears]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Warhammer 40000]]: [[Dawn of War]]''}}: A bunch of red-[[Powered Armor|armoured]] [[Super Soldier|Super Soldiers]] land on a planet to help the local [[Redshirt Army]] fight off an invasion of [[Our Orcs Are Different|Different Orcs]]. A [[Church Militant]] shows up, looking for an invasion of [[The Legions of Hell]]. [[The Problem Withwith Licensed Games|It's also licensed.]]
** {{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|Super Soldiers]] and greyskins weak in melee. The [[Redshirt Army]] gets another leader to replace the one the greyskins shot dead, but has to face the [[Church Militant]] [[Amazon Brigade]]. [[Terminator]]-wannabes wake up from a long sleep and [[Our Elves Are Better|Better Elves]] arrive to stop them. The Not-So-Much-Better Elves arrive to take slaves and torture people.
*** Except that [[Canon Dis Continuity|didn't really happen.]]
* {{spoiler|''[[Wario Land (Video Game)|Wario Land]]''}}: Fat man does a [[Heel Face Turn]], travels through lands named after food, blows up [[Pirate]]'s gothic tower, and gives his nemesis a priceless object. And there's a [[Genie in Aa Bottle]] involved, who also does a [[Heel Face Turn]] and gives a castle...if you give him enough money.
** {{spoiler|''[[Wario Land (Video Game)|Wario Land]] 2''}}: After being robbed by a [[Pirate]], fat man sets out to kick her ass.
** {{spoiler|''[[Wario Land (Video Game)|Wario Land]] 3''}}: Fat man gets sucked inside a music box. There he finds a being who tells him to find a bunch of music boxes, bribing him with the treasure. He then proceeds to desecrate an entire community, kills the locals, only to discover that {{spoiler|he was working for an [[Monster Clown|evil clown]]}}
** {{spoiler|''[[Wario Land (Video Game)|Wario Land]] 4''}}: Fat man desecrates ancient ruins for money. {{spoiler|A cat turns out to be a princess. An insane "diva" tries to kill them both.}} And there's Mr. Game & Watch involved.
** {{spoiler|''[[Wario World (Video Game)|Wario World]]''}}: Fat man gets his castle destroyed out of greed. Goes through a lot of crap to get a treasure, only to discover that {{spoiler|it is an evil sentient jewel}}.
** {{spoiler|''[[Wario Land (Video Game)|Wario Land]]: Shake It!''}}: Fat man helps the [[Pirate]] mentioned above shake the crap out of everything so he can beat up different pirate.
* {{spoiler|''[[Warriors Orochi]]''}}: Giant snake man is revived by fox-girl and merges [[Dynasty Warriors|Ancient China]] with [[Samurai Warriors|Warring States period Japan]] to kick their collective butts. Of course, the ones to stop him are what remains of the armies of both periods.
** {{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|''[[Wet]]''}}: Game-ified exploitation movie.
* {{spoiler|''Wetrix''}}: You create pools of water.
* {{spoiler|''[[Where's My Water (Video Game)|Where's My Water?]]''}}: An alligator takes a bath.
** {{spoiler|Cranky's Story}}: An alligator hates eating vegetables.
* {{spoiler|''[[The Whitewhite Chamberchamber]]''}}: Regretting your actions gives you a better ending.
* {{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|''[[Wii Sports]]''}}: Play simplified versions of baseball, golf, bowling, boxing, and tennis by swinging the controller around.
** {{spoiler|''[[Wii Sports Resort]]''}}: Play simplified versions of swordplay, wakeboarding, Frisbee, archery, basketball, table tennis, power cruising, canoeing, cycling, and air sports by swinging the controller around more precisely. The world is more developed and cohesive, and golf and bowling make a return, too.
* {{spoiler|''[[Wild Arms 3 (Video Game)|Wild Arms 3]]''}}: Amnesiac environmentalists fight against the users of a demonically-possessed science wiki.
* {{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 (Videovideo Gamegame)|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.
* {{spoiler|''[[Wipeout (Video Game)|Wipeout]]''}}: You pull the finger to gravity in rocket ships with missiles.
* {{spoiler|''[[The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings]]: Assassins of Kings''}}: You're an elf who was falsely accused of killing a sovereign. You prove your innocence by killing the responsibles while being given the chance to [[Optional Sexual Encounter|bang girls.]]
* {{spoiler|''[[Within a Deep Forest]]''}}: A ball rebels against its creator.
* {{spoiler|''[[Wolfenstein 3D (Video Game)|Wolfenstein 3D]]''}}: You have a knife. They are wearing [[Gatling Good|chaingun-equipped]] [[Powered Armor|powered armor]]. Good luck!
** {{spoiler|''[[Return to Castle Wolfenstein]]''}}: The Nazis invent hand-held miniguns, a lightning gun, cybernetic [[Super Soldier|Super Soldiers]] who are [[Immune to Bullets]], and raise an army of zombies commanded by a 20-foot-tall guy with a sword, and [[Status Quo Is God|lose the war anyway.]]
** {{spoiler|''Wolfenstein RPG''}}: Like the previous games, but with turn-based combat and [[Everything's Better Withwith Chickens|chickens]]. Oh, and it's for cell phones.
* {{spoiler|''[[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]''}}: For dead people, fashion is incredibly [[Serious Business]]. They overcome difficulties and [[The Power of Friendship|learn to love]]. And kill people with Myspace Flare.
** Alternatively: Dead people kill things and eat food in order to dress the most macho of them in the girliest clothing ever.
** Alternatively: Emo dead kid plays [[LARP|LARPing]] game show in order to come back to life.
* {{spoiler|''[[World Heroes (Video Game)|World Heroes]]''}}: Historical figures duke it out against each other, and then a shapeshifting alien.
* {{spoiler|''[[World in Conflict]]''}}: Uh oh, the Cold War didn't end and the Soviets invade. [[America Wins the War|Already sounds propagandic...]]
* {{spoiler|''[[World of Goo (Video Game)|World of Goo]]''}}: Make bridges and towers with gooey balls.
* {{spoiler|''[[Worms (Video Game)|Worms]]''}}: Lacking opposable thumbs, invertebrates use heavy artillery to kill each other instead.
* {{spoiler|''[[X-COM]]''}}: Aliens invade Earth. The only way to defeat them is to send [[We Have Reserves|waves of disposable troops]] at them, capture their equipment, and execute a large, helpless brain on another planet.
** {{spoiler|''[[X-COM]]: Terror From the Deep''}}: Aliens invade from twenty thousand leagues under the sea. The only way to defeat them is to throw waves of disposable troops in diving suits at them, steal their equipment, and execute another helpless brain.
*** Alternatively: If you thought the aliens were unfair in the first game, wait until you get a load of this.
** {{spoiler|''[[X-COM]]: Apocalypse''}}: Aliens invade a very large city and try to take over its leaders. The only way to defeat them is to throw waves of disposable troops in absurd-looking suits of armor at them, steal their equipment, and blow up helpless buildings in an alternate dimension.
* {{spoiler|''[[Xenogears (Video Game)|Xenogears]]''}}: You are simultaneously the two-most powerful beings on the planet and the biggest [[Cursed Withwith Awesome|whiner]] in the galaxy.
** Alternatively, Adam's metaphysical soul reincarnates into a schizophrenic teenager. He fights God with kung-fu.
** {{spoiler|''[[Xenosaga (Video Game)|Xenosaga]]''}}: You watch the prequel movie. Occasionally, there are interactive parts.
*** {{spoiler|''Xenosaga Episode I''}}: A hot scientist builds a hot robot, Jesus rides a spaceship, and a [[Psychopathic Manchild]] severs his body parts to frighten a little girl.
*** {{spoiler|''Xenosaga Episode II''}}: A little girl's mind becomes an interactive playground, [[The Pope]] tries out his new [[Humongous Mecha]], and a psychotic mass murderer is killed by his brother and ascends to Heaven.
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** ''{{spoiler|[[Xenoblade Chronicles]]}}'': A [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] saves the world from giant robots using a red plastic lightsaber. The world he's saving also happens to be a giant robot.
* {{spoiler|''[[X Men Legends]] 2: Rise of Apocalypse''}}: Non-humans battle Egyptian man.
* {{spoiler|''[[X-Men vs. Street Fighter (Video Game)|X-Men vs. Street Fighter]]''}}: Non-humans battle martial artists in a tag team match.
** {{spoiler|''[[Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter (Video Game)|Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter]]''}}: Non-humans, [[Badass Normal|humans with skill]], humans with super powers, a cyborg, a demon and an [[Marth Debuted in Smash Bros|obscure octopus creature]] battle martial artists and a creepy fanboy in a tag team match.
** {{spoiler|''[[Marvel vs. Capcom Clash of the Superheroes (Video Game)|Marvel vs. Capcom Clash of the Superheroes]]''}}: Non-humans, [[Badass Normal|humans with skill]], humans with super powers and a human with power armor battle martial artists, a monster, robots, a mech pilot, an assassin, and another human with power armor in a tag team match. There is occasional outside interference.
** {{spoiler|''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (Video Game)|Marvel vs. Capcom 2]]''}}: The same characters from one side of all the previous games plus more non-humans, another human with power armor, a non-human-hunting robot, and a space alien battle the same characters from the other side of all the previous games plus more martial artists, more monsters, a monster-hunting bounty hunter, more robots, a pirate, a fat walking cactus, a transforming monkey girl, a human with skills and guns and zombies, and a futuristic swordsman in a 3-on-3 tag team match.
** {{spoiler|''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (Video Game)|Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]''}}: Super powered humans, human mercenaries, a tentacle alien, demons, a Norse god, a wolf goddess, a giant head, and a couple of robots team up to stop a platinum blonde Neo and a man in lightning-shooting armor that plan to rule the world and accidentally wake up a giant [[Planet Eater]]. They still fight in 3-on-3 tag team matches.
* {{spoiler|''[[X- Wing]]''}}: Slaughter thousands upon thousands of relatively unarmored people just doin' their jobs in your quest to overthrow a perfectly legal government. [[You Bastard]].
** {{spoiler|''[[TIE Fighter]]''}}: You fly [[We Have Reserves|a foil can armed with laser pointers]] [[Villain Protagonist|against the good guys]].
** {{spoiler|''X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter''}}: You and your friends can pick which side to fight on, all to prolong an ongoing war.
** {{spoiler|''[[X- Wing|X-Wing Alliance]]''}}: Join the guy from the first game because of daddy issues. Continue to be a terrorist.
* {{spoiler|''Yosumin!''}}: You force smiling shapes to kill themselves in order to repair a stained-glass window.
* {{spoiler|''[[You Have to Burn The Rope]]''}}: An egg creature is given direct instructions by the game to progress. The game finishes.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Zack and Wiki Quest For Barbaros Treasure]]''}}: A ten-year old chocoholic pirate and a flying monkey turn their foes into tools in their quest to reassemble a dead guy made out of jewelry.
** (Alternatively): A kid shakes his best friend to solve puzzles.
* {{spoiler|''[[Zeno Clash]]''}}: Travel through a [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made Onon Drugs?|fascinating]] world, meet [[Mad Hatter|interesting characters]], and [[Good Old Fisticuffs|smash their faces in with your bare fists]]. Also, the voice acting is [[So Bad It's Good|unique]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Zero Wing]]''}}: As the good side's [[One-Man Army|last remaining soldier]], you save the universe from certain destruction. All that's left of your epic journey is [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us|a tired meme]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Zettai Hero Kaizou Keikaku|Z.H.P.: Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman]]''}}: You are recruited to stand in for a guy who got killed on his way to the longest [[Final Boss]] battle in the history of mankind.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Zone of the Enders]]''}}: A boy rides inside of a [[Visual Pun]].
** {{spoiler|''Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner''}}: An ex-soldier rides inside of a [[Visual Pun]] that is acting as a replacement for his heart.
* {{spoiler|''[[Zork (Video Game)|Zork]]''}}: You explore a dungeon with a total of about five enemies. The evil parser remains undefeated.
** {{spoiler|''[[Zork Grand Inquisitor (Video Game)|Zork: Grand Inquisitor]]''}}: An [[AFGNCAAP|anonymous]] vacuum cleaner salesman takes a crash course in sorcery in order to help a talking lamp overthrow a [[Bald of Evil|bald]], [[Magic Versus Science|magic-hating]] tyrant.
* {{spoiler|''[[Zuma (Video Game)|Zuma]]''}}: Shoot marbles to appease the Aztec Frog God. Requirements: Pot.
 
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