I’ve been going through my backlog of acquisitions (dozens!) that I have yet to mention. I thought I would compose a post to showcase the ones that aren’t in MobyGames as of yet. Sometimes, if I don’t mention a game, that vast ocean of knowledge known as the internet will have no record that it ever existed. It’s a solemn duty that I undertake.

2 more ‘Tycoon’ games in this bunch:

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• Caterpillar Construction Tycoon: A simulation game sponsored by the construction giant (I never realized that they own the domain cat.com); published by Activision Value
• Midnight Outlaw: 6 Hours to Sun Up
• Prison Tycoon: Alcatraz– there are at least 5 games in the Prison Tycoon series and I have now collected 3 of them
• Fate: The Traitor Soul– part of The Fate Series; not sure how large this series has grown but I now have 2 titles that aren’t on record

There’s some good licensed schlock in this bunch:

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• Merrian-Webster Spell-Jam (Tik Games)– I find it grammatically odd that “Spell-Jam” is hyphenated, but far be it from me to argue with the dictionary people
• Fashion Craze (Viva Media)
• Sonny’s Race for Chocolatey Taste– a Cocoa Puffs game!
• Common Cents– a game sponsored by State Farm Insurance; the jewel case copy mentions Flash Player as a requirement which leads me to believe it started life on the web and was also published on CD-ROM; comes from year 2004
• Burger Island Combo (eGames)– a compilation of Burger Island and Burger Island 2
• Whitetail Fever– hunting game by Valu-Soft

I visited my favorite thrift store today. It has been a long time since my last visit and their CD bins were all absolutely overflowing. I had to make some choices because I didn’t want to take home too many games.

Here are the items from this score that have no representation in the database:

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• Barbie: Team Gymnastics– yep, there are still Barbie games that neither I nor MobyGames know about yet
• Big Action Construction by Fisher-Price
• Get Ready for School, Charlie Brown!
• Puzzlemania CD-ROM from Highlights (as in, the magazine from your dentist office)

All of these items fall into the category of either “probably not or definitely not a game”:

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• ‘Tronic Phonics from McGraw-Hill School Interactive, listed as disc #11– might be a game
• One Banana: A Jungle Counting Book– very unlikely to be a game
• Location & Direction– lists ISO-9660 on the disc, even though it was published by 1999 (companies mentioned: Arc Media Inc. and Mars)– possibly a game
• Microsoft Cinemania ’95– certainly not a game
• Invention Studio from the Discovery Channel– build, design, and test your own inventions; there’s even a patent office section; might be a game as other titles in this series qualified (notably Team Xtreme: Operation Weather Disaster)
• Attactix: Battle Figure Game, Star Wars Starter Set CD-ROM, Series 2– I have no idea what to make of this; the lengthy title sounds like it’s a digital supplement to a tabletop game

And the stuff that’s already in the database:

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• Need for Speed: High Stakes (EA Classics release, and marked as “For sale in India only” and the price tag is “RS 399,00”)
• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
• Planet Dexter’s Grossology— the jewel case copy purports to teach “Gross science that kids want to learn!” I’m happy if they want to play it, but I really don’t, so I am glad that it’s already in the database. The screenshots on record could stand to be redone, but I probably won’t bother.
• Tropico: Paradise Island

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• Mary-Kate and Ashley: Crush Course
• Gamefest: Pro Pinball Challenge: Fantastic Journey (disc 1 of 4)
• Supercow — didn’t expect this one to be in the database, but there it is, probably because it’s fairly recent (copyright 2007)
• Stone-Jong
• Eradicator from Accolade