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Asteroids:

A spaceship tends a galactic garden, growing tiny rocks into huge boulders.

Deus Ex:

JC Denton overthrows one of 3 new world orders, travels the globe, then waits for terrorists to rebuild the statue of liberty.

Donkey Kong:

Pauline takes her boyfriend to the top of a building. There, she dumps him for a giant ape, and the heartbroken plumber climbs down the scaffolding.

Doom:

A space marine brings demons to life, locking colour-coded doors behind him before falling asleep, as his colleagues close a portal to hell.

Elite:

Commander Jameson brings peace to multiple galaxies, losing money & status before retiring on Lave with just 100 credits.

Katamari Damacy:

A prince must hide the stars, by rolling them across the earth’s surface, until they break into small everyday objects.

Legend of Zelda:

Link offers Princess Zelda to the gods, in order to summon Ganon. Link then roams the countryside, hiding pieces of the triforce & reanimating Ganon’s monsters.

Lemmings:

The player drags Lemmings out of their home, makes them forget their abilities & sends them back to the previous level.

Pacman:

Pacman fills mazes with dots, pausing only to regurgitate fruit & ghosts.

Half-Life:

Gordon Freeman enslaves the Vortigaunts, deorbits a satellite, revives a bunch of aliens and Marines, then seals a rift in spacetime before quitting his job to go to MIT.

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pretty brilliant!

Mario:

You run left.

Lol at deus ex and double lol at Mario (edit: running left).

i hate this because i cant think of anything...

tomb raider.- revive an alien and get the fuck out of secret tombs

HAHAHAHAHA!

no you are meant to add

you are doing it wrong. EG

bioshock: a guy uses a needle to extract nanobots and cure mutations. once he feels ok, he takes a sub back to the surface.

  kaini said:

no you are meant to add

you are doing it wrong. EG

that don't make no sense

tetris - clean up a large messy pile of blocks.

reminds me of the backwards episode of red dwarf. "Take someone like, say... St. Francis of Assissi. In this universe, he's the petty-minded little sadist who goes around maiming small animals! Or Santa Claus -- what a bastard! He's the big fat git who sneaks down chimneys and steals all the kid's favorite toys!

people call each other noobs whilst producing sequentially less complicated screenshots

doom ii: a huge head spits out an infinite number of little demons, whom, as a traitor to your species, you must shepherd to a portal to the human world. there is no shooting, just a lot of bumping into one another in tight spaces.

galactix - a sentient being comprised of thousands of tiny spaceships conspires against the most powerful guardian in the universe to take out the Acme Toothpick Co., who is on the verge of cutting down the last tree in the rainforest.

frogger - this was actually created to be a screensaver for god, so he could lol at the frogs getting squished. sometimes that dude is a dick.

  kaini said:

Half-Life:

Gordon Freeman enslaves the Vortigaunts, deorbits a satellite, revives a bunch of aliens and Marines, then seals a rift in spacetime before quitting his job to go to MIT.

ha!

final fantasy: stop something from destroying/taking over the world, travel a long way back to your hometown while characters will leave your party along the way

RPG:

your parents aren't burned alive in the family home,

you haven't suffered a tragedy you need to avenge,

your girl isn't kidnapped, flops down on your bed instead.

Metal Gear: Rogue operative rides a snowmobile to work, wakes up his twin brother, builds a giant walking death tank, reattaches a cowboy's hand and swims all the way home.

  Caustic said:

Metal Gear: Rogue operative rides a snowmobile to work, wakes up his twin brother, builds a giant walking death tank, reattaches a cowboy's hand and swims all the way home.

hehe! he also brings some dogs back to life in an outside forest area and does a whole lot sneaking .. .backwards:f

GTA: You do absolutely nothing

Fallout 3: You go around the wasteland with a bunch of stuff on you and put all of it into boxes and shelves all around the world whilst pulling bullets magically out of peoples heads in slow motion, reanimating them.

Grand Theft Auto: You step down from your position as the baddest mofo in town, and go around giving out money and weapons.

halo 3: you understand the plot

sim city: your job as radical enviromentalist is to slowly return a massive city back to the earth it grew from

mortal kombat: you awake to find a man in a yellow suit about to kill you and another man screaming "Finish him!" you have to battle until your health is restored and you and your opponent are facing each other in the center.

  JohnTqs said:

mortal kombat: you awake to find a man in a yellow suit about to kill you and another man screaming "Finish him!" you have to battlehug until your health is restored and you and your opponent are facing each other in the center.

Sonic the Hedgehog : You play 'Sonic' the radical fag-enabler-cum-reformed-jewellery-thief who assists a fat man into turning small animals into robots while returning all the rings you stole.

that's better

Half-life 2: Your job as secret agent is to disable the resistance. Whilst undoing an antimatter "event" and wrecking structures with your antigravity gun, you undertake a long journey back to city 17 in trucks and boats and shit.

Ape Escape: You play a member of PETA infiltrating virtual worlds and releasing enslaved primates from captivity.