Let's travel through time together! (1994-2024)

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Hey there, I heard that it's April!

My Germany event just ended, hope you had some fun there. New month means a new puzzle thread to keep the puzzle fans among you occupied.

The theme for this month is time travel, we travel through the last 31 years of gaming together. I basically chose one game from each year (1994-2024) to give away here, so 31 giveaways in total. Tried to pick only good games but had to stay within my budget, so I hope there is something here for everyone.

I also did a lot of research and did a little summary of each year in the giveaway descriptions (along with my personal memories). Maybe you can learn something new or enjoy the nostalgia together! Let me know if you spot any mistakes and share your memories with me if you want! :D

As always, the giveaways run for a whole month (ending on May 8th) to give you enough time to solve everything you're interested in and no contributor value is required. I know it's a lot of puzzles, so just do the ones you enjoy!

Unfortunately a thief stole the code for this giveaway. In order to find it you need to travel 12 years into Steamgifts past, to a time where I made you listen to some sounds!

1999:

You need to have a talk with Indy in order to get the code for this giveaway! (1st character is lower case and last one is a number, in case it's hard to see)

2000:

The code for the giveaway is wWjz200. But something is wrong, you need to go 6 steps back for the letters and divide the number by 25.

For this giveaway you need your ears. Listen to this little music piece and enter the name of this game from 2004 here!

2005:

This time you need your eyes. Which character is pixelated here? He made his debut in this year. Enter it here!

2006:

And here comes the ultimate test! You need your eyes and ears this time. Enter the name of this game (full official title) as username and the pixelated game you see here as password. Both are from 2006! Find the giveaway here!

Here are pictures of 5 screenshots from games released this year. Bring them in the right order (by US release date) and combine the first letter of each game title in the right order as a password here (not case sensitive). Screenshots: 1 2 3 4 5

2012:

Another 5 screenshots for you but this time they are not related to the year 2012! This time you need to add up the US release dates of these games (only the year) and put the result into the lock. These games are all the first ones from their respective franchises!
Screenshots: 1 2 3 4 5

2013:

One last time I have 5 screenshots for you. They are all from 2013. A lot of sequels to existing franchises released this year and these screenshots are all from sequels. Just add up each number they have in their respective title, multiply it with 8 and you get the code for this lock!
1 2 3 4 5

Now it's time for some trivia. Here is the giveaway code: ABCDE
A = number of Street Fighter main entries (no spin offs, no alpha)
B = first letter of a platforming squirrel that doesn't watch its language (upper case)
C = the highest number of stars a monster can have to normal summon it in Yu-Gi-Oh without a tribute
D = first letter of the school you visit in the 2023 giveaway game (upper case)
E = first letter of the animals that kill each other with various weapons since 1995 (lower case)

2018::

I've been hexed by a witch and now I can't read the code anymore, it's 6273366C4D :(

2019:

For this puzzle I have something that can not be found and unfortunately I'm only seeing red, yellow and blue. The names are Vulpix, Bellsprout, Weezing, Weepinbell and Scyther. This only applies to the western versions, not Japanese. Help me here!

The code for this giveaway is scattered throughout this thread but you have to put it all in upper case. Can you find it?

2024:

For this last one I asked our AI overlords to create images of certain games released in 2024 but they don't quite look the same anymore. Can you still recognize them? Take the second letter of each game title and put its corresponding number in the alphabet (same order as the pictures) here! You're looking for 7 digits.
Pictures: 1 2 3 4 5

Bonus:
In my last event I noticed that quite a few of you actually solved every single puzzle despite owning some of the games or not being interested in them. I think that's pretty impressive considering how time consuming it can be and I'd like to reward you for that this time. I created a little Steam group where I will host some nice giveaways from time to time and also unload all of my leftover bundle keys there in the future. So, if you solve every single puzzle this time, I will invite you to the group. Giveaways I'm creating there this month will run for the whole month, so no hurry in solving everything. After the event ends the future giveaways will have shorter run times. Will always do the same in future events as a little bonus (but you won't have to solve all puzzles there again if you did it here, you will stay in the group of course). The group has no rules and you will never have to create a giveaway, should be obvious. It's just there to give you some little bonus rewards from time to time. How does it work? I left a number in all of the 31 giveaways and if you solved them all you can put in the whole combination here (same order as giveaways in the thread, 31 digits) and just post a comment in the little placeholder giveaway that it will lead you to, then I will invite you.

Bonus 2:
Valase has been so kind to double 2 of the giveaways in this thread and is giving away an extra copy of each. They also hid another little extra giveaway. Keep an eye open in the giveaway comments! :-)

Thanks a lot for participating, I hope you had some fun! Let me know if you spot any errors because it's quite possible that I made some.

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Cottius

Cool idea bump!

1 week ago