I still can't get back, the game won't accept my card. And don't really want to, to be honest, it takes way more organization and numbers than we can provide to make any progress in EVE.

You'll be surprised how fun it can get, even when there's more shooting going on than actual roleplaying.
That, and you'll have to guess my in-game name.

Well, I created a Steam group at http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Seedthecommunity. Dunno why, but feel free to knock on it for an invitation if you want.

Happy New Year! In these parts, it's the only really celebrated holiday in December/January, and I went out of reach of my comfy lair.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOzkN8dHnjk - a... song.
http://www.humanbraincloud.com/ - word association project. Try exploring the cloud.

I found all 10. But is there some sort of bonus for finding them?

Guess I'll be getting my Orange Box by New Year. But from what I hear... can't wait!

Well, it was released 11 days ago and I'm still enjoying it despite all the bugs and lack of  polish. It's definitely fun to play and has a surprisingly large roleplaying community, although it's more centered on one of the US servers.
I've managed to stick to an RP community (Called "Legends", you might've seen them around). Can't say they're all so great, but I get my share of casual RP.

The price is pretty steep, though: 45 euro, plus the standard 13 per month, and no mention of free trials. But the game's definitely worth trying.
And I heard there'll be mecha later on.

Time to end this. The game is called "Journey to Silius" or "Raf world" in Japan. It was originally going to be based on the Terminator license, but the company ended up losing the rights and releasing the game as is. The really unique part of it was the music: it had those deep bass sounds no other game for the NES had.
The hero's name in all versions was Jay.

As for some of the tips, it was released by Sunsoft, the same company that released some parts of the Lemmings series. The company's page on Wiki does lists quite a bunch of games, but only 10 or so of those are for the NES. I hoped it would be easy to dig through them if the console was identified, but looks like I've been wrong.

New and hopefully easier question coming later today.

Ok, this last one should be just bringing it to you on a ceramic (Hey, I don't have any silverware around) platter.

Try identifying the console was run on. That should narrow the list down to 10 games or so. Not a big list for sure. With the previous two hints you shouldn't even need much Google-fu.

If I don't see an answer in two days' time, I'll post the answer along with a new picture. I'll try finding something less obscure, of course.

And I offer an additional rule of posting a tip every two days and the right answer after a week of a picture's uptime. That'll get the game going faster.

Ok, next one: it had a bit of a mix-up with the hero's sprite. The European and Japanese versions differed from American.

That may not help at all, but that's about all I can share without making it a contest of finding the right one in a list faster than everyone else. Maybe guessing the console might help, too.

Well, let's give this one a try.

1. What's the hero's name?
2. What movie license was originally going to be used for the game?
3. What set it apart from other games on that console?