Hoping you all had a wonderful Valentine’s Day! Were you looking for the perfect gift? Consider a flower from one of these game!
10. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
(Atari, 1982)
One of the few objects you can actually interact with in the game, E.T. uses his extra-terrestrial powers to raise a flower that was in poor health – just like in the movie!
9. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island
(Super Nintendo, 1995)
Flowers are collectibles in this Super Mario World sequel (prequel?) starring our favorite dinosaur friend. Find all five and you’ll have better odds at earning the chance to play a mini game at the end of a level!
8. Super Alfred Chicken
(Super Nintendo, 1993)
One day Mr. Pekles the flower was trying out his new “Super Spy-radio’ when he intercepted a message from the Meka Chickens about how they’ve developed advanced technology and kidnapped Billy Eggs who will be cloned to build their “invincible Meka Chicken Army!” Only Alfred can stop their evil plans and save Billy!
(I owned this game and had no idea this was the plot).
7. Loves Me…? Minigame
Super Mario 64 DS
(Nintendo DS, 2004)
The DS port of Super Mario 64 includes a whole slew of fun multiplayer minigames including this one where a lonely Yoshi overlooks the sea and tries to pick the last flower petal, proving that someone loves them. Who could it be?
6. Flower Town
(Nintendo 3DS, 2013)
In 2013, Nintendo finally added some new games to their popular “StreetPass” feature for the 3DS. If you’ve never heard of StreetPass, it essentially allowed players to exchange data with each other when literally passing each other in the street while their 3DS systems were stowed away in a backpack or pocket in sleep mode. Players would then use this data, basically the Mii’s of whoever passed you, to play a number of selectable games on the system. I loved StreetPass because it also showed a player’s country or state of origin when you collected their data and you’d unlock new locations on a globe – an especially fun endeavor when I brought my 3DS with me to Japan!
Anyway, Flower Town was the most passive of these new StreetPass games, and it allowed the player to collect plants for their garden which you would then place around your space simply for aesthetics. Nothing special gameplay-wise, but I couldn’t help but try to max out all the possibilities (which I never did)!
5. NieR: Automata
(Various, 2017)
Help a “friend” in NieR: Automata and they’ll show you where they live! That’s all I need to say about that. I’m currently (still!) playing through this game, and there’s so much story and intrigue. Maybe YOU should play it, too!
4. Final Fantasy VI
(Super Nintendo, 1994)
Before there was Tinder, people would just send each other flowers via carrier pigeon. Who could be this mysterious new boyfriend? Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets.
3. Super Mario Bros.
(NES, 1985)
For many, this might be the first flower that comes to mind when talking about flowers in video games. What a feeling it was to grab a fire flower and feel absolute power for the first time – at least until you accidentally jumped in a pit.
2. Flower
(Various, 2009)
It would be hard to not make a list about flowers and not include the one game out there actually called “Flower.” But, seriously, this is a very beautiful game that also appeared as my #1 choice for my Top Ten Wind in Games article – it also boasts an excellent dynamic soundtrack!
Honorable Mentions:
Spring Weekend
(Windows, 1990)
Beauty and the Beast
(Super Nintendo, 1994)
1. Undertale
(Various, 2015)
I think no other flower in gaming history has made as big of an impact as Flowey the Flower from Undertale. If you don’t know about this guy, my lips are sealed. Find a copy of Undertale today, and find out what all the fuss is about!
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When I saw Flower in second place, I felt indignation, until I saw Flowey. Yup, no, that’s exactly correct. Very well done, love this list!
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Thank you!!! Hard to beat that top entry 😊 I appreciate you reading!
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I want to live in Flower Town!
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Time to add some flowers to the deck!
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I loved Super Mario 64 DS growing up! Of course I prefer the N64 original, but its DS remake is also great. And of course there’s nothing more that needs to be said about Super Mario Brothers, Final Fantasy VI, and SMW2: Yoshi’s Island. This list reminds me that I still have to play NieR: Automata though. How is it?
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Thanks for reading!! I also really enjoyed Super Mario 64 DS – it was so fun to see all the new challenges and try out the different characters.
NieR is great! I’m about 60 hours in and trying to go for 100% – though that’s a seemingly impossible task given what I need to accomplish. I’ll probably put a few more weeks into the game before trying to wrap up the story. I’ve really liked it!
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Lovely post, great theme for Valentine’s Day. 🙂 The only other things I can think of are Animal Crossing, where if you get to a certain level special white flowers begin to generate on your island, or I think in Harvest Moon (fuzzy because I played this more than a decade ago!) you bring flowers to court one of the town characters? Not sure, but anyway always good to see your posts!
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Ah, those are great additions that I’m sad I missed – especially the Harvest Moon reference because after looking it up a little, I saw and remembered that they have an entire Flower Festival built into the game!
Thank you for reading even when my posts are so few and far between ☺️
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Oh wow, I forgot about the flower festival too! Your posts are so fun, worth waiting for. 🙂
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Haha, this is so cool! I want to play Super Mario bros so bad!
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Live your dreams! 😂
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Thank you for coming over to read ☺️
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Great post. Though I would have put Flower at #1 just to be trolly. Lol
Love the Nier: Automata shout out. There’s a trophy/achievement in the original NieR that requires you to grow a specific color of flower, but to get it, you have to grow other flowers, then gather seeds, then plant a different color, gather those seeds, etc… A fun idea but with far too much chance. Needless to say, I did not get that achievement.
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Thank you!!! I had Flower at #1 in my post about wind so here I am trying to mix it up a little 😅
That NieR trophy reminds me of breeding chocobos in FF7!
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I never got to the chocobo breeding section of FF7, but I’ve certainly heard about it. I imagine it is certainly a fair comparison.
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