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Ogres

Creatures entity

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games
25
platforms

A large humanoid monster.

Notable people involved: Louis Hsu Saekow, David Boudreau, George MacDonald, David Warhol and Zeh Hurlburt

Alternate name: Oni

In some cases they may be large enough to be giant humanoids. In the west ogres tend to be obese and quite dimwitted natural "monsters" while in the east they're about equal to humans in terms of intelligence and often magical in nature.

Some thing that set European ogres apart from giants:
The tend to have very large heads. Non-human proportions.
The may have hair in places humans tend not to have it. Including parts of their hands and face.
A taste for human babies as well as ogre babies and perhaps children or adults. Whereas giants usually target adults and perhaps children of other species than their own.
They have an in-human skin tone. Green, Blue, Red, Orange to name a few.

The name Ogre (and f. Ogress) is French. The French word originates with Orcus, a god of the underworld. The name may also be related to biblical Og (the last pure giant, Goliath was only part giant) or the Greek river god Oiagros.
The name is not related to the Greek word orge (vengeful anger).

Japanese Oni are essentially ogres but much more magically inclined, closer to the other spirits (Yōkai) there.

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Parent groups

Anglo-Saxon mythology, Humanoids, Japanese mythology, Legendary creatures

Games by year

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The first Ogres video game was released in 1975.

Blizzard, Robot Entertainment, Almost Human Games and SSI published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows23
Linux18
Apple II E8
MS-DOS7
Mac OS Classic4
Mac OS X3
PS3
Wii2
PS32
NES2
C642
Neo-Geo1
PLATO1
NEC PC98011
Mega Drive1
Internet Only1
Saturn1
X3601
OS/21
BSD1
Atari ST1
Apple IIGS1
NEC PC88011
Amiga1
Sharp X11

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