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Some good guesses, but all wrong.

This one should be a lot more difficult:
[imgzoom]https://twentyquidamusements.thecomicstrip.org/files/name_the_game/namethegame04.png[/imgzoom]

[The Hobbit]

This will probably get guessed straight away.   

[imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/vi9eIhA.png[/imgzoom]

You're right, someone will guess it straight away.
It's The Hobbit, specifically the 2003 game adaptation.

I remember there being a really terrible character sprite generator on here years ago. Let me just search for it... found it.
https://www.americangirlscouts.org/agsresources/AGS%20resources/Programs/WalkCycleGen.zip

Of course you could also just download all of the character sheets for Maniac Mansion Mania or Reality On The Norm, and then edit the sprites to your liking.
https://www.maniac-mansion-mania.com/index.php/en/
https://realityonthenorm.info/

But speaking from personal experience, I highly recommend learning to draw your own pixel art.
Yes, it is a chore having to draw everything, and yes, it does take several years to learn how to do it. But trust me, people do notice when the artwork isn't your own, and unfortunately it does carry with it negative connotations.

If you ever decide to learn how to draw pixel art, I recommend starting with learning how to draw traditionally first, by drawing with a pencil every day. (The skills from that, carry over to all other forms of drawing.) I found some comics that I liked the artstyle of, and copied-via-reference one of the panels everyday for several months. The next thing I knew, I was suddenly able to draw somewhat decent pixel art. It was... weird. 
(Word of caution though, never trace when learning to draw, because you'll only get good at tracing if you trace and not at drawing! But if you want to rotoscope, then trace away.)

It grinds my gears whenever someone who doesn't understand the appeal of a certain type of gameplay, decides that it's because that type of gameplay is now dated and a good example of bad game design, rather than because it's not to their taste.
Two really good examples are the inventory item puzzles on Adventure Games and the turn-based combat prevalent in JRPGs.

Looks like a Jet Set Willy clone, but I don't recognize the game. 

[The Evil Dead]

Hmm... it looks like a ZX Spectrum game to me. 
Is it The Evil Dead?

This is AWESOME!
I've even got an idea of what I could use it for... 

Hollyoaks?

What grinds my gears: People that don't wash their hands after using the toilet or before eating. The amount of people I witness that use public toilets and simply walk out without taking a moment after doing their business is staggering, from a male perspective its around 8 out of 10 people which don't bother to wash their hands.

Agreed, that grinds my gears too.
People just don't have basic hygiene! 

It grinds my gears that they changed something about Milo so it's no longer possible to have a "crunchy" version with a layer of the granules floating on top. They dissolve too completely now.

For a moment I had no idea what you meant. But then I remembered a Czechoslovakian friend who introduced me to it.
It's basically just powdered chocolate right?

All game ideas seem to have been taken already 

That's why I never try to think of anything original, but instead try to take inspiration from others.
I find it better to look at art in the same way as writing an academic paper. Find your sources and improve upon the foundations they've laid.

The sci-fi set looks cheap and cheesy enough for the image to be from Red Dwarf.  I'm not sure about the monster, though.

It really does.  I'd even go so far as to say it's the episode with the Pleasure Gelf. "Camille" is the episode I'm thinking of.

I was about to say that it looked very British, but then I noticed the BBC logo in the corner. 
Paddy and Max on the road to nowhere?

[Ghostbusters: Afterlife]

That's easy, it's Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
I pass my turn over to anyone who wants it, since I don't have any movie in mind.

What grinds my gears is the recently announced title for Amazon's Middle Earth series.

You know it must have taken a large committee months to settle on a name as stupid as "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power."

There is no other possible explanation for such a cringe-worthy and redundant title.

Wait what... is it based on the game by Naughty Dog?
[imgzoom]https://project2612.org/thumb.php?551[/imgzoom]

By the way, it's a fun game. Although crushingly difficult. You can easily lose during the tutorial fight.

Be The Richest? 

Close enough.
The game's name is actually Be Richest.
Your turn. 

I still don't know what it is but I would be very surprised if it wasn't available from Big Fish Games.

Hahaha... the purveyors of stimulating hidden-object "adventure" games?!

So true. Although those hidden-object games have become more and more like adventure games in recent years. They have more in common with Myst than the "Where's Waldo" gameplay they used to have.

Also, speaking of Big Fish Games, you're right about this being on there. Although it's quite unique in there if you ask me. More like a simplified Tycoon game than one of the usual Time-Management games.

Last Christmas?

That's it! You got it!
Your turn. 

Nope.

I think I might have gone for too obscure of a game here.