If you are anything like me you love playing games. Whether they be video games or board games or even the dreaded out doors sports games, it doesn’t matter, games are fun and we all love playing them. There has been a trend over the past few years where companies seem to be getting confused at what they are making. One of the latest in a long line is Super Mario Yahtzee.
What does the world of Mario have to do with Yahtzee? Nothing. Do we want this, you bet. I’m not sure who the marketing genius was that figured out that if you put Nintendo characters on anything people will buy it even if they already have the same thing without the Nintendo characters, but give him a medal. The game is exactly the same as the Yahtzee you know and love except that the dice feature pictures of the different power ups and comes with a snazzy question block to roll the dice with. For $19.99 it would be a great addition to any geeks gaming collection so go on over to thinkgeek and check it out.
Filed under: Web Games — Cameron @ 4:04 pm July 19, 2010
Greetings. This weeks games is another game by nitrome, the same guys that made the previous game of the week tiny castle. So sit back and prepare your self for the challenge of FAULT LINE!!!!!
In fault line you play as a robot with rocket hands that you use to connect nodes together to alter the level (more on that in a bit.) You control your robot man with the wasd keys to move and the mouse to launch your hands at different nodes. The point of the game is to make it to the exit by connecting to of the white nodes together to change the level to progress to the next area that was unreachable. The way you alter the level is by connecting the dot you remove all of the level in between it all the way across the screen. See the pictures below to make more sense of it.
level before and after
As with most games the puzzles get harder as the game progresses. You get multiple nodes to connect to moving platforms to deal with and a massive migraine to deal with once you get about 10 levels in. I won’t lie, the game gets pretty hard, but its an enjoyable hard (insert bad joke here). I hope you enjoy and let me know what you think.
Tune in next week when we get a little scummy wit it!
Filed under: cheapo games — Will @ 10:00 am July 14, 2010
Game: Pipe Mania
Purchased from: Big Lots
Price paid: $4.00
Platform: PC
If you haven’t caught on by now, Big Lots is pretty much my go to place for last season’s games on the cheap. There just aren’t enough hours in the day or dollars in my wallet for me to play all the games that I want when they make their first trip through the retail channels. But there are also games there that I’ve never seen outside of my local stores, so that’s a plus, too. One such game is Pipe Mania.
Pipe Mania has existed in one form or another for a number of years, and (very briefly) seemed like it was going to be as ubiquitous as Tetris, but for one reason or another, it seems to have nearly fallen off the face of the planet. If you’re not familiar with this game, it features you as a plumber of sorts presented wth a series of levels featuring a spigot and a drain. After a few seconds a slow flowing liquid called Flooze (not to be confused with Flooz) will start to flow. Your job is to take the random selection of pipe pieces and construct a winding path to the drain. The more pipes you use, the more points you get. Easy! Of course, most real plumbers that I know would go for the most direct route possible, but they also don’t have a selection of parts raining down on them from on high, so that’s a plus, I guess.
So this game is the same as that game. Yeah, there’s been stuff added: fancy-pantsy graphics, some cartoony characters (including a pairing of a lazy cat and a fastidious mouse, what fun!) and some of the levels have obstacles that you have to work around, but it’s nothing too earth-shattering.
The real draw is that this is something that you can pick up and play for a few minutes in between… well, whatever it is that people do on a computer when they’re not playing games.
Well, that and it cost less than one of those $5 footlongs, and lasted way longer.
Filed under: Uncategorized — CJ @ 10:59 pm July 13, 2010
I started my Master’s this summer and it is keeping me busier than I’d like, so there’s my excuse for not posting last Tuesday. My wife and I got the new iPhone 4 and have been playing a lot of games for it lately. Instead of a review, I have an assignment for you: Go find someone with an iThing (pod, pad, phone, etc.) and if they don’t already have Angry Birds installed on it, I want you to give them $3.00 and tell them that you NEED to play it. Angry Birds has been #1 on the Most Popular, Top Grossing, and Favorite Game list on the iTunes App Store for around a month now, with good reason.
Filed under: Web Games — Cameron @ 3:05 pm July 12, 2010
Greetings and salutations. I’m feeling kind of lazy today, it was a bit of a long weekend. I was looking through my game library to find a game that required the least amount of movement from me as possible. My solution…
The Adventures of One Button Bob!!!11!!!oneone!!!eleven!!!!1!1 Sit back and relax, you don’t even need to lean forward to use the keyboard, so loosen the bolt on your swivel chair and lean that baby all the way back cause all you need for this adventure is the mouse . TAoOBB is a side scrolling adventure platforming game. It starts off with a commodore loading screen and then the actions begins…and by action i mean the title screen seen above and a super catchy theme song, so catchy in fact that I’m including a youtube video for it made by someone that is most definitely not me. Its no Robot Unicorn Attack, but its got some bitchin sweet guitar riffs and 100% less androgynous man woman singing.
On with the game. In TAoOBB you use the left mouse button to deal with a number of different tasks that each level presents you. like in this level …
…you use the button to throw the boomerang at the batty and that only, it has no other function…until the next level, that is.
Now you use it to make him move forward onto the moving platform by holding it in. There are only a few basic types of levels that get harder as you progress. You throw, climb, stop, go and jump your way through the games few levels. Its fairly easy to get to the end, its more of a beat the game in as few clicks as possible type game, but it will provide you with a few minutes of good fun. Your clicks are rewarded at the end with a boss level that I guarantee will make you cuss. My score was 350 clicks, see if you can beat that (should be easy i didn’t do to great at the boss stage).
Filed under: cheapo games — Will @ 10:00 am July 7, 2010
Game: Tilt to Live
Purchased from: The iTunes Store
Price paid: $1.99
Platform: iPhone, iPad, & iPod Touch
Tilt to Live is a game that reminds me a whole lot of I MAED A GAM3 WITH ZOMBIES IN 1T!!!1. Like Zombies, it stars you in the middle of a field of things that aren’t you and that are trying to end your game. Unlike Zombies, though, your main weapon is your maneuverability. You have to tilt and turn your iPhone (or other iDevice) to slide your little arrow-guy around the playfield and avoid the Red Dots that spawn everwhere. The goal? Collect the Weapon Orbs, destroy as many of the Dots as possible, amass points, and repeat. It’s really that simple.
The draw to this game is its simplicity: it’s you against an unending army of dots, and its length: a full game takes me anywhere from 30 seconds to a couple of minutes. Meaning that you have time to play this pretty much any time you have a couple minutes to burn.
The downside? The only one that I can think of is the weapon selection. You get several ways to inflict Mass Doom(tm) on the Dots, but for some reason this game likes to give me the most boring powerup of all, the Nuke, more frequently than anything else, sometimes six or seven times in a row. That makes for a few boring matches, but the rest of the time, when they’re more random… Whoa-ho! Fun times!
Click that link and enter the beautiful world of fan made remixes to video game music. You can find almost anything.
There’s really not much I can say about the site, you just have to go and listen, and it’s something that all video game fans (especially fans of the classics) should love!
They have individual songs, and a few albums (an album is either a collection of one style, one subject, or a remix of the soundtrack to one game).
You can find a lot on this site, and satisfy your withdrawals caused from lack of nostalgia without having to dig out your Super Nintendo.
I would love to see comments on any thoughts of the site! Please enjoy!
