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July 31, 2006

Gone to HELL

Neat little Flash game where you sling stick figures into heaven with a rope.

Gone to HELL [that video game site]

July 28, 2006

A Daily Cup of Tea

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One of Ferry Halim's always pleasing to the eye Orisinal Flash games
A Daily Cup of Tea [jayisgames]

July 7, 2006

Fancy Pants Adventures

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Swiftly animated Flash game in which you're a stick figure in comfy pants. Fantastic artwork and a wry sense of humor set this one apart.
Fancy Pants Adventures [newgrounds]
Thanks to Quif

March 23, 2006

Orbox B

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Here's a fairly spiffy update of the older Orbox game which we liked but can't find at the moment; the goal remains the same, angle your ricocheting self off the walls just right to get to the magic portal and escape. Kind of like a porn shoot, really.

Orbox B [disloyal]
Thanks to David

March 17, 2006

Sushi Samurai

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Cute Donkey Kong esque little number wherein you're a Samurai with a need to stack Sushi. Evil mushrooms and whatever want to kill you, be certain to huck wasabi at them so that they may stand around with thick saliva pooling around their knees wondering why the fuck they just ate what looks and tastes like the innards of one of the facehuggers from Alien.

Sushi Samurai [cbc]
Thanks to linkfilter

March 16, 2006

Houdini, The Temple of the Serpent

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Sarbakan's Flash puzzle/walk around/ punch-out half naked guys game in which you're Houdini, a man possessed of the amazing ability to, well, shrug or something. A pleasant simple flashback to ye olden adventure games of the early 90s like Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

Houdini, The Temple of the Serpent [Sarbakan]

March 14, 2006

Flow

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One of those "games" which falls more into the realm of interactive art, Flow feels like you've got a contender to root for in a particularly hot new age petri dish. It'll make sense when you check it out, however reading the instructions and speakers are recommended, as the soundscape is part of the fun.

Flow [intihuatani/usc.edu]

March 10, 2006

"Megaman returns to show the hardest game ever who's boss."

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Megaman vs Ghosts 'n Goblins: two Capcom classics mash up and fly right in this pretty great flash game offered up by BrokenFunction.com

Megaman vs Ghosts 'n Goblins [BrokenFunction.com]

February 28, 2006

Opniyama

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There is no object, goal, or rules involved with this Flash toy. You drive around a little orange hippie and plant seeds in a Mario-like maze. That's it. while pleasant, this is the sort of non-game which will weaken our children and leave them like so many boneless chicken nuggets before the gapping maw of China's competitive workforce.

Opniyama [palaisdetokyo]

Cubefield

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Very addictive Flash game where you drive your pointy spaceship through the cubes without hitting them. Feels like a slightly slicker version of the old Vectrex vector graphics games from the early 80s, which we still sort of prefer to the more evolved stuff.

Cubefield [crapville]
NSFW due to ads.


February 22, 2006

Bill Macy was great in Fargo, but he's a bastard to shoot past

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Here's a promo for a segment on David Spade's Comedy Central show The ShowBiz Show called Celebrity Ugly Stick. A Flash game wherein you slingshot items like food and hard drugs at either Felicity Huffman or Charlize Theron to ugly them up a little, so that they may win the Oscar which only a fugly'd up beauty can win. You have manage to get the contraband past less Oscar-focused relatives. Scores a 2 out of 10 for gameplay, but about a 9 on the giggle meter.

Celebrity Ugly Stick [Comedy Central]

February 17, 2006

Sandman

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Here's an odd little Flash game where the goal is kill as many tiny sleep-walking men as you can as if they were ants and you were an angry god with a fistful of sand. At least that's how we did it. We had a huge boner, too.

Sandman [fingertime]

February 10, 2006

The McDonald's Videogame

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"Making money in a corporation like McDonald's is not simple at all! Behind every sandwich there is a complex process you must learn to manage: from the creation of pastures to the slaughter, from the restaurant management to the branding. You'll discover all the dirty secrets that made us one of the biggest company of the world."

Molleindustria's adorable snarly goof on The Clown and his eateries.

The McDonald's Videogame
Thanks to Silvia

January 20, 2006

Whizzball

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Discovery Kids offers up a hard to quick Flash game which lives somewhere between Tron and what we think Tim Leary would have seen in his mind like while trying to play Jenga. One of the best designed Flash games we've seen so far

Whizzball [Discovery Kids]

January 17, 2006

Ninja Looter

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Simple, yet ultimately vexing little Flash game where you're a tiny super-deformed Mum-Ra from the Thundercats and you have to avoid an ever increasing gang of ... well, barn owls or something as you steal their.. pierced labia. We dunno, the graphics are pretty small. Anyway, the game is more fun than we expected.

Ninja Looter [OneMoreLevel.com]
Seen @ Z Filter

December 27, 2005

Falling Sand

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Here's a tranquil and odd Flash thingy floating around the web which fits somewhere between an executive desk toy, a Zen koan, and what Nietzsche would have seen if he were asked to stare at an Rosarch inkblot while chewing gum. The squishy gum, with the syrupy googe in it. That's exactly what this is like.

Falling Sand Game
Via Cynical C

December 20, 2005

Elf Heads

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Web flash gift giver to the whole wide web Ze Frank graces us with the Carol Maker, a fly little device in which you get to sequence singing elf heads into your own seasonal carol, and create a little pixel cartoon of the boys/girls/its going at it with full joviality. Kwanzaa really needs some catchy hits if its going to going bother your racist aunt properly, people.

Carol Maker[Ze Frank]

December 9, 2005

Orisinal Bugs

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Oddly addictive Orisinal Flash animation game which should hold most of you well over until the weekend drinking can really take hold. In Bugs you're a little girl who blows giant bubbles with which to scare off ladybugs, which for the purposes of this game are all made of pure death.

Bugs [Orisinal]
Thanks to Feeth

November 28, 2005

Q

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Here's a lightly frustrating puzzle game in which you try to get a colored marble into its corresponding hole. That's all. No big deal. No reason to find yourself suddenly trying to bite through your desk in frustration or anything.

Q [Daily Interesting Links]

November 25, 2005

1980's games

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An ocean of video games from the 80s, all free. If you're into pixilated blobs and music that could make the Pope stab a kitten, this is your Valhalla, freak.

November 22, 2005

Girl With Gun

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Here's a fun little Flash game in which you're a leggy dame of some sort, you have a giant cannon, and the goal is to ricochet your shots off walls or magnets or whatever to kill a largerobot before he zaps you. We have dreams that look a lot like this nightly.

Girl With Gun [Hot Seat Gunner]

November 7, 2005

Quake in ShockWave

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Play ye olde first person shooter Quake in your browser, rendered with ShockWave. If you're reading this on a laptop, and you're male, and you hope to have rugrats one day, cover your boys first, it'll heat up most processors a bit. Requires the ShockWave plugin and a desire to relive the mid-90s.

Quake [cybernet]

October 20, 2005

Flysui / Fulfillment

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The always cool Sect Of Homokaasu offers us the Flash game Fulfillment, a timed puzzle game which first lulls you into a self satisfied complacency with your own genius within the first few levels, then lets you know you're the useless gibbering idiot your mom always feared you were, which is why she drank like that.

Fulfillment [Homokaasu]

Flash game Flysui dispenses with the pleasantries and just goes ahead to let you know that you're uncoordinated shweenbag right from go.

Flysui [abc.net.]

October 19, 2005

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

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A playable promo for 1994's classic DOS game Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time; a strange game where the goal is apparently to find out how many iron spikes your crotch can withstand while you yell at a little drunken prince which steers roughly like a penis tends to over a urinal after a night of heavy drinking. More fun than it sounds.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time [gamespot]

October 13, 2005

How many helpless stick figures did you kill today?

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If the Hapland Flash games were a little too hippie dippy, "take your time, it's cool man whatever" for you, the new one has kind of "hey, there are a hundred hummingbirds on crack in this phonebooth with me, and they're all listening to Black Sabbath" feel to it, and is, at least at first, damn near impossible.

Escape from Rhetundo Island [Foon.co.uk]

See also:
· Hapland
· Hapland 2
· Free The Balloon

Gruesome Twosomes Quiz

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Guess the identity of one half of a famous pair in this Rob Manuel flash quiz. If you get one wrong, and you probably will as many of these people are obscure (to Americans) British folks, go back and get it right because the prize animations for a correct answer is where the comedy lives. Occasionally NSFW, but in a cartoon way.

Gruesome Twosomes [B3TA]

Astroventure

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Get your Slartibartfast on and attempt to craft a planet which can sustain human life, with your naked pal Astro-Ferret in this bit of Flash amusement from NASA. Aimed at grade school kids, but pretty neat if you have any interest in astrology, geology, or avoiding your work for about 15 minutes. Our planet crafted from Fig Newtons and rum was deemed not viable to sustain life, which frankly makes us angry at NASA, who we'd like to point out have lost at least one more expensive space probe owing to mixing up meters and feet than we have.

Astroventure [NASA]

October 10, 2005

Boulangerie - finally, a reason to dislike the French

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Boulangerie, a French word which means, apparently, "fucking sonofabitching cuntdamnit", is an exceedingly tricky (until you get the hang of it) Flash game where the goal is get control of your baguette and catch croissants on the end of it, a thing so obviously Freudian that attempting to write a snark about it left us feeling like we were every episode of Benny Hill at once.

Boulangerie
[Fetchfido's Free Online Games]

October 7, 2005

Mansion Impossible

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Mansion Impossible - an addictive real estate-based Flash game. Feels like Monopoly would if you were playing it with Donald Trump and cocaine. Good cocaine. Also, how to figure out real Monopoly so that you may irritate the tits off the elderly people willing to play it with you.


September 20, 2005

Grow Cube

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The increasingly popular and more complex series of Flash games created in the spare time of a web designer, in which you must introduce the bits on the side to the cube in the proper order to speed up its evolution into a ... thing.

Grow Cube [Eyezmaze]

Previously: Grow 2

September 16, 2005

The Goat In the Grey Fedora

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The Goat In the Grey Fedora is a great flash based noir-tinged humorous role-playing game, somewhat reminiscent of the Lucas Arts games of the mid 90s like Monkey Island. It's free and worth the wait if you're on a dial up, which will be considerable, as the game is pretty sophisticated and uses (for a Flash game) fairly large graphics. Fortunately, you can save your game and come back to it.

The Goat In the Grey Fedora [pinhead games/otterarchives.com]

Antkendo

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A simple Flash game in which you're equal parts ant, Kendo master, and Friar Duck from the old Looney Tunes. Little rough to drive your ant at first, but once you get the swing of it you can murder all kinds of time with this game.

Antkendo
Via Internet weekly

September 15, 2005

Ball Bounce

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A simple game that makes crack cocaine look like a lukewarm cup of phlegm: figure how to pong the ball across the screen just right, without colliding with the light gray bits. After a few levels, you really have to think it through, like Robocop trying to shoot that drug dealer without hitting the baby.

Ball Bounce [Don Pixel]

September 13, 2005

Infect. Evolve. Repeat.

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A simple flash game in which you get to play a nasty little virus, infecting blood cells and generally trashing the joint that is your host body.

Infect. Evolve. Repeat. [Notdoppler]

September 9, 2005

Flying Spaghetti Monster: the Game

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A Flash game/in-joke goof in which you attempt to impart His Noodly Appendage to as many people as you can, so that the world may know the peace of the Pastafarians. An extension of the Flying Spaghetti Monsterism movement, which is explained succinctly in this Wiki, just in case you've been living in a cave or Kansas recently.

Flying Spaghetti Monster: the Game [Venganza]

This game would really be rough if not for the people in the wheelchairs.

August 30, 2005

Mr. Figgles

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Mr. Figgles - oddly addictive Flash game in which you're some sort of bug and you need to eat every crumb off the floor you can find, like they're attention and you're Courtney Love.

Mr. Figgles

August 19, 2005

"Monkeys in an anthill.. what a nonsense."

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Days in a Day is the most stylish interactive Flash thingy we've seen for a stretch. Basically a geographically-organized diary, you track Mr. Brown around his busy day in the big city, clicking on the interactive sites on the map to read his impressions of whatever. Kind of a puzzle "game", but really more of a cool time-waster.

Days in a Day [1H05 : A Graphic Playground, A Graphic Tale's Book]

August 8, 2005

A donut with no holes is a danish

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A fairly entertaining and well drawn indoor mini-golf Flash game is making the rounds. No, you can't give the kitten a Titleist enema. Yes, we tried very thoroughly.

Minigolf [donpixel]

August 3, 2005

Peekaboom

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Peekaboom is that rarest of things: a Flash game with what feels like an original idea. Ater a painless registration that doesn't require an email address, you go online against one random other player, then one of you clicks on bits of an image revealing it to the other player in parts, trying to not give too much away and keep them guessing, while the other tries to guess what the image is. For one player it feels like Hangman, for the other, Battleship.

Peekaboom

August 2, 2005

The sign said "doctor's lounge", so we did

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A promotional Flash game for the new Belle and Sebastian disc which has fun taking the title "Push Barman to Open Up Old Wounds" literally. Your basic "drag your cursor along the path" sort of thing, but here the path is scar tissue on a patient you're operating on, and the the drag is a scalpel. Stay in the lines, perform enough item-economies and you can win Belle and Sebastian stuff.

The Belle and Sebastian - open up old wounds game

The Belle and Sebastian site.

August 1, 2005

Stackopolis

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Stackopolis : a relatively simple block stacking Flash game where the goal is to make us wonder how we've managed to stay out of the hospital for so long being as stupid as we so clearly are. The shame of our failure is alleviated somewhat by the upbeat bouncy music.

Stackopolis

July 29, 2005

Beer

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Milwaukee's Best brand beer has a Flash ad campaign site making use of the "act like a man and drink the man's drink which is beer, for God's sake, you sissies" approach to selling beer. Light beer, we should mention. Also worth noting that beer was recently replaced by wine as America's top way to avoid developing social skills. For this we blame the homosexuals, the liberals, and Paul Giamatti for making wine so damn sexy.

If you really love your beer or your homosexuals or Paul Giamatti, an outfit called OBTTV would like you to go shoot an ad about it, creating what they coyly refer to as “documentary advertising”, which we admit reads far better than "cheap." They'll pay you a whopping 50$ for your efforts and your likeness... efforts they retain the rights to and may then resell to anyone looking for edgy adverts. Clever.

·Milwaukee's Best Light
via Adland

·coBRANDiT [OBTTV ]
via Adfreak

·Also beer themed is this ginormous Carlton Draught ad that we keep getting tips for.

Did you know that when we peed this morning there were ads in it?

July 25, 2005

Grow 2

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Odd and very popular non linear Flash game Grow has spawned a more involved, more animated sequel which has role playing style elements in this game. We still have very little idea of what is going on, but we also managed to once eat the innards of an Etch-A-Sketch as a youngster, and we assume a connection between the two.

Grow 2

July 22, 2005

Sugar Crash

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A darkly hilarious variant of Blockout, in which you're a sugar cube trying to keep a baby's blood sugar level cranked up high enough to get it to bounce up to balloons of "fun", blasting through cinderblocks of "boredom", all without overdoing it so your kid doesn't crash.

Sugar Crash [Pizmo]
Seen @ boing boing

July 13, 2005

Planarity Flash Game

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A stark and simple Flash game with one stark and simple line of instruction :
"Arrange the vertices such that no edges overlap." Seems more friendly than "abandon all hope ye who enter here", but the two could be used interchangeably. We're pretty sure there's an episode of Star Trek where Jordi defeats The Borg by making them play this game.


Planarity Flash Game
[cwru.edu]

Eleventy billion Flash games

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--give or take. Well 342 Flash games, but they're still adding. Website Program Geeks seems committed to halting useful workplace activity with an intensity that even your quietly Irish'd cup of Starbucks can't match. Happy hunting.

ProgramGeek Arcade

June 22, 2005

Poom!

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Simple Flash game Poom! is what you'd get if you took one of those wooden paddles with the rubber ball on the bit of elastic stapled to one end, and gave it to Jerry Bruckheimer, and then said to Jerry : "remake that shit, Jerry... remake the fuck out of it!", and then gave Jerry some chocolate pudding.

Poom! [Got Used] With thanks to TJ.

June 21, 2005

Batman : The Copplepot Caper

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A Flash game from he current WB Batman cartoon series, which popped up a while back to help promote the new movie. More fun than a simple Flash promotional game is normally, with a well-animated Batman... who seems for some reason to have your mom's pilates mix going in his iPod.

Batman : The Copplepot Caper[Curious Jorge]

June 16, 2005

Most Wanted

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More and more Flash games seem to be using 3D style graphics, catching up to where traditional video games where around `99 or so, but in a fraction of the space. This spaghetti western-influenced shooter is a fine example of where it's come to.

Most Wanted [games.raremethod.com] With thanks to Jane.

June 15, 2005

Flysui

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That thing in The Karate Kid Where Mr. Miyagi catches a fly with his chopsticks to prove what a Zen-chilled badass he is? Someone made a ridiculously addicting Flash game out of it.

Flysui [abc.net]

June 14, 2005

Babycal Throw

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A Flash game where the goal is to get one kid with a soda can in his backpack to toss it up so it will nail one of the other kids walking by. If you time it right you can get a twofer when the victim kid's soda launches out of his pack after being hit.

Catchy gameplay, and with surprisingly smooth bass centered ambient-ish background music.

Babycal Throw [alldumb]

The Daily Show News Hunter game

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"Do you have the killer instinct that made the Daily Show correspondents what they are today? Then it's time to get out of your dreams and into our news van! Your mission is to do whatever it takes to get the story first. And be smug about it."

A Flash game where you madly careen the News Van around the city like a Kennedy, and try to c-block "legit" news vans. Satisfying on many levels.

The Daily Show News Hunter game [Comedy Central]

June 10, 2005

The Last Tube

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A promotional Flash game for the UK horror flick Creep, The Last Tube has you running around the London underground trying not to bump into that special creepy loner who wants to change your life. No, not L. Ron Hubbard.

The Last Tube

June 7, 2005

Jaguar Urban Golf ad

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A new ad campaign for Jaguar, a Flash game in which you jet around London in an S Type to play a little urban golf, while appreciating the dazzling new features of the car designed to bring you one step closer to that totally awesome Knight Rider fantasy you had when you were 10. They hope.

Urban Golf

June 1, 2005

Interface Escape

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Interface Escape is one of the more clever flash games we've played; the goal is to make a series of calculated jumps from platform to platform, using a viewscreen to plot out your trajectory and jetpack thrust. Nicely evolved game play with pretty slick graphics for a Flash game.

Interface Escape [superdudes.net]
Seen @ Linkfilter

May 20, 2005

Hapland 2

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Another visit to the Flash cartoon discovery game Hapland. We weren't overly challenged by the last one, this one is a hair-puller. Features slightly more convoluted game mechanics, and the sort of giant flesh-dissolving amoebae that seems like the sort of thing which toying with stem cells will get us.

·Hapland 2 [foon.co.uk]

·Hapland 1
Similar game Free the Balloon

May 19, 2005

Avoision

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Avoision is one of those simple sort of Flash games that seem innocuous and simple, and then suddenly you realize it has taken over your whole life and is driving you slowly batshit insane like a girl from art school.

Avoision [foon.co.uk]

May 18, 2005

Student Survivor

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Student Survivor is stylish Flash SIM style game where your goal is to drive a college student around and keep him fed, watered, alcohol'd and basically functional for a simulated week. Like the old tamagotchi toy, but without all the instantly wanting to murder your charge which that thing inspired. A promotional for the National Association of Student Money Advisers.

Student Survivor

SexySlumberParty.com

SEXYSLUMBERPARTYDOTCOM.JPGA slick Simpsons promotional site with streaming cartoons in which hot young Christians Rod and Todd Flanders get it on messy and repeatedly.
We made that bit up. If Kerry had been elected, however, that's the sort of place we'd be at by now. Thank god for The New Right.

SexySlumberParty.com

May 11, 2005

Click the color, not the word

AAAAAAHCOLORS.JPGA Flash game with the above simple instructions.
Lovely bit o' torture from Rob Manuel at B3ta.

Click The Colour, Not The Word [b3ta.com]

Killing Tee

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A fairly sophisticated Flash game in which you play golf with the Grim Reaper. Or, as they call it in Florida, "Wednesday." A promotional Flash for Grolsch lager, which makes sense to us, as nothing says "party" quite like a little strong beer and a bag fulla blunt objects... or as Jack Nicholson calls it "hey, let me get that bug off your windshield for you."

Grolsch Reaper Golf [Grolsch lager]
Via Z-Filter

May 5, 2005

Barbarian Bob

Barbarian Bob.JPGA Flash game which asks if a tiny Charlie Brown-esque barbarian with stubby arms and a butter knife can take down hoards of vicious battle-hardened warriors decked to the nines in armor and weapons.

The answer, you'll quickly discover, is a resounding "no, not really."

A fun game, with pretty grandiose music.

Barbarian Bob [Newgrounds]

May 4, 2005

Deanimator

BUMLEEDOOM.JPGA Flash game which is far more fun than it has a right to be, given it's limited gameplay.
Step One: shoot army of zombies before they reach you
Step Two: repeat as necessary.
Step Three: die horribly.

Deanimator [Bum Lee]

April 22, 2005

Chappelle's Show: Skate Bored - The Remix

DCS234234.JPGSkate, Bitches! Cute lil' Flash game from the Comedy Central site promoting that little seen underdog The Dave Chappelle Show. Use the arrow keys in the obvious manner, use the space bar to jump. Warning: contains trace amounts of Black Gallagher.

Chappelle's Show: Skate Bored - The Remix [Comedy Central]

Alien Wars

indyinspace.JPGAlien Wars: a Flash game which is pretty hilarious mix of Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Aliens, and Faces Of Death 1-IV. A whip is just about as effective on those facehugger things as you would think a whip would be. You'll die. Often. And with satisfying squelchy noises.

Alien Wars [Itchanatchones] Seen @ Z-Filter

April 14, 2005

Ant War

ant.JPGSo, in this Flash game you're in charge of a colony of ants, and your job, as the queen... or the if you're feminine looking and have been teased all your life and are touchy about it, "the commander", is to dispatch the various kinds of ants based on what they do best for the problems that arise. The ants report in, you make command decisions. Oddly satisfying, and suitable for all ages.

Ant War

April 13, 2005

Escape The Boogeyman

BOOGEYMAN.JPGEscape The Boogeyman is a Flash-based first person shooter style game, only instead of a gun, you've got a dying flashlight. You and your dying flashlight are stuck in a ruined house full of many doors, and a madman freak thing who wants to make a bloody mess out of you. Don't worry, you'll be killed immediately. An effectively creepy promotional site for Sony Pictures' Boogeyman movie.

Escape The Boogeyman

April 12, 2005

Bubble Bobble 2

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The old Bubble Bobble 2 video game, in Flash. The Ctrl key is the fire/start button, use the Space bar to jump, and the arrow keys to collide with your enemies and die quickly, full of regrets over all the times you were nice to people you could have just as easily pissed on, and that one time you didn't have sex with that hottie who was blasted out of her skull, and wouldn't have known the difference anyway.

Bubble Bobble 2 [Bored at Work] Seen @ Linkfilter

April 8, 2005

Puki Swarm

pukiswarm.JPGCool first-person shooter style flash game which takes the reverse approach of Doom and Quake-- instead of freaky monsters after you, the forces of evil are adorable.

Puki Swarm [gskinner.com]


April 4, 2005

Dodge That Anvil!

ANVIL3453534.JPGA pretty great online demo of a Shockwave 3D game which takes the graphics and play all the way up to about 1997 or so, which for a browser-based Flash game is a sizeable leap. In the game you're a rabbit attempting to harvest carrots before you suffer a cartoonish demise, ACME style, from an angry god with a fistful of anvils.

Dodge That Anvil! [rabidlab] Seen @ Milk&Cookies

April 1, 2005

Oshiro

oshiro.JPGOshiro is a Flash puzzle game where the goal is to re-distribute stacks of buildings following set rules under a time limit. It starts off easy, it becomes difficult very rapidly. The game features well-drawn graphics and hypnotic music.

Oshiro [walkingideas]

March 30, 2005

Capoeira Fighter 3

Capoeira Fighter 3.JPGThe Macromedia Flash site offers up a better than average Street Fighter style Brazilian fighting game with surprisingly fluid graphics, rendered in, obviously, Flash. Capoeira Fighter 3 lets you fight with a friend in two-player mode, or you can take on the computer, or, if you're particularly hung over, let the computer fight itself while you sit there slurping coffee, calling whichever player you decide to root for a pussy when it loses. There are twelve different characters with eight different fighting powers, and nine different environments in which to fight with them. Bit of a wait for dial-up users, but not prohibitively.

Capoeira Fighter 3
[Macromedia]

March 28, 2005

Squares, Ray Ray, and the other one

jailhead.JPGThree very different Flash games are popular at the moment: Squares, Ray Ray, and what people wither call "escape" or "prison break", but what we think is in fact called "Muou."

Squares is sort of like a backwoods Klu Klux Klan guy at a big city disco for the first time; you start out with the goal to touch only your own color, but the throbbing dance music makes sure that eventually you'll bump into the opposite pigment. [ebaumsworld]

Ray Ray is an interesting take on the old Othello /Reversi game where the goal is to line up things of a like nature, in this case making little people sit or stand. Seems simple, could be the final straw that causes you to shoot up the mini mart [ebaumsworld]

The final game, which is likely named "Muou", however we're not sure and it doesn't seem to matter to the game, is another in the popular "escape from the room" sorts of games, only this time you're actually in a jail cell, and while it's quite challenging, you don't notice yourself rapidly aging the way you might with similar escape games owing to better game play. [games.lynms]

March 21, 2005

Breakfast Brawl

yogurtpunchout.JPGBreakfast Brawl is a Flash promotional game which bares more than a passing resemblance to the Punch Out game for Nintendo from days gone by, expect instead of facing off with Mike Tyson, you have to deal with a giant bagel.

The Dannon Frusion site also features fantasy baseball, and a collection of their television ads. They really, really want you to drink their yogurt.

Breakfast Brawl [Frusion.com] With thanks to Mike and Daniel

March 17, 2005

The itty bitty Wolfenstein

ittybittywolfstein.JPGCoded for the under 5k contest, a tiny Java version of first-person shooter Castle Wolfenstein.

March 2, 2005

Free The Balloon

flashballoon.JPGFree The Balloon- a Flash game with the same sort of "discover the process" gameplay as Hapland and Treasure Box before it. [Kill Some Time]

February 28, 2005

Prachka

WEKINDAFORGOTWHICHONETOGET.JPGWe've linked to similar Flash games as this Russian version, but we find this version particularly addictive. You'll likely not be able to read the instructions, but it only takes a moment to catch on- find the most efficient path to the little wormhole gate thing... any other path will spin you off into the cold recesses of space like an abstract thought in a patriotic Country singer's mind.

Prachka [kulichki.com]

February 25, 2005

NANACA†CRASH!!

r53gf5gf.JPGWe have no idea. A Flash game where you're a manga schoolgirl on a bike, you bonk some dude (in the Halle Berry SUV sense, not in the Tom Cruise sense. OMFG, did we imply that's gay?) and see how much air you can get off of the boy. while your victim is in flight, click the various other girls on his flight path so you can teleport in for additional air. Reminds us of FLCL a little, but that's as far as our understanding stretches. Frankly, the late Hunter S. himself could not envision this on even his strongest bender.

Fun, though. Gameplay is not unlike Dropkick The Faint.

NANACA†CRASH!! with thanks to TJ

Lost Marbles

lostmarbles.JPGPretty slick and addictive Flash game that feels a lot like trying to drive a police car with your feet, covered in blood and brains with your hands handcuffed behind your back. Not that we know what that is like.
We're particularly fond of the little death wail your avatar makes when you mess up.

Wuuagh! it goes. Yes.

Lost Marbles [BoredMuch]

February 22, 2005

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adventure Game facelift

The Hitchhiker's Guide 423.JPGWell, more like implants. The previously mentioned Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adventure Game reissue from last September was missing some graphics for various locations and situations, and fans were asked to provide some in a contest. The guide was so successfully updated that they've launched two complete versions. So far, both look really good.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adventure Game and new pictures [BBC Radio 4]

February 16, 2005

Illegal heroes 1.0

illegalheroes.JPGA Flash game which takes the Atari 2600 approach to Mexican immigration. Gameplay seems restricted to throwing rocks at snakes, but dying is relatively amusing.

After The Mandate reaches the courts, we imagine there'll be a Vermont/Canada version for us freedom-loving gringos.
illegal heroes 1.0 [entter.com]

Features chip-hop from the always bouncy eat-rabbit

February 15, 2005

The Bill Cosby Fun Game

thecos.JPGTwisted. By far the funniest thing we've seen with Bill Cosby attached.

The Bill Cosby Fun Game [newgrounds]

And, having nothing to do with that,