Gone to HELL
Neat little Flash game where you sling stick figures into heaven with a rope.
Gone to HELL [that video game site]
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July 28, 2006
A Daily Cup of Tea
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
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
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
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
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
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."
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
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
February 22, 2006
Bill Macy was great in Fargo, but he's a bastard to shoot past
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
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
"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
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
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
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.
December 20, 2005
Elf Heads
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
September 16, 2005
The Goat In the Grey Fedora
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
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.
September 15, 2005
Ball Bounce
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.
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
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
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.
August 19, 2005
"Monkeys in an anthill.. what a nonsense."
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
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
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.
August 2, 2005
The sign said "doctor's lounge", so we did
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
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.
July 29, 2005
Beer
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
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.
July 22, 2005
Sugar Crash
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
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
--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.
June 22, 2005
Poom!
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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.
June 7, 2005
Jaguar Urban Golf ad
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.
June 1, 2005
Interface Escape
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
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
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
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.
SexySlumberParty.com
A 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.
May 11, 2005
Click the color, not the word
A 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
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
A 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
A 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
Skate, 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
Alien 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
So, 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.
April 13, 2005
Escape The Boogeyman
Escape 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.
April 12, 2005
Bubble Bobble 2
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
Cool 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!
A 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 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
The 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
Three 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
Breakfast 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
Coded for the under 5k contest, a tiny Java version of first-person shooter Castle Wolfenstein.
March 2, 2005
Free The Balloon
Free 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
We'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!!
We 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
Pretty 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
Well, 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
A 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
Twisted. 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, babies with beards. (via blort)
February 7, 2005
Flashteriods: in space, no one can hear you metabolize a chalupa
Ever wondered what controlling a spacecraft by the power of your farts in a low gravity atmosphere while trying to pick up pennies with your ass cheeks might be like? Until Adam Sandler learns to write in Flash, the Flashteriods game comes pretty close.
Adrian Rowbotham's Flashteroids [playnow]
February 4, 2005
Dropkick The Faint
This is the best album promotion site we've seen since the last one we linked to directly beneath it.
In this Flash game, you're totally motherfucking punk, okay, and you're going to completely fuck up pussy-assed new wave band The Faint's pussy assed shit by storming their stage from behind (way behind, you start in the parking lot) and ever so lovingly planting your steel toed Docs right up the bum of that fucking poofter using the "plan your throw, then execute it" style of game play we first saw in the trebuchet game thing, and just enough blood to make it funny. Big ups to The Faint for making fun of themselves and the twits that show up at their shows.
Dropkick The Faint [dropkickthefaint.com]
February 1, 2005
Mep Ball
A better than average basketball-ish Flash game chock full of the creative whimsy. Your greatest enemy in this game is gravity, as such we might have called it "Andy Rooney's Ball." Those things must collect no small amount of lint. But we digress. Sorta.
Mep Ball [Game Sloth]
Also, know your Office Slang.
January 31, 2005
Cutie Quake
Like first person shoot game Quake, but with small "cute" things to shoot instead of meth addicts. In truth the pixies all sort of look like Kelly Osborne to us. We find it greatly enhanced by having that fucking Egg Song going in another window.
Cutie Quake [2flashgames]
This Flash clock thing makes us tired just watching it. That's how they did it before they invented ways to make minorities do it, you know.
January 28, 2005
Ping Tron
Curve Ball- the Flash game you'd get if ping pong and the movie Tron had sex in a low rent motel. Starts off a little too easy, but once it speeds up it feels a lot like a real game of ping pong. Dispite this, we find it highly addictive.
Curve Ball [fetchfido.co.uk]
January 25, 2005
Mausland's Walking Beauty
Funny little flash game in which you're a small something or other carting about a plasma shooting centerfold. NSFW, but only if you do well enough to uncover your prize, a nudie pin-up chick. We only did well enough to go to first base with our winnings.
Walking Beauty [mausland]
January 24, 2005
The Case Of The Silver Earring
A very well rendered Flash game where you help out Sherlock Holmes by spotting differences between two pictures. Starts off easy, gets ridiculous before too long. Like CSI, without all the Bruckheimer.
The Case Of The Silver Earring [sherlockholmesgame.com]
January 21, 2005
High Wheels
We're probably going to hell for envisioning Stephen Hawking out of his chair trying to eat M&Ms off the floor until help arrives while playing this Flash game. Still, it's the image that stuck.
High Wheels [tonypa] Not unlike Tobby.
We've enjoyed some tech hiccups this week, and this did absolutely nothing. We're totally turning to Satan next time. Yes, we know our Windows install makes this redundant.
January 19, 2005
Snake 3D / Addicting Games.com
Snake 3D - somewhere between the Lightcycles of Tron and those small crappy plastic games given out as gifts at children's birthday parties where you tilt them to pot the ball bearings. Part of this massive repository of appropriately named Flash games.
Snake 3D [Addicting Games.com]
January 18, 2005
Typer Shark
Sharks are coming to eat you in this Java game, and the only way to stop them is ditch a good chunk of your former street cred as an early rap upstart and play a dopey, over religious simpleton cook so broadly stereotypical and stepanfetchit as to make Jar Jar Binks seem like Malcolm X, and then to provide a horrible song for the end credits about how your hat is somehow like a shark's fin.
Wait, no, you type the word on the shark before it reaches you. We get those two confused. Wish L.L. did.
Typer Shark [popcap] via A Welsh View
January 14, 2005
Looks like we picked the wrong game to stop huffing paint
If the goal with this Flash game is to repeatedly split open the head of some mohawk'd Mongoloid on a unicycle, then we are the grand champions. If there is another goal, then this fucking piece of shit game is broken somehow, we're sure of it. That's right, it's the game. The game is wrong.
Unicycle Game [mousebreaker]
Also, unicycles from Screenhead's past : EXTREME unicycles.
Tobby
Tobby is an insanely addictive quick Flash game. You're a small dog on a trampoline sort of thing, and the goal is to work your way up through a maze of spikes and floating gems to your girlfriend, who is hot and into bondage. Part Pinball, part Break Out, part... whatever that game was where you whip a Terrier out of a moving car window at stuff.. what was that called- oh, "College."
To play, your mouse moves the springy platform the dog rests on, hold the left button down while dragging the mouse down to build up firing tension like in pinball. There's a lot of room for technique, such as rebounding the dog off of walls at specific angles.
Tobby [toshiba]
January 13, 2005
Flash games and blood
Chainsaw The Children. Naked, terrified children. With a little practice you can decapitate them with one quick stroke, without slowing down. If you get tired of playing with yourself, then get into some righteous Cube Combat with the sort of friend who you can share a keyboard with and beat up on without getting real life retaliation. Perhaps that special kid the office hired who minds the staplers. Surely he's peeing in something.
January 7, 2005
Bug On a Wire
Slick Flash game where you're a Bug's Life-esque little green thing going for a morning run on some telephone wires, and there happen to be gangs of crows waiting to eat you, and buzzing insects who want to carry you off. A lot like trying to go for a jog in any major city, really. The horrison rises and falls constantly, so if you're one of those people easily effected by motion sickness, lay out a barf cup first.
Bug On a Wire [miniclip]
January 6, 2005
Masters and Servants
Only Germans could invent a flash game like this.
Enjoy it for precisely 14 minutes, then go have a square biscuit with a careful amount of nutella on it.
If that's not excitement enough for you, then go push around Tony Blair for a bit. He loves it the little closet leather gimp.
January 4, 2005
The Second Line Game
Flash game version of Clinic's The Second Line video, where you're a housefly looking for blue nuggets. Worthwhile and cool if you like the band Clinic, yet another sharp little nudge towards your inevitable suicide if you don't.
Clinic- The Second Line Game [Domino]
It's more fun than it sounds : Plastic Balls
Here's a slick Flash game where you're a small metal bar on, well it's either a 30 lb barbell plate or that black metal bit you screw a tire to on your car, and there's a sort of wormhole in the middle of that, and your goal as the small metal bar is to keep a little pachinko ball from falling into the wormhole while at the same time bouncing it off your metal bar and into blocks on the outer rim and also into some fruit for power.
This is why most games just rip off Doom.
Plastic Balls [plasticmartians]
Panda Pang
Oddly pleasant Flash game where you're some sort of phazer gun-slinging panda inside of Jerry Orbach's rectum, and your mission is to zap the polyps that have formed before they can mate with your face. This you will do while listening to early 90s techno. We're not telling you to drink before playing this, but we're not advising against it.
Panda Pang [zeronews]
January 3, 2005
Toboggan Run
This nicely done pixel style flash game is more funny than challenging, but well worth the download to experience the violence of failure, the light sizzle of scorched flesh, and the governor of California doing color commentary.
Toboggan Run [wedu]
A Website about that Game where the Yeti smacks the Penguin with a Club
It's a Yeti's world, we just twitch in it. The first appearance of this game where an albino Horatio Sanz uses a penguin for a golf ball predates Screenhead enough to where we've avoided linking to it, but if you've seen more than two flash games in the past year, three of them probably had a Yeti in it. Here then is a site that has catalogued the nine or so versions with links to the games, with explanations for where they come from.
Also, our favorite penguin game so far. Includes minefield.
December 29, 2004
X-mas2004 helicopter game
An addictive if somewhat under-named Flash helicopter game from Nexum where the goal is to punch the shit out of anyone who interrupts your playing and then to confront your caffeine addiction while cleaning out your desk. Apparently. There's also some sort of included storyline, but it appears to be written in Klingon.
December 21, 2004
Aim for the Brain
A pretty great Flash Rubik's Cube simulator, complete with a legion of helpful astronauts. We're not sure what that's about, but if they'd make a Jan Michael Vincent simulator, we'd never have to bring up anything 80s ever again.
Aim for the Brain [eviltron]
The Dark Room
Remember that movie Tron? When Jeff Bridges first finds himself in the computer world and is immediately incarcerated into a small cell? Okay, if they stopped the movie there, they would have predated The Dark Room by about 20 years, an immersive Flash puzzle game where the goal is to feel around and Skinnerbox your way out of a cybercell-like room. Feels sort of like doing a Rubik's Cube from the inside.
You enjoy the game, we'll be over here working on a way to mention Street Hawk or Tales Of The Gold Monkey or other 80s crap in our posts.
The Dark Room [woolythinking]
December 16, 2004
The Hiding Room
Interesting photo-realistic Flash toy/game/ad fest/design exercise in which you attempt to figure out an interactive environment, escape it, and rescue someone. Definitely worth checking out if you have a broadband connection. If you're on dial-up, don't bother.
December 15, 2004
VisitorVille
VisitorVille seems to be a blend of The Sims, blog stat software and Habbo Hotel, with the end result being an animated virtual town that represents your website traffic in a wee metropolis.
Point? None that we can see, but undeniably neato.
VisitorVille seen @ telescreen.org
Extreme Farm Simulator
Who knew dairy farming was this much of a drag? Pretty fun Flash game where the goal is to play Jesus to the lepers in your head.
Well, no Jesus or lepers, but the game is self-explanatory and we've always wanted to say pompous shit like Bono does.
Extreme Farm Simulator [albino black sheep]
December 14, 2004
Checkpoint
Web design firm Homeostatic hawks their ware rather darkly with this interactive Flash. Has kind of a David Lynch/Memento vibe about it. A bit slow loading, and uh, too cool to be obvious about its navigation, nevertheless an enjoyable pitstop.
Checkpoint [homeostatic.net]
December 9, 2004
Bombs Away
Bombs Away is an oddly satisfying Galaxa-like Flash game centered around a seagull that must live on bran muffins and espresso. Or possibly this.
Bombs Away [Tremor]
Moebius Syndrome
A fairly addictive little number where the basic goal seems to be to twist the shapes and create the largest continuous form that you can, without letting the music inspire a grand mal seizure. We bid you luck.
Moebius Syndrome [plsthx]
December 8, 2004
Duck Hunt
A fine recreation of Duck Hunt, the most fun shooting game from the 80s that didn't involve John Hinckley Jr.
Pretty faithful to the original, which means that you unfortunately still cannot shoot the dog. Guaranteed amusement for as long as it takes the music to cause someone to throw their show at you.
Duck Hunt [breakgames.com]
December 3, 2004
Graven images
Online gambling joint Goldenpalace.com wants to help you make your own Virgin Mary sandwich, just like the eBay one they recently paid $28,000 for.
Yup.
That was $28,000 smart dollars you spent there, boys. Otherwise you'd have to use a completely different looking piece of toast in this short-lived spoof.
Anyway, you can upload anything you have lurking on your harddrive and merge it with the blessed lunch item.
Make Your Own Virgin Mary Sandwich [Goldenpalace.com]
Related :
·Trust in cheese, us
·For the Zealot who has everything
November 26, 2004
Paparazzi Punchout
About a week ago, Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake snatched away some snoop's camera outside the Chateau Marmont when the photographer surprised them by yelling "Your work really effects me! It succinctly expresses the emotions from deep within me that I myself can barely acknowledge!" and snapped a picture of the look of surprise on the stars' faces. We envisioned a lot of hair-pulling, scratching, and then Cameron punching the shit out of the cameraman. Liquid Generation went a step further with the Nintendo-spoofing Paparazzi Punchout.
Paparazzi Punchout with Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz [LiquidGeneration]
What's black and white and makes a face like Bea Arthur chewing on a wasp when it tries to hit D5 Sharp?
The World Famous Farting Nun Organ.
Yep.
We know what you're thinking : The Homos are behind this.
Probably.
The World Famous Farting Nun Organ [Silly Jokes]
November 23, 2004
Mudcraft
A Macromedia Shockwave game where the object is to control creatures made of mud and have them built huts to live in, which are also made of mud. Sort of like how is those houses Jimmy Carter builds for the poor are made from limbs sawn off of people who can't afford to sue. Amusing in a calm relaxed way and the little people have kind of a pleasant Down's Syndrome serenity about them.
mudcraft [via Fishbucket ]
Would you like to play a game of Chess?
Play a Java Chess game where you can see the game thinking about it's moves. Future chess moves are considered and illustrated just like tactical nuke strikes in War Games. Pretty neat exploration on the nature of thought in machines, whatever your level of interest in chess is. Also, it has pretty colors.
Thinking Machine 4 [turbulence.org]
Congratulations to Luke for pointing out the Java/ JavaScript typo. He passed our clever test.
November 22, 2004
Space Doctor Game
Part of the BBC's originally titled Space Odyssey manned mission to Mars suite of interactive stuff. This is a game in the same sort of a way that the attractions at Disney's Epot are "rides", but it's worth a check out, particularly for those with any kind of general interest towards space travel. The goal here is to make doctorly choices to keep a trio of astronauts alive during a run to Mars. Astronaut Ted seems to want to die right from go, and halfway through we violated the Hippocratic oath just to be rid of his whining. Fortunately, just like in real life, you can still win bringing back only two astronauts.
Space Doctor Game [BBC]
November 18, 2004
Zoomify
A cool Flash-based zoom toy that lets you get into a landscape picture down to it's pixels. If you zoom in far enough, you can see THE DEVIL.
Really. Keep looking, it's in there.
Delft2 [Zoomify] With thanks to Libby
November 16, 2004
Welcome to the Society of Enigmas
Based on the Canadian teen X-Files-ish television show 11 Somerset, an episodic Flash based narrative/puzzle game where you follow clues and interact with fringe science technologies and other weirdness. A new game up every week, there are ten up already, with three to go. A fast connection will work much better than dial up, but it's not unplayable over a reasonably fast phone line.
November 15, 2004
99 Rooms
99 Rooms... an interactive flash exploration thing moody enough to make Mr.T shit white. Keep your eyes peeled, click around, and like so much of what we seem to be linking to today, loud speakers will enhance things greatly. Be sure to have some time to kill, it's pretty entertaining.
99Rooms [Schumann Combo]
Tune in, Turn off, Drop out
After you finish having your brains handed to you by the visual cognition thing here, wipe them out completely with this little pipe cleaner for the mind. You don't need to be a filthy hippie to enjoy an interactive psychedelic Flash, but it doesn't hurt.
A mug placed under the chin is advised, unless you want to explain a drool puddle.
Pickover's Glimpse into Neoreality and Higher Dimensions [Pickover.com]
Doing their bidding
Grow-a-brain links to a great visual cognition game which succeeds in making you feel like the half-lidded jerk that you most likely are. A sizeable (7mb) Java applet has to load, but it's worth it. Don't cheat, or it'll all be pointless.
Follow the links at grow-a-brain, and follow the instructions.
A Hit will be born [grow-a-brain] With thanks to the unfortunately initialed B.M.
November 12, 2004
Goki Dash
We seem to remember reading once that Pac-Man was inspired by a cockroach. Here then is how that game might have gone if it were developed in Flash. Worth it for the music alone.
Goki Dash [SKT]
November 9, 2004
The Invisibility Game
The Invisibility Game is a simple Flash game in which you use your mouse to control your cursor through obstacles without being able to see it. We didn't get too far, but we did manage to get our mouse almost 2/3s of the way into the drywall across the room. We're switching to decaf.
The Invisibility Game via [mfisn]
Spank a Fat Guy
Spank a fat guy. Yes, playing this game means that you're gay. Hell, just reading this far in means that you're gay. Good to find out this close Thanksgiving, isn't it. Now get in there and spank a fat guy with a fish. SPANK HIM FOR JESUS.
November 8, 2004
PelPet
Not unlike the first time a bachelor has a toddler in his home and has to rush about one step ahead of it to get power sockets, sharp objects and sex toys out of it's way, so is your goal in cute lil' Flash game PelPet to get things of interest out of your pet's way to direct it's path towards riches and not certain doom. Sort like the opposite of what Tara Reid's agent seems to do.
November 5, 2004
Road Blocks
Road Blocks is a small Flash game that starts off so easy you figure it's just a pointless exercise knocked out by it's author on the way to a real game being built. That's just the hook. Three minutes later you're struggling to see moves ahead, like in a chess game, but by then it's too late, you're into it. Kiss productivity goodbye for the day, cube monkeys.
Road Blocks [The Flash Games.com]
November 3, 2004
The Ashlee Simpson Lip-Sync Hoe-Down
Press Ashlee's buttons harder than the 15 year olds on her message board who are upset that she doesn't have the true talent of an Avril Lavigne or Good Charlotte.
Oddly satisfying to our control freak tendencies in a way that we're frankly not too sure is healthy.
The Ashlee Simpson Lip-Sync Hoe-Down [Liquid Generation] Via Jazz Cafe
Related :
·I’m Not That Adam Levine, Goddamnit!
·Are You Feeln’ The Sunshine? We Are.
·Bootsy Bootsy Boom
November 2, 2004
Five Finger Fillet
Remember that thing Bishop the android did in Aliens with the big knife and his outstretched hand? Here's a Flash game which offers the chance to brush up on that skill without limiting your repertoire of guitar tunes to Django Reinhardt stuff. The game appears to be a promotion for a film production house which is no longer with us. Be sure to have the speakers up.
Five Finger Fillet [Gamespy Arcade]
Related : Four minutes with Django Reinhardt
October 28, 2004
Electon '04 Dartboard
Either vent your frustrations, or, if you're one of those undecided folks who still can't manage to take a side, pick your candidate with the Election '04 Dartboard Flash game.
Particularly handy for you residents of North Carolina, as your local politicians make the killing board along with the big boys.
October 27, 2004
Rush Hour
Based on the hit puzzle toy : "Rush Hour is a wildly popular puzzle toy manufactured by Binary Arts. The simple rules and appealing objects make it irresistible to play. There are several versions, official and unofficial, on the web, including the version shown below."
An addicting flash game, reminds us of those plastic games where you have to slide titles to make a picture.
Rush Hour [shufflebrain] (thanks vegveg)
Find Small Men
We can't read whatever non-english pidgin doodle language this is in, but the goal is click on all the tiny people, or mescaline hallucinations or whatever they are which exist in a given room. You can zoom in if you must, but of course that's for Magoo eyed pussies.
Find Smallmen [juegos.com]
Paper Toss
A deeply addictive paper basket shoot simulator in Flash. Attempt to bank your wad of paper off a light breeze, and into a waste paper basket. If you have speakers, turn them up, as the thunk of a soild basket is oddly satisfying.
Paper Toss [ebaum's world]
October 26, 2004
Find Hitler
Find Hitler. Son of a bitch is in there somewhere. Find Hitler. Hitler wants to make out with your mom. Find Hitler. History repeats itself. Find Hitler. Don't dilly dally. Find Hitler.
Find Hitler [alexanderband] via zfilter
Iron Stomach
Like Tetris, except you're trying to stuff food inside some sort of Sumo style eating contestant. Much like watching Flava Flav getting munched on by Brigitte Nielsen, hunks of bile will get in your way, and then stomach acid will level up, preventing you from singing your own song on SNL.
Iron Stomach [heavy]
October 25, 2004
Nucleus
Nucleus is a great little flash game that feels more like a contest in the movie Tron than a mildly illustrative game based on moving electrons within atoms. By the time you're nucleus- hopping between multiple moving atoms, the only thing you're likely to illustrate to a group of physics students is how goofy you look with your fist stuck in the drywall.
October 22, 2004
Evil Clown-o-matic
A small Flash cartoon from scottsmind lets you build your own evil clown. Much faster and more fun than having to pay for its re-election campaign.
Evil Clown Generaor [scottsmind]
October 21, 2004
The Baby Shaker
The virtual baby shaker. No, we don't mean a small thing that salt comes out of. Get your teenage au pair on, and yet still manage to avoid a lengthily prison term. In Flash. Name That Game
The recent PBS video game revisit Video Game Revolution spawns this quick little Flash game which tests your ability to place sound effects from classic 80s video games. It's a great sudden flashback to hear Q–Bert curse like a hung–over plumber again.
Name That Game [pbs.org]
See also : The Video Game Revolution @ Kotaku
October 20, 2004
Loops
Loops is a sequel to an unnamed game that appeared in The Daedalus Encounter by the same designer. A 2-player turn-based game, you try to be the first to form a closed loop by placing lines on a triangular grid. Reminds of of Othelo, only more frantic, and pretty.
Loops [Shufflebrain]
Treasure Box
One of those odd Flash experiences that's not quite a game, yet it guides you along a particular path in search of a goal. In this case, you're looking for gold in a fairy tale–like world of pre–industrial technology drawn against a parchment background. The gold isn't the point, however, you're there to watch the clever little mechanisms unfold as you play along.
Treasure Box [nanahiro] via octopus dropkick
October 19, 2004
Just Letters
Very interesting collaborative Flash game based on alphabet refrigerator magnets where users are encouraged to grab a letter and shift it about to make words. Neat idea, however in practice it's like a group of invisible men wresting letters from each other, reminiscent to what happens if you put a small box of Lego between a group of 5 year olds. Rather than participate, it's more fun to watch people constantly get very near to spelling out "fuck" before having their letters stolen by other phantom hands.
Just Letters [flashcomguru] via Waxy.org
October 15, 2004
Killing more kittens than Jenna Jameson
Nekokiki is but one of ece4co's many pleasantly simple and twisted kitten–based Shockwave games. Use snowballs to dash out the flame rapidly burning down a fuse towards your kitten brethren, who happens to be tied to the bundle of dynamite that belongs to the fuse. Failing is about roughly twice as fun as succeeding.
nekokiki [ece4co]
Panik In Chocoland
A flash game in which you are a hyperactive rabbit running around and grabbing chocolate while trying to not be killed by.. well, whatever the hell that is that is in the factory with you. Somewhat disappointing is the fact that you can come back from the dead, but you don't get any superpowers, like being able to create a religion in your image.
Features art by Kerb, which is the real reason to play it.
Panik In Chocoland [miniclip]
October 14, 2004
Pedestrian Killer
Ah, not much of a Flash game really, but good goddamn is it satisfying. Like Frogger, only you're on the correct side of the driver/pedestrian relationship at long last. We're not sure, but we think some of the people actually Wilhelm. Maybe that's just us. We're also sure that the people are all former roommates of ours, and that they would have voted for Bush.
More dead heads than the 711 cookie isle at 2 am
Like Tetris, but with shrunken heads. Y'know, for Halloween.
"Dr. Strangemitten's plan of introducing nougat–filled Shrunken Heads as this year's newest Halloween treat has gone awry. An unfortunate series of events has caused his Head Shrinker 5000 to go berserk. Nougat–filled Shrunken Heads are multiplying at an alarming rate and no one is around to stop it. Help the Doctor before these tiny troublesome heads overflow the pit and reap havoc. "
May we add that the "gah!" sound effects are the really enjoyable part.
Shrunken Heads [freeworldgroup]
October 13, 2004
Fly Guy
Fly Guy is tranquil and dream-like, one of those interactive Flash cartoons that's not quite a game where you're more guided through an experience rather than faced with any sort of objective or goal. It's drawn in pixel style, and it has an octopus.
Fly Guy [trevor van meter]
MotherLoad
We're not sure if it's the music or what, but in terms of addiction, xgen studios' Flash game MotherLoad makes crack seem like a mouthful of sweaty tarantulas. In the game you're a free wheeln' one–man mining operation in change of a Mad Maxesque mining vehicle/helicopter on Mars.
MotherLoad [xgen studios]
October 7, 2004
Noisy Looping Things
Looptracks is a Tron-like musical Flash that will seem really cool for about 3 minutes, and then will annoy you to the point of self–mutilation with a fondue fork. Try to click it off somewhere between those two extremes, and you'll be happy. A less high tech looping sound Flash toy is The Indian Shankar Drum Ganesh Machine, provided to us by the mighty Vidiot. It will amuse you and quickly annoy the hell out of those around you.
·Looptracks
·The Indian Shankar Drum Ganesh Machine [via Telecreen.org]
All Look Same
Take a snappy Flash test to see if you can tell one sort of Asian person from another.
We did "pretty good" with a score of 11, which is impressive since we're sufficiently absorbed in ourselves to think pretty much everyone who doesn't either give us money or sex looks like a sort of vaguely human amorphous blob.
All Look Same? [ via J-Walk via cynical-c ]
Political Circus
Political Circus has smoothed out the whole electoral process thing with their Flash game. Pick the presidential candidate you would most like to fire out of a cannon, then fire the presidential candidate out of a cannon.
"Oddities of nature and politics! Shunned by society, these men undertake death-defying aerial acrobatics for your amusement and your vote!"
Yes. Yes they do.
To bad Dennis Kucinich didn't make it, we think we could get some serious air with that kid.
Political Circus [Ham In The Fridge]
September 24, 2004
"Oh, that old thing."
The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy is back with new episodes on BBC Radio 4. Also making a return in Flash form is the advanced-for-1983 Capcom* text adventure game written by Douglas Adams. As with the orginal, gameplay remains intriguingly infuriating (there's a good chance you'll die before you even get out of your bedroom if you've never played before), but it's got a sharp new minimalist graphics interface which suits the tone of the game very well.
*Infocom, not Capcom, Jim Treacher wisely corrects us.
» The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy game @ [BBC4]
» The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy radio show page @ [BBC4]
September 20, 2004
Duck soup
Chasm is a really cool little Flash cartoon strategy game where you, as a platypus or some sort of purple duck with a mom that used Thalidomide or something, must return the flow of water that to the hydroelectric generator which powers your town.
Great artwork and clever non-violent game play make this one good for both you jaded types and the rugrats as well.
» Chasm @ [game on / abc.net]
August 31, 2004
Collect blue energy pixel to complete level. Don't touch bad pixels
Pixel Field, a maddening yet highly addictive Flash game. Feels like trying to cram a baby into a barrel full of eels, or something. Angry eels, and a difficult baby. Maybe with Jell-o involved.
Maybe not like that exactly, but you know, odd.
Part of Tile Based Games, a guide of sorts to creating exactly that using Flash5, presented in something very close to English by the helpful Tonypa.
Pixel Field @ [tile based games]
Balls
Lightening Pool – a particularly good Flash pool game featuring 15 levels of difficulty going from “potty training” to something that makes us feel like one of those flipper limbed dolphin boys of the carnivals of old.
Then there are secret levels which probably collect data for the government or something. We stayed out of there, we‘re a little afraid of it, to be honest.
If that’s not enough for you, there’s the snooker version, Lightening Break.
» Lightening Pool @ [Playaholics]
It’s okay, it’s a rental!
This is the most addictive Flash game we’ve ever seen at Milk & Cookies, due in no small part to the odd concept… you’re Ed Bagley Jr, or some anti-SUV type, and you’ve got passive alien creatures floating overhead minding their own business. We’re not sure which of the two things is pissing you off more, but you clearly need decaf, because your objective is to wipe out as many of the aliens as you can by carefully placing explosives under your warthog military vehicle and bouncing it off the wall of the canyon you’re stuck in to crash the wreckage into them, pinball style.
» Warthog Launch @ [ Milk & Cookies]
August 27, 2004
Our fighting Style is unstoppable
Since the Matrix sequels did a pretty hearty Nerd-Fizzle on the Net when it failed to amuse the always cranky over-30 virgin set (we enjoyed it ourselves) Some of the spin off promotions got over looked. Saddly this Matrix-based stickfigure style Flash game that we’ve been enjoying for the past 40 minutes was one of them.
The extra cool here is the ultra-slomo function, which mimics the movie’s "bullet time", hence the name. Also, the game offers one or 2 player mode, and a surprising amount of fight moves for such a small Flash game; be sure to experiment with your Kung Fu.
We, sucking at it, heartily recommend the 300 bullets mode, and also getting your opponent to face the other way as often as he will fall for it.
» Bullet Time @ [2flashgames]
August 26, 2004
MONSTER poolside SUMO
A fairly addictive Flash game that has less to do with classic Sumo wresting and more in common with air hockey and whatever that thing is that group of drunk guys do in the parking lot of the Denny's before the cops arrive at 3 am.
Worth it if for nothing else than the sampled Sam Kinison scream that pops up now and again.
August 13, 2004
Sir? Sir, you forgot your large bag of drugs, sir!
Tired? Lost? Lonely? Priapic?
Interactive Flash Woodcutter will slove nothing, but it does offer you the Meat Angel.
Despite being created in 1997, it claims to be a special preview. If they meant a preview of general direction America would take in the following few years, then they were dead on. If they meant the direction of interactive Flash animation, then thankfully the ephedrine was doing the thinking that day.
I think the era of rampant nootropics is best left behind us.
Click on everything and learn nothing » Woodcutter.
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