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[Click n Slide]

OK for a quick laugh

Not bad for a quick pick up and play, not my favourite sort of game but it all seems to work properly and there's a fair few things to do. Puzzle fans will probably like this a lot.

[Extreme Sledding]

Fun game to play

I was pleasantly surprised by this - reminding me somewhat of SkiFree, it's fun to play. Simple controls (read them carefully, took me a while to work out what I was doing wrong when jumping) and an OK scoring system (which doesn't seem to reset at the end of a game. It's not ground breaking but it shows originality and is better than lots of things on NG.

[Rammer - tutorial (old)]

Good tutorial

Shows you how to do a couple of things in good detail. Tutorials are always good, this isn't bad. The text was a little small I thought but that's not a major problem. Interesting choice of sound loop, it did get a little annoying after a while but it's better than no sound loop.

Rammer responds:

thx alot. a lot of ppl said it would get annoying...

[Bullettime Fighting]

Strangely good fighter

It took me a while to get a hang of the controls, but once I did, it was great fun to play. A nice variety of moves, and it all works well in an obviously Matrix-style. Probably works best with two players, but there's an awful lot of replay value in this one. I think the omission of a soundtrack is a big one, but the effects were pretty good. Smooth animation and nice backgrounds add to the experience.

[WINTER game preview]

Not sure what the purpose of this was

I don't know what the guy before was smoking when he wrote that, it isn't too bad. It's well drawn (although the running animation looked awful) and seemed to have some sort of plot even for a preview. The music although great did seem inappropriate though, and I don't like music in preloaders. Not terrible, but needed to be finished really.

[Imminent Danger]

Above average shooter

Not bad at all... tricky with lots of fairly small targets flying all over the place, and the Song 2 background music was good although I don't think it particularly suited the game. Better than average, could have used some kind of accuracy stat as well rather than just a straight score.

[! Fishy !]

Addictiveness to rival DYC

Finally reaches the front page and comes to my attention, and it's a truly great game. They say the simplest ideas are the best, and this kind of backs it up. With gameplay similar to Frogger in a peculiar way, it starts off quite tricky, but then (similarly to DYC after about 20 or 30 levels) your fish becomes so big it's over as a game. Right now after about 20 minutes, you can't get both ends of my fish on the screen, and ooh, I've found the end of the game. Great fun destroying the ecosystem. Good job the game has an end. A (now discovered) cult classic.

[useless flash v1.1]

Interesting stuff

An interesting collection of flash toys, nothing groundbreaking but it's fun for a while and for the filesize there's a lot of stuff to do. Nice background music. I wouldn't do another one, but this is OK.

[Arena Boxing]

Slightly complicated boxing sim

I can see the Punch-Out references, but I just found the controls a bit too complex to have much fun with this game. Sounds were fairly realistic and the graphics were OK, and there's a fair amount of different punches to throw. However half the time I couldn't tell exactly what I was doing. A fair effort.

[Techno Pong]

Music helped a lot

In effect, it's just Pong, and it's not that great a Pong clone as you can't change the ball's angle or anything. But the comedy music made me chuckle. In any case, it's got different speeds and works OK, so props for that.