jonthomson's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Wargames 1983]

Oh my god! Incredible!

I remember the film and love it, this is a great little game which is about as fun as nuclear war can get and incredibly addictive. Simple to pick up and learn, but there's many different tactics that can be used. Basic graphics and sounds but that's not a problem. One of my new favourite games on Newgrounds, the only bad thing is the lack of a two player mode. You ought to have included a bonus tic-tac-toe game just for historical accuracy as well!

[Ultimate Snake]

Best Snake game ever

Super, now there's absolutely no excuse for other people to churn out more crap Snake games... this beats any of them hands down, it can't get better than this. Has everything you could want in a game of snake. A choice of music would be the only thing I could say really.

[Felinicide]

One of the best shooters ever

Incredibly fun to play, massively violent, looks and sounds fantastic, is rather humourous and involves shooting lots of kittens. What more could you want? The levels are very detailed and well thought out, there's lots of replay value as the action is so frantic it's nearly impossible to get a perfect game. I don't know how this could be improved, barring extra levels. Genius.

[Pengu!]

Very nice addictive game

Must have been playing this for about half an hour... it's great fun to play and very addictive. A simple concept but it works wonders. Somehow the game froze on me on level 11, don't know if this is a glitch, had to right click to get out of it which lost me the game. The story mode needs to have more to it - the later levels in between the bosses are too long winded. With 2 players, it's brilliant!

[Punk-o-matic]

Great fun if you have the time for it

The scope for interactivity here is pretty much endless. If you have the time and the patience to make your own stuff, you could have literally hours of fun. If not, you can just mess around with the random selection feature which is good as well. The little cartoon was fairly funny and a nice side feature. Full marks for making something with great creative scope and a lot of originality, but it just doesn't cut it with me perfectly enough to get a ten, I really don't have the time or the inclination to get the most out of this. You've created something special here, it's just not the sort of thing I go really crazy for.

[Original Hardcore Pinball]

Above average pinball

Plays OK but the table is a bit bland and the ball movement is jerky at times. The music was great, best feature of it. A decent pinball game, would be brilliant if it played faster and smoother with more features.

[!!!Flash MX Tutorial!!!]

Not a good tutorial

This tells you very little on top of what is in the Flash MX help files and can be easily found in the flash forum - it's not easy on the eyes either. Motion tweening is a very basic tool, the only sensible use for custom cursors is for targeting guns, and making an object move is pretty basic as well. Close to useless for anyone who's used Flash for more than a few days.

[Shoot Em Up!]

Great fun to filesize ratio

Surprisingly good fun for a 20K flash, looks very good and is pretty addictive. Rather reminiscent of Missile Command... maybe could have done with some different difficulty levels or something. Fast and furious, fans of old school shooters will love this.

[Flash Poker]

Alright video poker

I don't normally like video poker but this had some features that kept me playing for a while - the whole double your winning subgame was a bit of a bonus, and the wildcard helped to add to the interest. Fairly realistic and looks OK.

[Geriatric Skeet Shooting]

Glitchy to the extreme

It's fun to play but after a couple of minutes the sheer glitchiness of the game gets to you. Decent, but nothing special, and that commentator is damned annoying.