Tag: ARCADE

When I write up a game, I usually have to classify it one way or the other: either it's an arcade-type game, or it's something more cerebral. Well, Kamikaze Blocks is one game that says, "why choose?" The premise of the game is simple: It's a physics shooter, the type where you have to set off one or more explosive charges to blow all the blocks off the board. But what's unique about it is ...

When I first looked at Dogfight 2, it didn't appear all that exciting. You have to shoot down the other planes – big deal, right? But then the game started, and I really got into it! Gameplay is fantastic! The fact that it's a side-view game made me think that it would be just a simple shoot 'em up, but it isn't like that at all. At each level, you only have a few enemies and the field ...

If you grew up in the 80's in the golden age of video game arcades, you're going to like this Time Waster. Classic 80's Arcade Games is actually a mega time waster, since it's a site dedicated to 80's arcade games, with tons of free online-playable games. Games like 1943, Commando, Contra, Defender, Dig Dug, Frogger... the list just goes on and on. The games are built on various platforms - ...

It's Friday, and time to take it easy - so how about a Time Waster that only requires you to move your mouse? Hello, RetroShoot! Just because the controls are dead simple doesn't make the game any less fun. It's a packed with colorful old-school arcade goodness. Manouver your ship with the mouse and let your ship take care of the shooting. Apart from that, the only other controls are space bar ...

If you're a fan of classic shooters like Space Invaders, Centipede, and Galaga, Virus may well keep you from doing anything productive for the rest of the day. Your ship is armed with a single blaster. As you destroy enemies, you'll pick up the occasional multifunctional bomb that works in one of three ways. Use it to destroy or immobilize enemies, or destroy hexes (like the ones you see in the ...

Enough of this practical advice and useful downloads! I know you've been working hard, and you're probably itching for some fun and excitement. If you've read some of my previous Time Wasters, you'll know that I've got a soft spot for old school gaming. Grab your browser, and get ready for some classic, low-fi action! Neave Games specializes in making flash remakes of classic games, and has a few ...

Have you ever felt like a really colorful, but inexplicably ticked off tiki-head chained against your will to another tiki-head? Did it upset you that the only way you could get through your tiki existence was to work with the head to which you were chained, like it or not? If so, stay far away from Knuckleheads, today's Time Waster. We don't want you to get flashbacks. If the idea of manuevering ...

Marble Madness is hands-down one of my favorite arcade games of all time. That said, I really stunk at it. Rolling Madness is a clone of Marble Madness, done using OpenGL and other open source tools... It looks great, and plays perfectly. Unfortunately, I'm just as bad at this as I was the original. The author appears to have used the same music and sounds from the original game, which I hope ...

This is all too sweet. Some lucky dudes got a replica of the arcade cabinet used in the movie The Last Starfighter, and they are preparing to load a copy of the game used in the movie on it. Well, the game Starfighter is also a replica... But it's fun! And it's free. And with a little soldering know-how and a few spare weekends, maybe you too could build such a replica. The one they bought was ...

Break out the magnifying glass or be prepared to squint: Guimp is almost certainly the world's smallest arcade. It has more than a dozen games, most of them classics, all of them fitting in a square with 18 pixels to a side and playable in your browser. Among the classics you'll find clones of Pong, Breakout, Pac-Man, Asteroids, and Space Invaders. Some of them are astonishingly fun despite the ...

Just the other day we were bouncing ideas around for the "next big game-to-movie franchise" and I happened to blurt out Burger Time, the classic arcade game. What game was more perfect to sit in your mom-and-pop skating rink than Burger Time? I mean, here's a game that entices you to a) put in more quarters, and b) eat more burgers. Awesome! Well it worked on me apparently, ...

Oh, my lord. Torus Trooper is the sort of game I should not be allowed to play before bedtime. Torus Trooper is a fly-through-infinite-space-and-kill-the-baddies top-down shooter for Windows that reminds me of Galaga and Tempest but I'm sure will remind younger gamers of more recent console fare. It's an extraordinarily fast-paced game with gorgeous wireframe graphics and a frenetic techno ...