Tag: ASTEROIDS

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Right off the bat I want to note that this time waster is PG13; if you'd rather not encounter some mild foul language, it's probably best that you move on to our next post. Still here? Great. If there's anything that those commercials for peanut butter cups have taught me, it's that something magical happens when you put two things that taste great on their own together. The timewasting flash ...

In Rayhound, your ship has a gravity field that you can activate to redirect your opposition's attacks. In Dodge, however, you don't even get a gravity field - and everyone that shoots at you has loaded their guns with you-seeking munitions. The graphics are vintage cool, reminding me of games like Asteroids, Tempest, and Battlezone. To advance, just destroy every enemy ship by flying around ...

Looking for a good way to avoid reading those important work documents on your train ride home this evening? Spacetime Arcade has re-released Realms, an Asteroids-style space shooter as freeware. The game, which is a couple of years old, used to be a commercial title. But now you can download a free version for Windows Mobile 2003/5.0/6 devices. There's also a PC version available. And unlike ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/10_free_Windows_Mobile_games_Mobile_Minute'; A few years ago you could impress friends by showing them a minesweeper clone on your PDA. These days, it's not unusual to see full-fledged PC or console games like Call of Duty 2 or Syberia ported to Windows Mobile. But you don't have to spend a ton of money to turn your PDA into a gaming device. A few weeks ago ...

Have you ever played Asteroids and felt bad for the asteroids? Okay, me neither, but I guess every punching bag sometimes wants to do a little punching of its own, ergo Asteroid's Revenge. It's a quick and fun Flash game that swaps the roles in the classic space shooter: You control a single large asteroid bent on crushing those pesky triangular ships. The controls work just like its progenitor: ...

What do you get when you take Asteroids, add a bunch of other players, and, er, take out the asteroids? Multiplayer Asteroids. It's an extremely fast-paced and addicting Flash space shooter that takes its aesthetic cues from the classic arcade rock-blaster and adds a dozen or more players from around the world. The controls will be familiar to Asteroids players: Left and right rotate your ship, up ...