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Game: Battleships

January 7, 2003
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[Battleships]Did you, like me, ever play Battleships when you were younger? You know – the game where each player would draw a grid on some paper (or have some ‘squared paper’ already at hand), mark where you wanted your ships – and then have to guess where the other player put theirs?

If so, you can now play Battleships on the internet. Complete with stereo sounds, status reports and good graphics – this game helps recreate the enjoyment I used to get. I don’t know how the programmers have designed the computer player’s artificial intelligence: but it’s beaten me once or twice! My highest score so far has been 3980 – surly you lot can do better. Can’t you?

Game: Arse or Elbow?

January 6, 2003
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[Arse or Elbow?]Over at the ODP a few editors have been playing the Javascript driven game Do you know your arse from your elbow? (arse meaning buttocks, rear-end, ‘behind’, ass etc).

There are 14 images and you’ve just got to say which ones are pictures of elbows and which ones are pictures of arses. Some are quite obvious (at least to me) – others are slightly more tricky.

My score was 10 out of 14…

Game: Spaced Penguin

January 2, 2003
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[Spaced Penguin]I’ve now been awake for over 36 hours – too tired and busy to do much blogging, but I did find a Shockwave flash game which helped me concentrate when I needed to…

Spaced Penguin is a little (93k) game where you’ve got to help Kevin the Penguin get back to his spaceship using the highly advanced GP S(Giant Penguin Slingshot/Catapult). Click on Kevin and hold down your mouse button to ‘steer’ him, pull back to set his velocity and then let him go. The further he travels to get to his spaceship (and the more ‘worm holes’ he passes over) the higher your score – but be careful of the planets that attract you with their gravity.

I quite like it when you can go in orbit around a planet and make those nice little spiral pictures that you used to make when you were a little kid with a pencil and two ‘cogged’ wheels over a piece of paper.

My highest score (so far) is 497,815. Anybody beat that yet or have you left Kevin to be Lost In Space? But saying that – WTF is a penguin doing in the depths of space anyway? Flibblepenguin indeed!

Game: Psychedelic Pong

December 28, 2002
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[Psychedelic Pong]I had honestly believed that I had already found most Pong! sites out there, but that was before I came across Psychedelic Pong.

You simply control both bats using your mouse and have just got to bounce the ball between the two bats 76 times (yep, it has got a “target”). But the background keeps on changing color/colours and the ball keeps on appearing to move “backwards and forwards” and the strange music makes it a little bit difficult. Plus, once you loose a ball (you start with 5), the next ball resumes in the middle at the same speed at the one you lost – making it very easy to lose 3 balls in succession.

I’ve managed to score 57 so far (28 with the same ball), but I’m going to try and complete it…

Game: Batman Beyond

December 26, 2002
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[Batman Beyond]Thanks to Firda over at WannabeGirl, I’ve been playing the Macromedia Shockwave game “Batman Beyond: Evolution of Evil game. Using the arrow keys, CTRL, SHIFT and the Spacebar, you control Batman. Initially, you’ve got to guide him past some rats in a hotel to collect your communicator, bat-belt, pieces of a journal and a key.

Once you’ve got the hang of the controls, figured out that things are hidden beneath barrels, fire-extinguishers and moving robots, and that you don’t have to use the elevators/lifts to move up and down a level – it can be quite easy. Everything is in the ‘same place’ if you need to restart the level and a little trick is to try and collect all the pieces before lots of Dr.Cavier’s henchmen come out to inflict pain upon you.

Unlike Firda, I managed to finish the entire game (and, for the benefit of everyone, I’ve compiled a list of passwords) – and all the advice I’m willing to give is “Don’t attempt to hit Dr.Cavier yourself…”

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