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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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And it wasn't part of their culture until like, after WWII I believe. NEW TRADITIONS DON'T COUNT. _________________
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
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Japan are killing whales because they secretly have developed intelligent robot whales to take their place. The robots we have seen so far are only a diversion as western countries wouldn't be able to comprehend such a technological leap at this stage. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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AUSTRALIA, UNITE! _________________
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The Great Unwashed .
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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Cycle wrote: | And it wasn't part of their culture until like, after WWII I believe. NEW TRADITIONS DON'T COUNT. |
Yep! And you know why they had to resort to whaling after WWII? Because of the trade embargo placed upon them by the United States! Good times. _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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i don't usually like the kind of shooting game where the player's vehicle is big and clunky and slow, but robotix has some compelling level design. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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are there any people apart from cactus that put out lots of oddball, experimental games? _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 1:57 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, tons of people, right?? |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:19 am Post subject: |
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examples? _________________
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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guys
i need one more freeware game for my coloumn but i cant find a good one anywhere
so QUICK what have been some recent-ish good freeware games? _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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You should totally PM Dess about her game she's making with me and toups
Dess, this is how promotion works, you talk to news outlets before the thing gets released! GREAT IDEA! |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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well i'd be happy to cover you in one of the upcoming indie game articles but i need a game that is already out! _________________
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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Write a sentence or two about DEX-EV, it's a not bad Excel spreadsheet game. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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Freecell Skiing! you get chased by a snowman! |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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someone tell me why bonesaw crashes on my computer when i click "play" on the setup screen. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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no idea! runs fune for me. it's neat! _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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so nifflas has released knytt nano, a tiny, gorgeous little adventure. it comes with a clever little puzzle game with no instructions and a portfolio of sara sandburg's (who created the creatures in knytt) work. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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Awesome, I've always got room for more Knytt. |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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i uploaded them. the titles got cut off and my name didn't show up. no idea why. _________________
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Lackey .
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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that juni is strictly non-canon. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, that's bad.
I like Nifflas' forum. I can't imagine a cross word ever gets said there. |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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Dracko recently pointed me to this Aliens remake. The production values are pretty low compared to other remakes I've played recently, but they do their job and the game itself is pretty fun. I found it pretty interesting to see how they handled HORROR and TENSION back in the olds days, not to mention first-person action! _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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Cycle wrote: | I found it pretty interesting to see how they handled HORROR and TENSION back in the olds days |
hey have you played that game i'm releasing on friday yet
EDIT: incidentally, silent debuggers _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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No I haven't!
I should probably play Silent Debuggers, I'm pretty sure I have the ROM. _________________
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kirkjerk .
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:32 am Post subject: |
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Cycle wrote: | Dracko recently pointed me to this Aliens remake. The production values are pretty low compared to other remakes I've played recently, but they do their job and the game itself is pretty fun. I found it pretty interesting to see how they handled HORROR and TENSION back in the olds days, not to mention first-person action! |
Weird. Just read the Game Informer preview of the new Aliens game, and then I thought of that old Alien for the Atari 2600. Who knew that the movie had so much in common with Pac-Man? All it really needed was the addition of a flamethrower. _________________ =/ \(<D)_/
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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i have never wanted to like a bernie game as badly as i do stargirl and the thief from the exploded moon, but bernie still has a problem imbuing his platformers with any sense of speed. _________________
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Dracko .
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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kirkjerk wrote: | Who knew that the movie had so much in common with Pac-Man? |
Ha! That's exactly what I like to joke about in regards to Space Hulk. It's Pac-Man. In space. With guns! _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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it's awful is what it is. we had to design levels for it in my level design class. the emphasis on luck in that game is absurd. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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The random factor just goes to show how the best laid plans of mice and men, etc. etc. It's all about strategy. I had a lot of fun working out what the trick was to Space Hulk on that freeware windows version Dracko showed me. The game is based around establishing bulkheads and perimeters and blocking off areas and protecting the flamethrower guy who can't defend himself, and all that jazz. I like it. |
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extrabastardformula .
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The emphasis on luck in Cataan is absurd too! "Thaty must make it a horrible game too. Except for the fact that it's totally not. _________________ Signature:
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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alright, strawman.
here's the thing.
one side in space hulk is at a tremendous disadvantage. for that side, no matter how good your strategy is, if you get a bad result on a critical dice roll, it's over. you're done. bad guys win.
you try designing levels around that. _________________
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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make the levels as interesting as possible so people don't mind restarting 50 times? _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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dessgeega wrote: | alright, strawman.
here's the thing.
one side in space hulk is at a tremendous disadvantage. for that side, no matter how good your strategy is, if you get a bad result on a critical dice roll, it's over. you're done. bad guys win.
you try designing levels around that. |
I don't know about levels, but I designed my strategies around that, sure! You have to make your unit flexible and allow for failures.
The idea that one side is at a disadvantage is definitely a planned element that's been there since the original board game. I think it's been designed so the Genestealer player doesn't have to use any strategy at all, as all they can really do is run at the Marine player. Because of this it means the game is ideal for solo play, unlike (for example) chess. |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:46 am Post subject: |
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karoshi is suicide salaryman: the puzzle game. aside from having genuinely devious puzzles, it also has screens which play with the conventions the player has learned in clever ways. kill yourself to win! _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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seven minutes is a game that uses the newly-minted masocore genre to meditate on death. masocore games aren't defined by difficulty, i think (though they are often difficult), but to the extent to which they are mindfucks: they fuck with the player's assumptions, they violate the player's most basic expectations. they approach player death as a narrative device rather than a penalty.
(there's an article here that i have yet to write. well, i've kind of written it, but it's scattered in different places.)
the influence of cactus on the freeware scene is palpable and entirely a good thing. _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:53 am Post subject: |
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gunmute is great. most interactive fiction, when you try to attack an in-game character, gives the stock message "violence isn't the answer to this one". gunmute's "about" page happily assures you that, with most of the puzzles in the game, violence is the answer.
it is a nice little game. _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:55 am Post subject: |
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oh, and go cat is great. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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karoshi is awesome. I really wish it had more levels. I could play hours of these!
i thought seven minutes was a bit rubbish, though. _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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flail is a new platformer from the creator of the jumper games that i like a lot. it's conceptually similiar to jumper, but i think it's a better play experience overall. _________________
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Swimmy .
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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It's also ridiculously hard by zone 5. I can't imagine what comes after this. _________________
"Ayn Rand fans are the old school version of Xenogears fanboys."
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squidlarkin .
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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:38 am Post subject: |
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Yotsupara! is a freeware doujin game that is basically Cursor*10 as a puzzle platformer. |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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snowblind aces is a piece of interactive fiction from the author of gun mute that's about killing sandy peterson. but more than that, it's about seducing the red baron. _________________
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Redeye .
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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dessgeega wrote: | i don't usually like the kind of shooting game where the player's vehicle is big and clunky and slow, but robotix has some compelling level design. |
Have you played Archon 2?
I loved that juggernaut.
Vrooom!
Y o u A r e N o w J e l l y ! ! ! _________________ I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian. |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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ok!
squidlarkin wrote: | Yotsupara! is a freeware doujin game that is basically Cursor*10 as a puzzle platformer. |
a game with so much replaying should have faster transitions. the music is super catchy though. _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:41 am Post subject: |
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rom check fail is pretty great. the game contains a player, enemies and scenery. every few seconds, all of these will change (the scenery is purely aesthetic). you may be fighting the qix as mario, or goombas as the ship from defender. you may transform into the tank from space invaders and be suddenly unable to move up and down. and there are ghosts from gauntlet coming after you. oh no! the game breaks sometimes, but you can't blame it. and the window says "mame32" and wears the mame icon. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:19 am Post subject: |
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That game is SUPERB. |
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kirkjerk .
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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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Harveyjames wrote: | That game is SUPERB. |
I haven't gotten deeply into the game yet... is there a way to beat a level except as Pac-Man?
Its interesting to compare this game to the short story Mallory that boingboing just linked to..... people read that and let me know what you think. _________________ =/ \(<D)_/
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Dracko .
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Hm, yes?
“I’m the Mekuri Master, the Skirt-Flip King. The name isn’t their idea… It’s mine. I’m a man who was born to lift skirts. You think any so-called “rules” are gonna stop me? When classes get out, I race through the corridors like a fearsome wind, flipping, flipping, flipping up girls’ skirts and letting the whole world know that I am the Mekuri Master!” _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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