Game Time
Thursday, March 25th, 2010One thing the bounty of the internet gives us is the ability to take a mental break from the drudgery and/or stress of our workday with a brief jaunt into the fantasy land of a flash-based computer game.
Here is my personal top three list:
3. ROBOT UNICORN ATTACK [Adult Swim]
My brother introduced me to this ultimately violent game, where you are a robot unicorn who dashes across a scrolling landscape, facing yawning gaps and metallic stars as fatal obstacles. If you do not jump over the gaps or “dash” through the stars, you will crash in a fiery inferno, decapitating your robot unicorn head. However, as my brother pointed out, you are a robot, and therefore you can and will live again. Or something.
Anyway, what really takes this game over the top is the soundtrack — in this case, inspring pop ballad “Always” by Erasure.
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2. YO GABBA GABBA MINI GOLF [YoGabbaGabba.com]
Leave it to the premier hipster kids’ show to make a game appealing to kids and adults alike. Deceptively simple, this game can be played with or without music and is punctuated by exciting animated effects. Fun for kids, challenging enough for grown-ups.
1. SUSHI CAT [Armor Games]
I really think this is the crème de la crème of flash games. It’s my favourite because it’s entirely non-violent — nothing, including dropping from a height and getting squished by moving obstacles, can hurt this cat in its quest for sushi. Plus, it’s a game where you get rewarded for fatness, and that I can always get behind. The first level is dead easy, but some levels are tricky — it can take more than one try to achieve the “Full Belly” required to progress to the next level. You can play this game with or without a nice musical soundtrack; with or without watching the bouncy cat animations between game sections. Warning: playing this game will make you want to eat sushi.
