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Submachine - Today's Time Waster
by Jordan Running Nov 25th 2005 at 10:15PM
I'm not sure when, but at some point like these Flash point-and-click escape games really exploded. You know the kind: You're trapped in some odd locale and you have to collect seemingly benign items, follow obique clues, and generally put things together and push buttons until you find the exit. Submachine is one such game, and perhaps the only thing that sets it apart is that it's a little more oblique than most. You're stuck in a curious wood-paneled environment whose rooms are filled with strange objects, like bells that control levitating boxes and something resembling a grandfather clock. Put everything together in the right way, and you just might escape. It's not the most sophisticated challenge, but solving it is a fun—if brief—diversion.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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a person said 12:45AM on 11-26-2005
Very fun game, I love those sorts.
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