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Pendulumeca - Today's Time Waster
by Jordan Running May 11th 2006 at 1:25PM
Pendulumeca is my kind of Flash game: Easy to learn, tricky to play, and absolutely addicting. The goal is to move a little mech as far as you can across a field of spikes. This is no platformer, though: Your only means of locomotion is a rope you shoot out like Spiderman to swing from the ceiling, and once you start there's no rest and no turning back. If you hit a gap in the ceiling or fire too long a rope, you may crash into the spikes below. You progress to a new level after swinging 500 meters (but like I said, there's no rest, not even between levels), and the higher your level the larger and more frequent the gaps in the ceiling become. Pendulumeca is a great coffee break game but beware, it's hard to stop playing. As usual, post your high scores in the comments![Thanks, Phi!]
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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steve said 1:46PM on 5-11-2006
this game is EVIL
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R Martin said 2:24PM on 5-11-2006
I gave up at 557 M
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johny said 3:14PM on 5-11-2006
733 m baby!
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Jon Wood said 3:28PM on 5-11-2006
1117m is the higheset I've ever gotten.
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david said 3:48PM on 5-11-2006
1783 m. i'll play more after i finish some work.
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phi said 3:49PM on 5-11-2006
my best is 1366m so far
i wonder if this is a photoshop
http://i1.tinypic.com/xonjuc.jpg
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david said 4:04PM on 5-11-2006
2398. who was i kidding? i played again right away.
this actually reminds me a lot of nanaca crash...
(sorry if there are two of these... net hiccup!)
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david said 5:59PM on 5-11-2006
2876. my professors hate you.
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evan said 7:02PM on 5-11-2006
The 'dude' ended up staying at the same height for an infinite ammount of time like it had an error in the game or something. Here's 21,000+ m after 20 minutes or so. The levels quit going up after 10!
here's proof: http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a146/TeensPastCordon/pendulumeca.jpg
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Claudiu Spulber said 2:40AM on 5-12-2006
Yeah this is nice. 426 after 3 retries, I would continue in the spirit of competition but that "21,000+ " guy really spoiled the fun :(.
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just me said 5:23AM on 5-14-2006
@9 Yea mine glitched too because I could only get 8,923 then I tried again and he just went zooming across the screen I stopped it after 30,000 because it wasen't fun after that.
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free games said 1:57AM on 5-19-2006
What a great game! Super fun..added it to my site. I got 872 after a couple of tries. Thanks.
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Neal Saferstein said 11:16PM on 6-12-2006
This is evil. I need it in a widget!
Neal Saferstein
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