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Dangerous Dave & Brutal Bob - Time Waster
by Jason Clarke Jan 4th 2008 at 4:00PM
Sometimes the best time waster is an extremely brief time waster. We like games that we can click to, have fun playing for five minutes, then leave with no regrets. Dangerous Dave & Brutal Bob fits the bill perfectly. This is yet another in a long line of catapult-style games where the object is to launch something as far as you can get it to go. In this case, Dangerous Dave is a guy riding a bike towards a cliff, and his "friend" Brutal Bob is standing near the edge of the cliff with a bat. The object of the game is to time Bob's swing to blast Dave off of his bike into the air, and see how far he can go.
During Dave's flight, he will bounce, possibly numerous times. There are small mounds on the ground and if Dave hits one, it will launch him back up into the air, extending his flight. There are also pads of dirt that will slow him to a stop almost instantly. So there's definitely a big luck factor in this game to see just how far you can get Dave to go.
Since the controls consist of clicking the mouse button once to get Dave riding, and another to initiate Bob's swing, this is a game you can play while eating lunch at your desk, or listening in on a boring conference call. Our best score so far is 674.5 meters - can you do better? Post your results in the comments!
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, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Will said 1:32PM on 2-12-2008
1000m-ish, on a first try too :D
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Matt S. said 4:08PM on 1-04-2008
810.8m
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mark said 8:34PM on 1-09-2008
1560.2 (i would have played this stupied thing close to 2000 times...........I may need to find a new job)
cankercoot said 5:13PM on 2-13-2008
1562.2 is my best so far!!!!
Vishal P. said 4:13PM on 1-04-2008
Addictive... yet difficult.
744.7 m
http://www.tadbit.com/
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Vishal P. said 4:15PM on 1-04-2008
747.2
toxic boy said 4:16PM on 1-04-2008
811.4 m on the first try! w00t!
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Vishal P. said 4:19PM on 1-04-2008
beginners luck.. ugh lol
bogues26 said 4:25PM on 1-04-2008
with good look 1234.7m :o
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Drekna M said 4:26PM on 1-04-2008
962.8m
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bp said 4:33PM on 1-04-2008
1327.3 woo woo
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Alahmnat said 4:57PM on 1-04-2008
991.5m, which looked really good until I reloaded and saw the score posted by bogues26... ;)
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Ethan Rom said 4:42PM on 1-04-2008
915.8
fun stuff!
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morgan said 4:46PM on 1-04-2008
Felt so good until I checked here, but... 1156.5m
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matt said 4:45PM on 1-04-2008
~140 on the first try, 1431.2 on the second...
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morgan said 4:46PM on 1-04-2008
What's the shortest head-first-into-the-ground you can get? Me so far: 147.6m
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Ian said 5:12PM on 1-04-2008
145.1
Andy said 5:18PM on 1-04-2008
145.1
cole said 5:22PM on 1-04-2008
129.0m
Ian said 5:40PM on 1-04-2008
125.1