Roboclaw - Time Waster

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Roboclaw - Time Waster

by Todd Ritter Jan 10th 2008

You know that claw game at arcades, supermarkets, and restaurants where you move a joystick to control a claw made of conveniently thin metal that just happens to have the gripping strength of a three-year old girl? Well Roboclaw is way better than that. The object of the game is to move a double-axis claw to pick up a ball and place it in a goal. The up and down arrow keys control the main axis, and the left and right arrow keys control the secondary axis.

The levels get increasingly difficult by adding obstacles (the claw and arm can pass over obstacles, but the ball cannot) and making you race the timer, but thankfully there is a code for each level so you can pick up where you left off if you lose all of you lives. You won't win a cheap stuffed animal, but you will waste time!

UPDATE: We aren't sure if the game is being overloaded with users right now or what, but the arrow keys don't appear to be working in all browsers (although they worked swimmingly at the time of writing). We suggest trying the game later, or check out our other time wasters.

UPDATE 2: If you're having trouble with the main links to Roboclaw, please try this link (thanks Blog Jones!).

[Via Good Experience Games]

Tags: games, roboclaw, time waster, TimeWaster

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Maffu said 9:10AM on 1-10-2008

That's great.
I particularly like the way that it doesn't recognise my keystrokes. in fact it just doesn't work at all.
I think someone took the "time-waster" tag too literally :)

David Hardin said 9:14AM on 1-10-2008

If I remember correctly, this game belongs to another site and can be found on jayisgames. It's possible that it's just an issue with firefox, but I couldn't get it to work either.

datter said 9:36AM on 1-10-2008

The arrow keys... the do nothing!

Blog Jones said 11:19AM on 1-10-2008

Try using http://www.scenta.co.uk/minisites/flash/roboclaw/roboclaw2.swf

That works for me.

TurboFool said 11:53AM on 1-10-2008

The strength of a three-year-old girl? Have you ever tried to pry a toy out of the hands of a three-year-old girl? Three-day-old, maybe, but not a three-year-old.

Rob said 12:54PM on 1-10-2008

Too bad it's not set for 1024x768

arrow keys move my IE screen up and down - impossible to work arm right..

nice game, though.

Matt S. said 2:01PM on 1-10-2008

Ok as the first scorer in IE.. Using the updated link.

My first score was 462.. Level 13 i believe it was.. was annoying.

Matt S. said 2:28PM on 1-10-2008

673.. is my highest so far.. But my highest level is 20.

DexterOz said 11:29PM on 1-10-2008

772 :)

DexterOz said 4:15AM on 1-11-2008

Just scored a 1212 on level 22 :)

Xell said 4:41PM on 1-13-2008

Right click - Play to skip levels.

Ok game...

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