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I Wanna Be The Guy: Hardest Platformer Ever? - Time Waster
by Lee Mathews Aug 21st 2008 at 12:00PM
Ok, I filed this under "fun," but once you give it a shot you might disagree with me.I Wanna Be The Guy may be the most frustrating, hair-pulling game you ever play. As the developer states on one of his Zazzle shirts, it's "The game where everything kills you. Even the moon."
Within the first couple of minutes, I'd died more times than I cared to count, and that's the point. My poor keyboard nearly got smashed across the edge of my workbench. The game is so difficult (and addictive in a masochistic way) that you want to beat it just to say you did.
Levels have an old-school feel to them and borrow certain elements from some of your favorite classic games, like Bullet Bill and Zangief.
What makes it so hard? Anything can pop out from anywhere and kill you. Keep your eye on that wall, it'll start chasing you and then impale your unsuspecting butt.
IWBTG is kind enough to let you turn down the amount of splatter from your death, as well as music and sound effects - which can get a little irritating during an extended session.
This little baby is freeware, Windows only. If you're not ready for the full dose of insanity, grab the demo download and try the first few levels before taking the plunge.
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 1)
Kevin Guertin said 1:05PM on 8-21-2008
How about providing a link to where we can get the game? You provide a link to a shirt, but not the game.
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Kevin Guertin said 1:07PM on 8-21-2008
Never mind. You have to click the picture to get to the game.
Dan said 4:53PM on 8-21-2008
The game might be Windows only but it can run under Mac OS X via Darwine. And according to the website FAQ can also run under Linux via the use of Darwine (or is it Wine?).
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Mark said 8:34PM on 8-21-2008
For Linux it's just called Wine, which is the original. The OS X version is called DarWine because the kernel for that OS is called Darwin.