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Play Arkanoid in your DHTML capable browser - Time Waster
by Lee Mathews Dec 5th 2008 at 10:00AM
I'm pretty sure if I added up all the money I spent as a kid playing Arkanoid I would have been able to afford the NES I never had. Nearly 20 years later, it's still an addictive, fun game that I can't seem to put down once I get started.Developer Scott Schiller has created a faithful reproduction in Javascript that runs in virtually any browser - including the iPhone.
The game loads in a flash, and I was impressed by how responsive the controls are. Several of the Flash clones I've played didn't track mouse movement well, but DHTML Arkanoid is silky-smooth.
As you can tell from the screenshot, all the power-ups are there. If you've never played Arkanoid before, the one you want is the the red capsule with the L on it.
Damn you, Schiller! I was supposed to be using this morning to get some more posts done, but how can I now? Those bricks aren't going to smash themselves, you know.
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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shamowfski said 10:41AM on 12-05-2008
I couldn't get it to load in Firefox 3. Worked fine in IE 7 though. May just be my machine.
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scotty said 11:16AM on 12-05-2008
Works for me under FF3.
Works under Chrome, too, and in fact it seems to play faster.
Very impressive, but I think is even more impressive is that this works under iPhone, because this could be a way to bring games to the iPhone without having to go through Apple's walled garden (the App Store).
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DeoWulf said 6:59PM on 12-06-2008
Wouldn't load in Minefield, now it won't load in Shiretoko.
In other news, what inspires Mozilla to name stuff like that?
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iamhoff said 2:52PM on 12-08-2008
I freaking ruled at Arkanoid! Any hope of productivity I had just went out the window!
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