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Pumpkin Push -- a Halloween-themed Time Waster
by Sebastian Anthony Oct 29th 2009 at 2:00PM
But it's not as simple as that. It's not just a Boulderdash clone with Halloween-skinned baddies and pumpkins for stones -- no, it's like some kind of fantastic mash-up of Boulderdash, Mega Man and Pac Man. In Pumpkin Push you play a plucky pumpkin-pushin' protagonist whose primary objective is to clean the world of various undead ghouls. Vampires, ghosts, robot-pumpkins... they're all here and waiting to be vanquished.
I don't know how big the game is, but there was even an end-boss at the end of the first world! This thing might prove be more than just a mere time-waster...! You can even play as a girl.
There's even a hint on the options/help screen that two people can play at once -- cooperative Mega Man style! -- but I couldn't find a way to activate it.
You should give this one a go. It's one of the better Flash games out there at the moment.
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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