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The Walls are Not Cheese - cheesy Time Waster

The Walls are Not Cheese is an old-school pixelated platform game. It's so old-school, in fact, that your character is a square. While the graphics may not be that detailed, the gameplay is pretty entertaining: you shoot your way through soft walls that make you suspect the game's title is a lie.

Blasting through the walls gets you into new rooms, but your ammo is limited.To replenish your shooting power, you have to suck up the debris from the walls (not cheese?) that you've previously demolished. Jumping over pits and tangling with enemies is par for the course, as in any platform game.

If you're the cheating type, you can make The Walls are Not Cheese a little easier by digging a tunnel in the floor or ceiling and using it to avoid the obstacles in each level, but it's more fun to play it straight.

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vNES: Nintendo in your browser - Today's Time Waster

vNES
Got a hankerin' for some classic 8-bit gaming? Want to play right now? Look no further than vNES, a fantastic site of questionable legality that lets you play any of almost 400 classic Nintendo games in your browser, for free. As you may have already guessed, vNES is a basic Java-powered NES emulator, and it has games for every taste, including a few dozen Japanese titles, some funky unreleased and prototype games, and even a "Games That Aren't Fun At All" category. It has most of the classics, and more are being added every day. It works great without any noticeable slowdowns or glitches in most games, but beware: vNES can be a bit of a memory hog. Bookmark vNES while you still can, as I doubt Nintendo's IP lawyers are going to be as happy about it as I am, especially once they start selling these classic games for the Wii.

[Via Lifehacker]

Filed under: Fun, Games, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Freeware, Time-Wasters

Megaman vs. Ghosts 'n Goblins - Today's Time Waster

Megaman vs. Ghosts 'n
GoblinsI've seen a few classic video game mash-ups before, like the brilliant Pong vs. Asteroids (okay I just made that up), but found many of them lacking. Mega Man vs. Ghosts 'n Goblins, however, is a masterpiece. It's a Flash game that seamlessly blends the original Mega Man and Ghosts 'n Goblins, a game I could never beat, into something that looks like it came right out of the basement of a bored NES programmer in 1987. It's just a few levels, but extremely fun and a surprising challenge.

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Graveyard Shift - zombie-busting Time Waster

With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet. They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...

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