Filed under: Fun, Games, Internet, Time-Wasters, Web
Play Arkanoid in your DHTML capable browser - Time Waster
by Lee Mathews Dec 5th 2008
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, ...
