Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters
Speak & Spell Emulator - Time Waster
by Jay Hathaway Jan 9th 2009
Ah, nostalgia! Every once in a while, I get wistful about the toys that were popular when I was a kid. Thanks to the magic of the web, I don't even have to buy them on eBay to see them again.Check out Kevin St. Onge's fully-playable Speak & Spell emulator, and take a trip back in time. This thing works exactly as you remember it.
This particular emulator has been around since 2006, but seems to have experienced a resurgence in popularity over the past month or so. I dug through the DLS archives and saw that there used to be another one online, circa 1995. It's since been taken down, so I thought I'd share Kevin's version.
You can play the classic spelling and word-guessing games, but you can't circuit-bend this virtual Speak & Spell, or whack it to make it talk in creepy nonsense words. You'll have to track down a real one for that.
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, ...
