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Pendulumeca - Today's Time Waster
by Jordan Running May 11th 2006
Pendulumeca is my kind of Flash game: Easy to learn, tricky to play, and absolutely addicting. The goal is to move a little mech as far as you can across a field of spikes. This is no platformer, though: Your only means of locomotion is a rope you shoot out like Spiderman to swing from the ceiling, and once you start there's no rest and no turning back. If you hit a gap in the ceiling or fire too long a rope, you may crash into the spikes below. You progress to a new level after swinging 500 meters (but like I said, there's no rest, not even between levels), and the higher your level the larger and more frequent the gaps in the ceiling become. Pendulumeca is a great coffee break game but beware, it's hard to stop playing. As usual, post your high scores in the comments![Thanks, Phi!]
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, ...
