
I've played a lot of video games based on the venerable Spider Man character, dating back to the Atari 2600 days. And none of them have been particularly to my liking. So it is with great pleasure that I point to today's time waster, a simple little game called
Double Wires. Double Wires is an addictive game that can be played in very short time increments, since an average session lasts mere seconds or minutes if you get good at it.
The objective in Double Wires is to simply get as far as you can along a course consisting of blobs of color that you can latch your "two wires" onto, much like how Spider Man gets around. Just click in the direction you'd like one of his wires to shoot out, and it does so, and latches onto an object if it collides with one. You only have the two wires, so this game is all about the timing - when do you shoot your wires, and in which direction? Once you master the art of short and quick shots that allow you to move relatively quickly on horizontal plane, you'll need to learn how to do large throws, where the character gets tossed high in the air by the strength of his elastic wire.
Good fun, and it could easily suck up a lunch hour, so as always be careful.