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Escapa

- a devilishly simple concept. Keep your mouse-driven shape away from the other moving shapes for as long as possible. This post has become a high-scores board of sorts. What's your time?

Desktop Tower Defense

 - Time to protect your desktop, with Desktop Tower Defense! Set up your weapons in a gauntlet formation for your enemies, or creeps as the game calls them, to walk.

Lemmings - an oldie but a goodie

 - Lemmings is probably one of the most popular games of all time, and to see it implemented entirely in Javascript is pretty amazing. If you're not familiar with the game, the concept behind Lemmings is that you get a bunch of little guys that are released at a steady rate, and you need to get them to their goal.

Tom and Jerry - the old "build a better mouse trap" game. If you're familiar with Rube Goldberg devices, you'll get a kick out of this.

You Fell Asleep Watching a DVD

- Ever have a few drinks and nod off while watching a DVD? I'm pretty sure almost all of us has been there at one time or another. If you've ever longed for that feeling you get when you groggily wake up to the DVD's menu playing over and over again, head on over to You Fell Asleep Watching a DVD.

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5 Sites For Old-School Gaming in Your Browser

Grab your browser, and get ready for some classic, low-fi action!


10 Ways To Game Like It's 1989


Every now and then I get a hankerin' for some old-school gaming action, and here's where I go to get my fix.

SuperTuxKart: Mario Kart clone starring Tux the Penguin


SuperTuxKart is a cross-platform version of the popular Nintendo racing game Super Mario Kart, with a few key differences. Instead of Mario characters, it stars the beloved Linux mascot, Tux the Penguin, and some of his friends.


Become a sushi chef

Like any good sushi chef your goal is to keep your patrons happy by preparing their orders correctly and timely.
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Civiballs is a beautiful, soothing physics puzzle Time Waster

CiviballsI have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.

In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.

To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.

Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.

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