Just the very best of our Time Wasters series -- helping you waste time at work for over 2 years.
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- 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.*
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.*
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, ...
