Top Five Flash Games
You know those moments that those games on facebook are meant for ? You know those 20 minutes before you are off to the pub or while you are waiting for your chips to get coooked ? Well how would you like to actually spend those minutes on something that does not spam your friends facebook pages ?
That is why I am now introducing my top five flash games. (These games are of course free and can be played without registering almost anywhere, though my preference is kongregate.com )
1. Toss the Turtle (Newgrounds.com)
Toss the Turtle, simple as that.
Basically you get armed with one turtle and one form cannon as well as a weapon. The goal of the game is to combine height and distance in order to get as far as possible. The game features a multitude of "enemies" which can be used to hurl, bounce, crash or explode your turtle to go further. You may also upgrade your cannons and weapons, but not your turtle :(
Toss the turtle has saved me from many boring hours. Unfortunately once you complete the game (which basically requires you to have bought everything) it may not seem as challenging anymore.
2. Upgrade Complete ! (Armorgames.com)
Upgrade complete is a basic space invader game although you can upgrade everything ! literally everything ! from the frame of the game window to the graphics to the weapons of your ship, even the mute button is an optional extra. It is loads of fun and might perhaps be a bit more appealing to us olden gamers who have seen the development of graphics over the years. This is definitely a game to try if you fancy a classic space shooter with a twist !
3. Bunny Invasion 2 (Bubblebox.com)
Bunny Invasion is a classic shooter but instead of killing massive monsters you are defending a Pub against an invasion of various species of bunnies. Lots of upgrades and weapons mixed with a very good sense of humour as well as a few cruel or indecent jokes in the cutscenes. Nice and balanced, my favorite shooter.
4. Sonny 2 (Armorgames.com)
Is a turn-based RPG platformer, no stunning graphics or anything but well thought through and well-balanced. Quite challenging as well as interesting. Unfortunately after having done five or six areas you realise that it is all about repetition and nothing ever really changes throughout the game. Still you will get a couple of hours out of it in total. Comes complete with three different classes and different talent trees for each as well as loads of gear variations.
5. Bloons Tower Defense 4 (Ninjakiwi.com)
Unfortunately I am no huge fan of any flash tower defense I have every played, and I have probably browsed through quite a few over the years (none of them compares to the Tower defenses in Warcraft 3 however). Although Bloons Tower Defense 4 does offer a lot in the way of upgrades and varieties in towers and are also open to unconventional tactics. This game provides pre-tracked maps so there are no mazing capabilities.
And that is the end of my top 5 free time consumers. I hope it has helped someone through a few minutes or hours of boredom.
That is why I am now introducing my top five flash games. (These games are of course free and can be played without registering almost anywhere, though my preference is kongregate.com )
1. Toss the Turtle (Newgrounds.com)
Toss the Turtle, simple as that.
Basically you get armed with one turtle and one form cannon as well as a weapon. The goal of the game is to combine height and distance in order to get as far as possible. The game features a multitude of "enemies" which can be used to hurl, bounce, crash or explode your turtle to go further. You may also upgrade your cannons and weapons, but not your turtle :(
Toss the turtle has saved me from many boring hours. Unfortunately once you complete the game (which basically requires you to have bought everything) it may not seem as challenging anymore.
2. Upgrade Complete ! (Armorgames.com)
Upgrade complete is a basic space invader game although you can upgrade everything ! literally everything ! from the frame of the game window to the graphics to the weapons of your ship, even the mute button is an optional extra. It is loads of fun and might perhaps be a bit more appealing to us olden gamers who have seen the development of graphics over the years. This is definitely a game to try if you fancy a classic space shooter with a twist !
3. Bunny Invasion 2 (Bubblebox.com)
Bunny Invasion is a classic shooter but instead of killing massive monsters you are defending a Pub against an invasion of various species of bunnies. Lots of upgrades and weapons mixed with a very good sense of humour as well as a few cruel or indecent jokes in the cutscenes. Nice and balanced, my favorite shooter.
4. Sonny 2 (Armorgames.com)
Is a turn-based RPG platformer, no stunning graphics or anything but well thought through and well-balanced. Quite challenging as well as interesting. Unfortunately after having done five or six areas you realise that it is all about repetition and nothing ever really changes throughout the game. Still you will get a couple of hours out of it in total. Comes complete with three different classes and different talent trees for each as well as loads of gear variations.
5. Bloons Tower Defense 4 (Ninjakiwi.com)
Unfortunately I am no huge fan of any flash tower defense I have every played, and I have probably browsed through quite a few over the years (none of them compares to the Tower defenses in Warcraft 3 however). Although Bloons Tower Defense 4 does offer a lot in the way of upgrades and varieties in towers and are also open to unconventional tactics. This game provides pre-tracked maps so there are no mazing capabilities.
And that is the end of my top 5 free time consumers. I hope it has helped someone through a few minutes or hours of boredom.
Good old Games (http://www.gog.com)
You tired of going to your used/old games store and picking up one of your most favorite games of all times and get home just to find that your OS (vista/XP) is not compatible ? Sure you can probably get some silly patches or set your compatibility back in order to make your game work but this usually comes with some quite annoying quirks such as game crashing every three minutes or that your brand new graphics card is too new for the game to recognise etc etc. I am sure most of us have experienced it.
But now Salvation is here !
It comes in the form of a new(ish) online store which specialises in good old games and allows you to buy (yes buy, for real !) most of your good old favorites. Sure there are some games missing (mainly from ridiculous multi-corporations such as EA ) but you are bound to find at least one of your great old games.
Some of the advantages about gog.com are the following:
-Very reasonable prices (yes they are!)
-Accessible from most countries (I would say 'all countries' but I am not actually sure about that)
-No ridiculous extra software required (Such as Steam or EA downloader)
-No limit as to how many times you can actually download the game (such as EA) and they do stress this issue a lot on their website, you actually do OWN the game, just not an actual physical copy.
-As far as I know and as far as I have heard their modifications* to certain games are incredible, granted due to lack of money I have not actually bought more than one game (Heroes of might and magic 3 including all expansions) but it works perfectly. Perfect as in they work like the original, it only crashes occasionally and due to the Autosave feature of HOMM 3 this is not an issue. This is actually quite a big deal since other online stores who releases oldish games (Steam) promises the same but does not always deliver.
*Modifications in this case is making the games compatible with XP and Vista.
I know that I at least am looking forward to going on a shopping spree as soon as I get some disposable income.
Also I love EA games, just not EA itself...
