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Game of the Week Archive June 2004
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Whizzball
Mechanical maze. Combine the marble-rolling fun of Pinball Escape with the construction-planning challenge of Flea Circus or The Beanies, and you get this.Typically you start off on a screen with an entry tube and a target, and you have to stick the variously shaped blocks and gadgets onto the slightly greyer squares of the playing area to get the ball from one to the other.
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Office Paintball
Shoot all the yellow faces to score maximum points and advance to next level.
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Pipsoh
Roll the dice for multiple scoring combinations as you try to get the best score.
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Western
Shoot all the bad guys, being careful not to shoot any innocent bystanders.
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Stickman Cricket
Addictive cricket game in which you control the English Stickman Batsmen.
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Crazy Golf
Grab you putter and prove how good a crazy golfer you are!
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Springy
Reach the red ball by springing the little man but watch out for the placed bombs!
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Field Goal
Kick the ball through the posts on all levels.
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Eyezmaze
Weird whack-a-mole. From the guy who wrote the relentlessly popular object-orderer Grow comes this surreal twist on the old fairground challenge where you have to bash the creatures on the head with your "PikoPiko" hammer. And the first difference you'll notice? Whatever they are, the creatures in this one don't seem to be moles.
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Sonar Football
Infuriatingly simple keepie-uppie football game. They don't come much more straightforward than this, or much more frustrating - all you have to do is keep the football in the air using the mouse pointer, and the game keeps track of how many bounces you've managed and how long the ball's stayed in the air.
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Worls Cup Shootout
One on one with the goalkeeper, what option do you take? Go for goal!
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Soccer Challenge
American style soccer game with 3 different levels of difficulty.
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Football Games
Online football games galore to choose from. Try them all out here.
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Panda Golf
Pitch and putt. If you're not in the mood for the complex richochets of other golf games, this is probably the simplest golf game ever - no bunkers, no 3D windmills, just thwacking the ball across a bunch of floating green islands, and you don't even have to get it in the hole!
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Tree Builder
The idea is undeniably original - you build up a tower of bushes by clicking on them, but the closer you click to the line running down the middle of them, the straighter the tower grows. Which is handy, because if the tower touches the edge of the screen, it's game over. And a good steady hand is essential in this, perhaps the first web game to truly capture the terror of a really good game of Jenga or constructing a house of cards.
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N Jam
Coloured blobs fly towards four rotating faces in the centre of the screen, and you just make sure the right face is there to pick up the right colour.
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Free Kick Challenge
Beat the goal keeper and score as many goals as you can!
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Beat The Wall
Try to beat the wall and find the net in six progressively harder matches.
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Detonator
Help Walter defuse all the bombs.
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Topsy Turvy
Clear as many balls as possible.
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Robo Hunter 2
To be honest, I couldn't stop playing it either, largely because it was taking us ages to get anywhere. You drive a radio controlled spy car whose job is to tail suspects and listen in on their conversations, aiming to catch a high-tech thief nicknamed The Cat hiding somewhere on the darkened streets of an unidentified East European city.
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Table Top Football
Play God as you manipulate the players around the pitch.
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Resevoir Builder
Plumbing puzzler in which you have to construct a pipeline which the water then flows along using only a limited range of pipe segments. And, because everything gets more unnecessarily complicated when a plumber's involved, for some reason you can only pick the pipe segment that's currently on top of the pile.
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Setball
How good is your tennis? Time to find out in this really cool game.
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Chicken in a Basket
In this game, its relatively easy to get the chickens to jump up on top of each other (just click on the chick as it's passing underneath where you want it to go), and you don't even have to worry about the tower toppling over as the birds seem able to defy gravity.
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Gold Miner
It's not any form of mining that most geology students would recognise, however, and merely involves throwing out a hook and trying to grab the most valuable underground nuggets you can, all before running out of money and time.
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Pattern
Tricky similarity-spotter. This simply shows you a small grid of up to 9 objects (eyeballs, strawberries, crescent moons, that sort of thing) which you have to find in a bigger grid. And then an even bigger one. And so on.
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Flamingo Drive
Penguin golf. Worried that the world-famous Yetisports series might be "running out of steam"? Well, the good news is that this might be the best yet - the old Yeti whacking the penguin gameplay is still there, but this time combined with the ancient test of skill and judgement that is golf.
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Ice Hockey
Speed skating. Relive the US vs Canadian rivalry in this awesome 3 on 3 hockey game, instructs the author of this all-action adaptation of the icy Olympic sport, which features all major hockey rules, solid AI, and dazzling graphics.
