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Game of the Week Archive October 2006
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AlphAttack
The lettered bombs are falling on your town, you have it defend it! Each bomb is lettered, press the correct key and make the bomb explode before it hits the town. Similar to Defender, but you have to use the keyboard.
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Tank attack
As a tank commander you have to select the altitude and force for the tank shot. Take careful aim over the terrain and try to hit the opposition tank.
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Mime
Experience the humiliation first hand that a mime artist has to go through. Try to keep your self-esteem from plummeting by covering the taunting public with your hands.
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Tilt!
Ever tried to balance something on the end of your finger? If you have you will know how difficult it is to keep it from falling over. Tilt works on the same principal; keep the plate on a stick balanced. The longer you do the more points you get.
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Head Space
At last, an arcade game with some style. No retro graphics, just cutting edge flash animation. Kill the evil raindrops in your very own spaceship. Way cool.
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Training targets
On the shooting range try to hit as many targets as quickly as you can. The detail in this game is quite impressive.
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What’s up Doc?
Experience medieval doctoring first-hand. Try to keep your patient alive while performing operations such as: arrow removal or lancing boils (probably the plague). Don’t skimp on the leaches.
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R S V P
Arrange your “dinner guests” around the table so they’re all happy. Partygoers are happy when the colours on their cards match the colours on either side of them.
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Donkey Kong
Mario’s first outing. Climb the ladders and platforms while dodging the barrels. Help Mario rescue the madden in distress.
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Star Ball
A rework of what is arguably one of the best-known computer games to have graced our screens. Use the space ship to bounce the ball and destroy the blocks. Pick up bonuses and avoid the missiles.
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Red’s in the sky
Defend your dome on a red planet from the falling meteors. Use the bullets to deflect the falling objects away. Careful not to get too trigger-happy or you’ll run out of ammo.
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It’s a bug’s life
Direct your ant in the direction of the golden pencil. Be sure you’re the first to get there. Though you will have a hard time avoiding the various pit falls to thwart you along the way
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It’s cosmic
Stack the shapes so that they fit into each other. Make sure they don’t meat at the end of the tubes they are moving along. Get the Zodiac sign to the bottom to go to the next level.
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Stick Man
This is one mean stick man. With a considerable array of weapons at his disposal too take on an assortment of villains. The attraction of this game is it’s playability.
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Rat Maze
Use the arrow keys to move the rat through the maze. Try to get to the food that is located throughout the maze.
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Jedi training
Train with the laser shooting spheres like Luke in episode IV. Deflect the laser bolts to destroy the spheres. The more you destroy the more points you get.
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Toon Shift
It’s a production line in there. You have to coordinate the conveyor-belts so that the different cartoon characters are put in the correct boxes.
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Trivia Blitz
You’re asked a general knowledge question. You have to pick one of 16 answers 11 are correct and 5 are not. Select the correct answer and “win” money!
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Crash Test Dummy
As a Crash Test Dummy you only have one purpose in life, crashing into walls. It seems the harder the better. How far and how high you can get hurled will determine whether you get on the high-score list.
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Fruit Fall
Get three of the fruits together to score points. You have to rotate the fruits so they will eventually line up.
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LIMBO
If the game is as atmospheric as the stills and video clip is it’s sure to be good and creepy. There is no release date yet but we’ll keep you posted. . .
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Join the dots!
Nothing too difficult here, that is if you can remember how to do a dot-to-dot puzzle. Use the mouse to rollover the numbered dots to join them up. Try to do it in the shortest time possible.
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Cubic fun
Match up the coloured bricks (there has to be three or more touching) to make them disappear and reduce the pile. Who thought cubes could be such fun?
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Samorost I
An award winning cryptic adventure game. Help the little man in white pyjamas move from level to level by pressing on as series of objects that create a chain reaction type of event.
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Samorost II
In this second instalment of the award winning game our hero’s dog has been stolen! Evil aliens have put it to work on a hamster wheel. Help our diminutive hero figure out the puzzles so that he can rescue his dog.
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War Bears
Help the crack-team of Bears on perilous missions. Guide them by clicking on the options that appear underneath them. Your first mission is to rescue a group of hostages in a bank. Good luck!
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VIRUS!
Starting in at the bottom left-hand corner you have to change the colours of the hexagons to take over the board. You have a set number of attempts and the higher the level the fewer the attempts.
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Pio Pio
What seems like a straightforward dodge the missiles and collect the fruit for points game gets complicated. Other characters begin to shake, reduce and generally interfere with the screen making it a whole lot more difficult.