Generation Gaming – Dan Bull
Nostalgia anyone? Having watched this I must now go and play Tie Fighter, Civ 2 and Gran Turismo 4 all the way through.
Archive for: Shooting
Gamma Bros. – Old School Arcade Action
I am secure. I am content, happy, and even smug. Here is a flash game of such startling excellence that no-one will be able to deny it. If you can’t finish it now, you will come back, if you can’t come back you will weep hot, salty tears at the thought that you have missed out on the glorious satisfaction of shooting the last, laser toting, brain-in-a-jar-in-a-spaceship boss out into the unforgiving vacuum.
Pick either the ginger one or the black one of the presumably adopted Gamma Brothers, let the little worm guys launch your personalised flying saucer from the mothership (why they can’t use the mothership to fight the horde I don’t know), and battle with a swarm of tricky, varied, rewarding enemies. This game has seriously got it all, powerups, boss fights, a great soundtrack, acid-vivid 16 bit colours, and a happy ending: you can even bring your mates back from the dead.
Stunts of Cupidity
Having had a little negative feedback on ‘The Majesty of Colors’ (you know who you are, you philistines) I’ve got a more traditional offering for you to start the week’s distraction. Angelico looks like it’s been ported straight from the Neo Geo – the cartoony graphics and exotic-cheroot vividity of the colours fairly make my palms itch for the feel of a joystick; I hear the tinkle of copper into the tray of the Penny Falls and wonder when I’ll have the courage to face the zombies in Altered Beast again…
Ahem. Where was I? Oh yes – so you’re Eros, or Cupid running your little winged butt off to get everybody together and making a little love before the sun goes down, by shooting them with arrows from your little bow. I was almost convinced by making the mad doctor fall in love with the jiggling nurse, but as so often before, it was the goat that clinched it for me.
Buzz
Description: remake of Buzz the classic version, kill crazy knife weilding bees and avoid hurtling missiles in this crazy deffence game, kill the huge enemy bee’s and save your hive!