Pre-Friday Fribble

I am speechless.  Today is a day I never thought would happen.  Many of us (you know who you are) worked hard, gave much, and poured our hearts into this campaign and it worked.  We fucking did it!  President of the United States Barack Hussein Obama.  We got our damned country back.  In honor of this fan-fucking-tastic occasion I give to you, Super Obama World.  A cute parody of Super Mario World, with Obama in the titular role.  The enemies include, not goombas and koopas, but lobbyists with money bags and lipstick wearing pigs.  And the final boss? Well… let’s just say this: the game takes place in Alaska.

Enjoy, and fucking hail to the chief!

Super Obama World

Most of the time, a flash game is, well, crap.  Sometimes, flash games are an awesome diversion.  Once in a blue moon, there is a flash game that is so good, one’s first reaction is disbelief.  A flash game so damned well-crafted that you are amazed that it is not a professional game, but rather homebrew.  This is just such a game.  Based on Valve’s PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 game of the same name, the flash version of Portal takes the physics based puzzles, portal gun, sentry drones, and cake from 3D and distills it into 2D.  And… it just works.  What starts off as simple, ramps up at a nice pace to become devilishly complicated.  Problems with solutions so arcane that you are glad that, thanks to the power of cookies, your progress is saved so you may come back. I would try to explain the game better, but it is something that just needs to be played to be understood.  And when you are stuck on a ridonkulously hard puzzle, wondering who the fuck came up with this: remember, this game was made by 3 people.

This is one of my favorite games of all time.

Portal: The Flash Version

I hate Hikurikaeshitepon.  I really do.  In the course of few hours it took over half of the office here, severely threatening the Fortress of Fribble with insanity. In researching Sanrio IPs ( promptly vomits into trash can under desk ) with co-workers for a new project, my friend unearthed this game on Sanrio’s corporate site.  Like the cassette in the movie “The Ring” once discovered it cannot be undiscovered… it will hunt and haunt you for eternity.  The game itself is a palette swap of Othello… but what a palette swap. The mechanics are a little modified, but simple enough, and considering it is Othello, it does make for an addictive board game.  But the playing pieces are dancing white and brown bunnies.  Yeah.  They are promoting these Dancing Sanrio bunnies with this game.  ( vomits again ) I hate this game, and yet I spent a lunch break doing nothing but playing this game.  Goddamn this game.  It is aggravatingly fun, undeniably cute, and disturbingly addictive.  From my desk I see a coworker’s monitor… a monitor that has had Hikurikaeshitepon open on it for nearly a week.  Consider yourself warned.

A small hint for those, like me, who do not read Japanese.  Click the white bunny in the beginning, not the brown bunny.  That brown bunny rapes you.

Bring your A game and a barf bag for this one.

Hikurikaeshitepon! (A very special fuck you to my friend, Kohei Nakajima for pulling this one out of the bowels of hell.)

What do you get when you combine the joys of flatulence upon command and a well designed platformer?  Fucking internet Gold!  If you ever laughed at a fart as a child and/or enjoyed Super Mario Bros (so I am pretty sure I am including everyone a good chunk of my generation here) you will get a hoot out of Puzzle Farter.  It has 105 levels of cat avoidance and fart-based propulsion.  So stop reading that New York Times article, stop fretting about your damned 401k or job or whatever, and fart your way to victory!

Onward!

Puzzle Farter (a very special thanks to a person who is way too cool for school)

Lemmings is without a doubt one of the greatest games ever created. It looks sugarcoated and stupid to those who have never played it before, but it has a deviant streak that is truly amazing. It was designed by the very same group of wacky Scots who eventually went on to become really really rich and famous for assorted other projects.

As a kid, my friend Ray and I would sit in front my shitty little TV for hours and hours not only playing the game, but being sucked into it. We went so far as to create little cartoon avatars for ourselves, the Lords of Lemmings (the designs for which have been lost to the aether).

But I digress, a great game is just that, great. BUT a great game that is available free to play through a browser? That is fucking fantastic.

So without further ado I give you the link to LEMMINGS!

(Oh and a little hint: once you start playing, click the mushroom cloud button for a really good time.)

DHTML Lemmings! (special thanks to Elizium, a Dutch Dark Rock Band who, for some strange reason, host the game.  I do not understand this series of tubes within which we all swim.)