This game is a bugger

June 4, 2004 1:39 PM

Apparently some guy got fired from playing this, so have fun.
posted by Orange Goblin (22 comments total)

I want the news link - snark! snark! - so we can comment bash the story.
posted by thomcatspike at 1:49 PM on June 4, 2004

And I want the name of the idiot that couldn't pull himself away from a game that makes "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" look like eight player Halo.
posted by Keith Talent at 1:57 PM on June 4, 2004

Level 10.

Anyone know how to cheat and make it slow down?
posted by Mach3avelli at 2:04 PM on June 4, 2004

Gah! Must ... stop ... playing. Fwiw, Mavis would kick the shit out of most Halo players. I bet she's got insane moves.
posted by Happydaz at 2:05 PM on June 4, 2004

I'd just gotten into the work groove, too.
posted by carter at 2:08 PM on June 4, 2004

I'd just gotten into the work groove, too.

And yet you were reading Metafilter...
posted by rafter at 2:13 PM on June 4, 2004

Yikes: much fun. 7895 points before I got too guilty to continue.
posted by Marquis at 2:25 PM on June 4, 2004

Really hard without a keypad.
posted by jjg at 2:39 PM on June 4, 2004

Busted.

*sigh*
posted by carter at 2:42 PM on June 4, 2004

Actually, there's flat out time wasting. Then there's flat out working. Then there's a liminal zone inbetween, which consists of a mixture of the two, which can tip either way. So I was kind of there and thinking about contemplating the possibility of leaning towards perhaps working a bit. That's what I was referring to.
posted by carter at 2:45 PM on June 4, 2004

1990, apperantly I suck.
posted by delmoi at 4:01 PM on June 4, 2004

I don't get it why do you want to squash the cute little alien eye guys? If you just leave them alone, they are totally non-threatening. And then to move on to another level, you crush their cute little treehouse ball thing. That's not nice.

Also, there seems to be about as much skill and reflex involved as for Ms. Pac Man Apple II+ home edition.
posted by bingo at 4:07 PM on June 4, 2004

The thing that gets me is how much life you use when your hammer's not good enough to squish the bigger guys.
posted by SpecialK at 4:17 PM on June 4, 2004

YOU PEOPLE ARE FUCKING SICK. WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO BEAT TO DEATH THOSE POOR DEFENSELESS EYEBALLS?
posted by eyeballkid at 4:21 PM on June 4, 2004

I'd fire me for playing this.
posted by daver at 4:23 PM on June 4, 2004

Here's a larger version.
posted by Feisty at 4:53 PM on June 4, 2004

Actually, having allowed for a couple hours of further study, I concede that this game has its good points.
posted by bingo at 5:38 PM on June 4, 2004

Feisty, that large version is buggy. The number-pupils show as blanks, so you don't know which square to bop.
posted by bingo at 5:48 PM on June 4, 2004

Just make your first purchase the silver hammer, and the game is so easy it gets boring. I eventually lost on level 13 because, not knowing what else to do, I bought the cheap hammer that I had skipped over in the beginning. Then I was too slow. After level 10 it's all pretty much the same anyway.
posted by bingo at 7:26 PM on June 4, 2004

NSFL (Not Safe For Laptops)
posted by LairBob at 8:00 PM on June 4, 2004

that makes "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" look like eight player Halo.

Classic.
posted by abcde at 8:47 PM on June 4, 2004

Whaddya know - all them years at Kinko's on the ten key before the graveyard shift finally paid off!
posted by dakotadusk at 10:31 PM on June 4, 2004