I can't get past 23

November 30, 2001 2:01 PM

I can't get past 23 on this damn Flash game. All you have to do is click on a ball to keep it in the air, but it's tough.

(Old link, but I don't see it in the archives)
posted by jragon (26 comments total)

The game has been linked before, but the URL moved. I'm so addicted to kickups, I've been following it around. (I think this is the third or fourth url-shift.) It's certainly addictive.
posted by Marquis at 2:11 PM on November 30, 2001

Eh. Doesn't that get boring? Personally, I'd like a better opponent than gravity or the bottom of my mouse pad. It certainly ain't no Slimeball.
posted by thebigpoop at 2:14 PM on November 30, 2001

How can someone possible hit that thing 2999 times without it hitting the ground?!
posted by trioperative at 2:15 PM on November 30, 2001

That gets incredibly boring after 20.

Sim DeskJob is much more fun.
posted by mkn at 2:35 PM on November 30, 2001

AHHHHHHHH
not Slime ball again. last time it was posted here, i spent hours playing the game...now its begun again. damn you, thebigpoop!
posted by jmd82 at 2:39 PM on November 30, 2001

perhaps what ye be needing is a bit of this game, Reflections?

it's crazy mad fun with mirrors and prisms!
posted by pnevares at 2:41 PM on November 30, 2001

> Old link, but I don't see it in the archives

Probably because there hasn't been time to archive it yet, seeing as how it just appeared in this thread from the day before yesterday.
posted by sylloge at 3:01 PM on November 30, 2001

mkn:

that link is shockingly like my own office setup, except sans computer and green board thing.
posted by moz at 3:16 PM on November 30, 2001

I just got 1100 on the deskjob.
posted by trioperative at 3:32 PM on November 30, 2001

Fun game... but it's no Snow Craft!
posted by silusGROK at 3:36 PM on November 30, 2001

*groooooan*

What idiot posted "Slimeball" here?! Ahh, man!

Oh well. I wasn't going to do anything for the rest of the work day anyhow...
posted by Shadowkeeper at 3:46 PM on November 30, 2001

This is one of the more addictive ones I've played lately. Helps your FPS skills too. :)
posted by PWA_BadBoy at 3:58 PM on November 30, 2001

I got upto level 17 in Reflections, then my brains turned to mush and I gave up ("dma" btw..)..

Did I post the original kickups game in the previous thread? I saved a copy of it on my comp.. Mail me if you want the nice flash .exe :)
posted by Mossy at 4:27 PM on November 30, 2001

Probably because there hasn't been time to archive it yet, seeing as how it just appeared in this thread from the day before yesterday.

That's funny -- I found it by doing a vanity search and landing on a site called eatonweb.
posted by jragon at 4:33 PM on November 30, 2001

damn it. Trying to close my tag now...
posted by jragon at 4:34 PM on November 30, 2001

Try a mouse macro utility. Run a horizontal motion while clicking **very** fast. That should get in a few thousand reps.
posted by pjdoland at 4:56 PM on November 30, 2001

the blue slime cheats... horribly.
posted by winterdrm at 4:59 PM on November 30, 2001

I can't get past 23

and yet, officially, the existence of a metafilter cabal is still denied.
posted by danOstuporStar at 6:11 PM on November 30, 2001

I got 26.
posted by trioperative at 8:25 PM on November 30, 2001

This is an exercise in frustration.
posted by Down10 at 11:56 PM on November 30, 2001

You guys are playing the wrong version of Slimeball. Try this one, called One Slime. Much smoother action and more intuitive controls (the "up" arrow works, so you don't have to use the spacebar). The Pathetic White Slime is easy to beat, Angry Red Slimonds is harder, the Slime Master is really tough, and I haven't been able to get more than 3 points against Psycho Slime. I have been playing this way too much.
posted by JParker at 12:32 PM on December 2, 2001

I just got my butt kicked by the pathetic white slime. I am a loser. (or so the game tells me.)
posted by gd779 at 12:35 PM on December 2, 2001

Bounce your serve backwards, then launch it over his head by bouncing it again at the net as it comes back. On his serves, if the return is short, you can actually hit the ball down if you jump ahead of time so that your slimey guy thingy is coming back down when he hits the ball.
posted by JParker at 4:46 PM on December 2, 2001

aaaaarrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!
posted by gd779 at 4:55 PM on December 2, 2001

Adding further to your (and my) humiliation, my 8 year old son Colin says that when I DO finally beat Psycho Slime, I'll have to beat him twice, and any points he scores in the first game carry over into the second game. He knows, of course, because he's beaten all the levels.
posted by JParker at 7:39 PM on December 2, 2001

It took me about 30 tries but I beat that blue motherfucker in Slime Volleyball.
posted by catatonic at 5:06 PM on December 3, 2001