It's Flash Friday at Anatomy Arcade

August 28, 2015 11:07 AM

The Revenge of Flash Friday - It's ALIVE! Anatomy Arcade "makes basic human anatomy come ALIVE through awesome free flash games, interactives and videos." There are two timed games: Whack-A-Bone and Poke-A-Muscle (both feature auto-playing music, but you can turn it off in PAM). For less stress, there are jigsaw puzzles to help you get familiar with the digestive system, skeletal system, muscular system, the brain, the eye and the heart. (Via everlasting blort)
posted by filthy light thief (9 comments total)

"Flash" and "Anatomy" is a combination of words seemingly designed to be hilariously misunderstood.
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:07 PM on August 28, 2015

I played Whack A Bone, expecting to whack a bone lol... didn't happen
posted by metajasonnn at 12:36 PM on August 28, 2015

PAM was like 4 easy levels, one hard level, and one level that took me like five embarrassing tries. I'm excited to find new (to me) muscles that I haven't found isolation exercises for after incorporating weird things like infraspinatus cable pulls in the gym already.
posted by BrotherCaine at 12:49 PM on August 28, 2015

I'm not seeing Pirates of the Pancreas.
posted by bolda at 12:49 PM on August 28, 2015 [1 favorite]

The thing I immediately thought of was the game "Life & Death" (which despite this awesome color screenshot, I only ever played in black and white, which I think increased the difficulty level; if you also came to this thread thinking of this, I am commenting so you don't have to spend your time searching.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 1:00 PM on August 28, 2015 [1 favorite]

The thing I immediately thought of was the game "Life & Death" (which despite this awesome color screenshot, I only ever played in black and white, which I think increased the difficulty level; if you also came to this thread thinking of this, I am commenting so you don't have to spend your time searching.

Oh man, that game. I played more of the sequel, if by played you mean "was repeatedly fired for poking people in the eye and drilling randomly into people's skulls".
posted by Copronymus at 1:40 PM on August 28, 2015

Hmm. I wasn't going to be studying for my Back & Thorax exam right now anyway, so if I play these games, maybe it might help a teensy bit even by accident?

Let's investigate.
posted by ocherdraco at 3:29 PM on August 28, 2015

(By the way, the answer to that is no, it won't help. Not at all.)
posted by ocherdraco at 10:14 AM on August 29, 2015

Dora Laparoscopic Appendectomy
posted by flabdablet at 12:13 PM on August 29, 2015