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The seedy darkside of....Video Game World Records.

mr.curmudgeon — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:55:04 -0800

The Golden Era Missile Command Challenge! The Epic Battle of Billy Mitchell vs. Mr. Awesome (Roy Shildt), in which, Pac-Man Champion and renowned creator of Rickey's Chicken Wing Hot Sauce, Billy Mitchell, has his status as "Player of the Century" challenged by Missile Command record holder and arch-nemesis, Roy Shildt. Funspot Classic Games Message Board For World Record Holders CLOSED Because of too much airing out of dirty laundry. Below: Conversations With [Roy Shildt,] Guinness Book Missile Command Champion, who is always in hot water with Twin Galaxies due to his accusations and fight to stay on the scoreboard. He has apologized, even though Mitchell has moved on, insisting that "his passion for winning has abated somewhat, or at least shifted." ... "Now," he says, "I bring my passion to the sauce." Billy Mitchell never gives up." (Warning: Crazy site design and information overload! Be sure to scrooooooll down)

Ripley's IQ Game

howling fantods — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:41:26 -0800

Friday flash frustration. Along the same lines as the Hi Q game I used to play as a kid, and equally addictive. I'm not sure what speaks more about my IQ: that I can only get 3 balls left, or that I can't stop playing. Ripley's has several other games as well. There goes Friday.

Throw paper in the bin

kenaman — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:08:12 -0800

Throw paper in the bin game. - Satisfying.

Super Mario Bolsheviks

StephenV — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 02:37:53 -0800

Was Mario some Communist propaganda? "If anything can be said about Mario, it is that he seems to wear quite a bit a red . It’s on his name, it’s the color of his suspenders, his super mushrooms, his flag, even his hat." He does kinda look like an 8-bit Stalin, but a more important question must be asked: "Is Mario a drug pusher?"

Speed Demo Archives

turbodog — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 14:55:29 -0800

Speed Demo Archives is the Guinness Book of Records for Quake speed runs, but they also have speed demos for other games, including a 2:57:35 Half-Life 2 run (torrent to video here). [Via FileRush]

Road Blocks

PrinceValium — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 06:45:17 -0800

Since you don't have anything else to do today, here's a Flash puzzle game called Road Blocks. (Via Fark, which contains spoilers)

Beep

Mwongozi — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:51:22 -0800

Catch NASA's solar capsule!
Via B3ta

Reflections snoitcelfeR

papercake — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 08:52:04 -0800

Tuesday Diversion -- puzzling entertainment for those who are having as difficult a time with motivation this Tuesday-after-a-holiday as I am.

Hair

dobbs — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 00:34:15 -0800

London's Natural History Museum's subsite on Hair has some interesting movies and games.

remember MUDS?

edmcbride — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 13:11:29 -0800

Rising Force Mud Remember back a couple of years, when the rage was "Multi User Dungeons "? You know graphical role playing. Well, its still around, And loads more interesting than the new online rpgs than the playstation has going. So check it out and play awhile if you want.

So easy it's hard

konolia — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:29:09 -0800

Petals Around the Rose This little puzzle took my genius son over an hour to figure out. It took me two seconds. They say the smarter you are the harder it is...shut up.

Hanafuda and Go-Stop

hama7 — Sun, 02 May 2004 08:36:43 -0800

Hanafuda, also known as Go-Stop. [more]

An old general, cardboard bits, yesterday's battle

troutfishing — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:31:01 -0800

90+ Vietnamese general Vo Nguyen Giap buys 100 copies of "Vallee De La Morte", a board game recreation of the battle of Dien Bien Phu There actually are 2 competing board game recreations of the epic 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu which was (by the French):

""....an attempt to interdict the enemy's rear area, to stop the flow of supplies and reinforcements, to establish a redoubt in the enemy's rear and disrupt his lines," says Douglas Johnson, research professor at the U.S. Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute. "The enemy could then be lured into a killing ground."....Hoping to draw Ho Chi Minh's guerrillas into a classic battle, the French began to build up their garrison at Dien Bien Phu..." General Giap - who led the Vietcong forces in that battle, prefers "Vallee De La Morte". Such games are played with large multicolored paper maps broken up into hexagonal grids, with cardboard pieces representing military units. The rules can be quite complex and some wargames ( such as Drang Nach Osten) have thousands of pieces and take thousands of hours to play (sometimes longer than the actual wars they simulate). More on wargaming.

Worldbuilder

majcher — Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:59:09 -0800

Worldbuilder (no relation to the old Mac adventure game toolkit) is an excellent way to start off the week by completely crippling productivity. I've played many games from these guys before, and they're always great. I envy the independent game designer that gets to work with Lego so often. Via GTA.

Get out of the Crimson room

xmutex — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:51:37 -0800

Get out of the Crimson room. [flash]

Danish Royalty

johnny7 — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 07:16:18 -0800

Ye olde text puzzle.Some Nordic prince who really likes his mum.(via coolios)

The Tipping Point

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 05:19:52 -0800

Are You A Balanced Individual? Can You Handle Life's Topsy-Turvy Leanings? I doubt it. (Via Bifurcated Rivets. File under "No Good Can Come Out Of This".)

All your sperm are belong to us

taz — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:15:17 -0800

All your sperm are belong to us : play the condom game.

Won't somebody think of the children?!

Orange Goblin — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:55:17 -0800

Child's Play - Penny Arcade, the popular gaming web comic, is looking to reverse some of the stigma that comes with playing games, by asking the community to send games to children at the Seattle Children’s Hospital.

venus trap

crunchland — Sat, 04 Oct 2003 23:31:02 -0800

Venus Trap [Note: Flash]
What other bizarre and fascinating stuff can you find at Entropy8Zuper?

The Elliot Avedon Museum and Archive of Games

plep — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 00:34:09 -0800

The Elliot Avedon Museum and Archive of Games. Board games from a thirteenth-century 'Book of Games', Inuit games, card games, row games, puzzles, ethnographical papers on games, etc.
A different kind of game at Streetplay - stickball, hopscotch, galleries, and street games worldwide.

Hamlet 2471

MrBaliHai — Sun, 06 Apr 2003 06:34:24 -0800

Film Mogul is an online RPG that's "a simulation of what it is like to be a power player in the movie industry today." Take on the role of studio head, agent, producer, critic, or journalist and make virtual movies every bit as crappy as the ones that the real Hollywood churns out!

bioBlocs

spazzm — Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:30:56 -0800

Build and evolve your bioBlocs creatures. There's even a french version.

FFF - 3D Chess

twine42 — Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:12:19 -0800

Fancy 3D Chess, pinball or crosswords? It's all just more of that Friday Flash Fun!

What am I thinking?

patrickje — Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:04:35 -0800

What am I thinking? A computer asks you twenty questions, and tries to guess what you are thinking about. Can you stump the computer?