This year marks a decade of
Strong Bad Emails, sent from Strong Bad's desk. Next to his computer sits a box of
floppy discs, often displaying game titles. If you missed those titles, the detail-oriented
Homestar Runner wiki (
previously)
provides game titles, summaries, and links. Many of the games are old computer games like
Rise of the Dragon or
Miner 2049er, and some titles are linked to
Lord_Pall's
revived Home of the Underdogs abandonware game archive. Other games have links to
the Videlectrix catalog, where you can see
box art and
play some demos. Or you can go back to the Homestar Runner wiki, and go to the list of
playable Videlectrix titles, like
50k Racewalker (
play online)
Polulation: Tire (
play online) or
Peasant's Quest (
play online) (More previous stuff:
Peasant's Quest and
Where's An Egg?).
posted by filthy light thief
on Apr 1, 2011 -
83 comments
Freaky Friday Flash Fun, Flatting Flies:
Insectonator is a top-down shooter. Well, "shooter" is a stretch; this is more of "stomp, drop things, overkill with naplam" attack on pretty much every homeowner's nightmare: a bunch of crawly bugs in the dark that avoid the flashlight.
The bugs don't shoot back, so the game is just an endurance test by the player. And there are two awards for actually sticking around long enough. Weapons include a rock, your boot, various guns (including sniper rifles), rocket launchers, an anvil, naplam, and finally, a nuclear weapon.
Via the ever excellent
Jay Is Games.
posted by Old'n'Busted
on Apr 1, 2011 -
7 comments
Psykopaint is really fun, visually interesting and free. It
is a rich internet application in which you can turn your pictures into paintings by grabbing one of the 6 brushes provided and start painting while the colors are selected automatically for you. Created by
Mathieu Gosselin.
posted by nickyskye
on Feb 21, 2011 -
16 comments
Armor Games has just released another entry into the launch genre (
Penguin Sports,
Hedgehog Launch,
IntoSpace, etc.) called, simply enough,
Flight.
The game is wrapped around a storyline told with cutscenes, starting with a girl who wants her mother home for Christmas. Folding the letter into a paper airplane, she launches it out the window, where it travels around the world, with others adding their wishes to it. As with other launch variants, boosters keep you aloft, and you can purchase upgrades adding to - and replacing - your plane.
[more inside]
posted by Old'n'Busted
on Dec 15, 2010 -
28 comments
Remember
Worms? Well,
Funky Pear (the guys who made playing golf in space fun) has another version of that, but the worms are replaced with guys in space suits, and the landscape is now a small planetary system. Use gravity to sling your rockets around planets, and build up the damage multiplier.
Play Gravitee Wars. Warning: addictive.
[more inside]
posted by Old'n'Busted
on Nov 12, 2010 -
20 comments
In
Starcom, a space-based action adventure game, you pilot a starship defending the galaxy from an encroaching enemy invasion with an increasingly powerful array of armaments and technologies. It's a hell of a lot of fun, so play and enjoy!
[via mefi projects]
posted by Effigy2000
on Jun 11, 2009 -
36 comments
It's a bit difficult to give context to
Fathom without ruining the fun of the game, but I daresay it's worth your time. A bit more
here, and the comments there seem to offer a few useful hints if you're getting too frustrated.
posted by WCityMike
on May 19, 2009 -
44 comments
Snow day (in DC) flash fun:
Closure. is a stark, imaginative, beautiful and a creepy platformer where the only light is the one you carry in your hands...
posted by oneironaut
on Jan 27, 2009 -
21 comments
Happy Birthday, MeFi, here's a fun free* game!
Ikariam is sort of like a Skyrates version of Civ, with the real-time MMO combat and diplomacy that might bring to mind. Also, it's set in Olympian Greece, but only kind-of. Enjoy!
*Batteries not included. Some registration required. Suggested age: 8-and-up. Some implied violence and consumption of alcohol (wine). Expansion materials may be purchased but are not necessary to enjoy the game and are, by the judgment of this MFGA (MetaFilter Gaming Authority) member: "some kind of bullshit."
posted by Navelgazer
on Jul 14, 2008 -
20 comments
A woman walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a double entendre, so he gave it to her.
Ba-dum dum.
What's green and has wheels? Grass. I lied about the wheels.
Ba-dum dum. A baby seal walks into a club.
(pause) Ba-dum dum. How many kids with ADD does it take to change a lightbulb? LET'S GO RIDE BIKES!
Ba-dum dum. A priest, a rabbi, and a minister walk into a bar. The bartender says, "What is this, some kind of joke?"
Ba-dum dum. Instant Rimshot. For all those times you need a big red Flash button that'll give you a well-timed rimshot.
(Jokes courtesy of Ask Mefi.)
posted by WCityMike
on May 12, 2008 -
249 comments
Nothing but short Flash animations, all with the most awesome or annoying techno/8bit soundtracks ever.
Crazy techno monster
,
fingers from craters
,
sometimes it doesn't pay to get up
,
not quite an oomp lompaa
,
furies need exercise too
,
happy at my day job,
all downhill from here,
lunch with my little brother
,
looking for tps reports
,
cardboardobots transform!,
more fingers in crators ,
dive into happy hell
,
mario, wtf?!,
hey kitty
,
dance with me you big bear
and finally,
something to calm you down
Found via
this AskMe question.
posted by Brandon Blatcher
on Apr 8, 2008 -
18 comments
Fun Flash Friday:
Throw Me - throw the little guy as far as you can. Avoid the thunderclouds. Use the wrecking balls and colored clouds for an extra boost. Simple as that.
posted by champthom
on Apr 4, 2008 -
20 comments
Pyo pyo fruits is an amusing little game for flash friday. For those of you who grew up without siblings, it will simulate the experience.
posted by bashos_frog
on Aug 3, 2007 -
17 comments
Sumo Volleyball - online competition at its finest. Yep, Friday flash fun on Tuesday. For those of you who used to have ICQ, this game will be very familiar. Four different variates of play are offered. 1 on 1 is by far the favorite and the most fun, IMHO. One tiny downside, activeX based, and thus, pretty much IE only. There are also other games via
the home page, of which Kung-fu chess is also very popular.
posted by killThisKid
on Jul 23, 2007 -
8 comments
Bandology! For those who loved
Skyrates, here comes another casual, online community game from the brain-trust at the Carnegie Mellon University school of game design. Choose your instrument, join a band, and play old-school mini-games to build up your skills. Or choose track B to start your own band, recruit new members, and manage your gigs and travel. (And BTW,
Skyrates has now rebooted from the beginning, with a new map and much more fun stuff implemented.)
posted by Navelgazer
on May 9, 2007 -
7 comments
PicTaps: Make Your Drawings Dance! Draw yourself a character, and then watch him dance to a silly song. The music will begin to get on your nerves, but you won't be able to leave the page, the dancing is so hypnotic! Warning, flash is involved!
via
posted by LoopyG
on Feb 25, 2007 -
35 comments
It's Flash Friday, but surprisingly no one's mentioned this yet. Since you seem to be
fans of Orisinal's work, I thought it prudent to point out that he's put up a new game just in time for the holidays.
So, let's go play some
Winterbells, shall we?
posted by revmitcz
on Dec 8, 2006 -
21 comments
