Pure Sudoku – Achieve a Zen-like oneness with your computer.

April 2nd, 2009

Apr02b First I have to say, I HATE SUDOKU!  And why, I hear you cry.  Because you could almost have it beat and then realize that you have a duplicate number somewhere and it all completely unravels.  Okay I hope this little outburst doesn’t have any bearing on the review.  In fact Pure Sudoku is perfect, even though I’m angry at the game, I’m not angry at the program.  Pure Sudoku is pretty nice, of course it is just a game of Sudoku.  However the visuals are decent.  And it is easy to play.

Okay according to Wikipedia Sudoku is a logic-based combinatorial number-placement puzzle.  Number puzzles similar to this were available in 19th century newspapers.  Eventually it got transformed into what it was today.  It was introduced in Japan in ‘84 which gave it its Japanese sounding name Sudoku.  If you really want a history I suggest you read the Wikipedia entry on it, and then search through the net, and maybe your local Library.

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Ultratron – Avenge the human race!

April 2nd, 2009

Apr02a Remember back in the day there was a game called Robotron: 2084, yep where you were one of the human remnants and you had to save the last few humans from the robot onslaught.  All-out no-holds-barred man-on-robot action!  Well now you can relive those glory days with Ultratron by Puppy Games.  Only this time the human race was wiped out.   You’re the last humanoid battle droid, and now it’s time for payback!  All-out no-holds-barred robot-on-robot action!  Eat it evil killer robots!

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(xblig) bricks4ever – xblcg

April 1st, 2009
Breakout of the mold!

Apr01bYou ever just wanna break stuff?  Of course you have!  We all have.  That’s why we have Breakout and clones.  Breakout was sort of based on Pong (the first commercially successful arcade game).  Like if you flipped Pong on it’s side so it’s vertical, and like added bricks, and then removed a player, then you would have Breakout.  Over the years it’s had it’s share of imitators, most notable being Arkanoid for the arcade.  Arkanoid added several innovations in addition to actually adding graphics, it added things like dropping brick power-ups.  You knew someone had to do it for XBLCG.  Actually there is at least one more Breakout clone in community games.  I’ll probably review that some other time.  (Maybe I should have done both of them today, ahh well.)  In any case this new one is called bricks4ever, yeah real creative name there, by Running Pixel.  I guess if they’ve used all the names you can think of, you tend to grab for whatever will set you apart.

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