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June 11, 2006 - June 17, 2006 Archives

June 17, 2006

Death Vader is an alright shooter featuring sprites from Space Invaders but with variable bullet patterns. You can swap weapons by tapping the left mouse button. A bit like keim's Nomltest FS, actually.

Name: Death Vader
Developer: Babarageo
Category: Shooter
Type: Flash
Size: 1MB

Uchu Force is a decent Star Force clone, featuring enemy sprites drawn with only two colors. Use the mouse to move your ship around, and hold the left mouse button to shoot.

Options and power-ups can be collected to increase your firepower. A boss encounter is introduced occasionally.

Name: Uchu Force
Developer: Babarageo
Category: Shooter
Type: Flash
Size: 1MB

Uchuwars is another shooter developed by Babarageo using Flash, featuring power-ups and bombs in addition to standard boss encounters. A full screen mode is available by clicking on the link found above the description text.

The first few levels are not particularly fun to play but the game does get better once you arrive in space. Continues are allowed, just click on the stage or power indicator at the main menu.

Name: Uchuwars
Developer: Babarageo
Category: Shooter
Type: Flash
Size: 1MB

June 16, 2006

Navy Mission is another action game by D. Ikushima, simulating mission-based sea battles and intense firefights. The objective is to survive thirty different operations while destroying every ship and plane in each level.

Your ship can be moved around by using the W, A, S and D keys. Left click to fire and right click to swap weapons. It doesn't pay to be trigger-happy because guns and missiles do take a while to reload. Enemy torpedos can be shot at if you happen to have problems outmaneuvering them.

To begin, choose the top left option from the main menu to access a list of all available missions. Click on the left button at the bottom of the screen to confirm your selection. Each stage can be replayed several times to unlock harder difficulties.

Name: Navy Mission
Developer: D. Ikushima
Category: Action
Type: Freeware
Size: 2MB

Hot Layer is a surprisingly playable shooter by Ventricle, featuring unconventional sprite designs and long boss battles. Your ship is equipped with a pod that will follow you around when the shot button isn't pressed.

Only four levels in total.

Name: Hot Layer
Developer: Ventricle
Category: Shooter
Type: Freeware
Size: 2MB

June 15, 2006

Sky High is a new shooter released recently by Zenith Creation. The game only features one stage but does have the obligatory boss battle near the end.

The main menu isn't visible, although you can use the left arrow key to choose the difficulty level as indicated by the screenshots. Press the C or space key to confirm your selection. Use the X key to shoot.

Name: Sky High
Developer: Zenith Creation
Category: Shooter
Type: Freeware
Size: 20MB

Gemini is a decent Zookeeper clone but for the Game Boy Advance.This effort includes a hint button and level progression as well.

Match three or more gems to remove them from the screen and increase the completion bar. Requires the VisualBoyAdvance emulator to play on the PC.

Name: Gemini
Developer: smayds
Category: Puzzle
Type: Freeware
Size: 1MB

June 12, 2006

Naturally Friendly Air Bubbles is a Game Maker effort developed by newcomer Dan Eriksson in just one week. Your objective is to guide the blue bubble around spikes and burst all pink bubbles on screen to complete each stage.

Health is measured by the amount of air stored inside your bubble, with a circle that shrinks in size over time unless replenished. Click on anywhere inside this circle to make the bubble move in a straight line. Download the stretched version if your monitor does not support any resolution higher than 1024 by 768 pixels.

Name: Naturally Friendly Air Bubbles
Developer: Dan Erikkson
Category: Action
Type: Freeware
Size: 5MB

June 11, 2006

Rainbow Wars is a pretty good arena shooter by Luke Schneider of Volition Inc., responsible for delivering the Descent series among other projects. A dual analog gamepad works well here, although the mouse and keyboard combination isn't too shabby either.

Use the left mouse button to warp, and hold the right mouse button to charge your special attack. A nice addition is the option to continue playing from any stage previously attempted, but the easy difficulty only allows access to the first ten waves. Click on design ideas to begin downloading.

Name: Rainbow Wars
Developer: Luke Schneider
Category: Shooter
Type: Freeware
Size: 2MB

Flag is a remake of an old Amiga game called Flag Catcher. Your objective is to find a single hidden flag in each level by overturning as little tiles as possible.

Only a number of moves are allowed in order to impose some form of difficulty on the player. The task is made slightly easier with pointers such as number squares to indicate the distance of the flag from your current guess, or arrows to show the flag's general direction. Uncovering bombs will reset all squares to a condition before any were flipped over.

Collect the moves special item to increase the number of moves you have remaining. Later levels will contain more bombs, but less clues and allowed moves.

Name: Flag
Developer: smayds
Category: Puzzle
Type: Freeware
Size: 1MB


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