Archive for the ‘Games’ Category

Privateer: ASCII Sector

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Version: 0.4.7
License: Freeware
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Today, after a considerable hiatus; today, on 1234567890-morrow; today, on the 1,740th anniversary of the burial of St. Valentine of Rome — Penguin Sightings returns!

And with it, an invitation to enter a galaxy of danger and adventure, a realm where fortunes are made and spaceships are sunk, a place where typographical symbols masquerade as interplanetary vehicles in a vast world of science fiction: the ASCII Sector!

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Posted by Mark Keller on February 14th, 2009 No Comments

Ultimate Stunts

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Version: 0.7.5
License: GPL2
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You’re racing along in your flashy new Ferrari Spider, nearing 200 miles per hour. The road ahead leads up a hill — but what a hill! It’s a perfect 45-degree angle! Unable to stop and ponder this geological oddity, you fly on up it, and over the top, sailing spectacularly through the air. And then immediately afterward comes an enormous loop-the-loop! You race up it, too, lose control at the top, spin off, tumble through the air, and land inexplicably intact — only to crash into a brick wall half a second later. This, my friends, is the world of Ultimate Stunts.

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Posted by Mark Keller on June 25th, 2008 No Comments

Blob And Conquer

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Version: 0.93-2
License: GPL2
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You are a blob. A round yellow blob named Bob. And you’re out to save the world — once again.

Welcome to the second episode of Blob Wars, an epic conflict in which the kindly yellow blobs struggle to wrest control of their homeworld from the evil alien invaders, and their evil assimilated blob minions. Only this time around, it’s in 3D!

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Posted by Mark Keller on May 29th, 2008 1 Comment

ASCII Pacman

Pac-Man unexpectedly meets Clyde, coming around a corner.Homepage | Download (8.0 KB)
Version: 0.9.1
License: GPL2
Rating: 4 stars

Back in the ’80s, the arcade game Pac-Man was phenomenally popular. So popular, in fact, that it’s become an icon of that decade, and a symbol of video-gaming in general. The game was ported to just about every major micro-computer system, and unofficial ports and copies continue down to the present day — yes, there’s even a version for Linux!

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Posted by Mark Keller on April 2nd, 2008 1 Comment