Will Knott

As much as I love old games I just can’t love the flash based retro games brought to the web by Paul Neave (but I will admit to being impressed by his flash planetarium) . The games include Space Invaders, N-blox, Asteroids, Simon, Tic-Tac-Toe, Hexxgon, Frogger and Snake (as in the mobile phone game that Nokia phones had so as to spend many hours not talking on a bus). At the moment I’m smitten by Chain Factor.

Source: WikipediaChain Factor is an apparently simple flash based game. You are dropping numbered (and blank) discs on to a grid. If the number on the disc corresponds to the number of touching discs in that row or column, then all the discs of that number in the row and column vanish and the remaining discs drop down. The blank discs reveal their number when a 2 discs touching it has been removed from play. Levels progress with a new line of blank discs sprouting up on the bottom row. Seems simple, plays hard and is a touch too addictive. So be warned.

And while I’m typing about games, I want to bring up a recent discovery… Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw of “Zero Punctuation” game reviews fame created “The Art of Theft” a 2D cat burgular stealth adventure which is an awful lot of fun, a little ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64 / Vic 20 ish fun. No wonder tape died.

take care,
Will