Found another great game at Newgrounds called Lt. Fly vs. the Spiders:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/421832
This a very interesting game indeed because it combines a puzzle game with some action thrown in. Basically, there are two parts to this game. There is a puzzle board where you connect pieces to collect ammunition. Then you have the second part where you attack the spiders using your weapons. I found this second part to be a really great way to spruce up your traditional puzzle game. I really like how they replaced the timer with a health bar that goes down as spiders slip past you. So there are two things you must do here. You must constantly connect similar pieces together so that your ammo drops to ground so that you can collect it, and you must destroy the spiders that constantly fall down the screen. I will discuss some tricks to help you stay alive and stocked with ammo.
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If you have played Final Fantasy Tactics (PSX/GBA) then you should be familiar which the turned-based chess-like battlemode. This is another great game at Newgrounds called Tactics Core found here:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/84042
This plays almost exactly like FF Tactics, which a wide cast of character classes. You have a team of sturdy knights, the quick fighters, long-ranger archers, devastating wizards, and of course, your all important healer. Tactics Core is very challenging after the first few times. Even though you outnumber the enemy seven to six, this game still requires a lot of strategy and thorough understanding of how each unit works. I highly recommend this Flash game and will provide an overview of some of the more pivotal classes.
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A fun side-scrolling action shooter, Contra is easily one of best games ever on Nintendo (NES). Who could forget the countless hours spent blasting weird and creepy aliens with your best buds? Defintely what makes Contra so good is the two-player simulatenous feature. Making games competitive it what makes playing them fun. Rushing to get the best powerups for yourself or jumping ahead so your friend falls behind and dies are just a couple of things that make this game so fun.
Here is a Youtube video of Contra:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygnSS-sXqo0
I am sure the title screen is familiar to most:
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You may remember Gradius, a side-scrolling shooter featuring the space ship, the Vic Viper. If you have never heard of this game on Nintendo (NES), you can view a video of it hear on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUPWWuI2EY4
Here is the art for the cover box of Gradius:
Unfortunately, Gradius is only a single-player game. If you are familiar with Life Force, the sequel to Gradius, Life Force allows two players to play simulataneously. Gradius, however, is still a great game and is similar to the also popular, R-Type.
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Have you ever been to a website and wanted to know what the hex value was for a certain color? You can use an application called Color Detector, which allows you to capture any hex color value and save it to your clipboard.
You can download Color Detector for free at these places:
http://www.cosmin.com/colordetector/
http://www.tucows.com/preview/407098
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I have created a Flash game based on the Legend of Zelda, using sprite graphics from a Link to the Past from the Super Nintendo (SNES).
Click the image below to play the game:
Attack the enemies with your trusty boomerang while collecting rupees. Collect all of the rupees to receive bonus points. Please read the instructions before starting.
The music for this game came from OverClocked Remix:
http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR00319/
This game can also be found on the popular Flash site, Newgrounds:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/418000
Another great hit from Squaresoft, Secret of Mana follows the story of a young boy who reenacts the similar Excalibur/Pandora’s Box where he pulls out an old rusted sword that he finds stuck in a rock in a waterfall (Excalibur) releasing evil from the sword (Pandora’s Box). The evil was sealed within the old sword and now threatens the Mana Tree, which is the source of life in the world. You must fight against the forces of Thanatos, who has discovered the evil’s reawakening and is planning to exploit the unleashed evil to destroy the Mana Tree.
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In a recent Flash animation that I updated featuring various mouse cursors, I used an associative array to represent each cursor.
You can view the Flash here at Newgrounds: Cursorize
What an associative array allows you to do, is create key-values pairs where you can create your own array indices (keys)and assign them the appropriate value. Associative arrays differ from traditional arrays in that associative arrays allow you to index an array with something other than an integer. Normal arrays use integers starting at zero to index them. This is completely fine, but sometimes you want an index with a more descriptive and meaningful name than just 0, 1, 2, and 3…and so on.
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I found another good flash game at Newgrounds. This one is similar to the arcade classic, asteroid where you control a ship on the field and destroy all of the asteroids on the screen. This game is called V E C T O R and is found below:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/418922
You can view more images and in full size of this game on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/constantlimit/sets/72157603728878351/
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I found this new and fun Mario Flash game at Newgrounds that everyone should try out:
Paper Mario World (W1)
Watch a sample of my attempt at this game on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz9t0crT_0o
Continue on to read more about this game.
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