Even More Bloons

In case you didn't get enough out of Bloons and More Bloons followed up by Bloons World and then by Bloons Tower Defense and Bloons Tower Defense 2, now Ninja Kiwi has released Even More Bloons for your entertainment.

Aim with your mouse, and hold down the left button to set the power. One nice addition is the last shot (power and angle) will be shown so that you can adjust accordingly. One annoying things is how the clouds float by, making it harder to judge where you left your last shot when you have to try again. The later levels can be very, very tough to complete.

I'm not going to post a walkthrough for this one in the comments, but you can certainly ask me if you get stuck anywhere. I'll be happy to help you out, as long as I've figured out how to do it.

I find Bloons to be very frustrating, but I keep going back for more. How about you?

With more bloon types and more levels to work your way through, if you enjoyed Bloons, you will enjoy Even More Bloons at ninjakiwi.

Multball Madness

Multiball madness is a mindless time wasting fun game from armor games. Simple game play with addictive "I can do better than that" will get you playing again and again.

Simply keep your paddle under the balls and clear out the path ahead. Reminds me of breakout, but not quite. More like juggling madness.

The longer you last, the more balls will appear. The only way to die is to run your paddle up against a block, so be careful. It's more important to keep as many balls flying around than it is to aim any particular one.

Play multiball madness at armorgames.

Coffee Shop

Coffee Shop is the latest lemonade stand look alike from armorgames. (That's not to imply that armorgames comes out with look alikes every week, but that I've seen other lemonade stand look alikes before. And if you don't know what I mean by the lemonade stand game, then you must be under the age of 5.). This one is graphically pleasing, with lots of fun animations to find and enjoy.

Like lemonade stand, the challenge is to find the best mixture possible between coffee, sugar, and milk, while still having enough cups each day to serve everyone. After that, it's just a matter of finding the right price to charge depending on the weather.

If you're reputation goes up high enough, maybe even the pope will stop by for a quick drink.

The better your coffee, the more you can sell your coffee for. But for a laugh, on day 14, make the worst cup of coffee you can and sell it for as much as you can. Everyone will still stop by and since you're closing shop tomorrow, it doesn't matter if they all start puking their guts out on the sidewalk.

Play Coffee Shop at armorgames.

Papas Pizzeria

Papas Pizzeria starts out by promoting you from delivery boy to order taker, pizza maker and all around boss of your own pizza place because the real owner decided to take off and leave it to you. So get cooking those pies before your customers get too angry.

Like BP Gas Mania, Nanny Mania and Hot Shot Business, the objective is to make money by keeping your customers happy. Make sure to make the pizza they want. Each customer will want their favorite toppings, cooked as long as they wanted, and cut a certain way.

What I like is how each customer can be built up. Keep their service level high and they'll reward you more each time they come. Blow their order and they'll remember it the next day with lower tips. I'm also amused by all the Pizza ads on the site.

What I don't like is how complicated the game can be. For a casual game, it's not easy to flip from screen to screen. I screwed up one order by giving the wrong customer his pizza because I left the wrong order slip out. Also, I still haven't figured out how to know if a new customer has shown up other than by sticking your head out (figuratively speaking). Maybe a bell ringing as they enter the door would be a nice touch?

Play Papas Pizzeria at papalouie.

Orb Avoidance 2

Orb Avoidance 2 is a definite upgrade from orb avoidance. With better graphics and more options, including exploding blocks, its become a lot harder to last very long.

Orb avoidance was too easy to game. Sneak up to a block near the top or the bottom of the screen and tuck your pointer in close. The incoming orbs will never hit you and you can play indefinitely, or at least until you need to use your mouse for something else.

OA2 has solved that by making it harder to hide. With exploding blocks and better graphics, hiding out is no longer an option.

Play Orb Avoidance 2 at kongregate.

Limited Offer on GamePass

I just got this offer from GamePass in my e-mail, so I thought I would pass it along to you. GamePass is part of RealArcade.

Get Mahjong Medley plus the second game of your choice FREE when you sign up for a Free 30 Day trial to GamePass.($40 total value)


Or you can get SuperCollapse II and the game of your choice FREE when you sign up for a 30-Day Free trial to GamePass.($40 Total Value)

BP Gas Mania

BP Gas Mania is clearly a marketing ploy from BP, and yet I can't stop playing it.

Like other mania games, the objective is to serve your customers, keeping them happy and making sure to collect your money when they're ready to leave. In this case, you are pumping gas at the happiest little gas station in town.

Career mode lets you get a taste of the various tasks you need to accomplish for each customer. The tasks are repetitive in nature in that its always the same order: move them to the pump, start the pump up, get their extra from the counter, and then get the payment. But there's always a line waiting and you need to keep everyone happy.

Once you've beaten career mode, you can try unlimited. But it isn't actually unlimited (although after a while you may feel like it's never going to end). You can finish the game.

The music is quite catchy, but if it doesn't drive you mad within the first three levels then you obviously already have the sound turned off.

Play BP Mania at miniclip.

Bloons World

Bloons World, like Bloons and More Bloons has you taking out balloons with a dart throwing monkey. Only on the web, right?

World is the natural continuation in the series. But instead of 50 more levels for you to beat, you can create your own levels and submit them for others to play. Then you can randomly play any levels (or go to a specific one) submitted by others. Rate them each as you play so everyone else can get to know how good or how bad a level has been done.

It's a fun little time waster. Although, after randomly playing a few levels, people are way too in love with the pacman balloon.

Play Bloons World at bloonsworld. Thanks to Games for Bored for pointing it out.

Nanny Mania

Nanny Mania lets you take charge of the mayor's household as the nanny. Follow the baby around as it makes mess after mess, do the laundry, cook the food, clean up after the mayor comes back in tracking mud everywhere. It's a messy house and somebody has to clean it.

Click on any of the messes to clean them up. Some messes require multiple steps to finish cleaning, such as laundry, feeding or cleaning the baby and cooking the food. Sometimes, you can go from step to step without a problem, but if you end up stuck with a load of laundry in your hands with nowhere to put it, you could be in trouble.

Play Nanny Mania at arcadetown.

Bloons and More Bloons

Bloons and More Bloons (50 more levels) are fun time wasters from fizzlebot. Aim and fire darts in an effort to blow balloons. That way you can move onto the next level and blow even more balloons up.

The monkey holds the dart in his hand. Simply aim with the mouse, then hold down the left mouse button to set your velocity, and let go to fire. Special balloons on each level (I found the pacman balloon particularly funny) help you out.

Bloons came out a short while ago and I spent a fun afternoon working my way through all 50 levels. More Bloons just came out and seems to be 50 more levels that are even more difficult and new specialized balloons. I haven't made my way through all 50 of the new ones, yet. I found the death star (#11, see image) to be particularly difficult.

Update: I'm getting a lot of traffic for people looking for a walkthrough for more bloons. If you're stuck on a particular level, post a comment below. If you leave the password for the level you're stuck on, I'll let you know how I beat it.

Chick Chick Bom

Powered by Nintendo, Chick Chick Boom would be better if you saw it on the DS. But if you have a tablet, or are just quick with a mouse, you could enjoy this light-hearted, destroy the rabbit's chicks game.

Draw your weaponry or your defense quickly to win this game. Otherwise, you could run out of chicks fast. Your weaponry consists of hot air balloons, bombs, weights, lightning, and poison mushrooms.

Play Chick Chick Boom at chick-chick-boom

Dodge Game

Dodge Game is another reflex game. Simple and straightforward, but it might take your mind off the fact it's Friday and you're at work.

Simply avoid the red dots with your blue ball. Every time you touch the blue square, another red ball appears, making it harder to get to the blue square.

Here's a tip for you. Slow down to plan your next move, but then move quickly.

Of course, my high score is 150 so, you may want to figure it out on your own.

Play Dodge Game at lewpen.

Sploder

Sploder is a flash game with a straightforward objective. Either destroy all the enemies on the playing field, or capture all of the crystals. But playing this game is only half the fun.

Make a Free Flash Game

I tried to make a simple level that demonstrates the various options, including obstacles, reloads, various enemies, wingmen, turrets and repel/attraction points. If you don't like the level you see embedded here, go make your own. Set up your main fighter, give him some wingmen, then place all the bad guys you want to help destroy him.

Sploder is in Beta, with hopefully more to come. There are already some good suggestions, such as ammo counts, teleporters and doorways, so hopefully there will be more to come. Also, I found the following description of the various obstacles you will find:

• Wingman: Pretty tough, good all round defense and offense.
• Obstacles: Indestructable, they are obstacles. Useful for cover and general display.
• Items: Pickups. Careful you don't blow them up. Wingmen can use pickups.
• Cruiser: Fires missiles, tough enemy. Beat with any weapon.
• Guard: A guard. Normal craft.
• Speeder: Speedy nasties that fire bullets. Weak.
• Crystals: Adding these makes your game collect the crystals. Indestructible. Hopefully, I mean- I have not been able to blow one up yet.
• Missile turret: The turrets sometimes bug and don't shoot. However, when they do, this inflicts high damage at a high ROF. Take care of with ray gun from behind, or cannon.
• Turret: Fires bullets. Try blowing up with missiles.
• Cannon turret: If you just get up close at moderate speed, it can't hurt you. Fires at one range only. Kill with laser.
• Magnets attract, repellers repel. Take care of fast.

Issues I had: The more complicated games slow down drastically. Also, some of the turrets are pretty buggy as well as the other fighters. It's almost like they would rather run into the wall rather than come after you.

The game creator (I assume it was him) left a comment asking me to review the game, and I'm glad I did.

Categorize this under: Shooter, Arcade, Action, Adventure

Play Sploder at sploder.

Reindeer Tipping

Reindeer Tipping puts you in control of Ebenigma Scrooge in his quest to find joy and happiness by tipping reindeer. And not just any reindeer, but Santas own team of reindeer.

Travel around the pen (arrow keys) and each time one of the luckless reindeer fall asleep, come at them from above or below to knock them over. Keep Scrooge happy by avoiding any of the bazooka shots from those relentless penguins. Oh, and if Santa catches you, it's lights out.

Tip: Ruffling Rudolph is worth twice as much as any other deer!

Categorize this under: Kids, Holiday, Arcade, Action

Play Reindeer Tipping at reindeertipping.

My thanks to JIG for pointing this one out.

Matrix Rampage

Matrix Rampage is a simple arcade action. Shoot everyone else on the screen. Jump up and down within the building, destroying it as you go. Pick up any weapons and medical supplies as you go along. All this just to live as long as you can.

a is your action (hit/shoot/swing your sword) key. s to pick up an object. Move around with the arrow keys, including jumping up and down levels. Double move left or right to speed your way across.

Tips: Keep moving around the building. Meds pop up randomly throughout, so you want to go find them. Also, if something is thrown at you, you can hit it out of the air if you have a katana or stick.

Categorize this under: Arcade, Action

Play Matrix Rampage at gamebrew.

Mario Bros Unlimited

The lates clone of Mario Bros is out. What makes this one different is the unlimited possibilities for gameplay. Each level is created randomly, allowing you to play forever... That is if you don't mind losing your job, your spouse and your kids.

Controls are basic (although they feel backwards). Use the arrow keys to manuever Mario, while s and a control your jumping and 'fire/speed up'.

Categorize this under: Arcade, Action, Adventure

Play Mario Bros at mojang.

Snake

Fans of the classic snake game will enjoy this updated version. More realistic with more of a slithery feel, this version of snake may put shivers down your spine as you race around eating the mice, growing bigger and bigger. Just avoid your own tail and you'll be fine.

One minor thing I would ask for is sound. If you're going to put in all this time updating a classic like this, why not put in some sound, either background music or sound effects would have been nice.

One tip: the live mouse can be hard to spot. Keep your eyes open and look carefully for your next meal.

Categorize this under: Arcade

Play Snake at markfennel.

Snowball at Armor Games

Snowball is a competition game. Build the biggest snowball you can by rolling it down the hill. The bigger it becomes the better your record. But, as it gets bigger, it becomes a lot harder to control.

As you first start out, it will be real easy to avoid everything (and you have to). But as your snowball gets bigger, it gets harder to move from side to side. Luckily, once your snowball is bigger than an object, it can just absorb it, with some exceptions. Houses and trees will not be absorbed. Instead, they'll break your snowball ending the game.

Categorize this under: Sport, Arcade

Play Snowball at Armor Games.

Rodent Tree Jump

Rodent Tree Jump has you jumping out of a tree (you are the rodent) and bouncing off a conveniently located trampoline. Set your angle and velocity to land as close to the target as you can.

You get three jumps in each attempt to come in first place for that league. Fail to come in first and you end up repeating the jump. There are six leagues to beat before you become champion.

There are three other (computer) rodents jumping with you each time. And there's nothing more frustrating than landing on the target and being bumped off it by one of them.

The different surfaces (that you land on) react differently, necessitating a change in strategy with each league. For some, you might want to set your angle higher, and for others you'll want to skip along at a lower angle.

BTW, your points depend on two things. What your average distance from the target was on the successful try to move on and how many attempts you needed to beat each league.

Categorize this under: Sport, Arcade

Play Rodent Tree Jump at bubblebox.

Sound Factory

Sound Factory lets you make music your way. Using instruments found in a tire factory, it's your self-appointed job to entertain your coworkers as they make their way through their boring day. Oh, but don't forget to fill your quota while you're at it. Unlock all the instruments and your boss won't bother you any more about that quota, either.

Your first instrument is the tires your supposed to be inflating. Over-inflate the tires, making them explode in rhythmic delight to set the base for your musical score. Some instruments are harder than others to get going.

If the boss walks through, shut down all the instruments as quickly as you can, otherwise, he'll kill all the fun (and you have to start the day over). Shut them down using their respective pictures at the bottom of the screen. It's a quick one click shut off. Getting them re-started is just as easy.

To unlock the instruments, you need to please your coworkers. It's not that hard, although the instruments where you pick the notes can be a little tricky. But, even though I have no ear for music, I was able to pass through fairly quickly. It only takes three working days to unlock all the instruments then you can make your music your way for as long as you like.

Categorize this under: Music

Play Sound Factory at MTV. My thanks go to Jayisgames for finding this game.