Columbine Massacre
A Colorado Highschool student went on a shooting spree this week in protest of a Flash game posted on Newgrounds, wounding several and then killing himself. Witnesses proclaim that the student...
View ArticleRocketbirds Revolution
Rocketbirds Revolution is a 2010 IGF Finalist in the Audio and Visual Arts category. It has a totally kickass intro Flash sequence of the protagonist (the "Cock of War") in a jetpack dogfight against...
View ArticleLa Croix Pan
St. Croix Pan is an AGS game that's an interesting combination of a graphic adventure and a fixed-position shooter. It's quite short, but in its short duration manages to impart something of the...
View ArticleShoot First
What's better than powering your way through a labyrinth of fiends, monsters, traps, and treasure, with guns a-blazing? Doing it with a friend! Same-screen multiplayer is what sets this game apart from...
View ArticleNinja Rush
Ninja Rush is a sidescrolling shooter in a classic mode. By "classic" I mean reminiscent of the early arcade, or the NES era.Scrolling is forced; your ninja runs headlong forward, though you can...
View ArticleSantuary
Sanctuary 17 is inspired by the old Intellivision game Night Stalker, although it's bigger and has a sort of narrative attached.It's a one-hit shooter in which you are confined to a maze with only a...
View ArticleWolfenstein 1-D
When I first played Wolfenstein 1-D, it was pointless. Your avatar is a small white line traveling from the left to the right side exit, on a gray line. Graphics are utterly simple--doors, soldiers,...
View ArticleInside A Star-Filled Sky
Last night, by chance, I started down a Wikipedia rabbit hole regarding the "Far Realms" in later edition D&D, basically an outer plane for the outerplanes where Lovecraft dominates Dante and...
View ArticleSuper Crate Box
Super Crate Box is good fun in a very retro way. It's a platform shooter in which score is dependent solely on collecting crates -- and each crate contains a gun. There are quite a variety of guns, but...
View ArticleClonk
The Clonk series is fairly obscure, as such things go, but it has its own fanatical following -- and is notable for the huge variety and scope of its gameplay, as well as for its somewhat awkward...
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