Flash Lemmings

Requirements:

Windows

500 MHz Processor

Internet connection

Adobe Flash Player

 

Download size:  N\A

My rating:  3.8 out of 5

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The Lemmings are back… in Flash form. They are on the loose again, still with those suicidal tendencies, and it’s up to you to guide them home. If you don’t help them, then they are condemned to a life of wandering aimlessly, falling to their deaths, drowning, burning in fire, and who knows what other atrocities. Assign them skills such as builder, basher, digger, and floater, to help them build a path to safety. Remember – their lives are in your hands. One misplaced click, one wrongly place blocker, one missed builder, could spell doom for your little critters. Could you live with that on your conscience?

 

This version of Lemmings contains four skill ratings – Fun, Tricky, Taxing, Mayhem – and 10 levels within each skill rating. You can choose on the title screen if you want Music, Sounds and Animation. Simply check \ uncheck the boxes as necessary. Choose which skill rating you want to play, then click on a level from the list within that skill rating. You are prompted to enter a code for that level before you can continue. Levels already beaten are marked with a tick, and code for that level is entered automatically when you click on the level title. All the familiar music and sounds are here for you to enjoy. The game is mouse controlled, just like the original. But I found the mouse a bit unresponsive at times, making you click several times before the action will work. This can be quite irritating on those levels that require perfect timing, as it may result in you having to attempt the whole level again.

 

Crystal Hammer

 

Requirements:

Windows

My rating:  3 out of 5

 

 

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Crystal Hammer is a nice, but very tricky Breakout game. As with other Breakout games, you have to break all the bricks on screen by bouncing a ball with your paddle. The paddle is controlled by moving your mouse left or right, and if you miss hitting a ball, then you loose a life. You start the game with 8 lives, and when all lives are gone, then the game is over. Silver bricks are unbreakable, and there seems to be a LOT of unbreakable bricks in this game, which I found quite annoying. All the standard power-ups are here, such as Fire, Slow Down and Speed Up. Watch out for the black power-ups though, since they will make you loose a life. All the power-ups looked the same, but just a different colour. I suppose this fitted in with the whole Crystal theme, but it just seemed rather bland.

But let me tell you about the sound. I loved the sound! It really was like crystals being ‘clinked’ together (hence the name Crystal Hammer), and it was lovely to hear those little ‘tings’ every time you hit a brick. Another feature I liked was the moving platforms. It was quite tricky to get your ball past these platforms, and it added an extra challenge to the game. Backgrounds have an ‘Spacey’ theme, and are lovely to look at. One level even had a UFO that you had to destroy by hitting it several times. All in all, a fine game to pass an hour or two. It’s not the best Breakout game around, but still a fun game to play.

 

Download Size:  1.83MB

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amateur Surgeon

Requirements:

Windows

Internet connection

 

 

Adobe Flash Player

 

Download Size:  N\A

My Rating: 3.0 out of 5

 

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Alan Probe is a pizza delivery boy. Nothing very special about that, is there. He is bored with his job, and dreams of becoming a surgeon. One day, he is driving his pizza delivery van at the same time as reading a book about surgery. He finds his book a lot more interesting than concentrating on the road, and all of a sudden… BANG!!! He has run over a poor, homeless man. The man pleads with Alan to operate on him, and repair his ribcage. Alan must act quickly, but he is not sure what to do. Luckily, the man seems to know what he is talking about, and he guides Alan through this ‘delicate’ operation. It turns out that the homeless man is none other than Dr Ignacious Bleed, the famous surgeon who was recently disgraced. Together, Alan and Ignacious open a clinic, and Ignacious guides Alan as he operates on seedy criminals, petty thieves, and other low-lifes and con artists.

 

Amateur Surgeon is kind of a simulation game, but very much tongue-in-cheek. The clinic is dirty and run-down, and the operating table is an old pool table. They just use whatever is lying around to perform operations. Things like the pizza cutter, stapler, corkscrew, chainsaw, and other bizarre items are all used as surgical instruments. You play as Alan Probe, and you must select the correct tool for the job. Tools available to you are shown as icons at top of screen. Use pizza cutter to cut open a patient, tongs to pull items out of the patient (but not too fast), cigarette lighter to seal wounds etc. You must be aware of the patient’s heart rate, and inject Pain-Away when it gets too low. Be careful not to rush things, and make too many mistakes, or the patient will die from loss of blood. On the other hand, you have limited time to perform each operation, and if you run out of time, then the patient will die since you took too long.

 

The game comes in 3 Acts, and each Act has 10 patients to operate on. Once you have successfully completed surgery on someone, then you have access to the next patient, and so on. The game is a lot of fun at first, but ultimately gets a little bit repetitive, and the time-limits seem to get harder. Still, it will give you a good challenge, as well as bringing a smile to your face as the operations get more and more bizarre.

 

Barn Runner 0: The Case Of The Runaway Robot

Requirements:

Windows 95 or above

 64 MB Ram

500 MHz Processor

6 MB Hard Drive

DirectX

Download Size: 2.5 MB

My Rating:  3.9 out of 5

 

 

 

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A renegade robot is on the loose, and only one man can stop it. That man is….. PRICK PECKARD – BARN RUNNER EXTRODINAIRE! A Barn Runner is a cop who has been specially trained to deal with renegade robots, and Prick is one of the best. He has trapped the robot in a barn, somewhere in Old Kentucky, and now it’s time to finish the job. But he still has one burning question. Why??? Why did this robot turn on it’s poor defenceless victims like that? Maybe it can explain its actions before it gets scrapped. Remember to watch past the end credits, and you will be rewarded with a funny cut scene.

 

The Case Of The Runaway Robot is a wonderful introduction to the world of Prick Peckard, and to the Barn Runner series. The game has lots of humour, and some of the things Prick says is hilarious. Just look at your inventory items to get funny comments about each of them. Music is kind of Country & Western \ Barn style, which is very appropriate considering the action takes place in a barn (hehe). Barn Runner 0 is basically a short demo for Scott LeGere (the maker) to learn how to use the AGS (Adventure Game Studio) engine, and I think he has done a marvellous job.