Every Friday, even Fridays the Thirteenth, it's Friday Flash Games.
It's simple: on Fridays I present three (or more) games to play, all of which depend on the Adobe Flash Player, and all of which can be easily accessed in your web browser. Unless, that is, you're silly enough to use an operating system or web browser for which Adobe doesn't supply Flash. But why would you? What would you do on Fridays then?
I'll let you know which games have music or sound, in case you're trying to play on the sly, or don't want to wake someone.
This week, some unpaid corporate shilling.
Want to buy a camera? Maybe one with a wide-angle zoom lens? Then Temple of Zoom is the game for you! Actually, you can play without buying a camera, just like you can play JellyJumper without actually buying a keyboard. Still, the corporate sponsorship is there, and it's obvious, but fortunately the game is fun anyway.
You're a little stick figure, and your mission is to collect a wide-angle lens—oh, let's just say it's to collect a magic 'W'—and then exit to the next level. There are also little baubles you can collect along the way for points.
There are 25 levels, and the game remembers which levels you've completed, so you can come back at any time, so long as you're using the same computer. There are sound effects within the game, but no sound at the menu.
Just in time for the new movie, The Simpsons Movie, comes The Simpsons Movie: Wrecking Ball, a skill game in which you play Homer Simpson, piloting a crane with a wrecking ball attached. Your goal is to swing the wrecking ball into an armored car, freeing the rest of the Simpson family. I'm guessing this plays a part in the film.
You can first back up, to give yourself more time to build momentum, and then drive forward until you hit the berm, which tips the crane, which sends the wrecking ball into the side of the truck, sending it spinning and then freeing the family. Fortunately, the truck always ends up on four wheels, and the family never seems worse for the tumble.
A roll as little as 0.5 (feet? meters?) will still free the family, while rolls in the 30s or higher will result in glorious music. The berm is a little farther from the truck on each level, so you'll need to adjust the height of the crane to ensure it still makes contact. The best possible results seem to come from hitting the truck as low as possible—while missing the ground.
Article comments
1 - Phillip Winn
I can't stop playing Brickshooter, but I didn't want to spend too long describing it within the article, since it's not Flash. It's the smoothest, most polished javascript game I've ever seen, for sure.
I've been playing it with eight colors, so it's challenging but not impossible. :-)