Cursed Balloons : Casual, But Not Bad

Cursed Balloons is a free browser game in which the player shoots arrows at the rising helium globes at the right of the screen. The object is to hit every balloon of certain colors while avoiding others, and your ammunition is limited in every level. Games like this have quite a long history. The oldest I can think of off the top of my head is Bow and Arrow , a Windows 3.1 title. They have become even more common in recent years as the popularity of in-browser casual games increased. Cursed Balloons is more challenging and aesthetically pleasing than most.

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Don’t Step On the White Shark — Not Worthy

Don’t Step On the White Shark is a casual game you can play in your browser. It presents the player with a corridor full of black and white tiles and requires the player to press 1-4 on the keyboard (or use a mouse for slower but more accurate control) to step only on the black tiles, as touching a white tile will result in a game over. There are three modes for slightly different play.

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Johnny Appl – Not Saving The World, But It’s Trying

Quiz video games go back a long ways. You Don’t Know Jack , Scene It! , electronic versions of game shows (I recall nearly falling asleep to the Genesis/Mega Drive version of Jeopardy! in 1995 or so), tons for the Super Famicom that never got released in English, and who knows how many Flash games. It’s a simple and easy method of creating a game: Find some questions, find the answers. Hardly anything else is necessary. So when Anton Doos wanted me to review his quiz game, I wasn’t expecting much, especially since it was still in alpha.

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