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Arcadia review: 4 games at same time
 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-07-30 17:00 [#01290955]
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I once commented how it'd be cool to, say, play mario
brothers and missile command at the same time to maximize
entertainment with multiple tasks/ stimulus response.

Well I found a game like that here, where you play
4 mini arcade games at once, constantly juggling between
them simultaneously. This has potential and is fun but too
easy and could have been a lot better. The games are overly
simple and require a minimum of lazy mouse clicks to keep
from dying.
There are different games to choose from but this is what I
had:
top left window: a guy is walking constantly, just click on
the screen to make him jump (to avoid pitfalls or collect
items)

top right window: pole position racing type thing, but you
haredly ever have to even change lanes which makes the whole
thing almost like 3 games in one.

lower left window: move mouse to shoot bad guys in windows
and avoid good guys. It's pace is slow like the other
games.

lower right window: baseball, just hit the ball at the right
time which is easy.

It's fun to keep your mind overly occupied with information
overload but this didn't really cut it 100%. What happens is
all 4 games just sort of merge into 1. You learn the
behavior then just use peripheral vision to click on the
appropriate screens at appropriate times with appropriate
timing. What would be better is if it was a single game, but
that one game had 4 different things to concentrate on at
once.. also if it was faster paced and harder.


 

offline J198 from Maastricht (Netherlands, The) on 2004-07-30 17:16 [#01290979]
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this is fun. i had different games though cept for the
jumping guy which i assume must be jumpy mcjump


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2004-07-30 17:17 [#01290982]
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"So red the rose" is a fantastic album, and the presence of
Sting somewhere in the background shouldn't put you off.
It's prog-synth pop and is a fabulous 80s minor classic.


 

offline J198 from Maastricht (Netherlands, The) on 2004-07-30 17:36 [#01290997]
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wait, it is the same games after all. i'm now on level 13
(hardcore). !


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-07-30 17:43 [#01291000]
Points: 21454 Status: Regular



It is time for legislation to distribute wealth... or for
revolution to distribute poverty!

Civilization is a parasite on the man with the hoe.

To define good as that which survives and bad as that which
goes under.

Apparently it was fear that first made the gods.

Nature, meaning total reality and its processes.

Generations of men establish a growing mastery over the
earth, but they are destined to become fossils in its soil.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-07-30 17:44 [#01291004]
Points: 21454 Status: Regular | Followup to J198: #01290997



I kept going and going until I eventually had to quit. You
can choose your own games in the custom option at the
beginning. I played the tetris one though and I couldn't
figure out how to flip the stupid shapes so I died...


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-07-30 17:46 [#01291008]
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Here are more "innovative" games (where I found this one):

shiggy-snigada-flub


 


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