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Thruster 3000   
Thruster 3000 is a fairly unique game that can probably be best compared to the Palm Pilot classic: SF Cave (It may have been around before Palm but that's where I know of it from).
The game takes place with you in a sphere shaped spaceship with four little sunction-cup shaped things on the top, bottom, and sides. The object of the game is to maneuver your spaceship between rocks and past projectiles in order to pick up the coin-like objects, which are spread through-out each level, and then make your way to the exit. Sounds simple, doesn't it?
But it's not simple at all because unlike some games where you can just maneuver yourself thoughtlessly, here you have gravity and momentum pulling you every which way. If you move to the left to much without slowing down and then try to go right, chances are you wil crash before your left-ward momentum ceases enough for you to move right. You are also constantly falling due to gravity's pull, so you must try to keep youself level, not to close to the ground but not too much upwards momentum also. Very challenging, but never "cheap".
The level design means alot to a game like this and this one nails it, but is also insanely challenging in doing so. Even the easy levels seem impossible at first. Slowly, however, you will begin to grasp the game and the levels won't seem insane, merely semi-insane. Do not play this game if you have a short fuse on your patience.
Thruster 3000 has excellent sound and even a fair amount of speech. The music is great, as well. Graphically, Thruster 3000 shines. The levels all have a nice look to them and are very colorful. All 2D goodness.
Bottom Line: If you're the kind of person who loves challenging games and won't back down after the 50th+ try, then this game is for you. If you get frustrated easily and often find yourself yelling at your screen and throwing your controller: Stay away.
Assuming that you are person type #1, there is nothing bad about this game and you should DEFINITELY give it a shot. Swollen, bleeding, bone-exposed thumbs WAY UP!
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GAME AUTHOR David Blackwell
REVIEWED BY Evil Boris
STAFF RATING 9/10
USER RATING 3.4/10
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FILE SIZE 2.4 MB
FILE DATE Feb 02, 2001
UPLOADED Sep 26, 2002
DEV TOOL Multimedia Fusion
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Titans of Steel 
Titans of Steel is a tactical mecha game. You can create small and quick recon titans as well as 200 ton heavy behemoth armed with devasting weapons. It may take some time to get accustomed to all the ins and outs of this battle game. Supports LAN and Internet playing. This is the final version (version 1.4), and includes more combat arenas and over 100 other changes.
| PC REQUIREMENTS: 200 MHz CPU, DirectX, 24MB RAM |
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GAME AUTHOR Henrik Schmidt
REVIEWED BY Boson
STAFF RATING 9/10
USER RATING 7.7/10
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FILE SIZE 8.6 MB
FILE DATE Oct 12, 2001
UPLOADED Oct 22, 2001
DEV TOOL VC++
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Toy Trouble
Toy Trouble is a great game. You choose between 8 various toy robots (4 you have to unlock - see help file), and you go about killing your opponent in different arenas. What's so unique about these "arenas", is that they are perfectly normal rooms! Try blasting your opponent with a Ping Pong Gun in your own bedroom! There's also various weapons to collect including: A machine gun, rockets, a ping pong gun and a CD Thrower. The single-player mode includes Arcade, Survival and Time Trial. The game also supports a multi-player mode (over the same computer) and a network mode. The game features great graphics, although, I experienced times when it got a bit choppy, great sound, and very fun gameplay!
| PC REQUIREMENTS: 350 MHz CPU, 8 MB graphic card, DirectX 7.0a |
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GAME AUTHOR Brainsmash Interactive
REVIEWED BY Rixte
STAFF RATING 9/10
USER RATING 6.2/10
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FILE SIZE 10.2 MB
FILE DATE Apr 24, 2002
UPLOADED May 02, 2002
DEV TOOL Visual Basic
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Tsunami 2010
"Psychaedelic oldschool abstract electronic space-shooter pixel-overdose fun in 96kb!" This is what Tsunami 2010 promises, and it has all of it: it's not simply a clone of Tempest 2000, but an even better game. In case you don't know what Tempest is, the original version is a 1980 arcade game in wireframe graphics, while Tempest 2000 was programmed by the great Jeff "Yak" Minter, and was one of the few good games for the unlucky Atari Jaguar console (a PC conversion exists). It's a bizarre shooter: in every stage, your "ship" is on a side of strange-looking tunnels or grids. It is capable of moving on lanes on the perimeter, and must destroy the enemies coming from the opposite side before being able to warp to the next stage. Like many classic oldies, a simple concept and great gameplay.
Tsunami 2010 not only takes back the old fun, it's also an incredible programming exercise, since the game resides all in 96,000 bytes. You could think graphics are quite simple, like the 1980 original, then: wrong, they are really stunning. Tempest 2000 was already abstract and psychaedelic, this is at least five times more. The moving forms, the flashy colors, the light effects, the myriad of particles, are really something to see, though seriously headache-inducing and hallucinating at times [obviously, if subjects suffering from hepylepsia should already be careful about "regular" games, make them stay away from this one!]; no screenshot can give justice, you got to see them moving. Such graphics can give some "embarassment" even to the most powerful configurations if you are using the highest resolutions and detail levels, but don't worry, you have plenty of them to choose a combination suiting your system, though you will lose part of the visual impact.
The built-in tunes are nothing special, but you can't protest since, given the little space, it's surprising the presence of music at all! However, the game allows you to use music CDs, or audio files in MOD format, to give it a better soundtrack; the two packs of mods available at the official site are a good start.
But, putting the technical showcase aside, what makes Tsunami's gameplay better than the illustrious originals'? Well, there are some new bonuses, the best being one allowing the ship to jump off the grid. With it, you can still be able to destroy an enemy even if it reached your side. The enemies leave particles you can get, helping increase the score multiplier bar under the lives indicator: the more is filled, bigger the scores and bonuses you can get. A trigger-happy attitude is not recommended, since not only your bullets fill the screen with light and particles (so that too much mean less visibility), but they make the score multiplier go down. So keep cool, aim, and shoot as little as possible.
All these little innovations enhance the original gameplay greatly, without perverting its original essence. There are lots of levels, and often the action gets quite frantic, especially after new and deadlier enemies are introduced. True, the gameplay can become repetitive after a certain amount of time, but it will be long before I grow tired of playing. The only big gripe is about the lack of an option to configure the keyboard, but it's little compared to the high qualities of Tsunami 2010, a game that is classic and very modern at the same time.
| PC REQUIREMENTS: 800 mhz cpu, 64mb ram, radeon or geforce graphic card, windows (recommended) |
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REVIEWED BY Gendo Ikari
STAFF RATING 9/10
USER RATING 7.5/10
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FILE SIZE 98 KB
FILE DATE Apr 18, 2003
UPLOADED Oct 16, 2004
DEV TOOL unknown
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UFO
UFO is one of the most innovative games I've ever played. It's made by the same people behind Smash (also on GameHippo), and, while Smash may have revolutionized a genre, UFO is in a genre all to its own! I've never seen a game like this before, and if somebody has, do not hesitate to e-mail me with its title.
Obviously, you take control of a UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) that has one, two, three, or perhaps zero stars revolving around it. Each star shoots star-like objects in whichever direction they are facing. In order to destroy your target (whether it be computer-controlled, inanimate, or human), you must throw them against the wall using your stars. [Space] shoots, and you move your UFO with the arrow keys. There are two single player game modes.
The first one is "Battle". Judging by the name, it should be somewhat obvious what kind of mode this is. Your job is to eliminate your computer opponent using the stars you are given. However, it is a normal deathmatch game. Sometimes you'll have a rapid-fire double star, and your opponent will have a one-star, one-shot, but extremely strong star. You'll never know until you play that level.
The second mode is called "Time Attack", and, no, this isn't the normal boring time attack. It's actually a very refined target practice game, and not all the targets are the same. There are slow moving targets, fast moving targets, targets that you can run right through, and even targets that are attached to the background with a bungee cord. To add to the mayhem, you have to dodge yellow spiked balls that take away 50 points of health (about 1/4 your total). And did I mention that you have to complete it within ten seconds, not to mention keeping your health bar alive? Though both of the aforementioned modes were great, I think T-Attack is the best, not to mention the most addictive.
While all the multiplayer modes are battle-deathmatch games in their essence (or at least all of the modes that I've accessed), they are each very intriguing. For instance, one of the modes takes away all stars, and pits you against the other person in a world of asteroids. The only way to kill your enemy is by running him into the wall using your UFO, but remember, the asteroids are constantly moving which means they may more damage to you than you do to your enemy, or vice versa. That's just one of the many different multiplayer modes, but I'll leave the rest as a surprise.
The graphics are very crisp. The UFOs' cartoon-like graphics, the starry background and flashy stars go very well together. As for the sound, any player of Smash will easily recognize the same "intro", "finish", and "fail" music. The normal in-game music is the drum-and-techno stuff you hear everywhere.
The Bottom Line: Fighting, Deathmatch, Spaceshooter, Arcade - all these could apply to this game, yet none of them capture its essence. UFO is a game like no other and therefore has no comparison. I fear that people may not be able to see it as the gem it truly is, and if my assumptions are correct, I pity their souls. This is not a game to be missed.
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GAME AUTHOR Monolith
REVIEWED BY Da_Goat
STAFF RATING 9/10
USER RATING 8.5/10
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FILE SIZE 1.2 MB
FILE DATE Sep 16, 2002
UPLOADED Mar 16, 2003
DEV TOOL VC++
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