Ninja Dog

Ninja Dog

Today's fun game time waster excitorama is entitled Ninja Dog.  What better combination than ninjas and dogs for ultimate fun eh?  As far as story goes, apparently this ninja guy was being a lazy ass and declined to help the wrong old man.  Now he's been turned into a dog and has to keep helping people until the old guy decides he's paid his debt.  And how do you pay your debt?  By throwing your ninja stars as random objects in trees of course!  The object changes between chapters, but it usually ends up that you need to knock something out of a tree without knocking some other things out of a tree.  On many levels you have a limited number of shurikens so it becomes a "how can i do this in as few moves as possible" type game.  Fortunately there are boss fights to break up the monotony once you get into higher levels.  Have fun and tell me what you think.

Pixel Purge

Pixel Purge

Here is a fun and almost mindless shooter to pass the time.  Pixel Purge is a standard dual-stick space shooter (well, wasd and mouse, but same difference.)  You shoot random pixel aliens and gather pixels to upgrade your various systems.  The upgrades are part of the fun.  The achievements also add to the pleasure.  The pixel aliens they send after you get progressively larger and then more varied and more difficult to kill.  Eventually they will send alien pods that split into a million tiny 1-pixel-sized aliens that swarm after you.  I would have preferred that the difficulty level ramp up sooner, but overall this game is still a lot of fun and a good way to pass 20 minutes or so.  I think I got to level 15 on my last try before dieing.  How high can you get?

Learn to Fly

Learn to Fly

Today's time waster is a humanitarian effort to help everyone's favorite flightless bird, the penguin, learn to fly. Donate today to help these poor birds experience the joy of flight that, without your help, they may never have a chance to experience.  For just $10,000 a day you can provide rocket fuel that will propel these poor unfortunate birds into the stratosphere.  Do you really need that used car when, in comparison, you can give the joy of flight?

This is your standard distance and speed jump game with upgrades.  You start off a penguin with a small ramp that can barely "fly" a few feet, but by the end you will have strapped performance gliders and super rockets to this determined biped.  It should only take you 20 - 30 minutes to get as far as the end, though I'm still unable to break the 6000ft mark which has a "?" for the gained achievement.  If anyone can get that far and take a screenshot/give a description of what, if anything is gained, please leave it in the comments.  Have fun!

Epic Battle Fantasy

Epic Battle Fantasy

Do you like jRPGs but hate all that walking around and talking to people and crap?  Today's time waster is just for you.  Epic Battle Fantasy is all attack, not much else.  This is a good thing.  You start out at the store with a lot of coins.  Spend it all, you wont see a store again for a long time.  After you buy all your potions and whatnot you get to fight through wave after wave of cute evil slimes and then other more intimidating monsters.  You already have all of your weapons and magic and skills, but you do get to change swords and whatnot for some strategy.  The point is to get through all of the waves of enemies in every area, including boss enemies, with just the life and weapons you have on you.  It's quite fun.

Penguinz

Penguinz

Today's time waster is a cathartic massacre tale staring a penguin with a gun who must defend himself from penguinz with bats and picks and later guns of their own.  It's a simple game, but fun for a few minutes.  You get to upgrade your weapons and buy ammo between rounds and the bad guys get progressively harder to kill.  It would be nice if the programmer had made a way to turn down/off the music and keep the sound effects.  The music, though appropriate for the speed of the game, becomes grating rather quickly.  Have fun, don't shoot any real penguins!