Hello everyone,
I've been trying to track down an old game I used to play for hours on end, unfortunately, I can't remember what it was called...
What I can tell you is:
*that I was once I regular subscriber to MacAddict, and I probably got the game from there;
*you mostly controlled with the mouse, moving a little bot around the screen, dodging enemy bots/balls that hovered in and out, I think you clicked to shoot a laser from both ends of your bot - you used the command key to shoot a magnet, and the option key to shoot a fast laser, space rotated your bot bewteen horizonal and vertical;
*each time you shot the laser, you cut off sections of the screen - the aim was to cut off as much as you could, and to trap the enemy bots/balls in those cut off sections, before the timer ran out - the time getting shorter and short as the levels progressed;
*if you lost, a cartoon image of a shark (possibly wearing a tank top and sunglasses) appeared and said in a mock-something accent that "You disss-gust me!" And that's all I can remember. Aside from the fact that I wasted days, nay, weeks of my life playing it - but I had one freaking ace high score to show for it! (Along with the RSI.)
Anyway, does any of this ring anyone's bells?
While I'm down memory lane - I might quickly ask another question... does anyone recall a game called Maniac? At least, that's what I think it was called - but all my web trawling has come up with naught. It was kind of like a cross between PacMan & Hangman - eluding ghosts in a maze, and trying to solve word puzzles at the same time? I'm beginning to think I dreamt the whole thing - because no one else seems to remember it - so, yeah, anyone else ever play that too?
Thanking you (hopefully, and rather presumptuously) in advance for your help!
I've been trying to track down an old game I used to play for hours on end, unfortunately, I can't remember what it was called...
What I can tell you is:
*that I was once I regular subscriber to MacAddict, and I probably got the game from there;
*you mostly controlled with the mouse, moving a little bot around the screen, dodging enemy bots/balls that hovered in and out, I think you clicked to shoot a laser from both ends of your bot - you used the command key to shoot a magnet, and the option key to shoot a fast laser, space rotated your bot bewteen horizonal and vertical;
*each time you shot the laser, you cut off sections of the screen - the aim was to cut off as much as you could, and to trap the enemy bots/balls in those cut off sections, before the timer ran out - the time getting shorter and short as the levels progressed;
*if you lost, a cartoon image of a shark (possibly wearing a tank top and sunglasses) appeared and said in a mock-something accent that "You disss-gust me!" And that's all I can remember. Aside from the fact that I wasted days, nay, weeks of my life playing it - but I had one freaking ace high score to show for it! (Along with the RSI.)
Anyway, does any of this ring anyone's bells?
While I'm down memory lane - I might quickly ask another question... does anyone recall a game called Maniac? At least, that's what I think it was called - but all my web trawling has come up with naught. It was kind of like a cross between PacMan & Hangman - eluding ghosts in a maze, and trying to solve word puzzles at the same time? I'm beginning to think I dreamt the whole thing - because no one else seems to remember it - so, yeah, anyone else ever play that too?
Thanking you (hopefully, and rather presumptuously) in advance for your help!