Score: 9

"It's Sopwith!"

submission: Battle Over Berlin

date: December 16, 2008

The controls take some getting used to and the graphics are way better than the old CGA of 20 years ago, but this reminds me a lot of the Sopwith games. I used to love playing them. Rock on, dude!

Score: 0

"Uh... okay."

submission: Macfags

date: August 27, 2008

I grew up in a house where anything made by Apple was synonymous with "piece of shit" (my father's exact words). But dude, I've gotta side with the Mac users on this one. This video sucks.

I really think this had the potential to be something much better than just a picture of a hand and a mouse, and the "Flash by Grumio" logo was pretty sweet, which tells me that you're capable of making something much better. Perhaps keeping in mind that Apple's commercials are generally witty, intelligent, and funny. You can play on that. Or you can play on the old tech support joke that "Is there only one button on your mouse? Then we found the problem, you need a new computer!"

And that's it for the constructive criticism. Beyond that, this video sucks. Period.

Score: 10

"100%. . ."

submission: Atari 2600 - Adventure

date: August 26, 2008

. . . the Real Deal!

I'm a stickler about games, especially when people take a game that our generation grew up with and "update" (read: butcher) for the twenty-first century: power-ups, new sprites, dragons that actually look like dragons (horrors!), and so on.

This game doesn't do any of that. It truly lives up to its claim to be an exact clone, with the ducks, arrow, square, flicker, gray dot, and everything else that returns fond memories to us Gen-X'ers.