It's a Toucan!

Toucan: a brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak.

Dramatic Creeper

This one goes out to any Minecraft fans out there. It also goes out to any fans of overly dramatic chipmunks. Just do yourself a favor and watch this video. What were you going to do in the next 3 seconds anyway?

Random Game Review #2: Pel

Pel

Pel is your new favorite game that you've never played. It's fun! It's original! It's NEAT! And, I quote, "The sounds will make you want to kill yourself!" Let's just hope you press mute first.

But really, Pel is, in my humble opinion, a really great game. I stumbled upon it (as is probably the case for most everything I post) about a week and a half ago, and was hooked after my first game. 

Pel is simple in every sense of the word, and that's a good thing. The graphics are minimalistic, with only a grey paddle and some colored squares moving around atop a black background. The sounds are repetitive, but (contrary to what my roommate might tell you) I think they nicely complement the sparse visuals.

The gameplay of Pel is equally straightfoward. You control a single paddle on the bottom of the screen, which you can move to one of three spots: left, middle, or right. Your single goal is to keep all of the bouncing pellets bouncing for as long as possible. As you do, you rack up combos and points as an incentive to keep going. Also, although at first the game is laughably easy, don't be fooled; before long, you'll be frantically mashing the left and right arrows until your fingers bleed. Add in a healthy dose of random power ups, and you've got yourself one addicting little game.

If you've never played this game (and I would be very surprised if you had), do yourself a favor and give it a shot. Just make sure you have some time to waste.

Pel gets 4 bouncing squares out of 5.

Forever Uno

My life:

 

MissingNo

Attention all nerds, geeks, and all other Pokemon fans! I just came across a description of how and why the MissingNo glitch occurs in the original Pokemon games. If you don't know what MissingNo is, you probably won't appreciate the details anyway. Still, I think it's pretty cool stuff. Check it out.

Random Game Review #1: Winterbells

Winterbells

Hello, and welcome to the first of my award-winning series of game reviews. Up this time is a little game I found called Winterbells. 

Winterbells plays something like Doodle Jump, but with fewer doodles and platforms and more rabbits bouncing on floating bells in the sky. Also, instead of controlling "The Doodler" (trust me, I looked it up on Wikipedia), you control a cute little white rabbit. You start the game on the ground, and click to jump up to the first falling bell. From there, the rabbit follows the mouse as you try to bounce higher and higher, accumulating points until you fall back to the Earth.

Although simple,  this game is strangely very satisfying. The game is very polished; the graphics and animation are nice and clean, without trying to be too fancy. The audio is also fairly minimalistic, but it works; the background string music is relaxing and fits the style well, and the "ding" when you hit a bell is thankfully not annoying.

In concept, this game is nothing too original. However, in my opinion, the combination of simplistic visuals, sounds, and controls result in a fun, satisfying experience, and create a calming atmosphere that doesn't try to force itself on you. If you're looking for a good way to waste 15 minutes, look no further.

Winterbells gets 4 jumping rabbits out of 5.

Slowpoke!

So that's what those hieroglyphics meant.