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Insert coin and play!  Happy 30th Birthday, Pac-Man!

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Secret: Insert 2 Coins to play Ms Pac-Man with the W-A-S-D keys at the same time.

Flash Games: Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands

For a promotion, the free Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Flash game on Ubisoft is actually pretty fun.  Six levels of play.  You can also get some coupon codes you can  use when ordering the retail game, as well as codes for extra in-game playable characters in the retail release.

Flash Games: Super Mario Bros Crossover

Jay Pavlina at exploding-rabbit.com created this awesome Flash game for old skool game lovers. Click the picture above or play it on Newgrounds.

Flash Games: Ultima IV Quest of the Avatar

Wanna play a real Ultima game via Flash in your browser, instead of suffering through Ultima branded strategy games like Lord of Ultima?  Blair Leggett is happy to oblige, with a Flash version of Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar.  Included in the Flash versions are three new top-border icons that link to help, game documents and email assistance.  Have fun!

Lord of Ultima in not MY Ultima

EA has no idea what to do with their intellectual properties.  Electronic Arts purchased and subsequently decimated developer Origin Systems Inc, wasting the opportunities it had with all of the IP’s that Origin developed throughout the 80s and early 90s.   Then in 2008, EA gives us the awful top-down, 2D space combat game that they slapped the words Wing Commander onto to try to lure old fans of the quality 3D Wing Commander series to purchase it.  For shame!

But now, they’ve done it again!

Discordia is now live

Chapter 1 of Discordia: A Dark Tower Online Experience, which I mentioned back in October, is now live.  Fans of The Dark Tower series by Stephen King should head on over and dig in.  If you haven’t read the Dark Tower series… what’s the matter with you!  Go do it now!  Discordia assumes you have, so spoilers abound for those who haven’t.

Follow-up: Google Earth Moon Lander

A reader sent me a link today to another Lunar Lander game, as a follow-up to my blog post last month. This version from PlanetInAction.com requires the Google Earth plugin for your browser, and takes a side-scrolling approach to landing on the moon, using the Google Earth maps of the actual landing area of Apollo 11.

If you com across any more fun Lunar Lander type games, send them my way!

Flash Games: Lunar Lander and MoonLander3D

One of my favorite arcade games as a kid was Lunar Lander. I remember there was one at the arcade in Chesterfield Mall in St. Louis County, and I would try to play it every time I was there. The vector-based game about landing on the moon was not only appealing to me because I am a big space nut (still am), but it had a thrust lever for a controller. How cool is that! If I had to pick my top 5 arcade games, this would be one of them. (The others, for the record: Gauntlet, Joust, Star Wars sit-down cabinet, and Zaxxon.  Wow… picking just 5 is hard!!)

Seb Lee-Delisle has created a very accurate Flash version of this arcade classic.  You can play is here on his site.

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, he also updated and released a 3D version of Lunar Lander called MoonLander3D.

Play MoonLander3D here, and see what you think compared to the original.

Wii Flash #1: Duck Hunt

If you’re like me (and you should be), you have a bunch of older gen consoles hooked up to the TV, such as the NES. But it you want to get your old skool Duck Hunt on, and have a decidedly new school viewing appliance, such as an LCD TV, you’ll be crushingly disappointed, as the famed light gun does not work with such new-fangled devices.

Never fear… Wii is here! (Hey, I rhyme like Reggie!) Just point your Wii Opera browser to this Duck Hunt Flash Site, and you can shoot those suckers to your heart’s content. Enjoy!