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What Games Are. Play4Real | Where Gaming Journalism Levels Up. Steparu.com - News, Reviews & Information for Foreign Games. Arcade, Videogame, Pinball Machine, and Antique Coin-Operated History -- The International Arcade Museum. The Psychology of Video Games. Classic Computer Magazine Archive. Goodbye Effect Games.

Friends, The time has come to shut the doors on Effect Games, so we can move onto other projects. But we've preserved some of our old games and demos for you to play with: We've also open sourced the entire Effect Games engine, as well as the web IDE. Effect Games, in it's entirety, has been moved to GitHub. The source is MIT licensed, so you may use it in both personal and commercial projects. Deepest thanks to everyone who tried Effect Games and provided such awesome feedback. Deconstruction Game. The Art & Business of Making Games. Metagames: Games About Games. Abusive Games Penn & Teller's Smoke & Mirrors (Sega CD, 1995). Download. Like their earlier Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends video from 1987 — see Vidi Kopy or Super Kleener for meta-VHS examples — Smoke and Mirrors was a collection of small pranks that used unique aspects of the medium to let buyers play tricks on their friends.

In Desert Bus, the most notorious of the mini-games, players drive a tour bus on a mind-numbing eight-hour trip from Tucson to Las Vegas. Driving off-road gets you towed back to Tucson in real-time, making it difficult to cheat. And if you manage to complete the trip, you get one point. Bastet: Bastard Tetris (Windows/Linux, 2005). I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game (Windows, 2007). The Unfair Platformer (Flash, 2008). Steamshovel Harry (Flash, 2009). Tetris HD (Flash, 2009). Minimalist Games The flipside of abusive games — games so obvious that they're barely games at all. Pick Up the Phone Booth and Die (Z-code, 1996). Quest for the Crown (Flash, 2003). Mr. Die Gute Fabrik News.