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Games

SLACKERJACK – Firefighter Game

by 586 MEDIA

All the girls love a firefighter, don’t they? Who knows why – maybe it’s a hose thing, or maybe it’s because a firefighter is more likely to die earlier, leaving his girlfriend with all that life insurance cash. Either way, the closest the majority of us will get to being a firefighter is watching Backdraft [...]

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SLACKERJACK – Rocket Bob

by 586 MEDIA

Rocket Bob proves one thing conclusively – that jumping between ledges high above a bustling city is stupid beyond belief, and that you shouldn’t believe those idiot Parkour people. Rocket Bob is a simple enough game to play. You control little Rocket Bob, who must leap between ledges with skill and ease. Why must Rocket [...]

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SLACKERJACK – Music Brothers

by 586 MEDIA

Arrows are easy to follow, aren’t they? See an arrow pointing left, you go left, see an arrow going up and you go up. Simple. Then why does Music Brothers make us want to cry? On the surface Music Brothers is a cutesy little diversion. You play little songs by hitting the corresponding keypad buttons [...]

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SLACKERJACK – Mercury Drops

by 586 MEDIA

Every now and then a game will come along which we’ll waste days and days playing. Mercury Drops is one of those games. Mercury Drops is so jawdroppingly simple it makes us wonder why nobody thought of it first. You’re a little tiny mercury drop, and you have to absorb up all of the small [...]

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SLACKERJACK – Project Arse

by 586 MEDIA

Alcohol is a terrible invention – if it hadn’t been invented all our friends would still be talking to us, and we’d own at least one dry pair of trousers. And that’s where Project Arse comes in. Ostensibly, Project Arse is a warning against drinking too much – you pour drinks into a man to [...]

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Family Guy Videogames Hitting Screens This Year

by Stuart Heritage

The world is full of awful videogames based on decent television shows – you’ll remember Krusty’s Super Fun House and that dodgy Futurama game. The last thing we need is another bad videogame like that. So the news that Family Guy is going to be turned into a series of videogames by 2K Games fills [...]

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SLACKERJACK – Las Vegas Law Case Predictor

by 586 MEDIA

There’s a weird, weird show on Court TV at the moment that goes by the name of Las Vegas Law, which stars the irrepressible Bucky Buchanan. Bucky Buchanan is a real-life Las Vegas lawyer who – by day – takes it upon himself to represent prostitutes, drug addicts and murderers in an especially charming manner. [...]

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SLACKERJACK – Strictly Sudoku

by 586 MEDIA

Sudoku Sudoku Sudoku, that’s all we bloody hear these days. If 90-page Sudoku supplements aren’t falling out of our newspapers, Carol bloody Vorderman’s banging on about Sudoku all day and all night on the telly. It’s not that we don’t like Sudoku, it’s just that we can’t see the point of Sudoku. If we wanted [...]

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SLACKERJACK – Bubble Bobble

by 586 MEDIA

There are a few noises that, when heard, will immediately send men of a certain age into a nostalgic tizzy – The Life Of Riley, the sound of your Mum coming up the stairs and the Bubble Bobble theme tune. And today, it’s all about the Bubble Bobble. Even the most brainless of you will [...]

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SLACKERJACK – Hotwheels Ferrari Game

by 586 MEDIA

You can stick your Gran Turismo up your arse, sunshine. This Hotwheels Ferrari game has all the hallmarks of a £50 Xbox 360 game. Except for the graphics. And the gameplay. And the sound. But it’s about cars. To be fair, for an online game the Hotwheels Ferrari game can get a fair old whack [...]

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