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December 2006

SLACKERJACK – Hatch

by Stuart Heritage

Why a new game by Eyezmaze is released, certain members of the heckerspray staff become so overwhelmed by emotion that they faint, vomit or – at the very least – far with unbridled joy.

Eyezmaze, you see, are the people that gave us Grow Cube and Grow Ornament, fiendish little puzzle games that were both effortlessly simple and mindblowing difficult. We loved both of them. But now comes Hatch, a new Eyezmaze game, and Hatch is a little different. Instead of trying to place items down in a certain order to complete a puzzle – like on Grow Cube – Hatch is more of a traditional arcadey-type game. This is how Hatch works. Food falls from the sky, and your little ball has to catch it in its mouth. But all different sorts of food falls, and you have to press different keys on your keyboard to get the hatch ball to change into the right colour to accept them. Hatch is difficult, certainly, but will you be able to get the same sense of relieved joy that you get from completing Grow Cube when you’ve finished Hatch? Time will tell.

Play Hatch now

Why a new game by Eyezmaze is released, certain members of the heckerspray staff become so overwhelmed by emotion that they faint, vomit or - at the very least - far with unbridled joy. Eyezmaze, you see, are the people that gave us Grow Cube and Grow Ornament, fiendish little puzzle games that were both effortlessly simple and mindblowing difficult. We loved both of them. But now comes Hatch, a new Eyezmaze game, and Hatch is a little different. Instead of trying to place items down in a certain order to complete a puzzle - like on Grow Cube - Hatch is more of a traditional arcadey-type game. This is how Hatch works. Food falls from the sky, and your little ball has to catch it in its mouth. But all different sorts of food falls, and you have to press different keys on your keyboard to get the hatch ball to change into the right colour to accept them. Hatch is difficult, certainly, but will you be able to get the same sense of relieved joy that you get from completing Grow Cube when you've finished Hatch? Time will tell. Play Hatch now
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A-Team Star Jumps On Celebrity Big Brother Bandwagon

by C J Davies

Who actually decided that the A-Team would make a ‘crack military unit’?

Seriously – which maniac general sat down one day and figured that the perfect army squad consisted of a schizophrenic, a womaniser, a pensioner and a jewellery-bedecked goliath with a chronic fear of flying? The same guy who masterminded the cray-zee ‘Let’s Invade Iraq’ scenario (a telethon now in its fourth glorious year, CNN fans)?

Maybe we should hunt down one of the cast members and ask him. Not George Peppard – he’s dead and everything. And not Mr T – from what little we’ve seen of him since, he’d probably just try to waffle on about Jesus. And that beardy hippy is everywhere this time of year, don’t you find?

How about Dirk Benedict, then? You know – the actor behind Face and other performances that we can’t be arsed going to IMDB to look up.

Who actually decided that the A-Team would make a 'crack military unit'? Seriously - which maniac general sat down one day and figured that the perfect army squad consisted of a schizophrenic, a womaniser, a pensioner and a jewellery-bedecked goliath with a chronic fear of flying? The same guy who masterminded the cray-zee 'Let's Invade Iraq' scenario (a telethon now in its fourth glorious year, CNN fans)? Maybe we should hunt down one of the cast members and ask him. Not George Peppard - he's dead and everything. And not Mr T - from what little we've seen of him since, he'd probably just try to waffle on about Jesus. And that beardy hippy is everywhere this time of year, don't you find? How about Dirk Benedict, then? You know - the actor behind Face and other performances that we can't be arsed going to IMDB to look up.
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Strictly Come Dancing Betting Odds: Mark Ramprakash

by Stuart Heritage

On Saturday we’re all going to be treated to the Strictly Come Dancing semi-final, where the best three dancers of the series – apart from the good black ones who were mysteriously voted off early – will dance… dance to the death!

OK, not to the death, but you get the idea. Anyway, Strictly Come Dancing is freaking us out. This time last week we were happily mocking Tess Daly’s continued inability to do that little dance at the start of the show, and then on Saturday’s Strictly Come Dancing Tess Daly went out of her way to point out that she did the dance without a hitch. We were half expecting her to point into the camera, roll her eyes up into the back of her head and starting intoning mumbled threats to hecklerspray for doubting her ability. It was weird, like Tess Daly was reading our minds. Our minds! Or our website. One or the other.

Anyway, here are the Strictly Come Dancing betting odds for Mark Ramprakash…

On Saturday we're all going to be treated to the Strictly Come Dancing semi-final, where the best three dancers of the series - apart from the good black ones who were mysteriously voted off early - will dance... dance to the death! OK, not to the death, but you get the idea. Anyway, Strictly Come Dancing is freaking us out. This time last week we were happily mocking Tess Daly's continued inability to do that little dance at the start of the show, and then on Saturday's Strictly Come Dancing Tess Daly went out of her way to point out that she did the dance without a hitch. We were half expecting her to point into the camera, roll her eyes up into the back of her head and starting intoning mumbled threats to hecklerspray for doubting her ability. It was weird, like Tess Daly was reading our minds. Our minds! Or our website. One or the other. Anyway, here are the Strictly Come Dancing betting odds for Mark Ramprakash...
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Word From The Editor: Normality Restored-ish

by Stuart Heritage

Shawn Lindseth may well have enlisted the help of the Catholic church to try and wrestle complete control of hecklerspray from me at the start of the week, but he didn’t count on the superb array of connections that I’ve built up in my short lifespan.

Thanks to me being on first-name terms with two of the biggest enemies of the Catholics – Madonna and the fibre optic wig that Tom Hanks wore in The Da Vinci Code – I was able to enlist a ramshackle army of old ladies in leotards and a variety of bad hairpieces to win the editorship of hecklerspray back once and for all. Or something. What the hell is all this about? Shawn did a smashing job guest-editing hecklerspray over the last three days, that’s what, but now I – Stuart Heritage – am back. And what difference does that make to you? The word ‘rumor’ is going to be spelt with a ‘u’ in it again. And that’s about it.

Shawn Lindseth may well have enlisted the help of the Catholic church to try and wrestle complete control of hecklerspray from me at the start of the week, but he didn't count on the superb array of connections that I've built up in my short lifespan. Thanks to me being on first-name terms with two of the biggest enemies of the Catholics - Madonna and the fibre optic wig that Tom Hanks wore in The Da Vinci Code - I was able to enlist a ramshackle army of old ladies in leotards and a variety of bad hairpieces to win the editorship of hecklerspray back once and for all. Or something. What the hell is all this about? Shawn did a smashing job guest-editing hecklerspray over the last three days, that's what, but now I - Stuart Heritage - am back. And what difference does that make to you? The word 'rumor' is going to be spelt with a 'u' in it again. And that's about it.
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Borat Getting Sued Again, And We Don’t Mean The Time You Think You Already Know About

by Shawn Lindseth

It is entirely possible that the sign of a good movie isn't in the award nominations or ticket sales, but in the amount of times you get sued for filming someone's wang-chung in a public bathroom. And if that's the case, then Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, may [...]

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Britney Spears Has New Boyfriend, And A Type

by Shawn Lindseth

When it comes to finding that special girl website, you know, the one to bring home to momma, hecklerspray doesn't have a lot of criteria. It'll have to be nice, it'll have to be pretty, and it'll have to know what the crap 'META' means in html. Other than that, anything goes, really. We're a [...]

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Courtney Love Gets Probation Waived, Eyes Leak Strange Tear-Like Liquid

by Shawn Lindseth

Courtney Love is a cry-baby. Just because some judge took pity on her and waived away her multi-year probation with a bang of his wooden hammer, and then dropped three misdemeanor cases against her, she breaks down and starts crying like an Asian toddler well into his second shoe factory shift. What was Courtney Love [...]

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SLACKERJACK – Gift Shop

by Stuart Heritage

As you’ve probably established by now, Christmas is coming. And, as such, some of the Slackerjacks that we’ll paste up here between now and the 25th will reflect the true meaning of Christmas; ferocious unbridled commercialism.

Gift Shop aptly demonstrates this. On the surface, Gift Shop is one of those puzzle games that you’ve seen a jillion times already. You line up the coloured balls and make them disappear, for level after level after level. But Gift Shop is different, because it’s a bit Christmassy and stuff. For instance, instead of lining up coloured balls, you line up coloured baubles. Clever, huh? And also Gift Shop has a sort of vaguely ill-fitting storyline about flogging off Christmas tat to frantic customers that we didn’t understand very well. Whatever the hell’s supposed to be going on, it doesn’t stop Gift Shop from having unusually edge-of-the-seat gameplay that you’re bound to love. Or at least like a lot.

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As you've probably established by now, Christmas is coming. And, as such, some of the Slackerjacks that we'll paste up here between now and the 25th will reflect the true meaning of Christmas; ferocious unbridled commercialism. Gift Shop aptly demonstrates this. On the surface, Gift Shop is one of those puzzle games that you've seen a jillion times already. You line up the coloured balls and make them disappear, for level after level after level. But Gift Shop is different, because it's a bit Christmassy and stuff. For instance, instead of lining up coloured balls, you line up coloured baubles. Clever, huh? And also Gift Shop has a sort of vaguely ill-fitting storyline about flogging off Christmas tat to frantic customers that we didn't understand very well. Whatever the hell's supposed to be going on, it doesn't stop Gift Shop from having unusually edge-of-the-seat gameplay that you're bound to love. Or at least like a lot. Order Gift Shop Now Download Gift Shop
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Evel Knievel All Up In Kanye West’s Biznatch

by Shawn Lindseth

Fame brings power. It lets you see the world, destroy hotel television sets, and stay up well past the typical parent-enforced 9:00 PM bed-time. Fame does not, however, let you impersonate Evel Knievel in any way, facet or fashion. That's what Kanye West is learning right now. He's getting his back-side sued by the age-old [...]

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Strictly Come Dancing Betting Odds: Louisa Out, Who’ll Win?

by Stuart Heritage

Hear that sound? That’s the sound of your creepy uncle that your parents don’t talk about crying his eyes out because pervert-friendly teenager Louisa Lytton has been eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing.

Having left Eastenders, Louisa Lytton had a lot resting on Strictly Come Dancing – if she didn’t win it, chances are she’d be masturbating farmyard animals on Channel Five by the end of 2007. But it wasn’t to be – no amount of gratuitous booby-wiggling or frantic leg-kicking could keep either Louisa Lytton or her creepy Italian dance partner in the competition. Still, not many people who can have ‘slightly better than Jimmy Tarbuck at dancing’ on their CV, can they?

Who’s going to win Strictly Come Dancing, huh? Here are the Strictly Come Dancing betting odds for Emma Bunton and Matt Dawson…

Hear that sound? That's the sound of your creepy uncle that your parents don't talk about crying his eyes out because pervert-friendly teenager Louisa Lytton has been eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing. Having left Eastenders, Louisa Lytton had a lot resting on Strictly Come Dancing - if she didn't win it, chances are she'd be masturbating farmyard animals on Channel Five by the end of 2007. But it wasn't to be - no amount of gratuitous booby-wiggling or frantic leg-kicking could keep either Louisa Lytton or her creepy Italian dance partner in the competition. Still, not many people who can have 'slightly better than Jimmy Tarbuck at dancing' on their CV, can they? Who's going to win Strictly Come Dancing, huh? Here are the Strictly Come Dancing betting odds for Emma Bunton and Matt Dawson...
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