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02 ��������Gaming through the decades

28 ���������Most addictive Flash games ever

47 ���������Strategy Guides

57 ���������DIY Gaming

83 ���������Game Emulators

89 ���������Best of Skoar!

102 �������Skoar! Mini Trivia Game

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Milestones in Video Gaming

In a sea of gaming platforms, game engines and consoles, it is easy to overlook the fundamental technologi-

cal advances that have made games such as Assassin’s Creed, Crysis or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 possible. Each new game that comes out has been a long time in the making, more than the 12 wasted years on Duke Nukem Forever. This is because each game explores the genre, the gameplay, the AI, what is possible on the platform, the plot, and many other areas of game devel-opment. In this section, we cover the most important milestones of gaming, the key events and releases that changed the gam-ing landscape forever.

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Pac-ManPac-Man was the first video game franchise in the his-tory of gaming. Everything from Pac-Man board games, to apparel, to an animated TV series showed up. Players of Pac-Man were obsessed enough to come up with the first gaming bug exploits, develop strategies for escap-ing the ghosts, and this was the first game to have tech-niques unique to the game, an example being cornering, that allows players to navigate Pac-Man faster than the following ghosts. Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde were smart, and each ghost had a fairly complex and unique behavior, in a loose sense, a personality. Some hid, some attacked directly, some planned where Pac-Man would end up at. This is one of the earliest examples of AI in a game.

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Most addictive flash games ever

Yes they’re low on graphics and at times very cheesy, but there’s some-thing about Flash Games. When

you’re sitting on your PC with your mind as vacant as a recently flushed toilet bowl; for those moments when you type “i’m bored” in Google, there’s no better way to pass the time than a Flash Game. Heck, for the countless number of professionals twid-dling their thumbs in office with no work, Flash Games present a good way to keep idle minds occupied. So in this section we bring to you the best Flash Games we’ve ever laid our hands on over the ages.

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Karoshi Suicide Salaryman It’s the classic tale of a Frustrated Office worker - chained to a monotous boring desk job all you can think of is killing yourself. Well, so does this dude and you gotta help him do it.

This game puts the concept of ‘surviving levels’ on its head. You have to kill yourself to pass a level! Sounds easy? Not really. The game follows a puzzle format where the implements for killing yourself such as spikes and solid steel safes are difficult to get to. So you’ll have to use your brains a little. And if you’re suc-cessful you get to watch the guy explode in an unnatu-rally large amount of blood.

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that they make for good YouTube content and began uploading such videos. The game can be wicked too at times as the guy on the sled can be made to have some spectacularly violent crashes. You can even decapitate his head with a strategically placed line.

Site: http://fsk.deviantart.com/art/Line-Rider-beta-40255643 (or just Google it) Addictometer 6 on 10

Chimgam Dodging poo was nev-er this fun. Yup, have a look at the screenshot. That’s right, it’s a gi-gantic bum and thats poo falling on the lit-tle guy’s head. You need to use your ar-row keys to avoid be-ing splattered and at the same time shoot what can only be de-scribed as fingers up at that bum. There’s a special power that you can release when you hold down the mouse button for a while to gather power. We don’t

 

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Our Top 10 MonstersThe bad-asses that gave us the nightmares

Not all monsters are created equal. Some are more equal than others… but that, as you all know, is just a

platitude. What you may not know however is that the best monsters are not neces-sarily the bosses that you come across at the end of a level. Some smaller demons bother you more than enough to make you remember them. Most memorable villains are the ones which simply irritate. Be it their sheer numbers, their plain attitude, or maybe just their striking looks. We’ve covered those monsters that gave us the nightmares.SAMPLE

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1ArchVile (Doom 2) You’ve killed just about all the

monsters there are and got all the bloody keys that you can collect. You proceed towards the exit door. Suddenly you’re on fire! Uncertain of what has happened, you look around. Nothing there, except for a monster very far off, that you haven’t seen before. BLAM! Your health suddenly nose-dives and what’s more, all the monsters you’ve killed so far come back to life. If you’ve ever witnessed this, you know exactly why ArchVile simply had to be at the top

2 Headcrab (Half Life) This is one of the monsters that has bothered the

hell out of us. The first time you see the headcrab in Half Life, you’d probably say, “How cute!” (that is, if your taste is as screwed-up as ours).

Then it literally jumps onto your face. A few well-aimed bullets could dispose them off quickly enough. But there are two prob-lems with headcrabs. They’re everywhere. And there’s lots of ‘em. After you’re past the first level, all you can think of,

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3 Fiend (Quake II) One of the fastest mon-

sters in Quake, the Fiend was the last monster in the demo levels. Lying motion-less like a bat on two feet, it springs up and literally rips you apart. Perhaps what kicked us most was its in-your-face attack. You see it tearing you apart up-close as you’re pumping lead into it. Once you’ve beaten it, all you do is keep away from it.

4 Alien (Alien v/s Predator) It’s the alien from the movie. It spits acid, it has

no respect for gravity and it is very fast. If that doesn’t get it listed here, nothing will. In the AVP series, the alien does look a bit human, but only if it stays still long enough. Most of your experiences against it boil down to lonely tense moments, watching for any dots

on your motion sensor. Beep! A dot appears out of nowhere on your dis-play. That’s followed by intense moments, as you shoot at the black blur that appears from above you. If you’re lucky, the

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Name the first commercial video game.Computer Space

What is the point where a player appears in a combat FPS called?Spawn Point

Name the first console to sup-port Space Invaders.Atari 2600

Name the ID software co-found-er who has worked on Doom, Quake 3 and Keen. John D. Carmack

What is the first handheld open source video game console?Pandora

Which company came out with Pong in 1972?Atari

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