Those who relish in solving the daily newspaper's crossword teasers will enjoy the word games included in After Dark Games. The other arcade games consist of (with brief descriptions): Hula Girl, use left/right cursor key to get Hula Girl to drop and land on as many platforms as possible without hitting the 'icky' stuff or being too slow and losing one of her hula hoops to a case of scroll-off-screen-itis Rodger Dodger, a real retro throwback to the age of "try to move your colored dot around the screen skillfully enough to collect the green swirly things, while at the same time, avoiding the nasty fast-moving dots that ultimately are locked into a pre-defined movement pattern" Toaster Run, the most surreal of the lot - maneuver a flying toaster around the household, avoiding the dangerous everyday appliances. My personal favorite is Mowin' Maniac which bears undeniable similarities to the all-time classic Pac-Man as you ride your mower around hazard-filled gardens, frantically avoiding angry gardeners and zombies (!) - that is, of course, until you get yourself a power-pill (gas can), at which point, your mower enters turbo mode and you're able to run down and bag the misanthropes for a short period of time. Personally, I enjoy two of them enough to play for at least 10 minutes or so at a time, and do keep returning, while the other two I've not loaded since the moment I felt I'd played them enough to evaluate fairly for review. Each of these games will very likely have a different effect on a vast spectrum of people - following closely with the ancient analogy, "one man's meat is another man's poison" (not politically-correct for the vegetarians out there, I know). The 4 arcade games in After Dark Games are, as expected, nothing to write home about.
Not everyone will be able to compete at the same level, of course, but they will at least be able to participate. The games span a small range of genres including arcade, trivia, word games and puzzles, with the common factor between them being anybody - and we are talking absolutely anybody here - can play them. Although, oddly, one of the 11 games included in this package is Solitaire, albeit Berkeley Systems' own variation of it. In actuality, what we have here is a bunch of 'time-filler' games that are obvious alternatives to Microsoft's own procrastination-encouragers, Solitaire and Minesweeper. Well, guess what? After Dark Games - "it's not just a screen-saver anymore!" - is a collection of "challenging and addicting" games, many featuring the characters that screensaver freaks will have come to know and love by now from the After Dark series. And hey, isn't that worth the $50-80 price tag that used to accompany them? Game time
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The After Dark series became known for being a leader in the field of the screensaver 'art,' producing many variety of fun and humorous modules, introducing original characters in often zany situations, and generally just being downright more amusing than a bunch of flying Windows logos (damn, I still see those things in my sleep. They are an endless distraction to the work you should be doing (always a good thing, no?). However, this doesn't mean screensavers are useless - on the contrary, they can not only be wonderfully stimulating entertainment, but they also serve an even greater purpose. Unless you have a monitor that's manufacturing date reaches back into the mid-eighties (and if it's still functioning, then congratulations because you own a freak of technology), it's unlikely that your screen would ever have images burnt into the glass without serious, intentional abuse. Well, this is, in fact, complete nonsense. Those damages most likely amounting to a haunting image of your Windows desktop permanently embedded into your display.
A common nineties computing myth is that if you don't protect your monitor with a screensaver that activates after 30 seconds of no computer usage, then you will suffer irreparable damages to your screen.
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