Five Fun Games for the Weekend
1:02 pm, September 18th, 2009, Cate Defrise
This week’s selection of games for the weekend from Mac Games and More includes running an airport control tower, playing a platformer where you’re to recover the world’s largest diamonds, and going on an addictive brick-bashing spree. Click on the images to see a larger screenshot.
 Dirk Dashing – Put on your most geeky, hero demeanor Superman-style to become Dirk Dashing and save the world from the forces of E.V.I.L. In this side-scrolling, action adventure play as special agent Dirk Dashing. You’ve been commissioned to recover the seven largest diamonds in the world, which were stolen by international jewel thief, Pique Pockette. You’d think with a name like that Pique’s trail would take you to France but non monsieur, he actually takes you to the Bavarian Alps of southern Germany, where you must battle enemy agents, avoid traps and icy hazards, and solve mysterious puzzles. Dirk Dashing features 30 huge levels, including 3 secret levels. Download it
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 Airport Mania – Manage control towers and test your expertise at running several airports and handling all the necessary tasks it takes to make everything run smoothly. Travel through eight of the world’s busiest airports while you land a variety of planes, avoid delays and purchase upgrades. Keep alert on the job because it can be very tempting to take a little snooze. But don’t! Some planes carry precious cargo and you will need to expedite their landings. Others might require some repairs. Ensure that all maintenance and purchases have been done in a timely manner and that those frequent flyers out there make it to the gate on time. Airport Mania may look and feel like it’s for little kids but adults alike will love the unique challenges and wacky characters. Download it
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 Home Sweet Home – Upon entering someone’s home, there are times you feel thrown back by the decor or lack thereof and think, “Woah!” If it were up to you, those mauve sofas and that garish rock chimney would have to go! But alas, that isn’t your job. Luckily, in Home Sweet Home, it IS your job! You can change anything you want in the decor with the power of carte blanche. You see, you are in charge of making home sweet homes for your clients. Before you get to work, learn about your clients’ tastes, then create fabulous interior designs. All you need to do is direct your build team to assemble it all. Let your creativity take over and you should be able to glide though solving 50 client requests. Home Sweet Home features more than 400 furniture pieces to work with and three modes of game play. Download it
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 Bejeweled 2 Deluxe – Bejeweled is considered the great, great, grandaddy of match three gem games, one of the first games of this genre that got millions of players addicted and coming back for more. We can’t explain this phenomenon so we’re just going to accept it and play it some more. In this sequel to the classic game of gem-swapping, Bejeweled 2 continues the tradition with added features, new jewels and special effects. With four different ways to play, solve the myriads of brain teasers in puzzle mode while up against the clock or kick back, relax and enjoy endless mode. Download it
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| Ricochet Lost Worlds – Ricochet Lost Worlds is not your typical brick breaking game so please don’t quickly dismiss it. It goes far beyond your expectations for a game of this type with unexpected features and game play. I’m usually not interested in brick bashing but Ricochet is surprisingly different and is actually a blast to play. Destroy all the bricks on the level by bouncing the ball off your paddle and into the bricks. Unusual power ups perk things up and will help get you through the levels quicker. Hidden, secret, special bonuses will come in handy, too, and thousands of levels are available to download. Download it |
Posted by Cate Defrise in Gaming, mac | Comment on this article
I refuse to install Ricochet or Ricochet Lost Worlds again, it was so addictive you finish a level you just want to try the next then the next, the hours just pass you by. this a seriously addictive game…
Poppa, on September 19th, 2009 at 10:48 pm