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[Megaman 25th Anniversary]

A brilliant masterpiece of Juvenalian satire. The poor graphics, lack of effort, and general crappiness are an excellent parallel to Capcom's hatred of their own Blue Bomber and their disregard for the wishes of their fan base.

Locomotivator responds:

You sir, understand it.

[Giveaway]

Yes, this is stupid, but not just because it's barely a game.

It's stupid because it's easy to make a macro to do the clicking for you, and it's also easy to cheat by hacking.

For instance, the user queenofbabes currently has 1,000,004 clicks. Even if you uploaded this right after midnight today, no more than 23 hours and 20 or so minutes would have passed. That equals 84,000 seconds. User queenofbabes would have to click 12 times a second for 84,000 seconds to have accumulated that many points. He obviously hacked or used a macro.

Arg410 responds:

queenofbabes has been banned from this contest and will not win money. If anybody else cheats then i will ban them as well....

[Cave Story]

Seems to be a faithful port, but one thing that is really lacking is the poor performance. I can play the PC version just fine, but this port lags terribly. A retro game like this shouldn't lag--it's not like you're trying to use advanced 3D or anything.

If the game had been written more efficiently, you would have gotten a full five stars.

zhang4xiu responds:

I can fix the performance issues, but would like to know your system specs. Also if you're using Chrome (with builtin Flash Player), try a different browser please.

[Buccaneer!]

This is very good for a first serious game. The multiple endings and side quests to the main plot make this game worth playing several times over.

I am a bit puzzled, however. You say that one of the endings is gotten by drinking from the Fountain of Youth. However, I happened to get a game over by doing exactly that. Is there some obscure thing that I should have done but failed to do? Help a brotha out here.

pepperpunk responds:

Cheers!

As for the fountain, pay close attention to all of the adventure text... if you're unsure about drinking from it, leave it alone and head back to the pirate king for some advice, the fountain will still be there when you go back. :)

[Sonic Platformer DEMO 1.2]

The games section on Newgrounds is for GAMES, not buggy, almost featureless, inexplicably CPU-hogging tech demos.

sonik1 responds:

Show me that you can make a better one.
And this is a game, technically.

[Eidolons]

A neat little platformer with a quirky sense of humor. And it's all packed in less than 700 KB, without any blatant distortion in the music that would happen if it was greatly compressed!

EdTheEidolon responds:

Yeah, I actually stream the music into the game to keep the load size down. This seemed like a pretty good solution at the time, but I honestly wasn't expecting so many people to pick it up so quickly (did I mention I have no idea what I am doing with this? :P). That file size might jump up a bit depending on whether or not people start having problems streaming the music. So far so good though!