Arcade Game of the Month

.:Asteroids:.

Game: Asteroids

Location: Any action arcade machine

Cost: 50 Tokens

Reward: Same as Blox

Woah sorry it took me so long to get this out, just have a lot of things going on in life. But I am glad to get out the first post of the year. By the way happy new year everyone and I hope your new year’s resolutions work out :P Back on topic! This month’s AGM (Arcade Game of the Month) is “Asteroids”. Another classic game that has been around forever but still a fun game to play. Here is a little info on the game before I go into my detailed lecture XD

Game play: Another basic game “Z” to shoot “Arrow Keys” to move. The objective is to..well..shoot the asteroids :P After a while it can get a little repetitive and honestly it’s not really my game but somehow people seem to get ridiculously high scores. How high you ask? Up in the 400 to 500 thousands. I have no idea how they do that seeing as though I can only make it to about 10 thousand. The game play is fun and addicting but after awhile become boring. But the point of making the "Arcade Game of the Month" is to present games that people might not try or be interested in and spark an interest in people for the games inside of the game. After you shoot a regular asteroid it breaks apart into medium size asteroids, after you shoot it again it breaks up into a bunch of smaller asteroids. Eventually they will break and be gone for the rest of the round. After you have destroyed all the asteroids it will start a new round with more asteroids and ships.

Extra: The basic tactic I know is to shoot them all before they crash into you. The only thing that really becomes a challenge is when the alien asteroid ship guys come out and shoot at you. It can get really aggravating but they had to make up for the lack of challenge. By killing these other asteroid ships you get a lot of extra points thus increasing your score dramatically. The higher the lever you make it to the more often the ships apear and try to blow you up. So along with great victory also comes great challenge. I myself just fly around and spray a constant barrage of fire in random circles and see how long I survive XD

Why play it? Like Blox this is a great way to make some extra tokens, that is if you can beat the regular top three scores around 400 to 500 thousand. Besides making some extra mula it's a great way to burn some time and let off some stress. It might not be every ones game but you will never know if you like it if you don’t try it.

So go out and try a new game. You might find one you really like and become a pro at it. You never know till you try. Untill next month,

JakeSnipes,
SmallWorlds Blogger

Featured Arcade Game of the Month! (Blox)

.:BLOX:.

Games, games, and more games so many games to play so little time. I myself am a big time gamer, I enjoy playing MMOG’s and action games on counsels like the Xbox360 and the PS3. But I wanted to incorporate gaming into SmallWorlds. What better way to do that than to feature a SmallWorlds arcade game once a month and write up a review on the game in order to spark the interest of my fellow SmallWorld citizens. If you would like to suggest a game of the month or have an idea to improve this article send me a message in game or leave a comment. ;)

This month I would like to shine the spotlight on a classic game with a new name. The featured game of the month is “Blox”. You may recall it looking similar to Tetris, well it is! It has the same game play, and the buttons and whistles but it is programmed to run with the SW software. Not only is this a classic game and overly addictive but SW offers a daily tournament that takes the top 3 scores and splits out a large sum of Tokens. They are split among the top three as follows,

The game play: Well what can I say? The game play is what is expected of a game of Tetris. Increasing speed depending on the level you excel makes it even more intense. I would say once you hit around 1,000 points or so you definitely notice a jump of speed. But if you think that is hard then you have a real surprise coming when it hits around 1,700 points it becomes almost impossibly fast, but anything is possible.

Tactics: There is a way to slow it down per say. As you can notice this isn’t the most complicated game in the world so the tactics themselves will not be that complicated either. There is a “Pause” button on the right side while you are playing the game. I always have my mouse hovering over that button the entire game. As the levels get harder and if you’re a little backed up on lines then it never hurts to press pause. Give yourself some time to decide where to put each one. The game isn't going to strike you down with lighting for giving yourself some time to think. :P After awhile the game will almost become second nature to you. You will move blox without even thinking.

Why play it? After some practice and skill building you will be a pro at Blox in no time. It might not be very entertaining after you have played it hundreds of times (figure of speech) but it’s a great way to make tokens. The average top score is around 1,700 give or take, so it cand be hard to beat on certain days and others not so hard. But you can always go for second or third. As you can see the rewards in the picture I posted above, a few thousand tokens never hurt anyone, so go give it a try and see what you can do.

Game Info: Costs 50 Tokens per day to participate in the tournament. Can be found in any "Action" arcade machine.

Go out and try playing Blox, you could be the winner of the next daily tournament! And have some pizza because pizza is good..yummm. :P

-JakeSnipes
SmallWorlds Blogger