January 23rd, 2010

Little Funny Games

Everyone knows that kids these days are really crazy about video games. But there is a category of video games that are played by all sort of people, of any age…and these are the free online games. Let’s say you are at work, and after many hours of hard working you need to take a break. You can do many things in those 5 or 10 minutes of the break, for example you can go outside for some fresh air, or smoke a cigarette, or eat something but you can also play a fun game in this time. And to do this you won’t even have to move from your desk, all you have to do is browse into a site offering free flash games.

When finding the right game you will play it directly from your browser, and you won’t have to download anything into the computer from work. Usually the flash games have a simple graphic, with simple controls and they are easy to understand, so you won’t lose a lot of time just by learning how to play that game. Most of these games are quite short (5 – 10 minutes), exactly how long it takes for you to take a break from work, without annoying your boss. Some of these games are just for children, others are just for adults but most of them are to any person no matter their age.

The topics of the free flash games are really diversified, and are covering almost anything you can think of. There are some games inspired by the real life, but most of them have fictional characters and a fictional story. Among the games inspired by real life there are games with celebrities, with actors, singers and even politicians. You will find thousands of games like this, and there are many more added each day, so you will always have something to play.

You will find many sites that are offering these kinds of little funny games, and one of the most famous is miniclip.com. This site is available in many languages (such as English, Italian, Spanish, German, Japanese , Chinese, Portuguese and others, meaning that it is played by people all over the world. Here you can choose a game from the alphabetical list with all the games, or from the games categories. Here are some of the categories: 3D, action, Christmas games, dancing, girls, sports, kids, learning games, racing games, political games, puzzle and many more others.

Now let’s take some random games from the site, and discuss more about each one. Let’s begin for example with the one called “Ping Pong”. Even the name says this, it is not really a ping pong game, because you won’t play a match against an opponent. But you will have a paddle and a ping pong ball, and your goal will be to try and bounce the ball with the paddle for as many times as possible. In the real life this is usually an easy task, and you can do a lot of bounces, but here in the game it is not so easy. First click on the screen to drop the ball, and then just move the mouse where the ball goes, and the paddle will follow your exact moves. Each time you the ball falls on the paddle, it will bounce up again. But be careful because the ball is sensitive, and depending on the angle it touches the paddle, it will bounce in a different place. And if you not place the paddle right, the ball can bounce far away, and you won’t be able to reach it anymore. The area covered is just as far as your player can extend his hand.

Now let’s pick a different kind of game, for example the “Jet ski racing”. Of course this is a racing game, with jet skies, and your goal will be to make air tricks and also win the race riding on your jet ski. You have to use the arrow keys to steer the vehicle and the Z, X, C keys to make tricks. Also collect the coins for more points and avoid the obstacles in your way. There will be 4 riders to choose from, and the graphic of the game is really nice. Unfortunately sometimes the jet ski will be submerged in the waves, and this won’t look so good. But the tricks are nice, the jet skies are looking good, so after all this is a cool game. Enjoy it!

Another fun and simple game is the one called “Phantom mansion, spectrum of souls”. Here you have to guide Hector around the rooms and avoid all the spooky creatures (such as skeletons, zombies). You will move the character using the arrow keys. Use keys to open the locked doors, and collect all the souls to open the exit. You can also stand on switches to make things happen, push boxes into the void to bridge gaps and when you need some help just walk up to the scrolls. Even though the graphic of the game is quite simple, there will be a lot of levels and rooms to check out so you won’t get bored. The sounds from the game are also good and quite scary so you can have a lot of fun playing this game late in the night, with the lights turned off.

Let’s take one more game, for example the “Santa’s gift jump” from the Christmas games category. In this game you will control Santa Claus on the ice, and you will have to catch the falling Christmas gifts. Move the mouse left and right to make Santa skate in that direction, and click once to jump in the air and catch a gift. If you double click the left mouse button, Santa will jump really high. You will gain more points if you get the presents while they are still in the air, so you will need to jump a lot. Be careful to not let gifts fall exactly on Santa’s head, otherwise he will get knocked down, and loose health. You can play this game in the period before Christmas, but you can play it in any time of the year and have a lot of fun.

So these were just some little funny games from the great miniclip.com site. But as you can notice in the alphabetical list, there are much much more games, that are just waiting for you to try them. So have fun!