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Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 03-01-2004, 12:09 PM:

http://www.hurtwood.demon.co.uk/Fun/copter.swf

Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 03-01-2004, 01:47 PM:

Got 958 feet on my first attempt, though I had to disagree with the crash-detection. I was well clear of the obstacle when it blew my coptor up.

Edit:

Dammit!! Just missed 2000 feet. Got 1997 with another bogus crash.

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 03-01-2004, 04:41 PM:

1898! [Big Grin]

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 03-01-2004, 10:49 PM:

Those of you who partake in video games may want to read this article I found in the Yahoo news section so you don't end up becomming fat and pudgy let alone mean.......

Mark
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Video Games Make Kids Fat, Violent, Swedish Experts Say
Mon Mar 1, 4:20 PM ET Add Technology - Reuters to My Yahoo!

By Peter Starck

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Video games can make children fat and, in the case of violent games popular among teenage and younger boys, aggressive and even criminal, Swedish experts said on Monday.

The games industry, estimated at $200 million a year in Sweden and $10 billion in the United States, is dominated on the hardware side by Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox (news - web sites), Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news) (news - web sites)'s PlayStation and Nintendo (news - web sites) Co. Ltd's Game Boy and GameCube consoles.

Electronic Arts Inc., Nintendo, Activision Inc., and Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. are among leading games title publishers.

Take-Two's Rockstar unit's Grand Theft Auto -- a game condemned as "horrendous" by former U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Joseph Lieberman -- is among titles mentioned by a Swedish television documentary in connection with violent youth crimes.

"It's concerning because they (video game players) are rehearsing scripts of behavior that will possibly play themselves out in real life," Michael Rich, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics who has studied the effects of entertainment media on the physical and mental health of children, was quoted as saying in the 45-minute "Deadly Game" documentary.

Monday's preview of the film, due for prime time broadcasting on Swedish TV4 television on Wednesday, was followed by a panel debate, which concluded that scientific findings of the effects, if any, of violent video games were scant.

"But it has been proved beyond dispute that people who watch a lot of violence on television develop aggressive behavior," said Frank Lindblad, a child psychiatrist at Sweden's Karolinska Institute university hospital.

DIFFUSE BORDER

"They run a very high risk of criminal behavior ... there's a lot suggesting that video games are worse," he said, noting that many players tended to identify themselves with game heroes.

"The border between the virtual reality and the real world becomes diffuse and that is dangerous," Lindblad said.

Gustav Niel-Berggren, a 16-year-old student who said he tended to spend many hours a day several days a week playing an interactive online action game called Counter-Strike, which focuses on killing opponent soldiers, disagreed.

"Shooting somebody in a game is just like scoring a goal in a football match," he said, dismissing the documentary's suggestion and Lindblad's fear that youths could not distinguish between the game world and real life.

Elisabeth Junttila, a mother of six and head of a nationwide association promoting closer ties between homes and schools, said some children became addicted to video games, spending all their waking hours in front of a computer screen gorging potato chips, pizza and soft drinks.

Anne Folke, co-founder of a lobby seeking to counteract through public awareness campaigns what it sees as the ill effects of video games, said games were consuming ever more of children's time.

"They are in poor physical shape, they eat unhealthily, grow fat and suffer insomnia," she said.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-02-2004, 12:22 AM:

Mark, have you been playing videogames lately?

Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 03-02-2004, 01:32 AM:

quote:
Those of you who partake in video games may want to read this article I found in the Yahoo news section so you don't end up becomming fat and pudgy let alone mean.......

I'm already fat, pudgy, and mean. Might as well have the fun part with it...

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 03-02-2004, 07:53 AM:

http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~hopha/penguin.swf

Try this one. Maybe we can replace the penguin with a Technicolor reel or someones head or something. I got a 532.9, but I know that someones gonna beat my score, i sucked at the last game.

Posted by Rick Long Jr (Member # 541) on 03-02-2004, 09:34 AM:

780.2 (hit a mine 4 times in a row!) But the version I've been playing is a bit different.
http://games.eof.net/ashke/pingwin1.swf

Posted by Richard Greco (Member # 2032) on 03-02-2004, 10:36 AM:

That is the best one I've seen yet. 898 feet!

Very Cool

I think Joe would love this version since he is demented like that [Smile]

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 03-02-2004, 10:53 AM:

Thats a much more fun version, 700 feet

Posted by Jonathan Worthing (Member # 803) on 03-02-2004, 11:27 AM:

927.6 feet on the Hit 4 mines (blood everwhere)

Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 03-02-2004, 11:45 AM:

998.5 so far

[ 03-02-2004, 12:50 PM: Message edited by: Wolff King Morrow ]

Posted by Carl Martin (Member # 1146) on 03-03-2004, 02:17 AM:

jfc! like the first version wasn't demented enough! i love it!

carl

Posted by Josh Kirkhart (Member # 1046) on 03-03-2004, 03:20 AM:

friggin 1162, addicting as all hell

Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 03-03-2004, 08:58 AM:

Excellent score, Josh! I'm up to 1002 and still trying to get a good 5-hit bounce.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 03-03-2004, 11:11 AM:

I agree, this last version is hilarious! I cannot stop playing it! [beer]

I either get too excited and prematurely eja...errr, I mean swing and miss, or get in the 800-900 range. [Big Grin]

>>> Phil

Posted by Floyd Justin Newton (Member # 1316) on 03-03-2004, 01:04 PM:

Anyone for a "game 12-step program?"

[Big Grin]

fjn

Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 03-03-2004, 01:20 PM:

Well I got up to 1117.2 now. I still want to try and break 1200, but it's taking a lot of luck to get that high.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 03-03-2004, 01:57 PM:

I can't break the 1050 mark, dammit! [Frown]

I cannot stop laughing when he hits a mine... 11 so far with 1041.

DAMN! I gotta quit this thing. I have some work to do! [Shrug]

>>> Phil

Posted by Carl Martin (Member # 1146) on 03-03-2004, 04:05 PM:

anyone notice that if the penguin hits the "red claw" at 30 feet and falls like a brick, even if he lands on a mine right there it doesn't set it off. this game is definitely rigged in the penguin's favor.

and why the hell does he say "bonjour" every time he bounces?

carl

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 03-31-2004, 10:33 AM:

http://www.zooass.com/games/neverland/neverland.swf

Heres another one, its pretty easy, but funny, especially past escape 4.

Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 03-31-2004, 08:09 PM:

Frankly, the Copter game is a bit dull to me. This, on the other hand, I find much more mindlessly addictive: http://www.homestarrunner.com/pop_tire.html

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 04-01-2004, 11:30 AM:

quote:
I either get too excited and prematurely eja...errr,

PHIL! You're funny! I'm rofl! [Big Grin]

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 04-02-2004, 01:46 AM:

Woo-hoo! Second best, on the second try: 1124.7! Four big bounces!

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-02-2004, 01:50 AM:

Damn you Tim! Damn you to hell!

(Congrats!) [beer]

>>> Phil!

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 04-02-2004, 02:35 AM:

[Razz]

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-27-2004, 03:28 PM:

www.SubservientChicken.com

Not a game per-se but it's a stupid website that has a tendancy to be addictive.

The concept is simple: The guy in the chicken suit does whatever you tell him. (Type to him.)

[ 04-27-2004, 04:33 PM: Message edited by: Randy Stankey ]

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-27-2004, 04:05 PM:

Randy, that's hilarius! LUV IT! [beer]

>>> Phil

Posted by Matt Hefright (Member # 2470) on 06-26-2004, 01:18 AM:

wow coptor is just like river raid on atari! only without the shooting....

Posted by David Ingalsbe (Member # 2433) on 06-28-2004, 02:39 PM:

the tire pop one is alright but way too strainious for me I like
race game