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	Very nice posted by Winter Knight @ 71.237.146.182 on May 4 2010 1:29 PM
This is a very nice game. I've been playing it for days. I've gotten to the "third castle" which is insanely fast. I wish I could just warp there to practice, rather than having to spend 15 minutes or so on the two slower castles only to die after 1 minute of playing the faster castle. Plus there are glitches that cause the player to get stuck offscreen, and even worse because it is unpreventable, a glitch that causes enemies to go offscreen where they can't be killed. A suicide button would be nice for when your character goes offscreen. And a pause button, of course. It's too bad this game isn't open source. There is some luck to this game, but it's mostly skill. You've got to be fast.
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	great little time waster posted by carletronicon @ 68.98.168.198 on Sep 1 2008 8:53 PM
Fun little game. It would be nice, as others have mentioned, if the source code was available, or at least a way to mash in other classic games, and a pause function would also be nice but still gets 5 stars.
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	ROM CHECK FAIL posted by damn @ 203.184.19.103 on Aug 31 2008 10:24 PM
It's a good short game. However, it's more about luck then skill. Due to the randomness of it, some levels can be completely unfair while other can be extremely easy.
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	ROM CHECK FAIL posted by LancerNZ @ 60.234.102.98 on Aug 30 2008 7:18 PM
This game is great! Just the kind of flashy boredom buster I was looking for! The retro feel is just awesome.
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	ROM CHECK FAIL posted by kraziness @ 72.139.82.226 on Aug 29 2008 11:11 AM
Too disorienting and random to really be fun as far as I'm concerned, but if you enjoy the gimmick then I suppose you'll enjoy the game(s) too. :>
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	ROM CHECK FAIL posted by draeath @ 24.96.44.208 on Aug 29 2008 12:12 AM
That animated screenshot really shows what the game is about, but at the same time it's intensely irritating. Move it from the homepage please! Pretty please?
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	ROM CHECK FAIL posted by DaVince @ 62.51.153.52 on Aug 27 2008 3:06 PM
The game's been around for a while now. Best piece of copyright infringement you'll find. :)
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	Addictive! posted by micahcowan @ 76.247.114.45 on Aug 27 2008 8:06 AM
It actually does have fullscreen: alt-Enter. My buddy found that. But the documentation is non-existent, so it was not easy to figure out. I still haven't found any way to pause the game. As a father of three kids, it's really frustrating to have to respond to some minor emergency, or prevent your 1½-year-old from banging on the keyboard of your laptop, without being able to pause. Oh well. Other deficiencies include that there are various glitches which can lead to the player being trapped off-screen, or within walls of the game. There are also levels where, if you start out with certain player/enemy type combinations, you are guaranteed to lose a life. But I still give the game 4/5, because it is so dang fun. It's such a small game, though, and the author doesn't appear to intend to make money off of it, so I wonder how difficult it would be to convince the author to free the source. It would definitely benefit from a bit of community improvement, or at least glitch-fixing. The end is a nice conglomeration of like thirty game-end screens from various classic games, with "The princess is in a faster castle" flashing at the bottom (which, of course, starts the game afresh at an insane rate of play).
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Re: Addictive! posted by Lightkey @ 88.67.223.158 on Aug 27 2008 6:32 PM   See the Linux Gamers' FAQ. These shortcuts have been used in many other games as well (mostly SDL games), so remember them well.   [Reply]

	ROM CHECK FAIL posted by dusted @ 194.255.108.253 on Aug 27 2008 6:58 AM
Haha, the concept is hilarious, love it! The reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because of the lack of fullscreen.
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