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Perfect to play when you get home from work or school

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 35 / 36
Date: October 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The hilarity of the After Dark screen-saver has always been one of my best sources of stress relief over the past few years, and the After Dark Games provide even more interactive entertainment. With cute graphics, groovy music, and lots of madcap humor--not to mention the fact that they install *really* easily and they only take up a tiny amount of hard drive space--these 11 games are the perfect way to take a quick break from your work when Minesweeper gets too tiresome. They're not made to drive you away from your friends and family, however, so if you're looking for deep, immersive gameplay, you'll be better off playing an RPG.

A few of these games are simply classics with an After Dark twist: "Solitaire" is the classic card game, "Mowin' Maniac" is a whimsical and often maddeningly difficult version of "Pac-Man" that takes place in someone's backyard, and "Moo-Shu Tiles" is just like the game "Shanghai", only with a few scathing twists (layouts include the shape of a piece of roadkill, and the winning fortunes affront players with statements like "You look like something the cat refused to bring in from the rain.") The only one of these remakes I don't really like is "Foggy Boxes"--a version of the famous "dots and boxes" game--and that's just because I win almost every time even in the Hard mode.

The puzzle games, which are my favorites, include "Bad Dog 911", "Fish Shtick", "Zapper", and "Roof Rats". "Zapper" has the best graphics and sound of all the games, and it consists of a bunch of very interesting (but admittedly useless) true/false trivia questions in a race against the clock. You get bonus points and extra time for three correct answers in a row, and then the Zapper jackpot increases. It's not really all that difficult (my highest score ever was 9750 and the jackpot starts at just 50 points). "Roof Rats" is much more difficult, and it's a game where you have to rescue tenants from the top of a large building by detonating adjacent rooms of the same color. I have managed to beat the "Hard" mode in this game only 5% of the time.

"Fish Shtick" and "Bad Dog 911" are both games in which you have to unscramble words in a limited time period. They're both very fun, but they each have two little problems with them: first, words are taken from unabridged dictionaries, so they may seem obscure to people who've never taken courses in molecular biology before. (For example, "otceyo" can be unscrambled as "coyote" or "oocyte".) And second, the clock continues to tick while you pause the game, so you are not allowed to look for a dictionary or other cheating device at any time during gameplay.

The last three games are arcade-style, and they're the most original games of the bunch. "Hula Girl" is a platform game that scrolls from top to bottom, in which Hula Girl jumps down platforms, picks up desserts and extra hoops, and tries to avoid things that make her "yuckometer" go up. "Toaster Run" features the famous flying toaster, and you control his flight as he flies through a dangerous house in order to get into the nursery and put "Baby Guy" into his crib. And in "Rodger Dodger", you take control of a little purple spheroid and pilot him around, picking up the green things and avoiding the red things. These three games are also very fun, but they're overall a little less difficult than the others.

These 11 games are all different in gameplay, so they should satisfy any gamer who just wants a little distraction--whether it's using reflexes dodging killer red pyramids, or using the old noodle and trying to solve words. The only real complaint I have with this package, as a matter of fact, is that it doesn't feature some of my favorite parts of the orignial screen-saver; I was disappointed to see that there was no game involving "Daredevil Dan", or a version of "Rat Race", or the all-time classic trivia game "You Bet Your Head". These were, in my opinion, the funniest forms of entertainment that the original After Dark screen-saver had to offer. But what we have in the package still works as a funny and thoroughly engaging little diversion that never fails to delight. "After Dark Games" is extremely easy to get into and undoubtedly difficult to put down, and I highly recommend it for anyone who hates being an easily-bored person (come on, you know who you are....).

After Dark Games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: April 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is an awsome game!! All the games in After Dark Games are great, I can play for hours and I love them.

love it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: April 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

i first tried a downloaded version of this game but it had limited time and by the time it ran out i was addicted!i had to get it . best games i played on the computer in a long time.

After Dark Games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: March 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Me and my whole family love this package of games! There are such a large variety of games. They have great graphics and many of the games really make the children think and learn without them knowing it!

after dark games the best games ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: May 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

i really enjoy this group of games, there is something for everyone. im hooked on this and so is my whole family thanks

It's a lot of fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

After dark game is enjoyable, and my kids love it. but I do think they should have added spades to it. But and all It's a lot of fun.

When is it coming back? ?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I would like to see this come back .. I am interested beacause my nephew has it and I really enjoyed the game .. graphics and sounds were good... so can we see it come back.. I will be the first to get it..

Toaster on the run

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It is a fun game with a cool toaster game in it!

Toaster on the run

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It is a fun game with a cool toaster game in it!

After Dark still a load of fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this cd because I remembered them from 10 years ago. My mother loves them and my mother n law and brother. My mother in law is hopelessly addicted to roof rats and for that fact so is my mother. Love all the games fun for all ages and no violence.

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