Fugdale’s Funhouse

Object: Destroy all human ships with your asteroids.

Review: Fans of the popular arcade classic Asteroids are in for a little reversal of fortune with this game. This time the asteroids are striking back. Tired of being picked on by laser armed triangular ships, Mr. Blue Asteroid gathers his rocky buddies together and strikes back.

You play as a large blue asteroid floating in space minding your own business. When a human-inhabited ship comes along and starts to shoot his puny bullets at you, you just crash into the ship and destroy it. Soon multiple ships, various mines and other enemies arrive shooting at you from all directions. After each level you are given a choice of power-ups: make yourself larger or faster, armor yourself, add more asteroids to your gang or spin your enemies out of control. Along the way you will learn new tactics and tricks to combat the enemies.

You can play with the arrow keys or the mouse to move your asteroid around, use the ‘z’ and ‘x’ keys to move your allied asteroids closer or further from you and the ‘c’ button or left mouse button to move away from your allies.

The sheer inventiveness of this game makes it a pleasure to play. Each level you get new goodies. And most of the early levels are pretty easy to complete, so new players won’t feel too stupid off the bat. The techno music is repetetive, but not distracting and you will have a lot of fun mowing down all the puny humans as you careen through the universe.