Comments on: Minotaur China Shop Is Live, We Talk To Flashbang

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:43:39 +0000

Sure thing buddy, sure thing…

By: Phil Willis

Phil Willis — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:05:12 +0000

@Kua

I am NOT a robot.

By: Kua

Kua — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:08:34 +0000

The humour, the gameplay, the style, the fact you play it in your fraggle rocking browser. Just wow. Wow. Wow Wow.

Minotaur complaint: The ’shake arrows off’ power-up reloads too quickly. I found myself scraping together little bits of cash and constantly reaching for the z-key. So the second half of a level, gets you like 2% of your cash. Which steals some fun, but to be honest my fun levels were pretty bounteous. I could have just stopped pressing zed but there was just a little bit more moneyz to be had and this game has reminded me why aiming for high scores is so much fun. Course you never beat that dude at the top but that’s ok because he’s a robot.

By: chesh

chesh — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:12:04 +0000

The game is lovely, but I’m really most curious about that Monetizationosaurus. Just what is the line from Lion King > Aladdin > Cave Story > Odin Sphere? The first two being two of the best Disney movies of my youth and the latter two being some lovely games that are both somewhere on the indie-ish spectrum (though at quite opposite ends of it).

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:23:50 +0000

“Furious SCUBA Priest”

By: BaconIsGood4You

BaconIsGood4You — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:33:38 +0000

Great game. The one issue is that it seems a bit too much luck based (what with the prices and arrangement of the store). Obviously not a super competitive game, but I found myself restarting when I’d get a crap first day.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:12:10 +0000

Great game Flashbang! I’d imagine I will be be returning to this quite often

By: frymaster

frymaster — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:51:36 +0000

@Matthew: IE8b2

By: Dorian Cornelius Jasper

Dorian Cornelius Jasper — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:44:24 +0000

That’s because the bull didn’t have MINOTAUR RAGE INSURANCE.

(Which is in all caps because it’s MINOTAUR RAGE INSURANCE, natch.)

By: Malagate

Malagate — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:44:11 +0000

CPY, does that fine salesman in the China shop look like a bull to you? Yes, he does look like a bull, but he's not a bull, he's a Minotaur, the give away was the fact he's got hands and is walking around on two hooves rather than four. It's a well documented fact that Minotaurs are full of unquenchable rage and immense destructive power, hence the hilarity of having one in a China shop.

By: CPY

CPY — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:50:48 +0000

Too bad that bull in china shop won’t do almost any damage at all in real life…
Myth BUSTED!

By: Hermit

Hermit — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:22:18 +0000

Ah, nothing destroys china like a whirlwind of firey rage. Played a quick game this morning and thought it was brilliant. Leaderboard score submission failed though, which is a shame.

Also TIME DONKEY has got epic written all over it. The thought of taking a donkey up to 88mph and scorching burning hoof trails into the ground as I jump back in time to the English Civil War is instantly appealing.