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Boombot

By Alec Meer on August 28th, 2008.

There aren’t enough games in which you’re indestructible. Even in Superman games and Hulk games you’re kept Earthly by health and energy bars. Madness! There’s nothing wrong with a good old power fantasy, but developers seem determined not to indulge us. This webgame does. In Boombot, you can fall down a hole and have to restart the level, but that’s more error than death as such. More importantly, you can’t be killed even by all the explosions in the world. See this?

Ka-SPLODE

This does not hurt the Boombot, not one bit. For he is INDESTRUCTIBLE. Read the rest of this entry »

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