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Monday Mind Teasers: One Button Bob

9:30 PM on 02.15.2010   |   Fronz

Monday Mind Teasers: One Button Bob photo

Hey, this is certainly no Robot Unicorn Attack, but I'm still confident this gorgeous pixel art game will be one of the better flash games of 2010. If Boomshine was the Fl0w of indie flash games this year, and Adult Swim's Robot Unicorn Attack was the Katamari Damacy equivalent, and Epsilon was definitely the Portal equivalent, then One Button Bob would have to be chalked up as the WarioWare indie flash game of this year. If you haven't tried out ALL of these games so far, you really owe it to yourself to check them out one by one; we've been given many great flash games lately!

As promised by its title, One Button Bob can be beaten by simply clicking the left mouse button over and over at the correct times on each screen. Advance to the right side of the screen to beat the level and be presented with a new screen that contains new obstacles, enemies, and challenges.

However, with the actions of your mouse clicks changing drastically from screen to screen, the game is far from redundant. And much like the wonder of WarioWare, you're not informed of what the new action for each level is, but instead are left to have fun finding out on your own. Don't worry about dying excessively though, you have infinite lives and you always respawn at the level you're on.

Your quest will lead you deep into a castle's dungeon to slay a giant beast who is a surprisingly fulfilling last boss for such a simple game. The score system uses the number of clicks it takes you to beat the game as its formula for your high score, meaning the lowest final scores are the best. Sadly, as with all online flash games, the leaderboards are dominated by glitching geeks who have a lot of free time that would be better spent teaching me how the heck they can hack a game like this to think they won in 0 friggin' clicks. Damn you, Arronn_Foxx! Teach me your nine-year-old lissssping disslexxicc voodoo magic! I command you! AGH!

You can play this great game here on NinjaDoodle. Just click the "Play Game!" button and you're good to go. Share your best scores in the comments below!








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Caspulex's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2010 21:41
Caspulex
Gotta love flash games. I played through all of Time Kufc/Fcuk whatever it's called today after finishing most of my work in class. I'll try this tomorrow.
ScottyG's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2010 21:45
ScottyG
186 is my best score. ^_^
Azzurus's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2010 21:55
Azzurus
411 ouch, gonna work on that. Awesomely simple fun game though!
Los255's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2010 21:57
Los255
DURR HURR 1 CLICK U GUYZ SUCK LOL

Nah, 359 in my first run. That was pretty awesome! The music is pretty cool too.
king kong five's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2010 21:58
king kong five
Oh yeah, I saw this game a while back. I don't remember how far I got. I just gave up at one point.
adrian783's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2010 22:40
adrian783
i wish it had played out more like warioware where you explore the use of the button. but after the first 5 levels it just repeats itself with more annoyances.
Klempky's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2010 22:42
Klempky
Yeah, basically what Adrian said. That, and it was unbearably slow. I got about a hundred clicks in, when the level involved jumping over two gaps and one of those out-of-the-ground pillars, and I stopped because it was dragging along at a glacial pace.
CaptainApocalypse's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2010 22:45
CaptainApocalypse
Awesome game.
EWA's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2010 22:46
EWA
Pretty fun. 344 clicks.

Charming visuals though I found the music a bit grating after awhile.
Orionsaint's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2010 22:48
Orionsaint
That last boss was kind of a bitch, until you learn a pattern.

sylphx's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2010 23:43
sylphx
240, how are you supposed to get better when you have to do those ones where you have to click fast to move?
Dyganth's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/16/2010 00:10
Dyganth
185'd!
ParticleSt0rm's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/16/2010 02:39
ParticleSt0rm
Great gfx style on this.. 585 was my first attempt lol
Jonathan Holmes's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/16/2010 07:10
Jonathan Holmes
Reminds me of Tomena Sanner, in a good way.
brimtastic's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/16/2010 07:31
brimtastic
First play, a weak 415, haha. But that was really fun, and great music too.
SolSiruken's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/16/2010 07:59
SolSiruken
402, simple, frustrating, fun.
AKK's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/16/2010 14:06
AKK
Are you supposed to be invincible/able to float over the pits?

Because I was, and it made the game boring as fuck.
jawshoeuh's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/25/2010 11:35
jawshoeuh
first attempt.. 511. dang.
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