Purple Dinosaur Massacre: The Death of Barney

The other day when I was writing about Chex Quest, I started reminiscing about other strange games I used to play as a kid.  One that came to mind was Purple Dinosaur Massacre, which is essentially a Barney the Dinosaur killing simulator.  While this is by no means a triple-A development game (it was part of a 1000 PC game compilation CD and appears to have been developed on a piggy bank-sized budget), Purple Dinosaur Massacre is still very satisfying if you're one of the many people who hate Barney with a passion.

Blast 'em indeed.

Mister Mosquito: The Evil Tormentor of Families

Today we're going to take a look at a game that involves a violent blood-sucker.  No, this article isn't about BloodRayne, we're talking about Mister Mosquito!

As you can guess from the title, Mister Mosquito follows the journey of a mosquito whose goal is to suck the blood out of an innocent family, and to give them malaria (ok maybe not the malaria part).  You are given control of a mosquito and tasked with completing his quest without being spotted and swatted.

Chex Quest: Doom Meets Cereal

We're all familiar with the toy-in-the-cereal-box promotions that have occurred since the dawn of time.  Usually cereal companies will stick a cheap plastic toy inside a limited amount of cereal boxes to drive sales, mainly due to children nagging their parents to death until they have that toy in their hands.  Back in 1996 a similar promotion was run in order to get kids excited about Chex cereal, only instead of offering a toy as part of the promotion, they offered a PC game (I still find it awesome to this day, and yes I was one of the nagging kids who had to have this game).

The game was called Chex Quest,and it was a first-person shooter designed to run on MS-DOS.

GIRP: Brain-Twisting Rock-Climbing

A little while back, I wrote about the insanely difficult running simulator called QWOP.  It turns out that the creator of QWOP, Bennett Froddy, wasn't satisfied with making just one frustrating Flash game.  As a result, the nightmare continues with Froddy's next creation: GIRP.