I apologize for how much time you’ll waste on this game if you get sucked into it. I really do.

50 more balloon popping levels with some kickin’ new balloons, level types and weapons make this installment of Bloons the best yet. Remember that the game remembers you. Play a level now and come back later to play the next. Your progress will be saved as you go. I can’t tell you how much I love that feature. State-saving goodness in a flash game. Who’da thunk? Also of note is a new link in the game that takes to to a Bloons level builder, yet another way to waste some time. At least now you can contribute to the games. Productive?

To those of you that think this is cheap blogging, remember that I love flash games, and am just trying to share some of my favorite pieces of the web with you. Don’t be hatin’. Where else would you find these gems? Granted, you’d be better served to find your online gaming goodness at places like Kongregate like I do, but I’m assuming you non-gamer types don’t go looking for ways to waste a decade of your life away. I feel like this is just one small way I can share myself and my addictions with you all.

Enjoy.

The object of the game is to keep the creeps from crossing the board. If you let too many of them through, it becomes obvious that you are worthless on the Creep battlefield, and your term as a weapon tower general is ended. I may have added a bit to that last part, but you get the idea.

Beneath the game you will find some helpful commands and tips to help you stave off your enemies of doom. Read them.

The Goal	Creeps enter from the top and from the left. You must stop them from reaching the other side or you will lose lives. You start with 20 lives, and when they are gone the game is over.
The Pieces	Towers are used to attack creeps and also to block their path. You buy a Tower by clicking on its image and then clicking somewhere on the map. There are 6 different towers to choose from, each with different abilities. Towers can be improved by buying upgrades.
The Money	Gold is earned by killing creeps, especially the boss creeps which come every 7 levels. You spend Gold on buying Towers and upgrading them.
The Levels	Each level, or ‘wave’, contains 20 creeps (10 on easy) and they arrive every 25 or so seconds. They cannot be stopped. Your only defense is to purchase Towers to attack them. Some waves have special abilities like FAST or FLYING. Also, after every 7th wave is a BOSS wave that is especially hard to kill.
More Help	If you have never played a Tower Defense before try the Quick Start Tutorial.
Keys	1-6 selects a Tower & 0 deselects. U upgrades the selected Tower. S sells the selected Tower. Holding down Shift allows you to place multiple Towers one after the other. Space to toggle pause.
Sell Timer	It now takes a certain amount of time to sell a tower, the time goes up the more times you sell towers.

Keep in mind that a highly upgraded tower does a lot more damage than many level 1 towers. Anti-air does what it says on the box, when flying enemies pass your normal towers by and you weep, don’t come running to me. You can earn a higher score by sending waves early, but be careful not to swamp your maze. ‘N’ sends the next level early.

Back in the day, Counter-Strike was up there next to breathing on my priority list. I literally had 24 hour gaming periods with some regularity, and was invited to compete as a sponsored player in China at the ripe and time-wasting age of 16.

But for all my “real” gaming addiction, I always found time for flash games here and there. I love the simplicity, the creativity, often the design, and just about everything else you can think of about ‘em.

Thanks to people and companies like my forced-mentor Daniel Mall (and the hot and sexy company he works for; Happy Cog), flash games have become more “mainstream” and much more organized with sites like Kongregate, the work of the aforeparenthesied(o.O) Cog of Felicty.

Now you can join an actual community to enjoy your games, instead of crawling the porn-laden corridors of obscure, horribly constructed humor sites with random games throughout. I love it. I tried something similar with Crapromedia back in 2004 with Carlitos and Cabeeb, but we let it slip through our fingers. Maybe some day we’ll bring it back, but until then, expect an assortment of games to be posted up here, and frequent posts about them.

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Manes.

Today’s contribution is GammaBro’s from the boyo’s at PiXelJAM. I love the stye of their games almost more than I can express with words. If you derive joy from their work (as I do), and want to see it continue, head over to their site and donate some funds.

Things have escalated, as they often tend to do ’round these parts, and a number of our darts have been altered with some very interesting modifications.

One modification in particular involves two long wall pins firmly taped to the tip of the dart, points roughly an inch and half off the former face of the projectile, in what can only be called the perfect recipe for a lawsuit.

The first test flight of the aforementioned dart of destruction was directly at my display. It managed to leave two noticeable holes in the dead center of the screen that wouldn’t be smoothed out for anything.

I got a new display. It’s better than my previous one, and as an aside, a lesson you can all learn is that breaking old things means you will immediately get newer better things to replace them with. No matter what.

Moving on, the -second- flight of this maniacally manufactured missile of madness went straight to the ceiling. I fired it, and in a stroke of brilliance decided to aim directly above my chair where it decided to come to rest. I should note here that we have one floor of space in a two story building. It’s not an easy thing to remove something from the ceiling here.

The dart now resides there, above my seat, waiting at comfortable leisure to fall from above and stab me in the brain. If this is my last post, I hope you all remember me well, and not as the moron who decided to strategically position a sharp, stabby weapon of death directly above his head.

In honor of this idiocy, I’ve posted one of the more entertaining flash games out there, called Bloons, for your enjoyment. I found it fitting, as in the game, you play a monkey that throws darts at things, hoping to win the prize, which in my lucky case is a fresh bag of mental disability.