Though, this game isn’t that particularly hard, even for someone like me who’s not well-versed in this genre. (I was playing it in a window for this whole playthrough, as you might’ve noticed.) Some of the items are really hidden, and since you need to find all the items to progress, it can be annoying to have to look around dozens of times to find it, especially since clicking in the wrong place a few times will cause the cursor to shake, slightly hindering progress. Granted, this might be easier if you’re playing in full screen at 640×480. A fair share of “ pixelbitching” is prevalent here: Fully expect to hunt around for the item in question, which is mostly obstructed by other items. Item hunting can be a bit annoying in spots. Yep, this is a hidden object game, alright.Īs for the core gameplay itself, it’s fine. Sadly, most of these are gone now, or live on through fanmade clones. That, Yahoo Games, You Don’t Know Jack: The NetShow and Acrophobia are many of these online games I fondly remember. For people of my generation, Slingo was one of those classic games people played in the early 2000s, web 1.0-era internet. Slingo is a game I fondly remember from my days of playing it on America Online. You have up to 20 spins to fill the card, and the first to do so wins the game. Alongside the numbers are jokers – a wild card that can be used to mark any number on the column its on, gold coins – gives you extra score, and the devil, which cuts your score in half. You have a bingo card and every spin of the reels gives you five numbers to fill the card with. Sadly, there isn’t much footage of the original online game available, so this will have to do.īut before we get into the game itself, a small primer on what Slingo is. Turns out it’s quite a journey.Ī screenshot of Slingo Deluxe, one of the earlier offline versions of the game. When I spotted this game at a thrift store, I had wondered how they decided to bring back a mostly dormant franchise and combine it with one of the most popular casual gamer genres out there. One mashed up with a classic online game I remember from my teen years. Normally, I wouldn’t cover these, but then I found an interesting hidden object game. I assume it’s still modestly popular, but I figure most people have since moved on to C a n d y C r u s h S a g a and similar easy-to-understand mobile game offerings. For a good long while, the hidden object genre was the go-to game for super casual gamers everywhere. But it wasn’t until recently did I realize there was one genre I never talked much about: The hidden object game.Ī genre I haven’t really covered on here, the hidden object game involves usually finding a bunch of items inside a room to make progress.
The unofficial expansion packs, the weird cross-promotions, the mostly forgotten cheap games that came out during the 2000s. In the many years I’ve been writing about oddball video gaming stuff, I thought I covered it all.