Reviewer: Dos-Games-Online
This game has a very unique yet simple concept, there are 2 amoebas (red and blue blobs), the red amoeba tries to eat the blue amoeba and vice-versa. Whoever fills up the board is the winner. Requires a fair amount of thinking and concentration to play.
If you like weird puzzle/action games, download this game and give it a try.
Reviewer: mitchellle
This is actually a kind of cute game, an oddball cult classic. When you look at the screen, it's easy to think it's really simple. But it's only as easy or challenging as your opponent. And don’t be fooled into thinking that playing against a kid is automatically easy- it’s simple enough for them to understand and master quickly, and make them a good opponent. Since children have a tendency to make unpredictable moves, they can surprise you. It’s exceptionally easy to learn, but not necessarily to master. It doesn’t take a lot of focus, either, which makes this game good for when you just need a mindless distraction. If you don’t need amazing graphics of fast as light pace of someone shooting at you, this may be a nice trip down memory lane. For as silly and extremely basic as it is, at moments it can be addicting.
Even for the original era, this game has extremely rough graphics. In terms of visuals, it really appears to be like more of an old Atari game. It has rather large pixilated squares, but still reminds me of the 70-s era mood discs that you could move the fluid around in. You really can’t just goof with it back and forth while working on other things, though. The primary colors at moments can be either glaring or psychedelic, or amusingly simultaneously both. And you could very well find yourself looking at it and saying to yourself "this game is kind of stupid" but still going back to it because it can be weirdly soothing. And in terms of nonviolent family fun, this is really something that even really young children can use as a starter game and without even realizing it be exposed to the general idea of fluid physics (not that the game exactly reproduces those).
If you’re in a rather oddball mood, and not as concerned about competition, you can also giggle your way through using the colored swirls to make pictures- a bit like finger-painting.
This game will certainly appeal more to people who remember it the first time, are looking for something pretty mindless, or want to have some extremely simple games that could be shared with a kindergarten age child. It's not very fast paced, the graphics are very raw and at times annoyingly rudimentary. It’s hard to tell that this is the same technology that took us to the moon. But in a silly sort of way, it's still likable
Download Hungry Amoebas (amoebas.zip)
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