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There's the Major Fun Award-winning Telestrations, which you, of course, know and love, as you deservedly should. Keep that in mind, and read on.

After Dark Games is a video game published in 1998 on Windows by Sierra On-Line, Inc. It's an action, strategy and puzzle game, set in an arcade, cards, game show, turn-based, falling block puzzle, platform, tile matching puzzle and word construction themes, and was also released on Mac.

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  • After Dark Games is an outrageous collection of fun and challenging games based on the famous pop culture icons of the world's top selling screen saver. Test your arcade skills in Toaster Run bone up our word skills with Bad Dog or challenge your puzzle-solving skills with Roof Rat. Includes 11 arcade word puzzle and trivia style games in all.

Playing Telestrations often makes you giggle. You giggle at your own incompetencies in trying to make a drawing that the next player will interpret correctly. You giggle at the other people's drawings – especially when there's something, shall we say, 'suggestive' about them. Or when you could, if you were so inclined, so interpret them. It's an adolescent kind of thing – that chance to be naughty-minded – a chance that most adults enjoy even more.

Thus, it's no wonder that, for adults, playing Telestrations After Dark (yes, the box glows in the dark, as will certain recesses of your eighth-grade minds) turns out to be even more giggle-worthy than its predecessors.

Inside your Telestrations After Dark box you will find 100, two-sided cards listing over 1200 words, 8 erasable color coiled sketch books, 8 dry erase markers, 8 tiny but effective clean up cloths and 8 after dark, color coordinated drink coasters that match the color of your coil, hence helping you identify which sketching-and-guessing book (and coaster) is yours.

The instructions are mercifully brief. Kothamangalam subbu novels. Even more mercifully, the majority of the instructions are also written on each page of the sketch-and-guess books. And, if you've played any version of Telestrations before, you won't even need those instructions.

The more people who play, the longer the game. A round shouldn't take more than 15 minutes. The instructions include two different ways to score ('friendly' and 'competitive'). Adobe captivate 2017 crack. We had more than enough fun just showing each other the completed books.

What makes this game so adult are the words that are included on the word cards (where else?). A relatively innocuous sample:

1. bearded lady
2. petting zoo
3. FICTIONAL CHARACTER
4. organ donor
5. sweaty palms
6. foreplay

As you can see, depending on your inclination, any of those words can be interpreted in a, shall we say, titillating manner. Underlined words indicate that you can make up your own even more titillating interpretation, should you find yourself titill-inclined.

Telestrations After Dark is designed for 4-8 adults after-dark-glowing adults. A game takes fifteen minutes at least. Telestrations After Dark is designed, illustrated and manufactured by USAopoly.

Two hours after I first popped the After Dark Games CD into my computer I was still sitting there, mesmerized. There are 11 games included, games that challenge the mind and even word and problem solving skills. The first game I played was 'Hula Girl', a fabulous game of manual dexterity that challenges your ability to utilize the arrow keys. One simply must appreciate navigating a possessed-looking dancing child named Beluhla and her hula hoop on her journey to keep jumping as long as possible while eating ice cream sundaes, cupcakes and other high fat goodies. Heaven forbid she accidentally eat broccoli or bump into her evil twin Cruela, she'll lose her much needed hula hoop and score negative points on the yuckometer. I loved this game and if someone doesn't take it away from me soon there is a good chance I'll never go outside again.

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'Fish Shtick' is a word scramble in which the player must attempt to create a word with the letters attached to swimming fish before they swim past the screen. Each correct word is rewarded with a point. It's like a swimming Wheel of Fortune without Vanna. Or Flipper on an acid trip. It's pretty neat.

'Roof Rats' was very amusing. People and rats are trapped on the roof of a building. Each room in the building is denoted by a color and when two rooms of the same color are beside each other, they can be removed with a mouse click and the tenants become that much closer to being saved. Musclemen can climb down a few floors, whereas the Granny needs to be lowered to the ground. When she is, she mutters 'thank you' and toddles off. The rescued rats squeal and scamper along. Getting the people off the roof becomes an obsession. The need to save imaginary computer game people becomes almost overwhelming. And the three skill levels can really keep you on your toes.

When it's time to mellow out, a quiet game of 'Solitaire' might be in order.

Then there's 'Rodger Dodger', an arcade style game where the object is to snag as many green geometric pieces as possible and avoid the red balls that try to kill you. Picture Pac-man but without the cute yellow guy with the big mouth. No ghosts. It kind of lacks something, like a character or theme.

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'Fish Shtick' is a word scramble in which the player must attempt to create a word with the letters attached to swimming fish before they swim past the screen. Each correct word is rewarded with a point. It's like a swimming Wheel of Fortune without Vanna. Or Flipper on an acid trip. It's pretty neat.

'Roof Rats' was very amusing. People and rats are trapped on the roof of a building. Each room in the building is denoted by a color and when two rooms of the same color are beside each other, they can be removed with a mouse click and the tenants become that much closer to being saved. Musclemen can climb down a few floors, whereas the Granny needs to be lowered to the ground. When she is, she mutters 'thank you' and toddles off. The rescued rats squeal and scamper along. Getting the people off the roof becomes an obsession. The need to save imaginary computer game people becomes almost overwhelming. And the three skill levels can really keep you on your toes.

When it's time to mellow out, a quiet game of 'Solitaire' might be in order.

Then there's 'Rodger Dodger', an arcade style game where the object is to snag as many green geometric pieces as possible and avoid the red balls that try to kill you. Picture Pac-man but without the cute yellow guy with the big mouth. No ghosts. It kind of lacks something, like a character or theme.

'Foggy Boxes' and 'Mooshu Tiles' didn't wow me. These puzzle games might appeal to the younger crowd, though. I tried the highest level of these and just didn't feel challenged. I bet kids would like playing though.

If trivia is your calling, 'Zapper' will be of interest. Score as many points as possible while answering yes or no questions before the clock runs out. The questions are strange and unusual enough that you probably won't know the answer, but hey, you've got a 50 percent chance of getting it right. This is a lot of fun, and pretty contagious.

Mowing the lawn can really suck, unless of course, it's on your computer screen. A guy on a tractor, 'Mowin' Man' tries to mow the lawn while somehow managing to avoid dogs, gardeners and even zombies. Extra power is achieved by snagging wallets, flags, cups and the like. And like any disgruntled individual, he takes pride in being able to run over his opponents with his lawnmower during the few seconds of extra power received by acquiring the correct object. Heaven forbid he get offed by an angry gardener, he wont have to fret. He's got two more lives.

Feeling powerful? Wanna save a cartoon characters life? The object of the game is to make as many words as possible while playing the 'Bad Dog 911' word game. This unfortunate fellow's dog has catapulted him onto the tower by releasing the winch level on the clock. It's up to you to create as many words as you can with the letters provided. Get enough words together and the clock cleaner is saved. Failure to come up with a sufficiency of words will only result in watching him fall and splatter. Do you really want that on your conscience?

'Toaster Run' has beautiful graphics of flying toasters, and if you are fortunate to be coordinated enough to navigate them around the game without flying into walls, refrigerators, doors then catching on fire, you're one step ahead of me. There are three levels, though I couldn't get more than five or 10 points on any given attempt before bursting into flames. The point is to not crash into things while trying to get the 'Baby Guy' safely back to his crib. Maybe I'll go practice this one.

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Overall, this is a pretty amusing and entertaining CD and you're sure to find something that appeals to everyone in the household. You can't say that about most games, can you?

People who downloaded After Dark Games have also downloaded:
Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection, After Dark 3, Bejeweled, Castle of Dr. Brain, Lemmings, Clue: Murder at Boddy Mansion, 221b Baker Street, Game of Life





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