The AV Club continues to surprise me with a lot of interesting, hidden games.  I'm sorta proud of myself that I discovered Spelunky before they did.

That's it.  I've died more than a thousand times, beat it three times, and still have stuff to unlock.

I've also used the person I was trying to rescue as an offensive projectile, shot down a flying saucer with a rock and then squished its parachuting pilot, and stomped on a bee-spitting mummy until it was deader than dirt.

For all the frustration this game has just as many interesting moments. I just hope the unlocking stuff won't take forever...

Speaking of frustrating, I got about 300 points in bastet, anyone beat that?

UPDATE:  Spelunky is in version .998 now, for anyone curious.  Haven't tried it yet, not sure if the install will erase the old achievements and unlocks.

The AV Club continues to surprise me with a lot of interesting, hidden games.  I'm sorta proud of myself that I discovered Spelunky before they did.

That's it.  I've died more than a thousand times, beat it three times, and still have stuff to unlock.

I've also used the person I was trying to rescue as an offensive projectile, shot down a flying saucer with a rock and then squished its parachuting pilot, and stomped on a bee-spitting mummy until it was deader than dirt.

For all the frustration this game has just as many interesting moments. I just hope the unlocking stuff won't take forever...

Speaking of frustrating, I got about 300 points in bastet, anyone beat that?

UPDATE:  Spelunky is in version .998 now, for anyone curious.  Haven't tried it yet, not sure if the install will erase the old achievements and unlocks.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around trying Aquaria. If I died ten times, I would probably quit and look for something else to play.

I got two hundred and something points in bastet!

The nice thing about Spelunky, @Claude, is that it's free!! :)  And the investment of time is relatively short.  But we each have our own fun-loads (which seem to be getting as hard to deal with as workloads, sometimes).

@joey , I think my 300 was a fluke; I consider it a good game if I manage to score at all.  It puts you in this zen-like state of trying to NOT play a normal game of Tetris, but an ugly, Road Warrior survival horror style where you're just scraping by to survive.  I really think that instead of scoring lines, it should score how many blocks you fill on the screen PLUS lines.  I think that would be the only way you could judge how well someone is playing, because it's really easy to get yourself into a pattern of just piling things up to the ceiling.

Spelunky is a great game. Tough but there's a great sense of achievement when you finally do beat it. And yes a gamepad is the way to go with that game. Also everyone seems to forget that Spelunky is just a remake of the original (to some extent).