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Re:Hamster Invaders by jwilk on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:04AM (#34464513)
Hampster, not hamster.
Re:Hamster Invaders by OscarCunningham on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:14AM (#34464549)
The 'hamster' form is also canon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampster_Dance

> The original website was hosted on Geocities, and LaCarte failed to register the hampsterdance.com domain. With the continued popularity of the original site, an unauthorized duplicate website was hosted on hampsterdance.com. LaCarte thus used the domains hamsterdance.com, hamsterdance2.com, and hampsterdance2.com.

Re:Hamster Invaders by readthenotes1 on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:12AM (#34464543)
I imagine they shot the p out of the hampsters during testing
Re:Hamster Invaders by dang on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:17AM (#34464567)
Fixed. Thanks!
Re:Hamster Invaders by raldi on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:12AM (#34464545)
Unfaithful to Space Invaders. You should be able to shoot their bullets out of the sky and if any of the hamsters touch the ground it should be Game Over and when only one is left it should move at crazy speeds all over the screen like a yorkie on crystal meth.
Re:Hamster Invaders by nkko on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:46AM (#34464697)
Those are not bullets.
Re:Hamster Invaders by tomcam on Saturday January 21, 2023 @03:00AM (#34464754)
Underrated comment
Re:Hamster Invaders by tluyben2 on Saturday January 21, 2023 @03:55AM (#34464968)
Some of my best child memories are playing space invaders (beating my father at highscores; later rounds you have to very fast especially when you have the one crack-infused alien left) and castle adventure on a luggable [0]. I still have the luggable, it still works, and it still plays the games.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_Data_Systems?wprov=sfti...

Re:Hamster Invaders by raldi on Saturday January 21, 2023 @10:11AM (#34466912)
I loved CA!
Re:Hamster Invaders by tluyben2 on Saturday January 21, 2023 @03:33PM (#34470178)
It was the reason I went to study AI (at possibly the worst time, in the 90s winter); I was very young when I first played it and obsessed with the large amounts of text it came up with under different circumstances. I found out how it all worked and programmed a bunch of adventures soon after, but the magic feeling that computers can make up human text stayed with me. Didn’t touch AI after until gpt2 came out.
Re:Hamster Invaders by lowbloodsugar on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:18AM (#34464570)
No sound. iPhone 12.
Re:Hamster Invaders by mattround on Saturday January 21, 2023 @03:16AM (#34464811)
Is your mute switch on..?
Re:Hamster Invaders by gorgoiler on Saturday January 21, 2023 @05:40AM (#34465438)
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Re:Hamster Invaders by leephillips on Saturday January 21, 2023 @07:42AM (#34466051)
This page somehow disabled the control key for me, so it was an inconvenient workaround to close the tab (because of the way I have my browser GUI set up). Please don’t do that.
Re:Hamster Invaders by fortyseven on Sunday January 22, 2023 @01:48AM (#34475047)
210k. You easily beat that.
Re:Hamster Invaders by mrlonglong on Sunday January 22, 2023 @06:13PM (#34483383)
But it's actually spelled hamsters! Why have they put a p in it?!