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Saturday Timewaster: Now Boarding
Posted by Maggie Greene at 5:30 AM on August 10, 2008
While the weekend timewasters at Kotaku are generally free, and Now Boarding — an indie time management/sorting game that has a nice, slightly retro aesthetic — isn't, the demo is lengthy and engaging enough to waste an hour or two on a lazy Saturday. The point of the game is to manage your airport empire and keep the poor slouches stuck at the terminal or on the plane reasonably happy, or at least not hopping mad. The $US 20 ($US 15 right now) price tag for the full version seems a little steep, but the demo portion has already gobbled up time this morning that I should've been dedicating to plowing through another couple of thousand pages on Japanese colonialism. Frankly, sorting flights is a hell of a lot more fun — and this is a nice, reasonably polished little game that is fun to play.
Now Boarding [via Rock, Paper, Shotgun]
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stupidjason
Posted 5:52 AM 10/8/08
Curse you work, not letting me DL crazy stuff to my comp...although I guess that means Im not exactly having a lazy Saturday or at least a lazy enough day to warrent the DL in the first place. shoot.
stupidjason
SilentSeraphin
Posted 5:49 AM 10/8/08
@Grumpz®: Oh my, I had forgotten all about Aerobiz. Lots of good times with my brother long ago. Now I gotta play it again, too. =P
SilentSeraphin
Grumpz®
Posted 5:45 AM 10/8/08
it's pretty fun, makes me want to fire up aerobiz though. Guess I'll do that.
Grumpz®
nyaz
Posted 5:42 AM 10/8/08
Definately a good game
nyaz
Terrorsaur.
Posted 5:40 AM 10/8/08
Now if only such a time management games prepares me for my college experience.
Hmm
Terrorsaur.
Grumpz®
Posted 5:37 AM 10/8/08
yaaaay and I was just starting to get bored.
Grumpz®
PreDefined
Posted 5:35 AM 10/8/08
How does this compare to Koei's Aerobiz games on SNES and Genesis?
PreDefined
akumaserge
Posted 5:33 AM 10/8/08
Arrggh 20 bucks?! I DO NOT HAVE THAT KIND OF CASH, SIR!
akumaserge
BigDerf
Posted 6:20 AM 10/8/08
Aerobiz is the shit
BigDerf
Ryuujin1024
Posted 6:10 AM 10/8/08
Cant get it working right, typical adobe crap to be honest.
Ryuujin1024
galactus5000
Posted 8:33 AM 10/8/08
Yep, played it for about 10 minutes - removed it.
galactus5000
kyle1193
Posted 1:43 PM 10/8/08
the flash version is funner imo [armorgames.com]
kyle1193
unfathomablej
Posted 5:42 PM 10/8/08
@BigDerf: Right on. Koei has made the lion's share of games that really stand the test of time. Every once and awhile, I start a campaign in Genghis Khan...
unfathomablej
Mike's Stalker
Posted 5:49 PM 10/8/08
I'm currently playing the game now. Sure is fun in my opinion. :)
Mike's Stalker
sander_dutch
Posted 6:33 PM 10/8/08
Thanks Maggie, I love these strategic logistic games.
Just spent $15 on this one, yippie!
sander_dutch
Schabrak
Posted 12:58 AM 11/8/08
I played the flash game. Is the full game campaign mode limited to 12 months too?? I would like a unlimited mode much more...
Schabrak
my spoon is too big
Posted 4:03 PM 11/8/08
played the demo for a few hours, then bought it, great game, with a nice bit of difficulty.
@Schabrak: yeah, you can go more than a year for each chapter.
my spoon is too big