About a year ago, a Japanese programmer named OMEGA released a game called “Every Extend“, which looked really neat but wouldn’t play on my American Windows. The programmers at Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s Q? Entertainment got ahold of it, and after the third day that productivity had ground to a halt because of it Mizuguchi realized its potential and contacted OMEGA to make a PSP port. I figured I’d never get to see the original version, but there’s now a new version that plays just fine on my damn dirty Yank computer. (This new version probably came out a while ago and I just missed it. Things like that tend to happen.) Here is a direct link to the download (in LZH format). The website describes the game as “‘Suicidal explodion’ game with new feelings.”, and that about sums it up; your only controls are the arrow keys and a button that blows you up, and the object is to blow yourself up in the right places to create huge chain combos of exploding enemies. Give it a whirl, and then check out this ludicrous replay (copy it into the “replay” directory and view it with the “Replay” menu option).

OMEGA is also responsible for Dan! Da! Dan!, a deceptively-pastel vertical-scrolling shooter which is equally insane and addictive.

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