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I might be wrong on this one, but as far as I remember, the originator of this type of game is "The Infamous Worm Game": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OjeFYNq05k

Sadly, the original site that hosted it just has a "Java Applet" placeholder there now: http://www.liquidcode.org/worm.html

It had a very good balance between difficulty and frustration. Or in other words, I wasted a lot of time on it.



The flapping mechanic is very similar to that used in Joust (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joust_%28video_game%29), but without direction control, opponents or lava trolls.


And without anything like the level of control and finesse of the flapping in Joust.


You can play it here: http://www2.sunflat.net/en/games/sfcave.html


I remember playing SFCave on my Palm IIIe. That was so much fun.


SFCave is availabt on Andoid, and it's very satisfying.




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