Ancient Greek punishments: the 8-bit Flashgame edition

"Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment" is a series of 8-bit Flash games based on the punishments visited by the gods on various naughty ancient Greeks: Sisyphus, Tantalus, Prometheus, Danaids and Zeno. There's something particularly awfully wonderful about rapidly pressing the G and H keys to writhe in agony and dislodge the eagle that is devouring your liver.

Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment (via MeFi)

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I prefer Rock of Ages for my Sisyphus simulator.
DavidCulberson

Woo! I made it half way there as Zeno!
dmatos

I think the games are broken. I wasn’t able to win any of them :(
morkl

That’s just mean… http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2086827/zeno.png (spoiler alert)
http://twitter.com/Listener43 Listener43

Bah – livers are overrated.
kirkjerk

Heh, cute.
I did something similar awhile back:
Virtual Sisyphus: http://kirkjerk.com/2008/02/17/
Virtual Tantalus: http://kirkjerk.com/2008/02/18/
Virtual Prometheus Bound: http://kirkjerk.com/2008/02/19/
Not quite as physically punishing as these, but I plan to convert Virtual Sisyphus to iOS
Lexicat

The Great Book of Sequels had the Sysiphus versus the Rock video game for Existendo…
http://twitter.com/howlingeverett Justin Marrington

Being a geek and a pedant I was all “I bet I can beat the Zeno’s Paradox sim by floating point buffer overflow”, but nope – he thought of that:

http://d.pr/kPKm