Sushi Cat is Plinko meets Katamari Damacy. Your job, as a cat, is to eat some raw fish. Unfortunately, the sushi restaurants doors are pressure-sensitive, and you don’t weigh enough to enter, and your timing is too slow to sneak in when the sumos enter. So, to get in, you have to eat a lot of sushi to gain enough weight to trigger the sensors. When you finally eat enough sushi to enter the sushi restaurant (to eat even more sushi?), the sushi restaurant is closed. So, you’ll need to eat more sushi to earn an extra yen and take the bus across the city to get into some sort of carnival where you can win sushi.

Alright, so the plot isn’t the highlight of this bizarre faux-Japanese game. It’s entertaining and simple, though. A couple of tips, my highscore, and more screenshots after the jump.

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Here’s a quick way to spend ten minutes: One Button Bob. It’s a classic Pitfall-style platform game, except you use only your mouse button. What your mouse button does changes for each screen–sometimes you charge up a jump, throw your boomerang, stop, move forward, or climb a ladder. Best of all, the boss really is hard!

Set a high score by clicking less than other people. Expect to die plenty, but unlike stupid Super Mario Bros, dieing only sets you back a couple of seconds.

My high score after the jump…

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Nitrome brings us this physics-based destruction game. You’ll start off by clicking the mouse to detonate explosives to bring buildings down, but it quickly gets more complex. You’re brilliant engineering team has converted a concrete mixer into a cannon, and you can use it to carefully fire cannon balls at buildings. You have two types of helicopters: one with a wrecking ball, and one with a gripping arm.

Sure, for a physics game, it’s not especially realistic. But look, we’re destroying stuff, not studying science.

Call in airstrikes to really destroy a building, but be sure to rescue the hapless construction workers, first, and avoid destroying innocent buildings. I got up to level 19 before I got bored–and isn’t battling your attention span the modern version of the high score?

Be sure to disable your ad blocker–it cracks me up that Google Ads is displaying advertisements for construction companies on the game’s page. Ah, flaws in context-based advertising.

You use your mouse to control the destruction, though you can scroll with the W, A, S, and D keys. If you want to restart the level, hit R.

Here’s a great space shooter with lots of upgrades: Enigmata. Use the cursor keys to move around and the space bar to fire. Press X to speed up, and C to enter stealth mode (though I did well without these). Kill the bad guys, dodge their shots (and the Xs), and pick-up upgrades to heal and make your weapons more powerful.

I wasted half my childhood playing 1942 for 25 cents a shot, and while this game doesn’t quite give me the feeling I got in the back room of the Pizza Hut, the upgrade system gives it an entirely new dimension. In my opinion, the upgrades are a little too complex–you’re limited in the amount of upgrades you can have enabled, which means you have to waste time doing inventory management. Many of the upgrades only improve your performance by like 5%, so you won’t even notice them.

I got 435,780 my first time through before I died. It’s nice that you can save at the end of every level, so you don’t have to repeat levels like you do in Super Mario Bros for the Wii. I hate you, Super Mario.

Via DownloadSquad.

From our favorite time wasters at Armor Games comes Chibi Knight, a very cute adventure, role-playing-ish game that you can finish in 30 minutes.

Use the arrow keys to move around. Press the A key to swing your sword, and the S key to cast a spell (though you won’t have any magic until you visit the first hut to the right of where you start). Most of the game is about timing your swings and jumps, and you never have to worry about inventory management, which means this game is fun rather than intensive. After the jump, my final score card showing my levels and the number of times I died.

Via JayIsGames.

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My parents raised me in Shitsville, TX, with nothing around me but horny toads and fields. We didn’t have color TV, much less cable TV. I did, however, have a Commodore 64 (connected to a B&W TV, of course) and it ruled. I used my modem to call BBSs and download games–a game like this might have taken an hour to download. By the way, that’s how I met a 15-year-old Lance Armstrong in neighboring Round Rock.

When you put that kind of time into a game, you really appreciate it. VVVVVV is a retro platform game that’s a lot of fun. You can’t even jump–but you can reverse gravity so you fly onto the ceiling. That’s your only control–left, right, and reverse gravity.

Perhaps best of all, it won’t make you replace hours of maps like Super Mario for the Wii.

Really, mom and dad, you couldn’t have gotten me an Atari 2600? I digress.

Here’s a simple tower defense game that’s fun for about ten minutes. There’s only one map, and all the towers look the same, and the graphics are pretty mediocre. It does have a unique element, though: The creeps don’t have an exit. They just keep going round in circles, and if you have more than 100 creeps on the screen at one time, you lose.