Verbatim Championship

DXN

Like a fair few other people seem to have, I got this link from ravenworks this morning and got more interested in it than I ever expected.

It's a Flash game which seems to be the result of the unusual marriage between a media company's website and the Japanese love of robots beating each other up - you create a little walking thing/arachnoid monstrosity by selecting three styles of USB device as they scroll past, then smacking the Confirm button when it rearranges them into a look you want, and you're off - you can fight your newly born solid state storage robot against other creations from all over the world, like a visual Barcode Battler.

I find it spectacular just how far over the top they've gone with this - this was made as a little distraction on a corporate website, and has all sorts of statistics and rankings along with it. And replays! You can replay how any past fight went. Not to mention that this is Flash - do you remember how spectacular the original Playstation looked when it was first around in 1995? This easily looks post-PS, and it's in a browser - the same thing that at that time was wheezing and puffing away at hauling a 25KB JPG through its dialup connection.

DXN is showing a bit of promise now after being useless at the start. It's surprisingly addictive just to watch how they fight.