Smashing Tennis Review
Practice, practice, practice, that was my tennis coach’s daily drill. I spent many hours hitting the ball against the wall, throwing it up to serve, and volleying back and forth with a partner. No one got better unless you put in the time. Smashing Tennis is the same for me. In tennis, I used 2 hands only for my backhand. I used my feet for running back and forth, not the arrow keys. So I practiced, practiced and practiced Smashing Tennis and got better.
Smashing Tennis with its simple 2D graphics and accurate sound effects is a challenging action game you must practice to have any fun with it, but once you hear the “pong” of the hit ball, you are hooked. To serve the ball you use the space bar once to throw the ball up and again to hit it. The Practice mode will show you when to hit the serve. The arrow keys moves your player around the court. For the beginner you can limit the arrows to the right and left ones moving the character side to side until you are comfortable with the play. When you are ready, you may choose the advanced mode using all the arrows for a multidirectional play.
It is very important to choose the correct ability of yours and your opponent’s skill level. This must be done carefully or your play will not be fun. You can adjust the skill, speed, strength and precision of each player. In addition, you can choose different court surfaces (grass, clay and decoturf). I’ve played on grass (fast) and clay (slow) courts but I have 
never come across a decoturf court in real life.
The different strokes were amazing. I could actually see the drop shot. How do they do that? At this posting I have not mastered the lob or hitting the ball hard so I’m waiting to see the visual on it. Also the 2 player mode is still in the future for me, but it will be intriguing to see how everything works with 2 people playing on 1 computer. The tournament challenge is still out of my reach but for all those advanced players it should be quite entertaining.
I guess there are 2 negatives for me regarding Smashing Tennis. One is that it is difficult for casual players (I’ve watched gamers pick it up and play right away) unless you practice, and also there are no girl tennis players represented. What about adding the Serena Williams, Dinara Safinas and Justine Henins of the tennis world? The simple graphics did not bother me since being an avid tennis player and fan concentrating on hitting the ball back is what captivates my attention. It would be fun to be able to design your players. I also am familiar with the thrill of hearing the ball hit the sweet spot and beating your opponent. You have all this with Smashing Tennis so try it out and don't forget to practice.
Features of Smashing Tennis:
-For all ages
-1 or 2 player mode
-Difficulty Options
-Adjustable Skill Levels
-Tournament Play
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Mummy’s Treasures Review
I think I’m partial to logic, physics based puzzles. I like almost all of them. Mac game Mummy’s Treasure is no exception. It makes you work on the puzzle, not aimlessly click as fast as you can on as many things possible, using your brain power and some help from your keyboard. Let your mental power take over to solve each level in a meditative fashion. The results are fantastic whether you complete the puzzle or not. When you make a mistake, it will let you know how to resolve the puzzle by seeing the many objects falling one way or another. It may take one try or several but you will figure it out eventually. Amazing!
This puzzle looks so simple you think you might get bored with it quickly, but you don’t. It keeps you hanging on until you have found the solution. It grows on you and gets very, very addictive. And, after solving an extremely difficult level, you have the satisfaction or “high” of getting “it”. Nothing less and nothing more. Why does this game grab me so much? This game makes you think and want to figure out the right method to the right path.
The story is short and simple. You are in search of the untold treasures in a lost temple. This pharaoh’s tomb holds more riches than you can imagine and you are on the fast track to retrieving all the gems and gold. In order to get the riches you play many levels of puzzles. If you succeed, you get the gold and treasure pieces, but fail and you can retry the level.
The play is simple. In each level you will see gold pieces, mummies, skeleton heads and stone blocks on various size platforms. In addition you must find gems hidden in one of the abovementioned pieces. All you need to do is click on a piece and a jewel may fly out and float to the top of the screen. You need to click on it before it 
disappears. Easy at first but in later levels it gets more difficult to click on and in time. The goal of each level is to keep the gold pieces on a platform and get rid of the mummy and skeleton heads. You can click on stone platforms to dissolve and watch whatever is on top topple over and drop down off the screen. Some of the pieces like the skeleton head and stone block will fly off the board after you click on it. The mummy heads will just growl when clicked. The gold masks will also stay put when clicked. In later levels the stationary pieces and platforms will start moving back and forth making keeping the gold pieces on the screen extremely difficult. Other factors making this game harder is when the faces are turned to the sides, gravity will pull in that direction so be prepared to see pieces flying sideways and upside down.
Mummy’s Treasure is a fantastic puzzler and will stump you in many levels, but you can skip levels if you want. However, I do not advise it. You will eventually figure out the answer by resetting the puzzle. Keep at it and you will know what to do. If you are into physics based puzzles, check out this original and challenging game for a good time.
Features of Mummy’s Treasure:
-3 Chapters of Searching for Treasures
-20 Levels in each Chapter
-Physics Based Logic Game
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