Mr Jone’s Graveyard Shift Review
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to run and manage a cemetery? In Mr. Jone’s Graveyard Shift you can tackle the answers to your conundrum by sim time management playing in the graveyard. You’ll discover what happens after the sun sets and how to handle those ghostly dilemmas.
Mr. Jone’s Graveyard Shift is a different kind of sim play from Youda Marina or even County Fair. First of all you have a very involved tale of Kranky who retires to an idyllic forested area to spend his final days with his faithful dog. Kranky becomes very cranky and lonely in his little house in the woods and calls his lady friend Mimi. Luck will have it, and she wants him to come down to her tropical paradise, but he needs to bring a few items. Unfortunately, Mimi wants a lot of things that cost plenty of money that Kranky does not have. In order to 
meet her needs Kranky must work to earn money. He stumbles on a scheme to turn his land into a cemetery to make the money, because, let’s face it, he’s old and no one is going to hire him. I guess he’s never heard of age discrimination.
The cemetery play is very similar to your usual sim play where you click on the customer to find out what he/she wants and then you go about preparing the plot to their specifications. In order to keep your supplies handy, you must buy from Mr. Bingo who delivers headstones, fountains, flowers and trees for the gravesite. You have different types of clients with different price ranges, likes and dislikes that you have to satisfy as quickly as possible. You must keep your customers happy in order to increase your reputation so you get more clients and make more money. You do this by providing the types of flowers that the deceased enjoyed while on this earth and decorating the gravesite with the best headstone they can afford.
In addition to all that, you must avoid the scary part of living on cemetery land. You have to sidestep the ghouls, zombies and ghosts who 
frequent the gravesite at night. You can avoid these pitfalls if you go home to bed, but sometimes you have to work the graveyard shift to meet your timelines. What’s even scarier is Mimi when you do not make enough money to purchase all her wants.
I think the tutorial is very good and the play interesting and funny. The character reminds me of the cartoon Courage the Cowardly Dog except the dog has a minor role in this game. It has the same dark, acerbic comical humor especially when the dead body plops into the grave you just dug. This game may not be for everyone because of the theme, but it is a good Mac sim game with many features you must deal with in the scope of the play, and it’s funny on top of it.
Features of Mr. Jone’s Graveyard Shift:
-Build Cemetery Empire
-Battle Ghouls and Zombies
-Collect Crystals
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Vampireville Review
It’s that time of year to be scared out of your mind. Boo! Vampireville may not scare you but it has a haunted house to search high and low for clues to why Jim Johnson went insane.
The hidden object/seek and find/point and click game with many tasks and puzzles begins with chapter 1 and goes all the way to chapter 24. Your game will save after each chapter so don’t leave in the middle or you will have to start the same chapter again.
The story starts out with you, Michael Christensen, being ordered to go and appraise Malgray Manor that will be up for auction soon, and because Jim Johnson, your colleague, went crazy. The house itself is large and spooky looking from the outside and even more so on the
inside. You meet the not so helpful butler, Glenfield, and are directed to different parts of the home. You ask for a floor plan but Jim apparently tore it into many pieces. Now you need to look for the scraps of paper and put it back together. You search for things needed to complete tasks like unlocking chests and repairing and starting a boiler. Since you are not penalized for clicking on wrong items, you need to click away to find the hidden objects behind things, in a cabinet and around curtains. 
Follow the arrows or sparkling stars to a different room or to another section of the same area. You are basically on your own except for the hint button. It will at times only twinkle the spot you need to search. If it is a task, you need to figure it out but on the most part it is not difficult. There are related mini games to play. There are jigsaw puzzles, memory game where 
you click on 2 cards with the same dogs on it, find the object that does not belong in a scene, and you will need to look for numbers to place on a dial to access a chest.
Michael comes across Rover a ghost dog who helps him through the game. Rover will threaten to bite your head off but his bark is worse than his bite so you do not have to fear him. However, you will need to watch out for the butler who looks a lot like the 300 year old paintings on the wall.
Vampireville is more a humorous story than scary, but it is entertaining. The artwork is remarkable and each character interesting, 
especially Michael who looks a lot like Keanu Reeves. The voices, however, didn’t seem to fit the characters except maybe Glenfield the creepy butler. A minor annoyance is the loading of the chapters can be a little slow. The music is appropriately mysterious. The play is not challenging but is fun to do. I give it a 3.5 out of 5. Don’t get bitten!
Features of Vampireville:
-24 Chapters
-Lots of Objects and Tasks
-Spooky Characters
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PocMon Review
Pocmon is a suped up version of Pacman gone wild in Mac game format. A mega fast game with a bounty of bonuses and enemies to increase your power and to thwart your every move that can blast your fun level to the cosmos. How can you beat that?
Move your Pocmon through the crazy maze eating as many dots as fast as possible and search for the larger power pills, blue ghosts, fruits, and bonuses to get extra life, speed up, glue down ghosts and for multiple scores. Wait, there’s more. Pocmon drunk and moving funny is LOL hilarious, and dynamite will blast the ghosts to the outer most galaxies of your own fantasies. Heck, go further than that by grabbing one of the Bonus Rounds to enter the bonus level.
What more do you need, you ask? What about the Duel Mode for more fun and excitement against your best buds? If your buddy loses all his lives, he comes back as a ghost. Can you ever get rid of this guy? Use bombs, guns and lasers against your friend and beat him in the game by grabbing more pills.
The games are fast, furious and fun. If retro arcade games are your thing, Pocmon is for you. Try your hand at eating as much as you can, power-up, blast your way through the maze, and beat your pal at this awesome Mac game. I did!
Features of Pocmon:
-Fast-Paced Arcade Game
-Lots of Bonuses and Power-Ups
-Duel Mode
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Mishap: An Accidental Haunting Review
It’s great when you can play a hidden object game with a creative twist. Mac game Mishap: An Accidental Haunting is just such game. It’s about a couple with ghosts in their beloved home. When they are ready to give up and abandon their house, Milton Hobblepop shows up at their doorstep.
Mr. Hobblepop does not look much like a ghostbuster (did Bill Murray?) but when you are desperate, he’ll do. He claims he is a paranormal investigator and felt strong spirit activities coming from the house. He’ll guide the couple throughout the house to exorcise the ghosts, and there are plenty of them. He needs the man and his wife to do quite a bit.
You play the couple and search the house for items he needs for his contraption, clues to the identity of the ghosts and many more things. He’ll direct you first to the bedroom area, and in each section there will be 4 hidden object scenes to search. The main area will expand the scene on both sides so remember to go to the right and left. When you move the cursor around the room, it may turn into a door. This will show you into another environment for a HOG. There will be many information you can find in each HOG scene about the main ghost from wills, letters and newspaper clippings. At the bottom left corner you will find batteries with a list of tabs and clicking on the log will open up more tabs for riddles, gadgets, ghosts, and checklist. The hint button is at the lower right corner and you can use it when the 4 light bulbs are lit. Finding an object will light a bulb and finishing a scene will refill all the lights. If you click on too many wrong items, you will get a 
surprise. It is fun but may scare young kids. To get back to the main room, look for the green arrow at the bottom left above the batteries.
A main ghost will haunt the 8 different areas and there will be minor ghosts hanging around. When you see the monocle on the bottom right flashing you know there is a spirit lurking around. You click on the monocle and your cursor will change to that. When you move the mini monocle around, you will see a cold/hot gauge at the bottom. When you have located the ghost it will be red hot and you click on that area. The ghost will move from that spot and you will need to locate it 2 more times to rid the ghost. You can roam from area to area searching your hidden objects. After completing all the rooms you play a mini game.
The first game is with Barbara Taylor a once up and coming starlet. She continues to search for her elusive starring role and that’s why she is angry. The game is called Scream Queen and you click to photograph Barbara’s pitiful face for the maximum points when she pops up suddenly. However, do not click on the pretty starlet or Barbara will get mad. Also spirits will speak to living things in riddles and puzzles. At the end you will get a riddle and you must complete its instructions. After completing the first section you will move on to the
kitchen area.
What makes this hidden object game so good is a combination of things: funny story, great artwork, lots of HOGs, some mini plays, appropriate sounds and good music. This HOG is a moderately difficult play. All the objects are not always visible and with the cartoon contorted drawings you may need to search longer than you usually are used to and it is not so difficult you get frustrated. The instructions
will not hold your hands so you may need to explore and look at different things on your own. Of course, the animation is fantastic to view and well done. So get busy and rid the house of all the spirits and collect the spectral energy. I give this awesome and entertaining game a 4 out of 5.
Features of Mishap: An Accidental Haunting:
-8 Chapters and 32 HOGs
-Awesome artwork
-Fun Mini Games
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