Pixel Ninja

Overall score:

Pixel Ninja is the ultimate in pointless webgames. Being a submission for www.the5k.org, the game itself is less than 5k in size, hence the "pixel" idea.

According to the creator, in Pixel Ninja you can "Banish the forces of evil from the land forever. You are Pixel Ninja, skilled warrior and protector of the lands." I'm still unsure though quite why a Ninja is fighting evil, considering they are evil themselves, but we'll have to take his word for it.

The graphics are what you'd expect for five kilobytes: your ninja is a few pixels of one colour, while the enemy ninjas, zombies (I assume), and dogs are another colour. Each screen is randomly generated. The gameplay is astounding: you can move in either direction, jump, and even attack! The random levels also mean the game has unlimited replayability.

On the downside, good luck on trying to get the game to work on anything other than Internet Explorer.

Yes, Pixel Ninja is a horrible waste of time of a game. But it has ninjas in it, and it's only 5k, so it's worth a play for five seconds until you get bored of it.

Written by Tsuruko Tatsuya-San on November 25th, 2003