One Button Bob is a retro Time Waster

Filed under: Fun, Games, Retrocomputing

One Button Bob can only be played with an ultra high-tech Boomslang five-button gaming mouse. Well, that's not actually true. That's tech writing for you. To be honest, to play One Button Bob you do need just one button.

This retro-tastic little gem casts you as a fictional character (you're going to have to guess the name). On each screen, your one button does something different. Sometimes it makes the character jump. Sometimes it makes it throw a little boomerang at bats. There's one screen with a kind of hovercraft-looking thing that you navigate (or rather, change altitude) with your one button.

It's one button, but it's not always one click. Sometimes you need to click and hold (for jumping). Sometimes click-click-click frantically, and sometimes you need a very well-timed click to stop at an exact point to make something fall.

Definitely a worthy timewaster. It's actually nice from an accessibility standpoint too -- I don't know how many fun games require being able to click just a single button these days.

[Thanks, Javier!]

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