iPhone App Zealot

Rat on the Run delivers an amusing platform game that reminded me of Donkey Kong without the climbing.The object is to eat the cheese and avoid spiders, snot, buzz saws, and more as you move throughout your house. There are two modes. Challenge mode prompts you to get all the cheese on a given level to complete it. Arcade mode pushes you to get as much cheese as quickly as possible as the bonus timer counts down. The levels are quick and progress rapidly in difficulty. The graphics are simple and well drawn. Simple directional control and jumping make it easy to start and taunt you into the “OK, just one more time and I’ll get it” mode. Some of the recurrent themes in reviews elsewhere call Rat on the Run cute, simple, funny, and addicting.

Donut Games has Rat on the Run free for this weekend (Oct 23-25). For free, this game is worth a look. I like free. I wish I had more free time to play more games. Happy Friday!

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I love Urbanspoon. I travel a fair bit & finding a restaurant is not hard; finding a good one harder; and finding a good one near where I am or where I am going is much harder.
Urbanspoon helps on both counts–good and nearby. My GPS, googlemaps, and AroundMe round out the quartet of finding good food on the road. When traveling I hate to eat at the same place twice. Urbanspoon caters to this impulse in me with its slot-machinelike interface.