You know how after a long day’s work you come home and can’t wait to get stuck into your household chores? Using your appliances is so much fun in the real world, what more exciting and meaningful use for your computer could there be than using them in the world of video games too?

This must be true as we’ve discovered that the internet is home to a whole host of appliance themed games. Well, we had to give them a go, didn’t we?

Hoover Fusion

Hema’s Attempt

Kat’s Attempt

Thoughts While Playing

Hema: I’m so slow at this as you can tell.

Kat: Where’s the vacuum? Oh, I get it.

Scores

Hema: -2820 points

Kat: 1180 points

Our Reviews

Hema: I like this one it reminds me of Pacman days. I just didn’t like the bugs coming back out to make more mess. I’d give it an 8/10, why not? I liked it.

Kat: I was absolutely enthrilled. Is that a word? No? None of the games were particularly mind blowing, to be honest, but this was the best one. 6/10

Overall review: 7/10

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Mower Move

Hema’s Attempt

Kat’s Attempt

Thoughts While Playing

Hema: That was it? So we failed miserably?”

Kat: I hate reading instructions. *dies* It doesn’t even tell you how to play.

Scores

Hema: 8m

Kat: 10m

Our Reviews

Hema: Absolute rubbish. You can’t jump, it was just ridiculous. And it’s not a fair game if you’re telling me that Kat won and she fell over at the same time. Not. A. Fair. Game. I demand a rematch on that one. 1/10

Kat: You couldn’t jump high enough or far enough. It’s destined for failure from the start. The graphics were better than the vacuum game so I’ll give it that. 3/10

Overall review: 2/10

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Appliances Run Amok

Hema’s Attempt

Kat’s Attempt

Thoughts While Playing

Hema: Slippidy slip, slippidy slip

Kat: This one’s a lot harder. I don’t know if I can cope with this.

Scores

Hema: 3/10

Kat: 10/10

Reviews

Hema: This one was okay. I think the way they were all lined up was a bit difficult. I don’t think it was as easy to manoeuvre the guy up and down. I’d give it a 3/10.

Kat: I think that it was the worst game, but I was the best at it. I don’t know what that says about me as a person. Graphics wise it was shocking. I can’t really name any great points about it. It was just rubbish. It moved very slowly, you tripped on the oil even though you weren’t on the oil and you couldn’t tell the dimensions. It would have been better as a tunnel vision view rather than a side view so I give it a 2/10. Plot twist: Bonus point because I was good at it so it’s a 3/10.

Overall review: 3/10

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Final Thoughts

Hema: I was better at vacuuming than I was at gardening. Which is true, I don’t like gardening.

Kat: There is a big market for appliance based video games. Words of wisdom for those reading out there. Create them. Don’t let anybody dull your sparkle and reach for those stars!

To play these games yourself and see if you can beat our scores (almost guaranteed) just follow the links above. Oh and if you’re looking for a way to kill some time on the internet we’ve got some quizzes for you too.

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