Flashing fun for the weekend

As if you don't have enough time wasters for your day, here are a duo of nifty Flash games you can play with your web browser of choice.

Indestructotank is a game for your inner Stunticon. You drive an indestructible humvee across a battlefield while various aircraft passing overhead drop bombs on you. Since you're indestructible (duh), the bombs won't hurt you -- but they will toss you into the air, allowing you to somersault into said enemies and destroy them.

What makes the game really fun is when you maneuver yourself to chain your bounces from one target to the next, forming combos of mass destruction. And in a final twist, as you progress through the game, you get to increase the frequency of enemy attacks, which gives you more opportunities to flip out and smash your indestructoself all over the landscape.

Wildrider, this game's for you!

Just in time for Easter, Chick Chick Boom is a game that encourages you to destroy baby chicks. Or, at least, cute little colored dots that sorta vaguely if you really squint look like baby chicks, anyway.

Anyway, the game pits you and your team of cute yellow bouncing chicks dots against the evil Poster Bunny and his legion of evil black chicks dots, both groups placed in adjoining pens. By drawing various shapes, you and Poser Bunny throw bombs, drop weights, call lightning strikes, and otherwise wreak destruction on the other side's chicks (oops). Other icons provide defenses for enemy attacks and rudimentary directions to your chicks (okay, okay); the accuracy of your drawing controls the strength and efficiency of your attacks and countermeasures.

The whole thing is sponsored by Nintendo, and as you progress through the levels, you unlock computer wallpaper for their various video games. But the branding and advertising are unobtrusively low-key, and the game itself is worth playing for its simple, Wile E. Coyote cartoonish violence.

The only hitch with the game is that drawing shapes with a computer mouse can be rather tricky, depending on how clean your desk and how precise your mouse are. The game is just begging to be played with a stylus -- and, since Nintendo is behind it, has me hopeful that a low-budget version of this game for the Nintendo DS will be released someday.