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Games released in 2006

5 games released in 2006 and reviewed here, best first.

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The Fancy Pants Adventures: World 1

A three-level, stick-figure platformer that Brad Borne built alone in Flash and put up on Newgrounds on 14 March 2006 — and the one Flash game whose momentum-and-wall-jump movement was good enough to get itself remade twice, once by EA on consoles and once by its own creator on Steam, nearly two decades later.

7.5 / 10

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Bowmaster Prelude

A 2006 archery-and-castle-defense hybrid built by one small team to advertise its own sequel — thirty levels of click-and-drag ballistics and troop economy that still turns up millions of plays on the portals that hosted it, wearing a name that gets it mixed up with a completely different game every single day.

7 / 10

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Line Rider

A Slovenian design student's 2006 art-school sketch — draw a line, watch a sledder ride it under gravity — became a global phenomenon with no goal, no score and, deliberately, no eraser, and the question of whether it counts as a game is still the most interesting thing about it.

7 / 10

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