Egg Time Rewind
Egg Time Rewind is a side-scrolling shooter squeezed onto a tiny screen just 84 pixels wide, using only two greens. You blast aliens and chip away at a huge egg drifting through space. Losing a ship does not end the run. Instead, time winds back to the start, and your past lives return as ghost ships.
Frank Force created this time-bending egg hunt, and it starts straight from the page without a download. The title screen shows your top score, which the browser remembers for you.
How to play Egg Time Rewind
Press Space or click to begin. A card lists the ships you have left, and then aliens start coming in from the right. Your ship always shoots to the right, and any single hit destroys it.
Each alien you take down is worth one point. Every so often a giant egg drifts across the screen, worth fifty points if you break it open, though every new egg is tougher than the last. Some enemies bob up and down, some drift toward you, and some fire slow shots aimed at your position.
Your fleet is three ships. Each time one goes down, the same wave pattern plays again from the beginning and your score is kept. Every earlier life flies beside you as a flickering ghost that copies its old path and shots, and those ghost bullets still damage enemies. Once the third ship is gone, your score appears and the game goes back to the title.
Controls
| Action | Keyboard | Mouse | Touch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Move | W A S D, arrow keys, or number pad 8 4 6 2 | Ship flies toward the pointer after you click | — |
| Shoot (hold for steady fire) | Space, Shift, or number pad 5 / 0 | Left button | — |
| Start | Space | Click | — |
| Pause | Esc | — | — |
| Restart the whole game | R | — | — |
Tips
- Treat your first ship as an investment. If it spends its life firing at the egg, its ghost keeps hammering the egg in every later loop.
- Pay attention to where enemies come from, since the pattern repeats exactly after each loss. Use the second and third runs to take safer routes.
- Ease off the trigger for a moment to charge a big piercing shot, then release it into a line of enemies or the egg.
- Do not bother shooting the columns of blocks. Each block is extremely tough, so steer through the gap instead.
- Move up or down right after a gunner fires. Its shots aim at where you were, not where you will be.
If you like Egg Time Rewind, try these
Radius RaidSmall-scale space shooting with keys to steer and the mouse to aim at waves in a scrolling arena.
Hurry Cave ShooterTense and brief like the rewinding shooter, with a ten second clock and red chasers in a cave.
Questions
What is the charged shot in Egg Time Rewind?
After you have fired once, stop shooting briefly and a glow builds in front of the ship. The next shot is a large bullet that hits four times as hard and passes through enemies.
Is the enemy layout the same every game?
A fresh game shuffles it, but within that game it repeats for all three ships, which is what lets the ghost replays line up with the action.
Can I use a controller?
Yes. A connected gamepad moves the ship with its left stick and fires with a face button. Touch screens are not supported, though.
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