Here’s hoping you – and Joe – are up to the task.

Chasm is an absolute joy to play, and will consume many, many hours of your life. Will Joe save the day? Will he ever overcome his laziness? That, readers, is for you to find out. Being completely hydro-centric, the town needs its water restored for everything from electricity (so its residents can have power to watch TV) to cooling (nobody likes warm beer!). It wasn’t so much that the console was better suited for these games, but that EA kept pumping out fantastic sports titles for the 3DO. And John Madden Football was among the titles that helped cement that reputation.

A point-and-click adventure similar to Monkey Island, Chasm follows Joe, a lazy but generally well-meaning duck-billed platypus, tasked to repair Chasmton’s water supply. John Madden Football (1994) The 3DO was the best console for sports games for a while. Rather, it is a case of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. That being said, not one of those are reason enough to for Chasm to earn the title of greatest flash game of all time. How is it that a lesser known game from Victoria, Australia made it all the way to the top of this list? Chasm has great graphics, challenging puzzles, and a distinctly tongue-in-cheek sense of humor.

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