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Arcade and indie game companies have it harder than the producers of big name titles like Halo, Gears of War, and Call of Duty because they have to impress and sell to a smaller market. Because of that reason I decided to spend some of my time at PAX East 2011 showing the people behind those smaller titles some love. While walking the convention floor during day two I came across a booth with an arcade game that at first looked like a newer version of Tetris, that was until I got a closer look and realized that this game is far from just matching the colors of falling blocks. The arcade title that I fell in love with at PAX East 2011 is called Slam Bolt Scrappers.
Slam Bolt Scrappers is a strange game. Strange in an interesting way. The basic premise is that you have a building area and your opponent has a building area. You then fight over crates which can be dropped in your own building area in a sort of psuedo-tetris way. When these crates are arranged into square shapes they form turrets that shoot at the other player’s turrets. Oh! And there’s different coloured crates for different types of turrets. Also there’s ninjas and giant robots. Got all that? Good.
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Build and brawl in this fast and frantic mash-up! Race your opponents to build the most powerful towers in Slam Bolt City while defending against deceptively adorable baddies and hugely epic bosses.
