Just like Kung Fu (or Kung Fu Master, the arcade original) a drunken, raging Santa battles his way through waves of foes - including Christmas shoppers and elves - before fighting bosses on five levels. if a chiptune "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" isn't your cup of nog, you can choose the soundtracks of Ice Climbers, Slalom, Dr. Octoroc, Gyromite or the original Kung Fu. Be sure to check out the gruesome Game Over screen, too. It'll fill you with holiday cheer.

If the Flash version isn't your speed, or your connection's slow, there's also a downloadable version.

Santa Fu [I-Mockery]

Here's a delightful little flash game that trivializes a serious problem faced by millions of Americans - the need to fart on a long elevator ride. You're accompanied by the most clueless olfactory-impaired elevator attendant ever, as every one I've ever ridden with could detect the presence of fart in concentrations as small as one poot particle per billion.

I get to about seven floors and 21,000 points before I either rip enough ass that the bellman notices or I crap my pants (that is the implied ending, I believe.) Anyone have any protips? Besides, you know, taking the stairs?

Oh, and let me tell you what else is hilarious - crop dusting Plunkett. That guy always pins it on McWhertor.

Elevator Fart [GamesGames]

Balloon Boy will test your knowledge of rudimentary game physics as you decide which gulls to avoid and which to shoot during a journey through the American news cycle.

Protips: You need two shots to kill a gull. Just one to pick up time and rainbow goodies. Only one shot on screen at a time

Balloon Boy was developed by Immad Akhund, Jude Gomila and James Smith, three 25-year-olds. The game's purpose seems to ask "How Many $$$ of Taxpayer Money Can you Waste?"

Balloon Boy Game - Waste Taxpayer Money! [site via Game Politics]

There are multipliers for speedy finishes, and objects that can temporarily shrink you, turn you into a ball so you may pass certain gates, or traps that significantly expand you as a penalty. A web cookie allows you to resume your progress later. Add in an excellent soundtrack and you have a great Sunday timewaster. Enjoy.

Growbox was developed by Flash Tangent.

Growbox [King.com]

At which point you face even more stupid-ridiculous odds, and the game becomes either a snide commentary on the JRPG formula, or a subtle hint that it's really all about resource allocation.

I made it to the level with three Cthulhu blobs and the Blobby Builder before saying the hell with it. Anyone else get further?

Turn Based Battle [Armor Games]

This is Ball Droppings, which, despite its unfortunate name, is a good way to kill time before dinner if you're bored with surfing the web and don't feel like firing up your console for just 20 minutes. The premise - balls drop from a point on the screen, and you create boundaries off which they rebound. When they do, depending on the ball's speed, it creates a tone. It's an experimental game/application for Google's chrome browser but it works in most anything.

You can mess with the gravity and the drop rate to create some spooky-sounding tone patterns. Once I replicate the Close Encounters of the Third Kind signal, I'll move on to something else.

Balldroppings [Site]

Everyone who's played this and blogged about it so far instead have created abstract art or raced each other to a fastest death time, some taking hours. I tried halfheartedly to work on clearing a line, but once you screw up the first piece and realize just how goddamn long it'll take to lay the foundation just to clear the line above it - forget it. I start dropping pieces like I'm a kindergartener drizzling out colored sandcastles.

Certainly there is at least one masochist out in Kotakopolis who's willing to try to clear a line, or race their way to death. Good luck. Post your times in the comments below. Winner gets a big ol cookie.

Tetoris [Soviet Russia, via IndieGames.com]

I had no idea zombies could be considered livestock. Anyhow, this short, to-the-point timekiller just went up this weekend. You can challenge others to beat your scores via Facebook.

Zombie Herder [ArcadeLoco]

The object, bobsled your shopping cart down a hill and then up a ramp, collecting dollars for the distance, height and difficulty of your jump. Use them to buy upgrades such as better wheels, rocket boosters, and ride-along groupies, all of which alter the trajectory and length of your jumps. While you have unlimited lives, crashing will kill any groupies onboard, and you'll have to go back and "buy" them up all over again.

Protip: There doesn't seem to be any performance bonus to hopping in the cart (up arrow) when the game prompts you to do so. And with an engine-equipped cart, your afterburner kicks on as soon as you hop in. Just hold down the run key at the start as long as you can; the guy will hop in automatically, and your jets will stay on longer through midair.

Shopping Cart Hero [Monkey Want Banana]

You'll figure out how not to defecate in your britches easily enough, but once you get a peek at the 10 achievements for the game, you'll start experimenting with all the ways you can send the brown fax, whether that's in the bowl or in your drawers. I've got about four of the achievements so far. Let me know how to get the others, in the comments.

Don't Shit Your Pants [Kongregate, thanks Teddy L.]

It's a pretty melancholy day today, and The Majesty of Colors just hit me in the right spot.

The Majesty of Colors [Kongregate via auntie pixelante]

HDOS Databank request 01 [Game Reclaim via IndieGames] [Update: mirror at Kongregate]

Sorry about the lame screengrab. I couldn't get actual gameplay, for reasons that will become obvious.

Don't Shoot the Puppy [rrrrthats5rs.com]

The opening tutorial is pretty helpful, and many of the opening levels are easy to beat in minutes or seconds. As for the general appeal of flash games, I think XKCD summed it up best.

Fantastic Contraption [Site, thanks Alex B]

Marshmallow [forrent via IndieGames]

星探３ [hoshi saga 3] [nekogames via IndieGames]

Bounce Shot [Nigoro via IndieGames]

Aether [Armor Games via IndieGames]

Attention Hog [Chris Basmajian via Water Cooler Games]