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Lawn Mower
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About the game
Lawn Mower is a single-screen arcade game about cutting grass. Your mower keeps rolling forward on its own; all you choose is where it turns. Mow every patch of a lawn to finish it, then move on to the next, ten lawns in all.
The catch is fuel. The tank drains as you drive, and when it is empty the lawn has to be started again. Now and then a fuel can appears somewhere on the grass you have already cut, and driving over it fills the tank. On later lawns, flowers and stones get in the way, and running over them costs a lot of fuel.
Shiru made it in about three weeks for the NES Coding Competition 2011, starting from a lawn mower game he remembered from old Soviet and ZX Spectrum computers, and released it into the public domain.
Playing it here
This is a homebrew game made for the NES: a new game by an independent developer, not a commercial release. It runs here in jsnes, an NES emulator written in JavaScript. Click Play now and press Enter to start.
F2 saves the current state of the game in this browser and F4 brings it back. A gamepad also works.
Controls
| Key | NES button | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Arrow keys | Control Pad | steer the mower |
| X or Z (held) | A or B | drive faster |
| Enter | Start | start, pause and resume |
| F2 / F4 | — | save / load the state |
A few things worth knowing
Fast is not always better. Holding the button saves time, but leaves you less time to react. Let go near flowers and stones.
Fuel only shows up on cut grass. The cans appear on the part you have already mowed, so a tidy route that leaves cut lanes behind you keeps the refills within reach.
Mow in strips. Going back and forth in long lines wastes less fuel than chasing the last scattered patches at the end.
Credits and licence
Lawn Mower was programmed, drawn and scored by Shiru, and released into the public domain. Testing by Alone Coder, B00daW, Pinball Wizzard and MrFTBN. The author asks players who enjoy the game to consider a donation to charity through the Donate link on his website. The original licence text is linked from this page.