a game.

controls:
arrow keys, particularly up.

A game of missile dodging.

This started out as an attempt to make a better version of Nitrome's Mega Mash, and it gradually grew ever closer back toward ROM CHECK FAIL and WarioWare Inc., the initiators of the 'mashup' genre.

It's primarily an intimation about the tendency of old arcade games to have a strong vertical dynamic to their design. In many such games, the player occupies the bottom half of the screen, and the CPU opponent controls the top half. Every five seconds, ABOVE v. BELOW randomly swaps its bottom-screen player-character and top-screen antagonist with those from several such vertical arcade games, demonstrating that the vertical dynamic inherent in these games allows such match-ups to be both playable and interesting.

Play the game using only the mouse!

This mashes up the following games (don't read if you don't want spoilers):
* Pong
* Breakout
* Space Invaders
* Pinball
* Missile Command
* Pang (a.k.a Buster Bros)
* Crystal Quest (admittedly not a vertical game, but included for variety).

There's no sound because I didn't feel like it.

You are an officer responsible for deploying the experimental Skippingstone missile against the cities of your nation's enemies. This unusual missile has no targeting system, but can be guided by magnetic towers toward its target. Click and drag to move the towers, then press space to launch them. For reasons known only to your superiors, the enemy cannot prevent you from moving the towers at will. And, due to a very aggressive weapons manufacturing deal, you can use as many missiles as you want.

Fight the evil Space Head (you can't win)
Destroy the missiles before they hit you.
Or you will die.