Andrewhy - January 23rd, 2004

11:40 pm - Super addictive flash game

A meme in progress:

Use your club-yielding yeti to hit the penguin as far as you can. My best score is 320.02. See if you can beat that.

Penguin Game

The strange phrase on the rock, "1978 Reinhold + Yeti" apparently refers to the famous climber Reinhold Messner, who claims to have seen a yeti (abominable snowman). In 1978, he climbed Mt. Everest without an oxygen tank, which leads some people to think that perhaps he's suffered some brain damage.

As a testament to how fast these things spread, I found that some European blogs started posting links to this game (many on various Russian websites) on Monday. By Wednesday, bloggers here in the US began linking to it.

There's also a "longshot" version which allows you to hit the penguin twice as far.

http://tuxinator.sytes.net/pinguin.swf

PS: If any of these links are down, search around. There's copies posted of this all over the place.