| Tuesday, June 1, 2004 |
11:52 - It only gets better
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Some months ago, I noted an online Flash game involving a Yeti, penguins, a big wooden club, and range markers. It was extremely well animated and sickeningly addictive.
But that was just the beginning. According to Mark O., it was "a bit of a pump-primer for a new gaming company that turned up at E3 this year".
Here is their site: Yeti Sports. Four awesome Flash games that you'll wish you'd never started playing, because you won't be able to stop.
Of course, the same cannot quite be said of The Anti-Bush Online Adventure (thanks to James A. for throwing himself on this grenade). It's a "fun and fact-filled adventure about the most appalling Presidency in the history of the United States". In which Bush is aided by Voltron in order to rape the Statue of Liberty, and the corporate pigdogs feeding at Bush's trough are referred to as "lobbiests".
I love getting my education through computers!
UPDATE: Then again, there's always this (thanks to JMH for reminding me). You know, maybe there is something to this whole "impressionable youth" thing—if it comes down to "making patriotism hip through video games", well, I guess that's what worked for recycling and saving the whales and hating big corporations...
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Brian Tiemann
