Seal Bounce!

The Bureau logged Seal Bounce! into the recovered-software registry after retrieval from the golden age of browser games. Records credit Chris Hilgert as the responsible party. It runs in your browser exactly as it once ran in a computer lab you were probably not supposed to be playing games in.

Field notes describe Seal Bounce! as better than whatever you were doing. Recommended dosage: fifteen minutes, renewable. This file circulates quietly — consider yourself among the few.

Original label: In this game, you play with 2 clicks of the mouse. The first click starts the yeti windmilling his arms (which holds a penguin), and the second click makes him release the penguin between two glaciers with seals sticking out at regular intervals. The seals hit the penguin higher, which is useful as the penguin will not go higher than 300 if thrown straight up, whereas with bounces it is possible to go substantially past 400. It was originally released in 2004 for Flash and mobile devices. In 2010, the game was remade for the PC featuring updated graphics. Later, the game was also remade for iOS and Android with updated graphics.

Curator’s note: staff replayed this one “for cataloguing purposes” three times.

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