March 06, 2004
SO CLOSE, YETI SO FAR
I've written several times about the addictive little game that features a yeti smacking a penguin Home Run Derby-style. It morphed eventually, as things on the Web tend to do, into a steroid-choked version (Think Barry Bonds) and a blood-soaked Mad Max version. There's also a version in which an orca smacks penguins with his tail, but that one was too complex. Simplicity was this game concept's strongest virtue.
Apparently the history of the game, which was created in January, is just as fascinating.
Apparently, the game's originator was a mystery at first, until it was discovered that a guy named Chris at an Austrian game company invented it. The phenomenon has now grown to the point that it has sprung an offshoot known as Yeti Sports. The complete history of the Yeti Penguin Game can be found here.