Flash Game CHALLENGE: Bungee Bear

If you've never heard of Orisinal Games, you're missing out. The site has been around since 2000 and the artist, Ferry Halim, just keeps adding content. There's no schedule; the additions are random, but I just keep coming back. One commenter on the site's guestbook made the comparison to opening an old toy box. So true! I hadn't visited in years, and then I accidentally imported some old internet favorites, and there it was, sitting waiting to be clicked.

I used to play these games all the time, and my very favorite used to be Bungee Bear. The game, like all others on the site, is beautifully crafted. Soft colors, pleasant music, and simple but original game mechanics add up to a really fun time. Now, the plot of Bungee Bear is this: you are a cute, hungry bear, and you are on a bridge just downriver from a waterfall, and below you in the river are delicious apples. You have a backpack and a bungee cord. How are you to get the apples? Jump off the bridge with your bungee cord, right?

But you are such a cute, light little bear that your weight will not let you bungee all the way down to the river! Whatever will you do? And what are all these bunnies doing carrying spears? Bunnies! The bridge is being overrun by attack bunnies! Aaaah! But wait... you are a bear... with a BACKPACK. Dun dun dun.

Solution: catch those cute-but-vicious little bunny rabbits in your backpack, thus weighing you down enough to bungee down to the river below and retrieve the tasty apples for your lunch. And to become light enough to pop back up to the bridge? Dump the mean old bunnies in the river. Muahahaha. Get bunnies, bungee to apples, dump bunnies in river, repeat.

I never stopped to think about how weird this game is.

Oh well, love it anyway. And I CHALLENGE YOU to beat the score I just got while playing:

22,030

And that's me out of practice. Some tips: never look down for the apple unless you're invincible. The instructions page will tell you all about how to play, and there are little blue orbs you can catch to make yourself invincible while you check where to bungee for the apple. Don't leave yourself vulnerable to the bunnies on the bridge.

Second, if you already have enough bunnies to bungee, and the attack bunnies are closing in and you're about to lose all your collected bunnies in an attack, just jump, even if you don't know where the apple is. You still get points for jumping even if you miss the apple. And you'll know where the apple is for next time.

Good luck! Tell me your score in comments! And if you have a favorite flash game, suggest another challenge!