Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for iPhone [review]
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Get ready to cause massive mayhem with your iPhone! Guess what showed up in the Apple App Store this week? Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.The main character in the game is Huang Lee, a smart-ass kid who wants to avenge the murder of his mafia boss father and keep control of his father's Hong Kong Triad empire. Just like most GTA games, you start our small doing seedy missions and build your way up to the big time. And yes, you can expect plenty of colorful characters throughout the game.
At $9.99, it's one of the more expensive games in the Apple App Store, but keep in mind, this is a very deep game. It's also one of the most sophisticated iPhone apps we've ever seen. There are plenty of missions to keep the average gamer busy for months.
The controls were a little difficult for us, especially while driving. The game left us wanting some sort of directional-pad or gaming controller add-on for the iPhone. We've seen iPhone gaming grips, but none yet with D-pads.
If you're a big GTA fan, then the eagle-eye perspective in Chinatown Wars will probably remind you of some of the original GTA games from the late '90s. Just like in Grand Theft Auto 2 (now a free PC download), the vehicles all look like Matchbox cars.
If you have a long plane ride in your future or a boring commute, then you'll no doubt enjoy this game. And we're sure it will sell like hotcakes GTA fans with iPhones.
You can download GTA: Chinatown Wars for iPhone and iPod Touch from the Apple App Store here.
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Friday, January 01, 2010
A Mindless Game of "Hexxagon" on New Year's Day
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Happy New Year!!! Shhhh. That was loud. Too hungover to even tweet today? Then play some games. Hexxagon is pretty mindless and easy enough to play while your still a little mushy this morning.The goal of Hexxagon is very easy: two players take turns placing pieces on the board. In the starting position, each player has pieces of his/her color around opposite corners of the board. Players take turns moving any one of their pieces to any square up to two steps away, including diagonally. If the piece is moved to a neighboring (in any direction, including diagonal) square, an additional piece is left on the starting square of the move, so the player has one more piece on the board after the move than before. If the piece is moved to a square two steps away, no new piece is added. After the move, all enemy pieces adjacent to the piece moved change to its color. The game ends when one or both of the players can't move.
The player with the most pieces wins!
PLAY NOW: Hexxagon
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Labels: games
Monday, December 28, 2009
How to Make a Michael Jackson Mii for the Nintendo Wii
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The Nintendo Wii is a great console. It's family friendly, fun and allows you to customize your characters, called Mii's, used in many of the games. Instead of being some generic character in a game, you can be yourself. You can also make a celebrity Mii look alike. So the next time you are playing Baseball on Wii Sports, you might end up with a celebrity Mii on your team like Oprah, Tom Cruise, Michael Jackson or Dwight from the TV show The Office. This tutorial will guide you through making a Mii and sharing it on the Internet as well as give you plenty of celebrity Mii ideas.
Tutorial: How to Make and Share Celebrity Mii's for the Nintendo Wii
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Friday, December 25, 2009
Yeti Christmas [game]
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Here's a fun little Christmas day treat for the whole family... well maybe just the older kids. methodshop.com has a series of Yeti themed games to keep the in-laws busy while you make Christmas dinner.If you aren't yet familiar with Yeti Sports, then prepare yourself for some of the most humorous and addictive games on the Internet. Below you will find several variations of the Yeti game Pingu-Throw as well as some newer Yeti offerings. One of the more violent variants of Pingu-Throw, named "Bloody" features decapitation, spikes, a big spiky club and mines. Yum!
If Yeti isn't your thing, there are plenty of other games in the methodshop.com Arcade including Chris Hansen Soundboard, Christmas Tree, Duck Hunt, 7 Wonders, Cute Pet Nurse, and many more...
Good luck and Merry Christmas!
Yeti Games
- Yeti Pingu-Throw
- Yeti Pingu-Throw (Bloody)
- Yeti Pingu-Throw (Long Shot)
- Yeti Orca Slap
- Yeti Seal Bounce
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Labels: games
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Santa Soundboard [game]
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Santa Soundboard is a fun Flash music game for the kids. Just click on Santa and his reindeer to activate different sounds and add to the song. Merry Christmas!GAME: Santa Soundboard
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Sunday, December 20, 2009
Christmas Tree [game]
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Santa's elves need your help decorating a Christmas Tree. Take the globe ornaments from them and place them on the tree as fast as you can. If an ornament doesn't have a hook, then place it in its colored box. Watch out for bombs and don't drop too many globes. You only have 3 lives. Merry Christmas!!!Play: Christmas Tree [game]
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Thursday, November 26, 2009
Turkey Bowl [game]
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Turkey Bowl is a 3D perspective target game where you celebrate the fall harvest by bowling over turkeys with apples. Aim for the turkeys further away. They are worth more points. Happy Thanksgiving!!!Play: Turkey Bowl
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Making Celebrity Mii's
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The Nintendo Wii is a great console. It's family friendly, fun and allows you to customize your characters, called Mii's, used in many of the games.The "Mii" is a brilliant concept. Instead of being some generic character in a game, you can be yourself. You can also make a celebrity look alike Mii. So the next time you are playing Baseball on Wii Sports, you might end up with a celebrity Mii on your team like Oprah, Tom Cruise or Dwight from the NBC TV show The Office.
This tutorial will guide you through making a Mii and sharing it on the Internet as well as give you plenty of celebrity Mii ideas.
Tutorial: How to Make and Share Celebrity Mii's for the Nintendo Wii
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Saturday, November 07, 2009
Nintendo and Sony Suffer Losses
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Looks like the bad economy is now eating into the traditionally resilient home video game industry. So far this month, both Nintendo and Sony have announced losses.Sales of Nintendo's popular Wii console dropped down 43% during the 2nd and 3rd quarter this year. In an effort to help boost holiday sales, Nintendo has reduced the cost of the Wii from $249 to $199.
Nintendo's rival, Sony, is also feeling the bite of a bad economy. Sony reported a Q2 net loss of $292 million and their overall sales are down by 20%. However, Sony feels that sales of movies and TV shows on their new PSP Go personal WiFi gaming device will help grow revenues from both content and hardware sales.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Virtual Pumpkin Carving [game]
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Like carving Halloween pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns but don't want to get your hands all dirty with goopy pumpkin innards? This virtual pumpkin carving game won't only keep your hands clean, but it's fun too.
Play: Virtual Pumpkin Carving
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Twitter Client for the C64 [video]
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Get ready for some 1980's computing to meet Web 2.0. A guy named Johan Van den Brande has made a Twitter client for Commodore 64 (C64).The C64 was first introduced by Commodore in August 1982. It was a revolutionary computer and boosted the best graphics and sound capabilities of its time. The C64 had 64KB of RAM, a 985Khz processor and could display screen resolutions as high as 320×256. Compared to computers today, the processing power in your bedroom alarm clock could dance circles around the C64.
You don't see too many Commodore computers these days. After 25 years, most people have either thrown them away or they are buried in an attic or garage. So if you want to try using Breadbox, your best bet will probably be to install a C64 emulator on your Mac or PC. We have a methodshop.com tutorial that will walk you through the installation of a C64 emulator if you are interested.
In the video below, Johan Van den Brande shows off his Breadbox software and loads a screen from Twitter. Skip to 2:45 if you don't want to see the camera setup and the application loading from diskette.
If you're curious, Johan posted a more technical description on his website.
"It's a Commodore 128D running in C64 mode. All Commodore 128 and 128D systems could either run in C128, CP/M or C64 mode, so it's like having 3 computers in one. This isn't emulation as the C128 has the same core hardware as a C64. Whether you're running in 128 or 64 mode is just a matter of how fast the 8502 CPU is running, which ROM is active, and whether you have 128K or 64K of RAM available."
After watching the video you may be scratching your head wondering why someone would even bother making a C64 Twitter client. It's all just nerdy thrills ladies.
If you're still not sure what all this Twitter talk is all about, then this article might help: How to Explain Twitter to Your Grandma.
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Labels: games, social networking, tech news, tutorial
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Teen Throws Temper Tantrum After Mom Cancels World Of Warcraft Account [video]
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What's the worst part about being a teenager? Acne? Bullies? Awkward growth spurts? What about having your mom cancel your World of Warcraft account? Then what if your little brother secretly records your resulting teenage temper tantrum and posts it on YouTube?We're not kidding. After learning his account was canceled, the teenager writhes around in such angry fury that his clothes come off. He also proceeds to beat himself in the face with his own shoe and aimlessly walk in and out of a closet. If you checkout wafflepwn's YouTube channel, you'll see his brother has a tendency to overreact and they've been discretely filming his teen tantrums for years.
Enjoy your summer kid. The Warcraft Temper Tantrum video is a huge viral hit. Your first day back at school in September is going to be a little Besharded.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Geeky Tattoos [pics]
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Marriages, fame, and fortune... everything comes and goes. That is, everything except a tattoo. Tattoos are permanently inked onto your body. So when someone gets a geeky tattoo, it just makes it all the more special.Can you tell what video game tattoo is on the lower back of the woman above? What about the image to the right? Have you seen that coding language before?
PICTS: Geeky Tatoos
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Tutorial: Making Celebrity Miis for the Nintendo Wii
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The Nintendo Wii is a great console. It's family friendly, fun and allows you to customize your characters, called Miis, used in many of the games.The "Mii" is a brilliant concept. Instead of being some generic character in a game, you can be yourself. You can also make a celebrity look alike Mii. That way the next time you are playing Baseball on Wii Sports, you might end up with a celebrity Mii on your team like Oprah, Borat (pictured below), Charlie Brown (pictured on right) or even Dwight Schrute from the American TV show The Office.
This tutorial will guide you through making a Mii and sharing it on the Internet as well as give you plenty of celebrity Mii ideas.
Tutorial: How to Make and Share Celebrity Miis for the Nintendo Wii
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
How Russians Play Pac-Man [pic]
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Pac-Man really is a timeless cultural icon. The 1980's classic arcade game continues to inspire people around the world from stop motion animators and sculpters to Russian explorers.The photo above of Pac-Man and Inky (the ghost) was taken outside of Moscow. This wasn't a Pac-Man gorilla marketing campaign or publicity stunt. It's just two Russian guys doing some exploring. Maybe they'll explore the local Moscow bar scene. Who knows, after a couple bottles of Vodka, they might look like the real thing.
In case all this Pac-Man talk makes you feel like gobbling up some ghosts yourself, here's a web browser based version of Pac-Mac. Have fun.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
QWERTY Drums - Game
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Ever dream of transforming your computer's QWERTY keyboard into a synthesized drum machine? Maybe not, but doesn't it sound like fun? Just press any letter on your keyboard and QWERTY Drums will play a drum sound or sound effect.QWERTY Drums might be the most fun you've had in your cubicle since your company's last holiday party. What are you waiting for? Go serenade your cubemates... but this time try to keep your pants on. And don't press the "v" key over and over again you dirty bastard.
[hat tip Holiday Matinee]
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Duck Hunt Science
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If you grew up during the 1980's, then perhaps you might remember playing an 8-bit shooter called Duck Hunt. Released for the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) in 1985, Duck Hunt was one of the first games to use the "NES Zapper" or light gun.
At the time, my little brother and I didn't care how the gun worked, we just didn't want the dog to laugh at us. Sometimes we would hold the light gun against the glass of the TV and try to cheat. 20 years later I'm more interested in learning how the game worked than preventing the dog from laughing at me.
So how does the light gun work? How exactly does Duck Hunt know what you were pointing at when you pull the trigger? According to an article on The Straight Dope, the gun isn't shooting the TV, it's the other way around. When you pull the light gun trigger, the entire screen blackens briefly and a white duck flashes on the screen where the duck(s) are located. If the photo sensor in the light gun detects a quick flash from dark to light, then you have a dead duck (and a non-laughing dog). Basically the TV shoots a light pulse and the "gun detects it, not the other way around."PLAY: Duck Hunt
Finding a working NES, light gun and original Duck Hunt cartridge can be a little tricky and require some time searching around on eBay. If you're looking for a quick fix, you can play an online Shockwave version of Duck Hunt here. You'll have to settle for a mouse instead of a light gun, but you'll probably have fun anyway.
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Labels: games
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Oregon Trail for iPhone
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Mobile games developer Gameloft has released an updated version of The Oregon Trail. The game costs $5.99 in the iTunes App Store and introduces several new gameplay elements to the elementary school classic.The game now includes 5 skill-based mini-games, side-missions and random events like bandits. Of course, everyone's favorite gameplay elements like hunting and random outbreaks of disease are still included.
iTunes Download: Oregon Trail for iPhone & iPod Touch
For you youngsters out there who don't know about the original Oregon Trail game, it was an educational computer game about American pioneer life that has a long history in North American school districts and homes. The game was inspired by the real-life Oregon Trail and was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the trail. The player takes the role of a party of people, of a selected profession, traveling across the Oregon Trail in a Conestoga wagon.
The original Oregon Trail game was developed by John Hoffmann, Anthony Stone and Pablo Jara Meza in 1971 and produced by MECC in 1974. The game was inspired by the real-life Oregon Trail and was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the trail.
Oregon Trail was very popular among American elementary school students in the mid 1980s to early 1990s. Many students in the United States had access to the game at school in computer labs full of Apple II computers. 20-30 years later the game has become culturally iconic and there remains an aspect of nostalgia for those who grew up playing the game. The game is also ridiculed for featuring incessant dysentery and dysentery-caused deaths.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
iPod Click Wheel Games
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Don't have an iPhone or iPod Touch? As long as you have a "click wheel" model iPod, you can still play games from the iTunes Store. Unfortunately your selection is dramatically reduced compared to the App Store, but there are still some good games available like Bejeweled, Sims Bowling and Texas Hold'em.REVIEW: iPod Click Wheel Games
Here's the complete list of iPod Click Wheel Games available in the iTunes Store (as of April 2009):
- Asphalt 4: Elite Racing
- Bejeweled
- Block Breaker Deluxe
- Bomberman
- Brain Challenge
- Bubble Bash
- Cake Mania 3
- Chalkboard Sports Baseball
- Chess
- Backgammon
- Chinese Checkers
- Crystal Defenders
- CSI: Miami
- Cubis 2
- iQuiz
- Lode Runner
- Lost
- Mahjong
- Mini Golf
- Monopoly
- Ms. PAC-MAN
- Musika
- Mystery Mansion Pinball
- Naval Battle
- PAC-MAN
- Peggle
- Phase
- Pirates: Aegir’s Fire
- Pole Position: Remix
- Real Soccer 2009
- Reversi
- Royal Solitaire
- Scrabble
- The Sims Bowling
- The Sims DJ
- The Sims Pool
- Slyder Adventures
- Song Summoner
- Sonic The Hedgehog
- SPORE Origins
- Star Trigon
- Sudoku
- Tamagotchi: ‘Round the World
- Tetris
- Texas Hold ’em
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour
- Trivial Pursuit
- UNO
- Vortex
- Wonder Blocks
- Yahtzee
- Zuma
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Monday, April 06, 2009
Bloody Penguinz - Game
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What happens when you drown a penguin in gunpowder, add a heavy dose of Rambo and throw it all into a video game? Say hello to Penguinz - the goriest penguin Flash game since Yeti Bloody.Play: Penguinz
With 15 enemies, 4 bosses, 9 weapons, and 39 upgrades... this might be the most mayhem your office cubicle has seen in months.
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Labels: games
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Bloody Fun Day - Game
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What would Death himself do if he were surrounded by ultra-cute critters? Kill them, of course! In the game Bloody Fun Day, you play the reaper, who needs to kill red cuties in order to stay alive. Killing other cuties will help charge super powers that make it easier to get to the red cuties. Click an adjacent hexagon to attack it. Use the buttons along the bottom of the screen to activate your any special power ups. Your health decreases every time you make an attack, but killing red cuties will give you back health. Your health is in the top left of the screen. Don't let it reach zero!How long can you survive before the dwindling cutie population stifles your life? You can’t help but have a bloody fun day in this addictive puzzler. Good luck!
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Labels: games
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Four Leaf Clover - St. Patrick's Day Game
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Four Leaf Clover is pretty mindless and easy enough to play while your still a little hungover from the St. Patrick's Day Parade. The goal of Four Leaf Clover is very easy: you have to find all 7 four leaf clovers in the field. But hurry. You are being timed. And guess carefully. You lose points each time you make a wrong guess. Have fun and may the luck of the Irish be with you!
Play: Four Leaf Clover
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Christian Bale Soundboard
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An actor's instruments are his emotions. There are tricks to it, but it is more alchemy than science. And there are times, like when a Director of Photography crosses your eyeline during a scene, when you just have to let 'er rip.Should this ever happen to you, you'll be prepared, as we've got a handy Christian Bale soundboard to aid in your efforts. Now you can terrorize the crew and tell them they are nice guys at the same time. Enjoy!
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
Duck Hunt for iPhone
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If you grew up during the 1980's, then perhaps you might remember playing an 8-bit shooter called Duck Hunt. Released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985, Duck Hunt was one of the first games to use the "NES Zapper" or light gun.Finding a working NES, light gun and original Duck Hunt cartridge 25 years later can be a little tricky and require some time searching around on eBay. But if you're looking for a quick Duck Hunt fix, you can play an online version of Duck Hunt here, or buy an iPhone version from the iTunes Store.
The iPhone version of Duck Hunt isn't exactly legit, so buy it while you can. It's clearly a quick port of the original game. Because the iPhone version of Duck Hunt was done without Nintendo's blessing, it's missing some of the core elements that made the NES version such a classic. For example, 1) the iPhone version is missing the dog that picks up the ducks or laughs at you when you miss, 2) the Zapper gun and 3) sound.
A lawyer from Nintendo will probably pull the game from the iTunes App Store before the end of the month. And don't expect Nintendo to make an iPhone version of Duck Hunt anytime soon. Remember, Nintendo has their own portable gaming system, the Nintendo DS.
So if you really want to play Duck Hunt on your iPhone, buy it soon. The unofficial version of Duck Hunt sells for $0.99 in the iTunes App Store.
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Thursday, January 01, 2009
Bubble Shooter - Game
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Happy New Year!!! Shhhh. That was loud. Too hungover to even read status updates on Facebook? Then play some games. Bubble Shooter is pretty mindless and easy enough to play while your still a little crispy this morning.
The goal of Bubble Shooter is very easy: you have to clean off the field by matching 3 or more bubbles of the same color. But hurry. More bubbles will appear on the field in timed increments. In order advance to the next level you must detonate every ball on the board. Master your skills and have fun! (Stop yelling already!)
Play: Bubble Shooter
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Labels: games
Thursday, December 25, 2008
A Very Yeti Christmas
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Here's a fun little Christmas day treat for the whole family. MethodShop has a series of Yeti themed games to keep the in laws busy while you make Christmas dinner.If you aren't yet familiar with Yeti Sports, then prepare yourself for one of the most humorous and addictive games on the Internet. Below you will find several variations of the Yeti game Pingu-Throw as well as some newer Yeti offerings. One of the more violent variants of Pingu-Throw, named "Bloody," features decapitation, spikes, a big spiky club and mines.
If Yeti isn't your thing, there are plenty of other games in the MethodShop.com Arcade including Pac-Man, N, Duck Hunt, Donkey Kong, and many more...
Good luck and Merry Christmas!
Yeti Games
- Yeti Pingu-Throw
- Yeti Pingu-Throw (Bloody)
- Yeti Pingu-Throw (Long Shot)
- Yeti Orca Slap
- Yeti Seal Bounce
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