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February 9, 2010 10:04 AM   Subscribe

Perhaps you like Canabalt. Perhaps you miss Lisa Frank. Or perhaps you just dream... dream of a robot unicorn leaping through stars with rainbow power. The music doesn't have to stop when the game does.
posted by prefpara (26 comments total) 19 users marked this as a favorite
 
I . . . love this!
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 10:09 AM on February 9, 2010


You had my second-grade-golden-retriever-binder-heart at Lisa Frank.
posted by june made him a gemini at 10:09 AM on February 9, 2010 [5 favorites]


Hint: if game does not load, turn off your ad blocker.

I hear if you get past 7000 you get to a planet full of unicorns.
posted by Nelson at 10:47 AM on February 9, 2010 [1 favorite]


I love this game! I just wish there was a way for the unicorn to... not die. I didn't care what happened to the Canabalt guy.
posted by Drexen at 11:01 AM on February 9, 2010


Is this post about trapper keepers? I haven't said that phrase in like a decade.

I recently tried to find a Lisa Frank trapper keeper to keep my (fantasy, YA) writing stuff in, but apparently they're impossible to find these days. My life is empty. :(
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 11:08 AM on February 9, 2010


This is quite possibly the best thing since kitty business trip.
posted by The Whelk at 11:11 AM on February 9, 2010


I hear if you get past 7000 you get to a planet full of unicorns.

Oh! I hope this isn't a spoiler, but I forgot to add that around 5000 points or so there are dolphins.

Wait, what's the opposite of a spoiler?
posted by prefpara at 11:13 AM on February 9, 2010


Wait, what's the opposite of a spoiler?

Inspiration? Motivation?
posted by explosion at 11:15 AM on February 9, 2010 [1 favorite]


refrigerator
posted by Babblesort at 11:34 AM on February 9, 2010 [11 favorites]


Please note: 10,000 gets you DOUBLE DOLPHINS
this is not a joke. This is awesome.
posted by The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew at 12:25 PM on February 9, 2010 [1 favorite]



Please note: 10,000 gets you DOUBLE DOLPHINS

WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME?
posted by The Whelk at 12:32 PM on February 9, 2010 [1 favorite]


Unicorn power!
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 12:38 PM on February 9, 2010 [1 favorite]


The best is when you can arrange it so that the dolphins appear when the song gets to the part about "jump into the ocean". I played this game a lot this week.
posted by bewilderbeast at 4:52 PM on February 9, 2010


A game about unicorns isn't supposed to be this fucking hard.
posted by griphus at 5:44 PM on February 9, 2010


> The music doesn't have to stop when the game does.

Dude, I don't even need that YouTube link to know that. The music has burrowed into my brain and is planting eggs already.
posted by ardgedee at 6:47 PM on February 9, 2010


this whole post is high-quality awesomeness distillate
posted by selenized at 6:54 PM on February 9, 2010


if one of you jerks comes by to inform us that there's some additional something at 20k (baby snow leopards? manatees? mariah carey?), it's totally on you to explain why i had to cancel my wednesday-morning class.
posted by wreckingball at 8:28 PM on February 9, 2010


I want to play this forever.

My dreams will have this as their motif and soundtrack now.
posted by rubah at 9:44 PM on February 9, 2010


......I LOVE THIS.

After a long day of teaching and grading, who doesn't want to come home and be a rainbow unicorn that eats pixies and rocket blasts through stars? And there's fire too? And dolphins? SHUT UP. It does not get any better.
posted by Bibliogeek at 11:20 PM on February 9, 2010


Lovin' it. I didn't know who or what Lisa Frank was until just this last year when I read this.
posted by yiftach at 8:45 AM on February 10, 2010


I don't think that I've ever wanted to be a girl more than when I found out about Lisa Frank. Well, OK, except for when I found out about the multiple orgasms business.
posted by Halloween Jack at 2:55 PM on February 10, 2010


except for when I found out about the multiple orgasms business.

The refraction period in men is largely physical/mental and can be overcome with practice. So there is nothing stopping you from enjoying rainbows, unicorns, and multiple orgasms.
posted by The Whelk at 4:42 PM on February 10, 2010


Related (NSFW).
posted by prefpara at 5:43 PM on February 10, 2010 [1 favorite]


Miss Lisa Frank? Not possible! She's still churning out stickers with unicorns all over the place. I've got a bag full of LF stickers, with a good selection from as recently as last year. Perhaps I shouldn't have admitted that. Hm.

I hadn't played Canabalt before. Fun! Like some of the best stand-up cabinets at convenience stores in the early '80s. Only more awesome.
posted by batmonkey at 1:19 AM on February 11, 2010


Miss Lisa Frank? Not possible!

I don't remember there being so many Brattz-lookalikes on the stickers she had out when we were young. Golden retrievers, pink dolphins, unicorns, parrots, sure, but no people
posted by rubah at 5:55 PM on February 11, 2010


I love this SO MUCH.
posted by The otter lady at 11:40 AM on February 28, 2010


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