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Yetisports

Yetisports (also known as Pingu Throw) is a web-based Flash game that originally appeared on the Internet in January 2004. The goal of the original game is to have a yeti smack a penguin with a club and try to…

19 January 2004

Yetisports is a sport developed by Chris Hilgert, released 19 January 2004 on Web browser.

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What Yetisports is

Yetisports is a sport game developed by Chris Hilgert and released in 2004. It is available on Web browser only. It runs on Adobe Flash Player.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Yetisports (also known as Pingu Throw) is a web-based Flash game that originally appeared on the Internet in January 2004. The goal of the original game is to have a yeti smack a penguin with a club and try to get it to fly as far as possible. The original Yetisports game features no name other than the words "1978 Reinhold + Yeti", a reference to Reinhold Messner's claim to have found Yetis. The game is very popular and soon after release, there was a quick succession of many variants created by multiple people on the internet. None of these are officially sponsored by Chris Hilgert, even though many copy the original almost exactly save certain small changes. One of the more violent…
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How it plays

Its themes are comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Yetisports launched on 19 January 2004, within three weeks of Pokémon FireRed Version, Metroid: Zero Mission, Pokémon FireRed, LeafGreen and Pokémon LeafGreen Version.

Released around the same time: Pokémon FireRed Version, Metroid: Zero Mission, Pokémon FireRed, LeafGreen, Pokémon LeafGreen Version.

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When did Yetisports come out?
Yetisports was released on 19 January 2004 for Web browser.

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