HERE'S the rundown on the rest of the Arcade games:
• Lily Padz. Use the arrow key and the space bar to hop a frog home. As his energy runs down, you can leap up and catch bugs. A pleasant diversion.
• Dex Dangerous and the Lunar Lugbotz. Asteroids with better graphics. You, as courageous Dex, a spacefaring lion, must defeat the enemy ships trying to get your asteroid. Fast moving and fun.
• Lunch Letters. This is Webkinz' version of my favorite "Letter Invaders," the Space Invaders-like typing game that comes with Typing Tutor software. As letters fall from the sky, you must type them to get rid of them before they hit the ground. The grumpy goat janitor complains if they do.
• Operation Gumball. I have yet to understand this game. Something about gumballs and numbers. Headache time.
• Picnic. More ants looking for food. Played once or twice. Eh.
• Polar Plunge. You must jump the polar bear on the sled over various obstacles like trees, snowmen, etc. as he careens downhill. I never make it very far, but love trying.
• Pumpkin Patch Protector. You must direct the farmer's jet of water to drive off the crows raiding his pumpkin patch...but don't use up all the water! The fewer pumpkins stolen, the higher your score. An okay game.
• Quizzy's Word Challenge. Ah, my other favorite. You must form ajacent letters on a square grid into words, and achieve a certain point goal on each level. You get the most points if you use the center letter last. Usually the center letter is something like B or H. Fiendish and wonderful for logophilists.
• Stack 'Em Up Solitaire. Self-explanatory. I've never played this.
• Tile Towers. It's MahJongg with Webkinz denizens instead of bams, cracks, and other Chinese characters. Also fun.
• Tulip Trouble 2. For the very dexterous in later levels. Bad fairies have invaded the tulip patch and confined all the good fairies in the blossoms. You must click on a good fairy when it appears in a blossom to free it. If you free a bad fairy you lose time and she laughs evilly at you. Those little critters move fast...click faster, you fool!
• Wacky Zingoz. This is the Webkinz version of a Flash game that was passed around the Web at Christmastime where a penguin drops from a cliff and you as the polar bear whack him at exactly the right time to send him out the longest distance that you can. To be more animal friendly the penguin is now a funny blobby yellow masochistic critter being batted the distance by an ogre-critter, and he giggles when he's hit. (If you hit him the correct way he warbles "Zingoman!" and strikes a Superman pose, which is good for a giggle.)
• Wacky's Bullzeye Batter. Same two critters, but this time you're going for accuracy on a target, not distance. I find this one difficult.
• Where's Wacky. It's like the old game "Concentration." You flip cards over and must match two. As the levels progress, there are more characters to match. Sharpen your memory on this one.
• Zacky's Quest. Frogger with a little purple version of the yellow Zingoz in the Wacky games. Zacky must cross rivers, roads, ponds, floating logs, etc, and avoid monsters with clubs and birds who pluck him off the ground to find pieces of a treasure map. To gain more lives, he must eat the multicolor vegetables along the way. I love this one, but I was a Frogger fan from way back.
• Zingoz Bounce. Another game I haven't figured out how to work.
• Zingoz Pie Throw. They will toss pies at you...hit them with a pie first! They come faster and faster, of course, as you progress, and then start throwing them from above. Gotta move fast on this one.
• Zingoz Pop. Only tried this one a few times. You have to aim a big gun to pop the Zingoz. Wasn't very good at it.
Acing the Arcade! Part 2
