Bear and Cat

February 4, 2005 2:01 PM

Bear Line up strings of coloured rolling thingies, using Bear's squirty submarine doodad [Flash][cute]
posted by carter (22 comments total)

6910. There goes a few minutes of my life.
posted by arielmeadow at 2:27 PM on February 4, 2005

Wow, that game is great. Like an easy version of Bust-A-Move.
posted by phatboy at 2:32 PM on February 4, 2005

15320.

Now my eyes are watering. That's fun!
posted by 5MeoCMP at 2:40 PM on February 4, 2005

Reminds me a lot of Popcap's Zuma. Wonder which was first...
posted by Auz at 2:53 PM on February 4, 2005

Just a quick caution that the site mentioned connects to "sextracker.com", as can be seen by viewing the page source. Potentially NSFW therefore.
posted by RichAromas at 2:53 PM on February 4, 2005

It's exactly like Zuma, except not as cool...
posted by Balisong at 2:56 PM on February 4, 2005

I'm not sure which is better: the fact that I was offered a cookie from sexcounter.com while pulling this site up, or the phrase "squirty submarine doodad".

6480 before I gave up.
posted by sninky-chan at 2:59 PM on February 4, 2005

It's exactly like Zuma, except not as cool...

However it doesn't require a plugin download...
posted by phatboy at 3:00 PM on February 4, 2005

Whoops, and on not-quick-enough preview: RichAromas: sexcounter, not sextracker, though they both exist.
posted by sninky-chan at 3:01 PM on February 4, 2005

Ah, I didn't know about Zuma. Sorry about the cookie, folks - is that a deletable offence?
posted by carter at 3:01 PM on February 4, 2005

Besides Zuma, there's also Ballistic (PlayStation/GameBoy Color), which was released in 1999 and may have been the first Bust-a-Swirly-Move game. If memory serves, there was also a very similar game released for the Dreamcast.
posted by box at 3:15 PM on February 4, 2005

sninky-chan- Sorry; I got confused because I have so many cookies from similarly-named sites on my machine :-)
posted by RichAromas at 3:47 PM on February 4, 2005

Has anyone noticed how the pop-bead things look like little rolled up scorpions? And how sometime they flash white for a while and then have a daisy or an arrow on 'em? And then, when you explode the special marked ones, different stuff happens?

(Yep, it's Friday, all right.)
posted by Specklet at 3:59 PM on February 4, 2005

Levels 1-4 are easy, level 5 is near impossible. And I'm pretty good at Zuma.

What does the power meter do? Charge balls? How do you power it up?
posted by Four Flavors at 6:03 PM on February 4, 2005

Both this game and PopCap's Zuma are derivatives of (what I'm pretty sure is) the original, Mitchell's Puzz Loop, which was then released as Ballistic in the US.

Just some more game geek trivia there.
posted by SkelPaff at 6:30 PM on February 4, 2005

thanks, carter - fun game!
posted by madamjujujive at 8:11 PM on February 4, 2005

I played this until my computer crashed and I had to watch the poor bear drown over and over and over again.
posted by GlitterBum at 12:26 AM on February 5, 2005

Seems to be gone? Anyone have a mirror?
posted by slacy at 10:19 AM on February 5, 2005

GlitterBum, that just happened to me as well.. and I was up over 12000 points, drats.
posted by dabitch at 10:58 AM on February 5, 2005

I think the music is by Gus Gus. Sounds like it anyway, though I don't know which song that is.
posted by recursive at 1:14 AM on February 6, 2005

42505. 1:37 am. Curse you, Carter.
posted by flabdablet at 6:42 AM on February 6, 2005

On my first try, I got within TWO FREAKING BALLS of completing the fifth level. Don't know if it would have been easier or harder if my CPU could have kept up when the screen was full of balls (I think easier). My eyeballs are crusted over, need eyedrops.
posted by intermod at 8:34 PM on February 6, 2005