While checking out the official Nobel Prize web site to see when the prizes will be announced, I was surprised to discover that the Nobel Foundation offers little Flash games on their web site. In particular, I had to check out the Laser Challenge site.
Oh. My. God. Maybe it's just the cold talking, but that has a surreal brilliance to it. It's basically a sub-Mario walk-and-jump game where your job is to gather supplies for an "Amazing Laser Party" in honor of "Dr. Photon" inventing the "super-laser." You pick up little CD's (representing music for the party) and bananas (representing snacks) and try to avoid skateboarders (who steal your CD's) and little crab-like critters (who eat the food), and occasionally answer trivia questions about lasers. All narrated in just-slightly-off English, in case you forgot that Scandanavia is part of Europe.
Definitely check that out. It's hilarious.
There are a whole bunch of different games, too-- they're also pushing an immune system game on the front page, but they've got lots of others. And hey, they're offcially approved by the Nobel Foundation, so they must be good...
