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Amazing Laser Party!

By drorzel on September 27, 2006.

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...

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