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Thinkin' Things 2

11th April 2020

Thinkin' Things 2 is an offbeat, quirky game that teaches kids to dick around and waste time. You can tell it's a cool game because Thinkin' ends with an apostrophe instead of a G. Take that, establishment!

There were five mini-games.

1) A duck that plays the xylophone

Yes, that's a fucking DUCK THAT PLAYS A XYLOPHONE.

thinkin things 2 duck

2) A dot simulator

A goddamn motherfucking dot simulator.

You could simulate a waterslide...

thinkin things 2 waterslide

...a dripping tap...

thinkin things 2 tap

...a roller coaster...

thinkin things 2 roller coaster

...but only if you knew how. I didn't. Even dots were too complicated for me back then.

3) Some music game

There's a crocodile in a Hawaiian shirt playing a cowbell, an ape playing the drum in the shape of a ball, and a poodle playing Saturn. It's either that or I've unwittingly ingested magic mushrooms and I'm hallucinating.

thinking things 2 band

4) A 2D to 3D animator

In this 'game', you draw a 2D image (like the world map, or a pair of tits) and then the 2D image wraps around a 3D shape, which then bounces up and down the screen (like a globe, or a 3D pair of tits).

thinkin things 2 ball animator

5) A match-the-pairs game

This game seems boring in comparison to the rest of the games.

thinkin things 2 match

Comments

Think I'm going to be on here all morning! These are the kinda games I try and explain to people but theyre clueless. Feeling so nostalgic now its unreal!! Thanks for all these great memories.

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