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A long time ago someone, Chris Hilgert, decided that a yeti should torture some poor penguins. It all started with an ice bat, flying penguins, and of course..the Yeti! Don't have a clue what I'm talking about? Then read on and let me expound upon Yeti Sports.

Chris Hilgert and the team at Edelweiss are still creating Penguin torture games featuring the Yeti. The series has branched out into other puzzle games and continues to include some of the more interesting animals inhabiting the world.

Yeti Sports is now 10 games strong and still growing. Each of the individual games tests some basic skill and logic in order to get near the high scores. Swat a Pingu with a bat, play head-to-head Pingu tennis, blast Pingus at high velocity into an icy target...well you get the picture.

Yetisports tournament (11th in the series) combines 5 of the original games in a World Tour of Penguin smashing, thrashing fun. Everything from swatting a penguin with a bat for distance to hanging ten and catching air...oh did I mention the swatting penguins with the surf board part? Well you should have guessed that by now.

In the 12th game in the series the Yeti has decided to do a stage dive onto the poor head-banging penguins. There's no blood but there sure is a lot of squished penguins.

The 13th game in the series, Yeti Puzzle Kick combines a puzzle game, penguin kicking and football. How can it go wrong?

The games have come a long way since I first started playing them. The site has gone professional and the graphics are far better. They've even branched out into mobile phones...

Is that a Yeti in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? Well for the 4 Euros it better be a Yeti. Not all the games are available to purchase for mobile phones yet but I bet they will be eventually. Makes me wish my poor Siemens A60 could do more than just be a paperweight all day. Maybe it's time for a new phone.

Lately they've switched gears and developed several games based on the Ice Age 2 film.The point of them is similar to the Yeti Sports but the characters and the settings are different. The original games have all had a facelift and everything looks smooth like ice.

DRAWBACK:

You MUST register to play the games online. They state that it is to "help stop cheaters ruining the high score listings" and the new multi-player games are only available to registered users. The quick registration process only requires a Username, password, location information and an email address. So no worries about credit card information or anything like that. They also have an option to be notified about beta testing of new games as well. So I went ahead and signed up for that because, I'm always up for a good beta test.

Man I sure hope PETA never gets ahold of these guys. Well I'm out to go smack a few penguins around. Stay chilly...