Very nonsense

On December 20, 2005 · 8 Comments · In Living, Toys


The lat­est in wire­less gaming

They still sell this, the most non­sen­si­cal game in the uni­verse: Hun­gry Hun­gry Hip­pos! Four plas­tic hip­pos eat­ing marbles.

the clas­sic mar­ble munch­ing game, is viewed by many so-called experts as ‘a board game for young chil­dren.’ We beg to dif­fer, as those stuffy old ency­clo­pe­dia writ­ers obvi­ously haven’t played this fast and furi­ous game after a few jars down the local. If they had, they’d know that despite its obvi­ous appeal to kid­dies, Hun­gry Hip­pos is even more enter­tain­ing if you’re an overly refreshed adult. After all, how often do you get to ham­mer a hippo in order to make it munch as many mar­bles as pos­si­ble? Exactly.
–Firebox.com

I was only 4 when it hap­pened. This is a TRUE STORY. This really hap­pened. My older cousin Kiana, was play­ing “Hugry, Hun­gry Hip­pos.” The game would not work and it fell apart. She was 6. Her and her friend Dar­lene decided it would be a good idea to suck on some of the mar­bles. Kiana fell down and swal­lowed 4 mar­bles and was sent to the emer­gency room. Luck­ily, she sur­vived, with a surgery result­ing in huge med­ical bills. Kiana almost died from this, she was 6. Hun­gry Hip­pos teaches NOTHING except for bad idea and hor­ri­ble acci­dents. Please do NOT, NOT, NOT buy this for chil­dren under 7. Infact, don’t buy it at all. I doesn’t work, and if it was 1 penny more cheap, it would be made of card­board
–Cus­tomer review, Amazon.com

If it means really liv­ing on the edge like that, I think I might go and get a set for Christmas.

iTunes is play­ing an ille­gal copy of Last Christ­mas by Wham of which I have the orig­i­nal CD.

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  • nic­thegeek

    awwww i loved HHH leh…it made the mostest noise (plus our scream­ing) that over­pow­ered the adults’ yakking and mahjong tiles hahaha

  • nic­thegeek

    awwww i loved HHH leh…it made the mostest noise (plus our scream­ing) that over­pow­ered the adults’ yakking and mahjong tiles hahaha

  • ReaL­space

    I remem­ber that.. Look­ing at it now, I have to agree, it’s not the best thing for kids while they’re at the age where they’ll eat dirt if they can grab it. We some­how man­aged to avoid any major acci­dents. After a point though, we lost all our mar­bles. I won­der if they sold refills, or tried to fleece par­ents by mak­ing them buy entirely new sets, or just expected us to replace them with peas..

  • ReaL­space

    I remem­ber that.. Look­ing at it now, I have to agree, it’s not the best thing for kids while they’re at the age where they’ll eat dirt if they can grab it. We some­how man­aged to avoid any major acci­dents. After a point though, we lost all our mar­bles. I won­der if they sold refills, or tried to fleece par­ents by mak­ing them buy entirely new sets, or just expected us to replace them with peas..

  • http://mrlim.isthebest.net zhi yang

    best game ever. how can one ever grow up with­out play­ing this?

  • http://mrlim.isthebest.net zhi yang

    best game ever. how can one ever grow up with­out play­ing this?

  • http://www.littlefish.blogspot.com jack­son

    The box design has changed.

    I think it might still be lying about some­where at home in one of those for­saken cup­boards. One of the hip­pos started get­ting retarded cause the spring mech­a­nism was faulty. Made hell lot of noise, not cause the toy was noisy, but cause while play­ing my fam­ily was scream­ing non stop.

  • http://www.littlefish.blogspot.com jack­son

    The box design has changed.

    I think it might still be lying about some­where at home in one of those for­saken cup­boards. One of the hip­pos started get­ting retarded cause the spring mech­a­nism was faulty. Made hell lot of noise, not cause the toy was noisy, but cause while play­ing my fam­ily was scream­ing non stop.

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