Crazy Penguin Catapult is game for Adobe Flash, phones running Java, and iOS by Digital Chocolate released in 2008. In it, you launch penguins out of a catapult, then try to drop them in a way that takes out polar bears. Run out of penguins and it's game over.
This game provides examples of:
- Checkpoint Starvation: The Flash version doesn't save, not even after a boss fight. Lose a level once and it's back to the very beginning, which is cruel when you have 60 levels to complete.
- Death Throws: Each penguin salutes once it stops and falls offscreen.
- Evil Laugh: Two bears are seen laughing at a beaten penguin in the game over screen.
- The End... Or Is It?: The game over screen shows a beaten up penguin next to bears, with the caption above reading "Game Over... Or is it?"
- Polar Bears and Penguins: Both polar bears and penguins show up in this game fighting each other.
- The Snack Is More Interesting: Some of the bears are just eating from a snack bowl, not interested in penguins hitting the other ones.
- Trial-and-Error Gameplay: Mission 3 introduces the penguins hanging from above the catapult, rather than swinging from side to side. It's hard to tell when you're supposed to launch them until you find out the hard way that they hit the ceiling and don't fly out when they're high.
