Epic Win: Hungry Hungry Hippos
Submitted by luckylakeway
Boy, did that jingle get lodged in your head! Fun game too–it brought out the competitive spirit in you, but not in an evil way, like Monopoly. OK, it did. Must! Get! All! The! Marbles!
I think this is the game that originally introduced button mashing to the masses.
For when a friendly game of Hungry Hungry Hippos isn’t enough, here’s EXTREME Hungry Hungry Hippos:
You don’t see any in the video, but I’m sure there was a LOT of beer involved in the making of it.
The most epic of all wins. The best games were the ones that lasted only a few seconds and took two hands.
Nostalgoc FAIL
spelling fail.
http://www.bustedtees.com/hungryhippo
Don’t play as the orange one! (I think his name is Henry)
Only in America do they make a game about fat things eating more that others.
ROFL
What’s the name of the song on the second video? It kicked ass.
I always hated those damn games commercials where the smart ass kid has to shout out at the end that they won. When we played these games and someone pulled that crap, we’d slap them upside the head a few times. I mean, we’re ALL playing the game – we can clearly see who the winner was.
people just like acknowledging the fact that they won. It makes them feel more important. So the next time someone says, “I won,” leave their face alone ;P
how exactly was that extreme? It looked like it was just outdoors
Did you not see the extreme bandannas?!?
No alcohol needed for this video. Just extreme nerds! Go nerds!
Clack! Clack clack clack!
I loved this game. Fun and rapid-fire. It allowed you to clearly demolish your friends.
It just gave me a headache T_T
lol they have to include the random black kid.
I partially blame this game for my overweight childhood.
Judging by the 10-year era most of these things come from, I fit the the target ‘nostalgic win’ demographic. Both satisfying and mildly disturbing, like my crow’s feet and streak of graying hair. Have we really lived long enough to be nostalgic for hungry hungry hippoes?
Doooude…
I clearly recall this commercial/song/tune/jingle….and I HAD to have this game. I actually got it too….it did rule..
Ahhh… Rienzi. Hippos + Wagner = one happy me.
I am so glad that after 10 seconds of the second video I jumped to 1 minute, and then 5 seconds later jumped to 2 minutes, and then jumped to the end…
If I had spent all three minutes watching that… Oh that would have sucked.
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You nerds should get a life
I wanted this when I was a kid, and my mom and dad never gave it to me. It made me very sad.
Epic Epic Epic Epic Epic Epic Epic Win.
My parents took this game away from us soon after we received it. The year was 1984.
You can still buy it in Mexico =D
OMG. This game is how I figured out the whole Santa thing. I have no clue what game I actually asked for, but when I opened my gifts and found my game was THIS instead? Mommy answering, “~I~ couldn’t find the one you wanted.”
MOM gets the gifts? Not Santa? I was so proud of myself for figuring it out that I wasn’t dissappointed in the least.
Mind you, I firmly still believed in the Tooth Fairy. I swear that tooth changed into a coin in that envelope under my pillow without me falling asleep nor someone coming into the room since I lay their facing the open door that night…
i got this for christmas one year when i was 5! i loved it… even though it lasted about 6 months… which for my family is about 2 moves
This is an epic epic win… I played with one of these when I was little and had so much fun.
My Grandfather bought this for me for Christmas one year. I thought this was the coolest thing ever! I spent hours playing this game with my brother and cousin. And it was loud but it was okay because that’s the way the game was made…all loud clanking plastic and clacking marbles. How could Mom get after us for making noise? It wasn’t OUR fault. And she couldn’t blame her father because he is the one who bought it! But she’d get mad when we’d spill the marbles all over the floor and they went rolling everywhere. Oops! Those were the days!
This toy probably made more fat kids miserable in the 80s than any other toy… imaging being followed, hounded, by that ‘Hungry Hungry Hippo’ jingle throughout grade school.
I lost a fingernail to Hungry Hungry Hippos when I was five.
*shrug* We didn’t get photos of the injuries, shame.
This should be on Failblog. These things broke after about 15 minutes. Horribly fragile, and no doubt made in china.
I remember when my little sister got this game and Cooties! for Christmas. She always got the fun games.
i lived in the jungle, we played this game with real hippos!