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The game started today (5/15/06) and is expected to last a year. Info: Turner Info press release (Click on "Big Fat Awesome House Party release) NoseNuggets 2:53 PM US EDT May 15 2006

This is true. I have played it 5 times already. General Eisenhower • (at war or at peace) 20:00, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 glitches 2 Please note 3 hey 4 Where is Heriman? 5 Balloon Attack 6 Big Fat Awesome House Party 7 Shutterbug prize buddy 8 Question on awarding of buddies 9 Six letter codes 10 Choo Choo Chanllege

[edit] glitches

I keep running into connection glitches when I play. It may have to do with the time. it's 1:00 AM pacific time. it seems they must do maintenance at this time or something, because it keeps hanging up at the same spot in the same way. Maybe we should document this? 68.107.96.136 08:03, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Nope, it's 5:54 and I STILL am running into them. It isn't what I thought it was earlier. Never mind. 68.107.96.136 12:55, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Okay, they stopped now. They must've been problems with my computer. 68.107.96.136 14:51, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please note

Please note that this is NOT a fourm. Not really gemeral Q/A. This is discussion of the contents of the article. Thank you. Julz

[edit] hey

shouldn't we to a spot on the list of the collectable buddies? and how to get them

It's noted in two places. – Someguy0830 (Talk | contribs) 01:21, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Where is Heriman?

I was looking through the stuff on what's on the third floor and I've got to say that there's something weird about it this month. When I first played the game for the first time this month, Heriman was in the tea room. But yesterday and today I've found him in the office just opposit the third floor elevator. annonymous 10/05/06

[edit] Balloon Attack

Added the sentence about this game being similar to the classic arcade game Joust becuase I just got done playing it and on the very first round I noticed that this mini game is a Joust clone. Get above your enemy to kill them, don't let them get above you, head on attacks don't harm you or them. And the instructions also say not to fall into the water, which I'm guess appears on the higher levels, which would be like Joust's lava. -annonymous 10/09/06

[edit] Big Fat Awesome House Party

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[edit] Shutterbug prize buddy

The buddy you can receive from Shutterbug, isn't a Pterodactyl. It's supposed to be a bat, from the Halloween holiday theme.

No it's not. It wasn't Halloween when that update was added. The bat buddy comes from Go Po Go. – Someguy0830 (T | C) 20:37, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question on awarding of buddies

Ok, I've got a question on the way buddies are awarded in the mini games. Looking at the Jet Car Jump info, it says that you get the helicopter buddy on level 1 and the cloud buddy on level two. But for me it happened the other way around. Someone I know had it happen the way it's listed in the article. So my question is whether the order buddies are awarded for certain games is preset or if it randomizes?

Preset would make sense as it would mean that the designers wouldn't have to worry about a mini game handing out the same buddy twice, or always handing out buddies each time one plays. But it wouldn't explain why I was rewarded Jet Car Jump buddies opposite of what the article says. And the only way the randomizing could properly work is if the program was set up to check if a player already one certain buddies, pictures, music, hats, and furniture so as to not reward them a second time. -annonymous 11/19/06

It's not random. Either you had a glitch or you're simply remembering it wrong. – Someguy0830 (T | C) 05:29, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Six letter codes

Do you think there should be a list of these codes and what they give? I have one: VIKING. This gives you a viking hat. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.80.172.242 (talk) 17:14, 16 December 2006 (UTC).

OWLFLY and BIGTOE. Listing cheat (bonus, whatever) codes is going too far, and this article is pushing the limits as is. – Someguy0830 (T | C) 00:50, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

CREATE gives you Craig McCracken Lewiscode 00:46, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

How is the article pushing the limits?

That we describe where pretty much everything is found is pushing it, though the fact that this game doesn't really need a guide makes it somewhat ok. – Someguy0830 (T | C) 21:54, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

So can there be a list if the code is written but not what it gives? I mean it will sort of help as the codes are not shown again and some players may really want to know them, though they don't really advance the game in any way.

[edit] Choo Choo Chanllege

Does this game give you Easter Theme stuff?--DSDark 23:55, 20 March 2007 (UTC)