Alan Rawkins

Thanks to everyone who wrote in to let me know about the multiplier bug in Dolphin Olympics. It was officially squashed yesterday evening.

Update: As mentioned in the comments on this post, there is now an 11 million video available. I am constantly amazed at the skill of all of you Dolphin Olympics players. I can barely crack 2 million myself most of the time

rssurvivor has posted a video of a 3 million point run in Dolphin Olympics. If you’re curious about some of the techniques you can use to get a better score, check it out.

A quick apology to everyone who has been trying to access Dolphin Olympics. I have been travelling for the past few days and was not aware that it was broken. It is back online again. Thank you to everyone who wrote in letting me know about the problem.

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If you are at all involved in the business of designing hyper-dimensional flying fortresses (for games, animation, world domination, what have you), you may enjoy a visit to Jeff Russell’s Starship Dimensions, a database of spaceship pics from all over the sci-fi spectrum. While the huge number of ships he’s got up there is impressive, the real kicker is that they are shown side by side at relative scale. Very cool stuff!

There’s a nice review of Dolphin Olympics by John Bardinelli over at jayisgames.com. Excerpt:

“Dolphin Olympics is a game I’ve found I keep coming back to play for weeks on end. Its simple, one-handed controls fit the game perfectly and there’s no learning curve to bother with. Just fire up the game, do some tricks and call it a day.

“Although the driving force behind Dolphin Olympics is getting a better score, I’ve found the little micro-bonuses urge me to keep playing more than anything…”

Check it out!

The Dolphin Olympics has been updated with the following features:

• Enhanced scoreboard - Player’s can track their own personal scores, and the game now records individual records for a variety of things (longest jump, biggest splash, etc.)
• Revised menu structure
• Minor performance enhancements

Give it a shot!