Fugdale’s Funhouse

Nutshell: Send a holiday greeting to friends and family with you as the star.

Review: Office Max generally wouldn’t be the name you think of first for holiday humor, but they have developed a really neat holiday web application that allows you to upload up to 4 different face photos of yourself or others and create a little animated musical greeting with them. The greeting consists of 1-4 dancing elves and some lively music. If you upload photos with interesting facial expressions, the results are hilarious.

You can also use your cell phone and the instructions provided to record a holiday greeting which will play during the animation. Your voice will get transformed into a high pitched elf voice along with an animated moving mouth which will make your recall Saddam Hussein from South Park.

After you’ve scaled and edited your photos with the intuitive online tools and completed your animation, you can send it along to your friends and family. The one downside is the somewhat long load time, but it’s worth the wait. If you enjoy the concept, but not the holidays, you also have the option of creating a “Scrooge Yourself” animation.

Object: Take back as many turkey feathers as possible and avoid the dinner table fork.

Review: Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Today the Fun House serves up a delectable Turkey treat. In this game you play as a gobbling turkey who’s been stripped of all his feathers. He fights for his life so he doesn’t end up as the main entree. Move your turkey around the checkerboard table and collect as many feathers as possible. Each round you have to collect an increasingly larger number of feathers within the minute time limit. Simply move your turkey over the feathers to collect them. Try to catch the corn power ups that fall. These power ups include: a turkey grower; a time slower; a magnetic feather catcher; a feather bomb; and a turkey speed increaser. You must avoid the pesky dinner fork which floats around the screen. Get too close and it will stab your turkey and hold it inactive for about 5 seconds.

This game has a lot of cute charm and makes a nice distraction for when the Tryptophan sets in. Of course, PETA will be on your ass for all the animal violence, but heck, you’re trying to save the turkey’s life, not kill it. Although the game includes cute graphics and gobbly sound effects, it won’t amaze you with it’s inventiveness. It doesn’t rank super high on the ‘collect and avoid game’ scale, but it definitely fits the theme of the day today and will provide a few laughs and a challenge that the whole family can enjoy. Wait, did I just say ‘ass’ in front of the whole family?