Compete in summer games that are almost impossible

Once you've purchased the additional events, you'll be able to practice or compete in the games.

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With almost 550,000 active apps in the iTunes App Store, you get plenty of variation, and one developer continues to release games that are downright silly.

Many iPhone gamers will probably remember Justin Smith’s Enviro-Bear 2010 (99 cents) from Captain Games. When the game came out in 2009, our Mac and iOS freelance reviewer, Paul Hughes, started the review by saying, “Enviro-Bear 2010 is part game, part joke, part art piece, and part game-design experiment.” In Enviro-Bear 2010, the premise is that you are a bear getting ready to hibernate and you must drive a car and run over enough food to make it through the winter.

Of course, in real life a bear can’t drive a car, so the car was notoriously (and purposely) extremely difficult to control. The game’s graphics were not exactly top-of-the-line either (pretty terrible in a funny way), but that didn’t stop people from scooping up this game by the thousands. Enviro-Bear 2010 was simply hilarious to play, with a silly concept that had to be seen to be believed.

While my jumps weren't pretty, at least I cleared a couple in the equestrian event.

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