# ID an early 2000s game?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-early-2000s-game/743675>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [January 20, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-early-2000s-game/743675 "2016-01-20T14:35:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-early-2000s-game/743675/1 "2016-01-20T14:35:22Z")

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My friend is trying to find this game, as yet with no luck.

He describes it thus:

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> Back in the early 2000’s there was a Java applet game where the mission was to hit green dots with your mouse cursor. The dots would get bigger and faster over time and if they went to a certain size they went red. I know this game was quite popular as it had a leaderboard which showed which country you were from which was amazing for the time. I actually found this game incredibly exhilarating…"

Anyone familiar with the game?

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**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-early-2000s-game/743675/2 "2016-01-26T09:54:18Z")

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No one?

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**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-early-2000s-game/743675/3 "2016-01-26T22:36:56Z")

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There were so many little java applets running around at that time–most of which were aptly referred to as “crapplets”-- that it’s not going to be easy to find someone who remembers a specific one like that without more to go on.

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**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-early-2000s-game/743675/4 "2016-01-26T23:53:58Z")

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It actually sounds vaguely familiar to me, but I wouldn’t be able to tell you what it was called in a million years.

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**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-early-2000s-game/743675/5 "2016-01-27T04:10:26Z")

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> [@Rigamarole](#):
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> It actually sounds vaguely familiar to me, but I wouldn’t be able to tell you what it was called in a million years.

Same here. There were so many of them with fairly unimaginative names and even more unimaginative gameplay that they all kind of blended together.

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**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-early-2000s-game/743675/6 "2016-01-27T05:55:33Z")

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Sounds kinda similar to [agar.io](http://agar.io/), but that’s pretty recent.