Cowabanga

oh no, I could never get the hang of hapland.

Something about the way E4's site loads flash, or the site itself, definitely crashes Firefox for me.

I definitely have up-to-date both Flash and Firefox, and have never had this anywhere else.

theres a virus game of the same name that i got but dident damage my software luckily.
(exsept you had to whack a cow in the desert)

Yeah, there is definitely something evil with the way they are loading the game. I'm guessing it has to do with URL protection to ensure no one steals the game and hosts it on a different site.

I've got no problem with firefox here on Ubuntu

I didn't have a problem the first time I loaded the game in any browser. But on subsequent loads, it crashes every browser I try. =/

Correction: it appears to be an intermittent problem, perhaps due to traffic? I don't know. But sometimes it works for me and sometimes it crashes the browser now. Go figure.

It crashed my Firefox too, then when I used Internet Explorer it worked fine. I couldn't figure out what the heck I was supposed to do though. Oh well keep trying ^__^

BTW:

Was the cow supposed to blow up?

I'm enjoying the game so far... I'm a little stuck though

I've found two trinkets:

The one in the colour dropping machine

The one in the mystery balloon spaceship

get the satellite dish to work, which summons the space monkeys

I'm stuck on what to do after that though...

Arc...

anyone found any use for the

stairs that move?

found all the same as arc so far...

so confused...

wow...

i may have found a glitch. drop the bomb from the stopsighn, then make the stickman walk that way. when he goes to kick it, make it explode, then it'll appear and blow up the earth thing. O.o

@Arc

Try Clicking the little guy watching TV a second time.

In the hapland games, you often have to click something while something else is already functioning, or in this case, walking.

Hints, in series:

Pitch a tent

Break it down

Greg! The stop sign!

dangerous football

Milk it

Mind the step!

Hinge physics GO

Put the telly on

ET phone home

Kill everything

except Mickey Mouse!

?????

PROFIT

The rest is left as an exercise for the reader.

Awesome a new Hapland Game! This time i'm not going to use a walkthrough :)

I'm having trouble

Once I activate the flying monkeys/bears with the dish, I click the guy to get the gun to come out of the chimney, but I can't fire the gun. How do I do this?

This is what I have so far:

Click on the post the cow is tied to. Click on the flying fish that come out, not the question mark bomb. He will go to the center and expand. Drag the sliders, then click on the screws, click on the shoulder bits, then the magnet bits. A piece will fall off. Click on the second and third zapper things. Next, click on the third shoulder bit, and then pull the pin out. Click on the exclamatory button. Now, click on the remaining zapper, and click on the button again. Click on the magnet holder thing, and finally pull out the pin. Click on the trinket. Now, click on the sign to make it face the other way, then click on the stopsign to turn it around and drop a grenade. Click on the guy, and click on the grenade when he stops next to it. It will destroy the little globe. Push the thing that appears. Now, milk the cow to make RGB milk come out, and use that to make the little button match the color of the little spheres. Click on the trinket. Spin the pointy thing around on the stop sign until it fills the bar and powers up the cow another level. Point the pointy sign towards the house, and click on the guy. Click on the stairs as he is on them, and click on him as he is on the roof. Click on him again. And again. Click on the sattelite dish, then quick click on him again and get ready. You have to use the zappy thing to take out the aliens. Try to prevent them from destroying the boxes, I have a feeling they are important. Once you take out the last one, click on the cake to get the delicious cake award. I can't figure out what to do next.

Click on the cow's nose, and click on the shotgun guy to blow up the cow.

Does anyone know why parts of the ground light up and turn yellow? Does this have anything to do with what we need to do?

Bit stuck when trying to kick the bomb down. It just flies off and doesn't hit the globe.. Help? :(!

Ignore me! I managed to do it

with the spaceship fully assembled in the way

HELLLPPP! I cannot fire the gun to destroy the alien bears. sometimes it does nothing when I click, sometimes it just sparks, and it seems to fire the anti-bear lightning randomly.

well, as far as I can tell:

If you've killed all the aliens, collected the cake, all three trinkets, made a hole in the ground and exploded the cow, there's nothing left to do - but it still says you're not finished!

don't really get the cow game. Seem to get some explosions and some things to work but not all.

If you restart is several times the music and sound get stuck which is really annoying!

I think Cowabanga is secretly sponsored by Microsoft... I can't remember last time my Firefox froze and crashed so efficiently.

As for the game, I really dig the whole surreal schtick, but so many dead ends are irritating. I especially hated when I couldn't find out why the antenna-gun didn't want to shoot 90% at the time, and I had to do everything all over again just to experiment a little bit more.

Plz post a walkthrough! Somebody, ANYBODY!

I'm also stuck at killing the aliens. The gun seems to fire randomly, if at all. The cow is at full power and I can't find anything else to do before powering the satellite.
It would be nice if there was a way to save the game right before the aliens come. After having to restart for the 10th time because I couldn't kill them, the game really loses its appeal.

@Bogcat, at full power? Do you mean you got both lightnings lit up? If so, mind sharing how you got the second one lit up?

To get both of the electrical charges near the cow's rear"

When the device builds out of the "?" that flies out of the cow's rear, DO NOT drop off all of the laser-like things at the bottom of it. Deconstruct the device as you normally would, and drop the lowest laser and the middle one. When you deconstruct up until te red button, press that, and a charge will fire at the cow, giving you the second electrical charge.

Take your time. The sparks could be from overheating, or something. Fire only about once per second.

Exactly what do I do with the stick man at the stop sign?

I can get the cow powered up twice but I am not sure about the stop sign. I have blown up the grenade but then again, I had one time where the stick man fell off the cows bum and landed on earth.

It's complete gibberish to me. I wish these weren't so cute--they never make any sense.

Ok, so how do you power up the cow a second time?

For the cow power up twice thing

Do not drop the first laser thing from the device that flies out the cow's bum. Drop that one last of the three. Think of it as a shot in the bum. The second way is the hinge thing.

If you're looking for spoilers, read sagabal's post above.

@Crab: any tip for that third trinket you're talking about?

About the awards, I got three:

Delicious cake

Kill everybody with the satellite dish/lightning thing

Batman

I think you get it if you protect the 4 "mini cities" that are on the floor. You have to kill everybody with the lightning and be careful will the flying blue (?)

Minimalism

Destroy all the cities

1st: let the flying bears get it

2nd: hover with the mouse pointer

3rd: make one of those blue flying (?) explode near it

4th: destroy it with the flying thing that you dismantle. There are 3 lightning prods on it and you have to remove two, if you keep the first one, you'll recharge the cow. The second one destroys the third city and the third one destroys the fourth city

I believe there are some things to keep in mind, if you want to finish the game.

- You can not destroy any of the cities.
- You probably have to gain all the trinkets.
- You probably shouldn't let go of the question mark crate, but there is probably a way to make it stay on ground instead of sinking deep into the snow.
- You HAVE to shoot all the enemies from the moon, except the Mickey Mouse spaceship, otherwise they will destroy the first city from the left.
- You do not need to adjust the hook on top of the roof to use the satellite. The hook is only for letting go of the crate.

The third trinket is the one you get, if you let the Mickey Mouse spaceship beam up the boxes.

about the ? crate

Every time you restart the game after blowing the cow, it seems that you get a number of red dots in the snow all around the area where the ? crate is going to fall. Maybe the number is equal to the sum of trinkets and prizes.

@ThemePark: thanks for the tip, even though I had just found it when I came back here. Actually, I'm glad I didn't read it :)

I agree with your reflexions, there must be something about that crate. A few other observations:

I tried clicking the crate while it falls, without success.
There might be something about the order you dismantle the flying thing. During one game, while I was doing it in no particular order, the last piece (the one that looks like a compass, with the orange thing) went up and exploded towards the moon, instead of falling down. I haven't been able to reproduce it, perhaps it's just random.
There's probably two secrets left, judging from the disposition of those red things in the snow, where the crate falls. Perhaps one award and one trinket.
What about the peg leg? possibly a foiler.
I tried to make the cake fall everywhere on the cow, no success. Note that you can't make it fall outside of the cow, the cakeplane seems to be invulnerable until it's above the cow.
I tried to make the cake fall close to the stairface so that it could blow up the candles ^^ (no success, but I couldn't make it fall really close).

The lazer only fires if you are inside a certain range, from the tip of the lazer to about two or three inches away from it. One level of electricity lets you fire about once a second, and two levels lets you fire about 2 times per second. If you want to save the cities, don't let any bears get out of the moon, and kill everything else for good measure. The "Mickey Mouse" ship kills you if you let it live, so I don't know what that's about. Those green guys are annoying. Has anyone tried dropping the cake trophy on the crates?

@Sagabal: yeah, it falls behind and you can't click it anymore. (still can get it by using Tab then space though :))

@Jakob: Ah well. That crate does hold a trinket, but when a bear blows it up, it also destroys the trinket.

Oh, and what I suggested is actually a bug. You are supposed to make the floaty guy expand, and then bounce the grenade off of him, not explode the grenade right next to the kicker guy.

Okay, I've been patient and tried every trick mentioned here. I cannot kill the moon bears/monkeys/monsters with the laser no matter what I do. Including occasionally hitting them dead on with the laser and watching it just go right through them.

If Rob Allen is reading this, could you either please simplify the shooting mechanism or have some sort of partial reset so you can try again without resetting completely? After, oh, 20 times in a row of getting to the appropriate spot with full charge but having a laser that won't fire? This has officially gotten old. I enjoy your games immensely, and recognize timing is a huge part of them. But it seems I'm not alone in not being able to get the timing correct, even with patience and variation.

Ok. Now I'm screaming for a walkthrough. I can't get the cake trophy because I have trouble controlling the gun. After I move it up and down a few times it just won't move. And by the way DON'T click the stairs when the guy walks up it or else the mystery box will get lost in the snow. Also, I found a way to kill the stick guy. At the beginning of the game just turn the arrow to the right and click on him.

Hmmm, well, I got a "not quite" for my result, instead of a "no". There are four trinkets. I have no idea how to get the fourth.

Also, regarding the "Mickey Mouse" ship:

You need to let it fly until it reaches the boxes. It will then 'abduct' the boxes and a trinket will appear. Then you shoot the "Mickey Mouse" ship. Hope that helps!

AHA!!!!

Fourth trinket:

You need to get all the red lights on the left side of the screen (there are seven of them) by collecting the four awards as outlined by Jakob above and the other three trinkets. The fourth award he didn't get is marksmanship, which you get by very quickly dropping all of the bombs that fly out of the cow's rear (but not the "?" bomb). So, after getting those seven things, a circle will appear on the ground. Before you go to drop the box, click in the middle. A pentagram-like symbol will appear. Drop the box, and a trinket will be released as the box is broken!

Nice one geek! I had thought about that but I gave up trying. Fortunately someone else was perseverant enough :)

Apparently, you "win" the game if you get the four trinket. No extra-win for flawless games... and now my eyes hurt XD

Good night!

How about someone collecting all these notes and writing a nice, easy to read and easy to follow walkthrough for the site? :)

I WON!!!!
Check it out
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/9481/cowbangpj6.jpg

Cowabanga Walkthrough

1. 

   Click on the peg in the cows tail to release a swarm of fish things and a ? box
2. 

   click on all the fish (quickly)
3. 

   for minimalism award make sure an eye blows up the 3rd city
4. 

   for batman award, save the city
5. 

   the ? box will expand into a machine
6. 

   Click on the arrow so it faces to the right
7. 

   click on the wooden sign to make it red and drop a grenade
8. 

   click on the man and he will kick the grenade and blow up the earth
9. 

   with the floating machine, click on the yellow shoulders
10. 

    slide the sliders
11. 

    click on the yellow bolts
12. 

    click on the restraints which were under the shoulders
13. 

    click the yellow shoulder on the right
14. 

    remove the pin under it
15. 

    for minimalism award remove the top 2 lasers
16. 

    for batman remove the bottom 2 lasers
17. 

    push the red !
18. 

    remove final laser
19. 

    push the red ! again
20. 

    click on the pin on the right
21. 

    click the pin under the main part of the machine
22. 

    click on the trinket
23. 

    click on the button where the earth was
24. 

    using the RGB cow udders, match the colours of the balls
25. 

    when this is done you will get a trinket
26. 

    spin the thing near the red sign to fill up the power bar
27. 

    click on the arrow so it faces left
28. 

    click on the man so he goes to the house
29. 

    if you have 7 red lights under the ? crate, when the man is on the stairs, click on the stairs
    

    1. 

       click in the middle of the lights
    2. 

       click the man
    3. 

       and again
30. 

    click the man infront of the tv to bring up the satelite dish
31. 

    click the dish to summon the monkeys
32. 

    click the man again to get the gun
33. 

    shoot the monkeys
34. 

    when a mickey mouse head comes up, wait till it beams up the crate and then shoot it
35. 

    At the end, there will be cake

YAY!!! XD

I Have WON!!

Look At The Picture http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/04365ada8c_0.13MB

Thanks Jay is Games Members For Helping :}

Hate it. The roof laser controls are awful. It could be IE6, but the second I move it just a little to far away from the laser, I can't control it anymore. I'm forced to adjust my aim a pixel at a time. Bleh.

You're still using IE6?!

Gosh, that has to be the WORST browser... ever.

Well, no, I take that back. The worst browser was IE for Mac, but IE6 is a close runner-up.

Do yourself a favor and upgrade. Every website will look (and act) better.

Found another bug.

When you get the mystery balloon, if you start out by click the two yellow triangles, and then the two wires behind them, then continue to remove everything else in whatever order, the big bottom part won't fall down.

I've found 3 so far.

1

send the guy to the right after you've clicked the stop sign. he will make the world blow up allowing you to open the device under the udders. blow up the balls to win a trinket.

send the guy into the house. click him to open the satellite. then click him again to bring out the laser. shoot the space monkeys but allow the ship/sofa looking thing to beam up the pile of crates. thats trinket 2.

click on the spike holding down the tail. kill all the flying eyes but leave the question mark. dismantle all the gadgets. that'll give you number 3.

I'm having the same firefox crash problem everyone else seems to be having, but it works fine on Safari. I've yet to actually play it, though. :P

Yeah ty for the walkthrough, though even with it this was tough the marksmanship award took me some doing, have to say I really do wish they would leave shooting out of puzzle games . but anyway heres a pic..seems you can get different results at the end, I do wonder if getting all 4 trinkets AND cake/marksmanship and either batman or the other award will gave a better result but I dont have the will to try again ...just yet anyway :)

http://img84.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cowbanganp2.png

I just have to say that the shooting part is really hard. This is going to be one Rob Allen game I'm not going to finish I guess.

Oh, and incidentally, when the original Hapland came out, that's when I discovered jayisgames.com. (looking for hints) So when was that? I've been checking this site out very regularly ever since. Thanks guys.

I agree.

Leave shooting out of puzzle games.

Cowabanga Full walkthough:

A) First trinket----The Device

1.Press the wooden stalk

2.Kill the "fishes" except the ? ball

3a.After that, deconstruct the device appeared. When you reach the point where there is a red ! switch with three zappers ,deconstruct the MIDDLE and the RIGHTMOST zapper

3b.Press the red ! switch to acivate the remaining zapper to power up the LOWER BOLT of the cow

3b.Press the red ! switch again to continue.Continue to deconstruct the device until the trinket(blue stone in case you don't know)is left,get the trinket

B) Second trinket----RGB Milking Machine

4.BERORE DECONSTUCT THE DEVICE, click the stop sign to reveal a cherry bomb

5.Click the arrow sign, then click the stickman to make him kick the bomb, it should blow up the globe, reveaing a switch.

6.Press the revealed switch to activate the RGB machine.

7.Milk the cow to make RGB milk come out, use that to make the screen (The black circle above the floating spheres) match the color of the little spheres. If done correctly the spheres will explode, revealing the second trinket. Click it.

C) Third trinket----Mickey Mouse Space Ship

8a. Spin the pointy thing on top of the stop sign until the .

8b.After powering up the cow (Both bolts light up), click the arrow sign again. Then click the stickman to make him go into the house.

9a.Click on the stickman again to make him turn on the TV/Computer.

9b.A satellite dish should appear, click on it to send a message(???) to the”moon”

10.After a while, there will be some aliens. QUICKLY click on the stickman again to switch the satellite dish into a zapper.

11.Use the zapper to take down the aliens appeared before they burned the stack of crates , BUT DO NOT SHOOT DOWN THE MICKEY MOUSE SPACE SHIP!

11a.When the Mickey mouse space ship reached the stack of crates, it will abduct the crates, revealing the third trinket. Click it as usual.

D) Fourth (Last) trinket----The ? Crate

12.After you have gotten the first three trinket and the four awards, when you restart the game, there will be seven red dots which forms a circle/heptagon (Each spot represent an award or trinket). Click the middle of the dots to make a pentagram pattern appear. (Probably made of lasers)

13.Do step 8b BUT this time when he reach the stairs, immediately click the stairs to make it rise. The stickman will be taken to the roof instead of inside the house. Click the stickman to make him pull a lever, which release the ? crate, when the crate reaches the pentagram, it is destroyed and revealed the last trinket. Click it.

E) Awards
1)Batman

Protect the 4 "mini cities" that are on the floor.

2) Delicious cake

Kill every single alien with the zapper, then get the cake from the cake plane.

3) Militarism

Destroy all the cities.

(From right)
City 1

Do step 3a but INSTEAD OF LEAVING THE LEFTMOST ZAPPER(Which power ups the cow), leave the lowermost/ rightmost zapper and press the red ! switch to burn the city

City 2

Make one of the “fishes” explode near it.

City 3

Hover with the mouse pointer.

City 4

Let the flying bear alien get to it.

4) Marksmanship

Kill all the “fishes” QUICKLY!

The cake is a lie!!! The cake is a lie!!! The cake is a lie!!! The cake is a lie!!! The cake is a lie!!!

I had great difficulty to match the colours of the three balls with the "display" until I finally found out that

you can reset it to white by clicking on it.

I'm afraid I have to agree with several of the other posters here--the game is great, right up to the point you have to target-shoot with the laser, at which point it turns to trash. The aiming is poor, the firing is uneven, and I'll echo the sentiment of the poster requesting a 'partial reset' to try the shooting bit again without having to re-do the whole thing. Granted, I *loathed* the timing 'puzzles' from the Hapland games where if you didn't get it just right, you had to the umpteen steps that got you there allllll over again. And again. And again. And again. *Please* keep in mind that all machines are not created equal--a lot of things (including actions from firewalls and anti-viruses running in the background) can screw up timing sequences like this.

I love this game.
I hate this game.
Can't shoot the stupid laser!

I've heard that the flying hickey-doos were flying cats. Ha,flying monkeys. That's funny!