Shooting Ribenaberry is probably one of the longest programming tasks in the WCT range. The title page was written in Summer 1997, and most of the game was written over Christmas 1997. The adjustably bendy banana was fun, and the music - the first real music we'd used, was inspiring! However, it seemed that the game had more potential at that stage than it in fact delivered. Someone suggested the bright idea that the berries should fall out of the sky... That seemed to improve things a bit! Then someone else suggested that we should add power-ups to your banana and let it have lasers... or perhaps stretch itself to double its original width... That seemed good as well...

Then we thought we'd add some sound effects, so with the help of my flatmates in Spring 1998, we added some sound effects. It took a while to match the sound effects successfully, but eventually, the balance was achieved - with a few gaps. However, there were various bugs which persistently refused to go away, so the official web release of Shooting Ribenaberry was delayed. It was sent out to many people for some intense beta-testing to try and figure out the weird problems... with a degree of success. Eventually - after a few more games had been released, Ribenaberry finds itself ready for download, with some extra sound effects added, and most of the bugs sorted out! We hope it has been worth the wait!

Anyway... read the plot from the title page for more info, but basically... you have a spherical mini-cheddar, and an adjustably bendy banana. (Adjust bendiness with up/down arrow keys). Bounce the mini-cheddar off the berries to liberate them. Then catch them in your banana for bonus points. Try not to squish them. Various power-ups will fall out of the sky - most of them good. Use left/right arrows to choose which one is active. Watch out for Andy's Revenge as well - a steamingly potent brew that will definitely hinder you (see Shooting Chundery!)