Many of us have heard of that board game. It has been toyed with for generations. Some of us have tried it out in our youth. However, a great evil lurks under the seemingly harmless exterior of it, yet it is widely available in many toy stores. The game I am talking about, of course, is Hungry Hungry Hippos! Now how, you may ask, could a children's game like that be so bad? While many believe that the world was introduced to the game only in 1978, it actually has a secret history that goes back much further. Hungry Hungry Hippos was originally invented by the Ancient Egyptians. When people created the game, they created four relics of hippos, but there is a twist to this. They also harvested four hippo souls, each to be placed into a relic. Hungry Hungry Hippos was more than a simple game, it was also a deadly weapon.
Some time before the creation of Hungry Hungry Hippos, Ancient Egypt was the target of alien invasions. One use that the pyramids had was to provide refuge for living the Egyptians from the alien attacks. It was during that time when someone decided to invent a game that would not only help them pass the time while hiding, but also be used against the aliens. The Ancient Egyptians received assistance from a group of benevolent aliens from Orion's belt whom the Egyptians worshiped as gods. The good aliens gave a little of help on designing and building some of the structures such as the Great Pyramids of Giza and based their formation on that of the three stars in Orion's belt. The three major Giza Pyramids form a line that serves as one side of a giant equilateral triangle. A giant Hungry Hungry Hippos board was placed on the corner opposite of the line formed by those Pyramids. On the middle of the board were some piles of hippo dung and there were also dung beetles that rolled the dung into marbles that would be used for the game.
One day, the aliens returned and the Egyptians were hiding in the Giza Pyramids. Three of the aliens patrolled the area and came across the giant Hungry Hungry Hippos board. The inventor of the game was found there in control of one of the hippo replicas. He challenged the three aliens to the biggest game of Hungry Hungry Hippos ever. The three aliens would form a team and each control a hippo replica. They all had to use the hippos to gobble up the marbles and the inventor told the aliens that if they won, then they could take over the planet. The aliens agreed to the deal. The man and the aliens started playing and had the hippos gobble up the marbles. Naturally, the aliens won and they threatened to begin the capture of Earth by destroying the man. Little did the aliens know that there was a spell that would cause the winning hippos to come to life as real hippos when exposed to direct sunlight.
As the aliens were aiming their ray guns at the man, a hippo approached and chomped one of the aliens in half. The other two aliens, fearing for their lives, transmitted some distress signals to summon the other aliens, but they to got quickly destroyed. The man rushed to the pyramids and warned everyone that there were more aliens coming and that their Hungry Hungry Hippos boards were needed to fend off the invasion. The mother ship was blocking out the sunlight, and the people used that opportunity to place their used boards around the giant one so the hippos could come to life and fend off the invaders.
While the mother ship was still blocking out the sunlight, the aliens touched down where the signal was sent and moved toward the pyramids that everyone was hiding in, but then the mother ship moved which allowed the winning hippos to be exposed to the direct sunlight. The hippos then slaughtered many of the aliens and the survivors barely escaped back to the mother ship with their lives and they left the planet. Earth was victorious. It turns out that the hero who saved Earth was the Pharaoh. Rumor has it that it was either the alien invaders or the Egyptian gods who constructed a set of volcanoes on Mars as a warning to other aliens about how the Earth was saved, with Hungry Hungry Hippos being represented by the largest volcano in the Solar System.
An archaeological secret is that some of the boards were discovered to have been left in a chamber of the Great Pyramid of Giza in 1934. Milton Bradley Company learned about the discovery 32 years later and decided that the artifacts would make great products for the modern market and so they sold them 12 years after that. Little do they know that the spell has not warn off these artifacts. To this day, the hippos for the game still hold the souls of the hippos that were used thousands of years ago and if the game is played anywhere within that imaginary triangle formed by the Pyramids of Giza line and the corner where the game happened, and on a clear day, then the hungry hungry hippos will come back to life, bottled up with thousands of years worth of Deadly Deadly Wrath.
