Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Google's Doodle review: 155th Aniversary of the Pony Express

Before anything else, don't think that I forgot about the second part of the entry "About the girl of the entry "A Letter"". I am still working on it and hopefully I will post it tomorrow part two, so if you want to know what happens, continue visiting my blog, and please share it. That being said, I may continue.
Today, April 14th, 2015, Google has posted a new Doodle. For those who don't know what a doodle is, a Doodle is a drawing made by Google that replaces the original Google's logo in order to commemorate an special date, for example in the US, there is a doodle on the fourth of July, in France there is a Doodle on my birthday La Bastille day, and there was once where it was commemorated the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who (you know who is Doctor Who, don't you?). Today was commemorated the 155th anniversary of the Pony Express. Now let me tell you a little bit of History...
According to Wikipedia (the world oracle), The Pony Express was a mail service, packages and stuff back and forth the East Coast to the West coast that started on 1860 (like a FedEx but in the 1860's). Like the name of the Service suggests, the deliverers used not ponies, but horses selected by the U.S. Army. It closed the Civil War started and the company was sold to Wells Fargo for $1.50 Million.
Well, The Pony Express is brought from the dead to the 2015 by this Doodle.It shows the word "Google" in a western style, then it shows a rider on a horse riding at the sunset, but Google's things are not that simple, because it has a button to play which you click and then it show the Pony Express's historic route from California to Georgia, then the doodle transforms in an interactive game in which your objective is to pick up the letters that are in the road (why would someone put a letter in the middle on the road?) and ride, but in the first level your enemies are cacti, then rocks, then avalanches, and thieves (it's the wild west). It is pretty entertaining and creative. Usually Google's doodles are just 2-D drawings (really cool by the way), but a few times, an interactive doodle is a Doodle for something. This game really brings to life the Pony Express, after more than a 100 years of closing, and I suggest you to play it if you want to have a good time and beat my score: 53/100 (I picked up 53 letters out of a hundred).
Hi-yo, Silver, Away!


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