I didn’t even know what “Cornhole” was until a few months ago.  Sounds like an insult or what Beavis says when he has too much sugar or caffeine.  But no, it’s a game where you throw bean bags on a board and try to get them to land on it or in a hole.  I think we played something like this at elementary school fairs and such.  But what if Cornhole was popular enough in the 70s and 80s to warrant making an Atari 2600 game out of it?  Because you know they would.  Well now you can see what that’s like with Cornhole Hero, a free-to-play mobile game (reviewed on iPad here).

Cornhole Hero has three modes of play: Tournament, Blitz, and Balloon.  In Tournament, you must score a certain number of points with five bean bags to move onto the next round.  In Blitz, you have 30 seconds to get as high of a score as you can.  And in Balloon, you must throw bags to pop balloons in the air. The game saves your high scores in each mode, too.

To play, just swipe your finger on the screen to throw.  Depending on how far and fast you swipe, and how you aim, you can get the bags to go in the direction you want, but it’s very hard.  The controls are really the only problem I have with the game, but I do recommend you go to the options screen and change the ‘arm strength’ to 3.  That’ll make it easier.  I did like the old school graphics and funny animations your stick figure does.  And it’s a free-to-play game so I guess I can’t complain too much.

Kid Factor:

Nothing violent or objectionable here.  Although you can smack your little stickman around with a bean bag and he’ll do a funny animation.  Reading skill is helpful for the text, but not necessary just to play.  Parental supervision is recommended for the in-game ads and purchases.

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