| 6/06/02: |
Furious George 2.0 is temporarily replaced by its older, Perl-driven ancestor while some infuriatingly difficult-to-diagnose bugs are hammered out. |
| 8/26/01: |
Furious George 2.0 is born in full Flash-driven glory. Life becomes worth living again. |
| 7/26/01: |
Updated the crime list with suggestions from Lindsay Clark, Big Daddy Vina, Joe Donahue, Petra van Orsouw, Josh Hibbard, Rick Healey and Paul Saunders. Made a number of minor fixes and updates, as suggested by James Renken and Ldy Musyc. |
| 5/22/01: | Added a new Hall of Infamy for the top ten scores of all time. |
| 5/16/01: | Updated the crime list (finally) with suggestions from Joe Donahue, Sighedburns, Rob Conley, JWPorter, Ken Kaufman, Nick Ross, Attmay, Rick Carlson, Jsatti, Quackerattacker, SmartGamer, Schwin77, James LoveII, and Melissa LaMont. Also added lots of new special crimes, several new ways to get caught, and a few new cities at the request of people who wanted to send the monkey rampaging through their own hometowns. |
| 3/20/01: | Added a damn fine brand-new logo designed by James "Kibo" Parry. Whoo! |
| 3/19/01: | Furious George is featured in USA Today (and makes the actual print version March 29.) The likelihood of an impending lawsuit increases astronomically. |
| 12/16/00: | Updated the crime list
with suggestions from Brad Clinkscales, Joe Donahue, Chuck Beard,
I.B. Jammin, JC, VSERAVNO, Craig B, Joe Roma, Cactus Sac, Seth Ramsey,
Bill Murray, Erwhiz, and Rob Wilkins. Added three new vehicles and numerous new special crimes! |
| 9/14/00: | We got us a purty new URL. Update your bookmarks; it's http://www.furious-george.net now. |
| 8/31/00: | Updated the crime list with suggestions from Chuck Levine, Sarah Ford, Paul Stevens, EviltheKat, Joe Donohue, AJPGodzilla, SublimeGurl, MoshMaster, Nalai, Pat Webber, Renner, J.R. Hansen, Vanessa Ferrell, Matthew Glidden, Brad Clinkscales, and Attmay. |
| 7/14/00: | Updated the crime list with suggestions from Aponar Kestrel, Joe Donohue, VSERAVNO, R.S. McSpadden, Lance Anderchuk, Craftman, Nosebud, Jonathan Andrews, HailVina, Michael J. West, Jon Bearson, Dennis O'Brien, Bill Tucker, Scott Rinehart, and Edward Martin III. |
| 6/08/00: | Updated the crime list with suggestions from Xstarr69, Julia Grimes, Jonathan Locke, Andrew Rivers, Edward Martin III, Richard Deighan, Matthew Osborne, Kerry McAlister, Mike Berseth, VSERAVNO, Ben Grover, Joe Donahue, HailVina, Rogers, Kevin Hutter, Schwin77, Stan, James Custer, Jymnecrct, Eriwrebif and VDUB02. |
| 5/15/00: | Updated the crime list
with suggestions from Joe Donohue, Kes Allen, HailVina, Juliana
Daniels, John Lamb, Andrew McQuillan, Liza Kessler, Steven Goode,
Harold Torres, IcyEye Bill, Frank Dubb, VSERAVNO and BlinkBoy.
Fixed an error in which Charleston was mistakenly referred to as the capital of South Carolina. (Thanks to Liza Kessler for pointing this out.) |
| 5/04/00: | Updated the crime list with suggestions from Jenilee Mendenhall, Rebecca Raeske, VSERAVNO, Chandos Schultz, Jymnecrct88, Ryan Thorpe and Bill Dietzschold. |
| 4/25/00: | Updated the crime list with several weeks of suggestions from Aaron Tobul, Heather Croft, Nicholas Roberts, Margarette Resha, Tim Summers, Shawn Englehart, Theodore O'Neill, Friscobuba, Seraphknight, Ron Fox, David Bronaugh, Dan Jones, Jenna Lowell, Joe Donohue, Jeremy Kudlick, R.S. McSpadden, and Jenilee Mendenhall. |
| 3/27/00: | Updated the crime list with several weeks of suggestions from T.J. Buttrick, Traubie, Helpfullurker, Zutroy Rogue, Scherzoid, Andy Pope, Dunc Taylor, Mechaman, HailVina, Alpha Wolf, Oakes, Nebulous Menace, Jonathan Andrews, Michael Bacon, Ron Blancarte, IcyEye Bill and Valerie Deisinger. |
| 3/6/00: | Updated the crime list with suggestions from D.A. Edwards, Juliest, HailVina, Mark Bruce, Jon Kerckhove, Jeremy Weiss, Autumn Ward, and Scherzoid. |
| 3/3/00: | Made even more extensive changes to the program to make it still smaller, faster and more cheat-resistant. |
| 2/28/00: | Made extensive changes
to the program to make it smaller, faster and theoretically more
difficult to cheat at. (Note: this caused several
minor disruptions in service on Monday afternoon. Apologies to all
those who had their scores unexpectedly reset or experienced other
bizarre errors.) Thanks to Ron Schwanz for suggestions.
Fixed a new bug that would mysteriously assign hundreds of thousands of points whenever the monkey's vehicle was destroyed. (Credit many people for finding this bug, credit John Laff and Pobble for helping me figure out what was happening.) Updated the crime list with suggestions from Nicholas Roberts, Nathan Kring, Helpfullurker, Matt Horsley, Hoyce McGurgle, Stephen Gordon, Garth Kidd, Jonathan Andrews, Jonathan Gruenhut, Warren Foshaug, Benjamin, Dave, Michael Clary, Leingang, Judy Bauer, Paul Hodgson, Matthew Osborne, Jon Glenn, Julie, El Gato and Katherine Bunting. Updated the list of ways to become wanted with suggestions from Matt Horsley. Added three new vehicles, including a special vehicle for Pennsylvania. |
| 2/21/00: | Updated the crime list with suggestions from R.L. Wilkins, Christian Fitzgerald, John McClelland, Joe Blow, Young Fool, Pat Hamilton, Petula Neale, Dan Birchall, Black Ice, Rob West, Dave Turner, David Garlock, Nick Blount, Andy Pope, Chris Wahlberg and Michelle Vadeboncoeur. |
| 2/18/00: | Eliminated an exploit by which any page with the appropriate form headers could send information to highscore.pl, making it possible to add obscenely high scores to the list without even playing the game. (Thanks to Chris McGee for finding this one.) |
| 2/16/00: | Eliminated an exploit
that could potentially allow the monkey to escape to any country
from any state at any time. (Thanks to Jay Stuler for finding
this one.) Updated the crime list with suggestions from Sean Cullen, Tony Toon, Michael Loux, David Arbury and Steve Jackson. Updated the list of ways to become wanted with suggestions from Jay Stuler, Michael Loux, David Arbury and Steve Jackson. |
| 2/14/00: | Updated the crime list
with suggestions from Daniel Keys and Stacia and Hugh
Eckert. Updated the list of ways to become wanted with suggestions from Luke Chess and Pat the AOL Tech. |
| 2/13/00: | Furious George is featured on WonkoSlice. |
| 2/12/00: | Updated the crime list
with suggestions from Robbie Rhoades and Christopher.
Inadvertantly introduced a new bug that would periodically grant thousands of points for no reason. Fixed it. (I think.) Thanks to Derek Strand and Meadluton for pointing this one out. |
| 2/11/00: | Updated the crime list
with suggestions from Sean McNee, Eric Hedberg, Doreen Hartzell,
Ben Oldham, Drew Johnson, Chuck Sonnenberg, Nicole Sonnenberg, Jeff
Linam and Luke Chess. Added special bonus crimes for Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Texas, and New Mexico. |
| 2/10/00: | Updated the list of ways to become wanted with suggestions from Steve Jackson. (Yes, that Steve Jackson.) |
| 2/9/00: | Furious George
is featured on memepool.com.
Fixed a bug that made it impossible to be arrested in Wyoming. (Thanks to Pat the AOL tech for bringing this bug to my attention by exploiting the hell out of it.) Added a new vehicle, suggested by Jay Stuler and available only in Los Angeles, CA. |
| 2/8/00: | Updated the crime list with suggestions from Steve McPherson and Andy Holzapfel. |
| 2/7/00: | Fixed a bug that caused the score to occasionally reset itself. (Thanks to August Jirovec for reporting this one.) |
| 2/5/00: | Added special bonus crime for Maryland. |
| 2/3/00: | Updated the crime list
with suggestions from Chris McKinley and Nick Mark.
Added special bonus crimes for Colorado and South Carolina; added a new escape route from Florida. |
| 2/2/00: | Furious George makes link of the day on userfriendly.org. |
| 1/23/00: | Furious George goes live. Antisocialites rejoice. |