Google Doodle celebrates Tokyo Olympics with animated games

Google Doodle has come up with a new doodle on Friday to celebrate the opening of the Tokyo Olympics 2020 games. This time, the tech giant has launched an innovative and animated Doodle Champion Island Games. It has seven mini-games, legendary opponents, and dozens of daring side quests.

The seven games represented in the Olympics doodle include table tennis, skateboarding, archery, rugby, swimming, climbing, and marathon.

The doodle was created by the Japanese animation company Studio 4°C. Take a look.

This interactive doodle will let users play the games as a fictional character Lucky, the Ninja Cat on behalf of four teams – Blue, Red, Yellow, Green – with a real-time global leaderboard.

Users can take part in the Olympic event-themed 16-bit games and contribute their scores to one of four teams, which will be tracked by Google.

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“Welcome to the Doodle Champion Island Games! Over the coming weeks, join calico (c)athlete Lucky as she explores Doodle Champion Island: a world filled with seven sport mini-games, legendary opponents, dozens of daring side quests, and a few new (and old ;)) friends. Her ultimate goal? Defeat each sport Champion to collect all seven sacred scrolls—and complete extra hidden challenges across Champion Island in the purrr-ocess,” Doodle wrote in its statement.  

If you are a 90s kid, interacting with this doodle will remind you of playing Mario for the design of the games is structured that way.

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Tokyo Olympics 2020, which comes after a year-long delay in view of the COVID-19 pandemic has begun on Friday. It is scheduled to be held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Japan.

As far as Olympics’ COVID protocols go, the final version of the Playbook issued by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on June 15, said athletes who do not follow COVID-19 protocols at the Tokyo Olympics would risk harsh penalties, including expulsion from the Games.  The Olympics and Paralympics are anticipated to attract 15,400 athletes, according to officials.