Perry The Perv 2

Perry the Perv 2 was one of those games you'd find buried on a Flash portal in the late 2000s. It belonged to a wave of simple, often crude, single-screen games that relied on quick gags and straightforward controls. You didn't need an account or a download; you just clicked and played, usually with the sound off if anyone else was around.

You control Perry, a little man with one goal: to peek up women's skirts. Using your mouse, you guide him left and right across the bottom of the screen, timing your movements to stay hidden under the passing pedestrians. Each successful peek adds to your score, but get spotted by a woman or a policeman, and the stage ends. The mechanics are basic evasion and timing, with the occasional need to dodge multiple characters at once. It moves quickly, and the margin for error is small, making it a game of brief, tense bursts. The experience feels silly and slightly anxious, a product of its particular moment on the web.