BT Pipeskater

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BT Pipeskater is a game used by British Telecom to advertise their wholesale broadband Internet service. The game has found limited popularity with British schoolchildren.^{[citation needed]}

The game is played by controlling a skateboarder in a full cylinder pipe which is meant to resemble an internet connection cable. Your aim is to collect the pieces of data inside the pipe by maneuvering the skateboarder and avoid the green bugs (made to represent viruses). The game gets faster as it progresses. The speed is translated as internet connection speed which can reach its fastest speed of 512kb/s - the typical cable internet speed (which is what this game advertises). The difficulty increases with speed and for every bug/virus you hit you lose one of your five lives. The current high score is 13350.

The game, at what must be its peak, 13th September 2005, had enough people playing it to crash the whole BT website and its servers.^{[citation needed]}