Video games are fun because they take us to a whole new and often fantastical world in which we can pretend to be someone totally different. The alter ego isn't usually your average banker, either -- the characters we choose have powers and abilities we could only dream of having in real life, and live in a colorful world filled with mystery and boss battles. However, some creators clearly didn't get the memo when they made these really, really boring sounding video games.
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8.08.10
By Ivy
Okay, that's crap about Harvest Moon. I've played almost all of them. I loved them all as well. The fun mini-games in some of them are awesome, and the difficulty of remembering that you have to feed your animals, but that just maybe me having that issue.
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8.09.10
By Laura
I wish bloggers would learn to RESEARCH things before they complain about them, video games especially! Yoshi's Cookie, Math Blaster, SimAnt, Harvest Moon and Panic Restaurant are fun, interesting games! Heck, my brother and I were even fans of Black Bass! RESEARCH FIRST, COMPLAIN LATER!
While we're on the subject of video games, how about instead of just complaining, you actually DESCRIBE what the game is like. That would at least make this article interesting. For example, as dorky as it is, Super 3D Noah's Ark actually uses the basic concept of Super Wolfenstein 3D? Sorry to lots of other Christians, but as a Christian myself... you cannot make enjoyable Bible based games. Note that Wisdom Tree made games FOR the NES, but they were never licensed games... and they suck.
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8.08.10
By Ben
SimAnt for SNES was awesome.
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8.08.10
By nboybek2009
Drew Villano is an idiot of the highest degree and should be immediately terminated.
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8.08.10
By Ben
My only question is how did E.T. avoid this list?
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8.08.10
By dsherline
The link I clicked on said "that's the wrong use of the word amazing". I have to ask, since when do the link writers care about the right use of words?
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8.08.10
By Nanami
From going through this list I can sum up the interests of who wrote this article. Chessmaster is a game about playing Chess and it pertains to those who play. To find it boring would be as simple as saying you don't like Chess. The same goes for the fishing games. I actually remember playing one on the Super Nintendo when I was a kid with my brothers and it was pretty entertaining to watch how they responded to it. Also, the Harvest Moon series is still going strong having branched off into Rune Factory. This list is stupid. It's based off personal interests mostly.
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8.08.10
By Welcome Mieka
The only thing I don't like here is that they appear to be dissing the Bible. Not cool. I know Christianity isn't considered very modern in theses time, but America is still considered to be a Christian country. Please remember that. Oh and real sea monkeys are a blast to raise and watch. I did it successfully as a kid.
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8.09.10
By startrekalian
harvest moon, SimAnt, and Yoshi's cookie are great games. AND there are way more games out there that aren't licensed by Nintendo. The guy who wrote this is a total idiot judging games by their covers. Now I can only wonder how bad those other games really are.
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8.08.10
By superhyperduck
i wonder how many games Drew Villano actually played if any. cause i see a lot of games on here that aren't bad, even the bible games. Sure there bible themed but that doesn't make them boring unless your an athiest or hate the bible. Harvest moon, sim ant, and yoshi's cookie? Most of the rest are educational, and really fishing games? if you don't like fishing games then don't play them, I personally don't but there are others that do don't hate on them just cause you don't like to fish. What a jerk.
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8.08.10
By foxcartman
I was born in 1981, so that gaming was pretty popular back then
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8.08.10
By howardbware
Wow this guy who wrote this should really make sure he knows what he is talking about before he writes a witty quip. First of all dude, the Black bass is part of a family of fish known as black bass it includes Large mouth, small mouth, and Rock bass, and yes they are green for the most part. And the bass master classic is a professional fishing tournament, so The Pro Edition of the Bass master classic makes perfict sense. And some of these games were just plain fun, it's clear he has never played them and just did his research by randomly googling stupid games or something.
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8.08.10
By Paul
Okay, so you like Bible games, educational games for 6 year olds, games based on board or pub games, or bizarre sim games. This could have been boiled down to a top 10 list, and if you had done the due diligence to research the games, could have lead to an awesomely hilarious article about the 10 worst games of all times. Instead, you took the cheap way out and just scoured the internet for the 35 lamest looking covers, or anything based on the Bible, or math. So way to suck at being a writer.
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8.11.10
By bassoonjedi
Holy crap what a great list.Panic Restaurant has to be one of my favorite covers on that list besides the baby-sitting game.
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8.16.10
By monde
The people who comment on Urlesque apparently need to take a moment and a breath and stop taking life (and video games) so seriously. If you go into spasms because your favorite G-rated video game gets made fun of, you really ought to at least ponder the idea of getting a life...or hanging around the real internet instead of AOL, maybe.
And if you can't handle people taking potshots at your religion: please remember that this is America, not a place like Talibanistan, but for Christians instead of Muslims. At least, not yet. Sometimes I wonder what it's going to be like in 20 years...
But consider this: The fact that you live in a nation where people can still make fun of Christianity without ending up exterminated or jailed means that when you meet your Christian friends, they will be real Christians, not just people pretending to be Christians because they've got a desire to survive. Think about it.
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8.16.10
By UltimateWalrus
This article isn't funny, it's just disappointing. The extent of the humor here is basically "LOOK AT THIS YOSHI'S COOKIE DOESNT THAT SOUND LIKE A BORING GAME HUH HUH HUH." What a twat.
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8.17.10
By sfcat
I don't think you can really legitimately trash chessmaster, it's on version 10 or 11 now. Any company would give blood to have a success record like that.
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