Worst Videogame Concept Ever?

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 10:44 am

Pooooooontang.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 12:29 pm

Have you ever seen Korean porn? That shit is fucked up.

....it always comes down to porn with me.

The only Asian population around here is Vietnamese, and I don't count them as Asian. In the five years I've been at UL, there have been exactly three Japanese students to my knowledge... one was in animation ahead of me, she graduated a couple years ago. Another was giving me tutoring for a short while before she left her husband and moved back to Japan (which I saw as an inevitability since just a few days after I met her).

That was kind of funny, actually, it was like I was right in the middle of a bad porno. It was the student/tutor scenario... she was a bored housewife in her early 20's married to a guy 10 years her senior... She suggested we meet at her house in the morning when her husband wasn't home... and I was kind of nervous about that, like: "You... you said your husband was in the marines, right?"

Whether fortunately or not, I never saw any action, but she did graduate from an all-girl college and I know she can hook me up if I could contact her again.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 12:36 pm

Another funny thing, just about a year after she left, her husband was shot nearly to death in a ditch. I never got the story behind that, but she apparently came from a fairly wealthy family who must have connections, so, y'know.

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 12:53 pm

Have you ever seen Korean porn?

I've seen so much it's hard to remember sometimes.

Also, I absolutely adore your comedy anecdotes and hopeless misadventures. Jebus, just go make a sitcom about your own life and make millions. You live in America - if fourth-rate tat like Caroline In The City and Dharma And Greg can get aired, you could too.

Post by **Delphine** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:07 pm

No, see, we don't put anything actually <i>good</i> on TV anymore, so it wouldn't fly.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:11 pm

Also, I absolutely adore your comedy anecdotes and hopeless misadventures. Jebus, just go make a sitcom about your own life and make millions. You live in America - if fourth-rate tat like Caroline In The City and Dharma And Greg can get aired, you could too.

And then he can be like Seinfield and write episodes about writing the episodes.

Brazillian Cara · Post by **Brazillian Cara** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 6:01 pm

Returning to the exchange student topic, does anyone here were in Minnetonka High School in 2002? My sister studied there.

ban ME · Post by **ban ME** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 6:04 pm

That would be Prop Cycle by Namco. It's emulated in mame, but (like most polygonal games) is unplayably slow, and I'm sure the experience is lost without the pedals. It seemed like a cool idea to me, though, I'd like to give it a shot.

I actually played that game (I discovered it at an arcade in Greenfield Village, a theme park located in Michigan). Maybe it was because we were both around 11-years-old, but my cousin and I really enjoyed it. You would sit in this:

And, from what I recall, you would cycle your way through (the faster you pedaled, the faster your bicycle went) a predetermined route (similar to a racing game in structure), attempting to pop all the balloons in your path in order to earn points. Time was also a factor. As you played, an actual breeze would be blown in your general direction to either help simulate the feeling of flight or to cool off out of shape gamers who we're undoubtedly sweating furiously due to the physical exertion required. Who knows? It was quite a workout as I remember it...

Anyway, I thought it was cool.

Lakwren · Post by **Lakwren** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 6:23 pm

Yeah, that was the one. Was it in japanese too?

I always died in that game because I couldn't manoever well, since I was like, 9 or 10 or something.

Dache · Post by **Dache** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 4:51 am

Prop Cycle got an English release. Your arcade must've just been impatient.