{"id":9013,"date":"2006-06-19T00:50:43","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T00:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9013"},"modified":"2006-06-19T00:50:43","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T00:50:43","slug":"mad-on-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9013","title":{"rendered":"Mad On Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/MadWorstGames.jpg\">Last September&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dccomics.com\/mad\/\" target=\"new\">Mad magazine<\/a> had a hysterical piece on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/mad-magazine-takes-on-the-50-worst-things-about-video-games\" target=\"new\">&#8220;50 Worst Things About Video Games.&#8221;<\/a> The copyright-defying fiends over at Destructoid have put up page scans of the entire article. Some of our faves:<\/p>\n<p> * Game designers who can\u2019t understand why more women don\u2019t play video games, especially since they feature such outstanding female role models as a globetrotting archeologist (with big boobs), world-class volleyball champions (with big boobs), and of course, easily murdered hookers (with big boobs).<\/p>\n<p> * Video game magazines that spend months hyping a game as the second coming, lavishing it with praise and eagerly counting down to its release date, only to dismiss it when it comes out as third-rate, over-hyped crap.<\/p>\n<p> * Racing through the Grand Canyon in a super-charged 350Z with ARC spoilers and HKS turbochargers\u2026 then turning off Gran Turismo 4 and driving to work in your 1988 Honda Civic with AM\/FM radio and manual windows.<\/p>\n<p> * Donkey Konga, which combines the \u201860s-era art of bongo drumming with none of the mind-bending hallucinogens that made it tolerable in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last September&#8217;s Mad magazine had a hysterical piece on the &#8220;50 Worst Things About Video Games.&#8221; The copyright-defying fiends over at Destructoid have put up page scans of the entire article. Some of our faves: * Game designers who can\u2019t understand why more women don\u2019t play video games, especially since they feature such outstanding female &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9013\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mad On Video Games&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}