The Fueled and the Frivolous: Green Video Game Parodies
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 07. 4.07
We just couldn't come up as clever a title as Katie did at Worldchanging: i’m in ur Xbox savin ur planet, about the Photoshop Phriday collection at Something Awful. They "decided to do their part to pretend to help the environment, this time by making some eco-friendly progressive video games. Looking at them will be a pleasant distraction from the all-consuming Global Warming-powered death due any minute now." We love the reviews: "The most realistic bus riding simulator to date!" or for Super Safeway 3: (A hurricane is coming, store as much food as you can)- "It feels like I was really there!" -Mike Brown, (formerly) FEMA. Play them all at ::Something Awful
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These are merely the rantings of adolescent boys who, powerless in their everyday lives, seek to live out fantasies of fast cars, loose women, and dominance over others.
Pay these Internet tough guys no attention.
Wayne Gerdes' Fuel Saver 2 is a hilarious idea. As an ultra nerd, I would totally play that.
(read if you haven't heard of Wayne Gerdes)
Oh come now,
can't we laugh at ourselves just a little bit? The titles are funny and clever, and we can always use a little levity in spite of the problems and challenges we're squaring up against.
-TY