The 7 Commandments All Video Games Should Obey

This is a list of the 7 commandments all video game,es should obey from the following site:
http://www.cracked.com/article_16196_7-commandments-all-video-games-should-obey.html
#7. Thou shalt let us play your game with real-life friends.
#6. Thou shalt not pad the length of your games.
#5. Thou shalt not force repetition on the player.
#4. Thou shalt make killing fun.
#3. Thou shalt admit when enough is enough.
#2. Thou shalt make sure your game actually works.
#1. Better graphics do not equal innovation and/or creativity.

I agree with these points. I think that some of the best games were made for the early systems(SNES and N64). please tell me what your most hated video games and what you hate about them.

Top 10 Worst Games of all Time

These are the top 10 worst games according to http://www.pcworld.ca//news/column/e74a4b260a0104080187a604f37df23d/pg0.htm
This is straight from the site so all information is thanks to this site.

1. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (Atari, 1982)Platform: Atari 2600
Not only did Atari's The Extra-Terrestrial manage to be a bust even though it was based on one of the hottest selling movies of all time, but it also made for some serious out of this world bad gaming.

2. Super Columbine Massacre RPG (Danny Ledonne, 2005)Platform: Windows
Do violent video games inspire horrific, violent acts in the real world? No one really knows for sure. Do horrific, violent acts in the real world inspire violent video games? Absolutely.

3. Custer's Revenge (Mystique, 1982)Platform: Atari 2600
I can just imagine what they were thinking over at game company Mystique: create an adults only game under a well-known porn brand (Swedish Erotica) for a platform known for family-friendly titles (Atari 2600). Sex, novelty and, hopefully, a touch of scandal should make for runaway success, right?

4. Daikatana (Eidos Interactive, 2000)Platforms: Windows, Nintendo 64, GameCube
In several respects, Daikatana set a new standard for gaming misfires. Legendary developer John Romero planned to top his earlier work on Doom and Quake by creating a first-person shooter with unprecedented game play and design. When work started in 1997, Romero expected the 24-level game, featuring a time-traveling storyline, to be done in about seven months. Those seven months became three years, with the most notable delay being the mid-production switch to a different game engine.

5. Pac-Man (Atari, 1981)Platform: Atari 2600
When we returned home, my best friend and fellow Atari disciple came over to witness the unveiling--and we were greeted by several degrees of awfulness. Nothing about this game looked, sounded or felt the same as the arcade version. Even Pac-Man himself wasn't his usual pie-with-a-slice-missing shape, and his trademark "wakka wakka wakka" had become a grating "bonk bonk bonk". The ghosts shimmered in and out of existence (like, er, ghosts), owing to the 2600's limited graphics capabilities. What should have been little white power pellets looked like stale Twinkies.

6. Smurf Rescue (Coleco, 1982)Platforms: ColecoVision, Atari 2600
Your Smurf, on a quest to rescue the lovely Smurfette, walked through scrolling scenery (apparently the peril wasn't that great, as your character's pace was pretty leisurely) from the village to Gargamel's castle, jumping over obstacles. However, the journey required the patience of a saint, as being just a little off--say, accidentally nicking the very edge of a weed--would instantly send your Smurf to his death.

7. Shaq Fu (Electronic Arts, 1994)Platforms: Sega Game Gear, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, Amiga, Game Boy
Released during the fighting-game craze, Shaq Fu looked pretty much like Mortal Kombat or any of the other such offerings out back then. At the time, I tried my hand at Shaq Fu on a whim, and found it was too finicky for all but the most patient gamers: you had to hit your opponent in exactly the right spot to do any damage. Combined with the absurdity of Shaq fighting evil in his basketball uniform, it was too much for me.

8. Make My Video (Digital Pictures, 1992)Platform: Sega CD
If you were an aspiring music video director, you could play one of these games, featuring early-1990s acts Marky Mark (better known today as Mark Wahlberg) and the Funky Bunch, Kriss Kross and C+C Music Factory, as well as Australian rockers INXS, and create videos using built-in clips and video effects. But forget about unbridled creativity: your artistic vision was limited by the built-in clips and some hokey video effects, as well as the specific content requirements dictated at the start of each round.

9. Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Ubisoft, 2004)Platforms: PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Windows, cell phone, PlayStation Portable (as Prince of Persia: Revelations).
In an effort to increase the next game's appeal, Ubisoft opted for a tried-and-true formula and ramped up the violence, sex and noise. The newer, edgier Prince was aggressive and obnoxious, the level of gore was increased, female characters were eroticized and wore less and the soundtrack, originally based on Persian music, was largely replaced with hard rock. In short, Prince of Persia went "extreme." As one friend put it, "Warrior Within took everything that Sands of Time did right and threw it out the window".

10. Elf Bowling (NStorm, 2005)Platform: Nintendo DS
Remember when, during the waning months of 1999, a company named NStorm released a free Windows game called Elf Bowling? Sure you do. Productivity ground to a halt all across the continent as people played "just one more game" in which Santa Claus dealt with a labour dispute by using his minions as bowling pins. Remember passing it along to your friends, contributing to the email slowdown at your workplace? Sure you do. (You can admit it now, since the statute of limitations for server blockage is up).

These are the top 10 WORST games according to the site at the top. All information is from that site so thanks to pcworld.com for the information that was availabe to me.
Post your opinions on these games and tell me the wordt game that you have ever played.

Old Video Game Systems

In 1984, the computer gaming market took over from the console market following the crash of that year; computers offered equal gaming ability and since their simple design allowed games to take complete command of the hardware after power-on, they were nearly as simple to start playing with as consoles.

In 1985 the American Video Game market was revived with then release Nintendo's 8-bit console, the Famicon, also known as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) outside of Asia. The NES dominated the North American market until the rise of the next generation of consoles in the early 1990's.

The video game scene exploded in the early to mid 1990's when the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) came out with some of the beginning RTS style games such as Dune 2. This game set the standard game mechanics for later blockbuster games such as, Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, Command and Conquer, and Starcraft.

I received all this information from Wikipedia because all the other sites are blocked. :(
So I apologize in advances if any of this is incorrect.

Video Games are Helping Learning?

What has been said ever since video games have been created is that they are just a waste of time and shouldn't be played. But what has been said about video games is that they are a great way for kids to get hand-eye coordination and also some video games have true facts in them and they are able to teach you some things. Another way that the video games help out with people is the Nintendo Wii, it is a more hands on system and you actually have to be active when you use it.

Tell me what you think about video games and how they help/hurt our generations and the ones after us.

P.S. Just because you don't like video games doesn't mean that you can say that they are horrible unless you have proof the by all means go ahead.

Types of Video Games

I want to know what people think about the different game styles. Everyone knows that there is many different styles of games. There is RPG, MMORPG, RTS, FPS, and Racing games to name a few. My favourite of them had to be the MMORPG's because you are able to play with a lot of different people from sometimes all over the world. The other one that I like is the RTS games becuase it accuactially takes planning and you can't shut it off and redo something that you did wrong or even pause it. This type of game is really fun if you enjoy the aspect of real time.

The games that I like that are real time are DOTA and LOTR Battle for Middle Earth II. The MMORPG game that I like is WOW but I also love the RPG games like Eternal Sonata and Tales of Symphonia/Legendia.

Post your favourite type of game but if you don't know what the types of games are then just ask someone.

Games: Why are they addicting?

Okay, I don't really understand how people can get so addicted to video games... They aren't even close to reality. Well one game that is really addicting (or so I've heard) is World of Warcraft. I can't comprehend how people can be so obsessed with that game. I will admit that I do play the game but I am not addicted to it. And if anyone knows why it can be so addictive please enlighten me on the reason. The only reason that I can think of is because people hate their lives so much they get into a video game to pretend their life doesn't suck.

Another game that can be addictive is the Halo series. I have played Halo 3 online a few times and the people have to be messed in the head or something.(this isn't everyone just almost everyone) The people who you are playing with will yell at you if you kill them and also people will be so proud of themselves if they get a head shot, and if they don't get one they cry about it.

So please people of you are addicted to a game of some kind, I have some advise for you...
GET HELP NOW!!!!!!! The game addiction you have will wreck your life. So just get some help for every one's sake and not just your own.

What is the best videogame system out there?

I would like to know what all of your favourite Video Game systems are. So can people please post their favourite system and you can also state why it is the best and why another is the worst. So the systems can be anywhere from the Atari to a computer. I guess that I will start things off.

Well I have two favourite systems, my first one is the Xbox 360. It is one of my favourites because you are able to play some of the hottest titles out there and also it can be used as a media player. My other favourite is a computer. It also is one of my favourites because you are able to do so many things on a computer. You can go on the Internet, talk with your friends with an IM, you can also play many of the new games(if you have the system and the cash) and you can just search for things on the Internet.

Please start to post and and comment on my choices. You can add to my ideas or you can completely disagree with them, but just post your comments and I hope that there is a bunch of diversity in the different systems that everyone likes.