Video game humor

Alinestra Covelia · April 19, 2003, 16:29

Does anybody out there have any good jokes as applies to video games and video game characters? I'm searching for some for a kids' newspaper article I'm writing up but most of the ones I found are not kid suitable.

Either way, if you've heard of a good video game joke, even if it's not kid suitable, post it up here. You'll amuse me, anyhow, and that's a good thing

None of the stuff I've got are particularly funny and worse yet they're not really kid accessible, dammit.

Super Spliff Brothers - a game where you eat mushrooms and chew on strange leaves and start flying and stuff. (The editor vetoed this one even though I had a good spoof graphic

)

"Mario is so fat that when he got to the warp zone they said SORRY 100 PIXELS MAX CAPACITY" (The Ed killed this one too saying it would alienate overweight kids.)

"What does Mario use to tell the future? - A Luigi board." (The ed called this too controversial and WTF!?! etc. was my measured response.)

So come on, wrack your brains and help save Ali who has an inane "journalistic" assignment. (And who'd much rather be writing about Mexican jungle exploration. Grrr.)

Ben Kenobi · April 19, 2003, 16:33

First off:

Most kids who play video games will be boys.

What kinds of things make boys laugh?

Think along the lines of the Three Stooges, etc.

red_jon · April 19, 2003, 16:36

Games have an in-built humour.

For example, it's a running joke to have video game characters to come from the mythical country of 'Japan'.

Japan is made entirely of mountains and dragons live there.

Alinestra Covelia · April 19, 2003, 16:55

Argh this assignment is killing me.

Whose idea was it to ask journalists to come up with astoundingly patronizing and crap jokes for kids?

I should be leaping from tree to tree in the Bornean wilds of Mexico for heaven's sake...

Stefu · April 19, 2003, 17:05

Have a picture of a kid getting the ol' whirlpool treatment and a caption "HA HA U R LUZORS". That'll jive with the target audience like a ton of bricks, that will.

If the editor kills it, hey, that was so not good anything else will look good next to it.

Alinestra Covelia · April 19, 2003, 17:22

I did ask for an ALL YOUR BASE caption but the Ed looked at me funny.

Bloody apostate.

Ben Kenobi · April 19, 2003, 17:35

Try a George of the Jungle joke, Alinestra.

"George, george, george of the jungle, watch out for that tree."

Alinestra Covelia · April 19, 2003, 18:06

This thread should now be closed as I have solved the situation. I am no longer required to write a video game joke.

To the mods: Please close this thread. It stands as a terrible monument of an all-time low in my posting history here, precipitated by a sad period of barrel scraping and external stress. We should leave this thread to sleep with the fishes. It is excreta - abandoning it to its ignoble fate would be a positive relief. It is a hideous monstrosity of a malformed child and I am having my womb destroyed for bringing it forth, yea verily. So feel free to close or delete this thread and erase all traces of this desperately unfunny post by a poster who is normally in much better form. Thanks.

To myself: I feel good at having used the F-word to my editor.

Lazerus · April 19, 2003, 18:27

i find it funny, watching people slowly sink into a desperate madness is always amusing

Stefu · April 19, 2003, 18:37

I don't think this thread should be closed. It has multitious uses of Alinestra's superior avatar, which makes me happy every time I look at it.

August Borms · April 19, 2003, 18:40

How do you get Pikachu on a bus?

Poke him on.

red_jon · April 19, 2003, 18:42

That's similar to a joke I thought of.

How does a Jamaican excite a girl?

Poke her mon'

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yavoon · April 19, 2003, 18:45

penny arcade. its a comic that centers around video games dont know if its got the one liners u want tho.

Menlas · April 19, 2003, 19:53

Yeah, in France we have one too, called kid paddle

Seeker · April 20, 2003, 00:25

Korea is the land of mountains and dragons.

It's also the first country to be ?proud? of having 'four distinct seasons'.

And sushi and sashimi, first. And gim-bap. Even sumo.

Almost everything traditionally Japanese is actually Korean (according to koreans).

They don't have a big video game industry though, the dictatorship thought it was culturally bad.

So now they have the most broadband non-sexual penetration of any country!

Japan is currently a 'cool' country in the West, but I don't think we know (or care) about how much of its culture is actually Korean.

yavoon · April 20, 2003, 01:11

just cuz they borrowed ideas doesn't mean their culture is korean. japan is pretty notorious for borrowing.

and s.korea(if indeed thats the one ur talkin about) has an enormous video game industry. the top gamers in korea can make over 50 000 dollars a year. appear on commercials and are treated like sports stars.

Nubclear · April 20, 2003, 01:14

Quote:

Originally posted by August Borms
How do you get Pikachu on a bus?

Poke him on.

The only reason thats funny is because of the smiley

Inverse Icarus · April 20, 2003, 02:32

"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989

not so much a joke, but a hillarious quote

you could go for a "what if the mario brothers were ______, rather than italian", but i would only find that humerous because of the sterotypes

Propaganda · April 20, 2003, 02:59

Quote:

Originally posted by UberKruX
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989

not so much a joke, but a hillarious quote

Too bad Pac-Man didn't swing glow sticks, while eating magic pills, running around in darkened rooms and listening to repetitive electronic music. Otherwise, a quote of that nature would have been priceless.

gopher · April 20, 2003, 11:21

Why shouldnt you go to the bathroom with a Poekemon in the house?

Because he might take a pichachu!

Alinestra Covelia · April 20, 2003, 12:19

Stefu I'm going to have to change my avatar just for you

Stefu · April 20, 2003, 12:53

Aww.

But I love the new one, too.

The Mad Monk · April 20, 2003, 13:03

Quote:

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
This thread should now be closed as I have solved the situation. I am no longer required to write a video game joke.

To the mods: Please close this thread. It stands as a terrible monument of an all-time low in my posting history here, precipitated by a sad period of barrel scraping and external stress. We should leave this thread to sleep with the fishes. It is excreta - abandoning it to its ignoble fate would be a positive relief. It is a hideous monstrosity of a malformed child and I am having my womb destroyed for bringing it forth, yea verily. So feel free to close or delete this thread and erase all traces of this desperately unfunny post by a poster who is normally in much better form. Thanks.

To myself: I feel good at having used the F-word to my editor.

Sorry, but you have just doomed it to become...

ALINESTRA'S SINKING THREAD.

orange · May 13, 2003, 15:43

Extreme bump

Quote:

"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."

I love this quote...but isn't what is described the essence of a rave?