College Level Game Descriptions

[Redline9]

Frogger - A tragic figure struggles to reconnect with the natural world despite the alienating oppression of urban sprawl.

Rampage - A modern re-imagining of the Grendel character in which he tires of attacking his local village mead hall and instead shifts his aggression toward Peoria, Illinois.

[J T]

Contra - Musings On The Practice Of Extraterrestrial Diplomacy: An Examination Of How To *Spread* Your Nation's Message In A Climate Of Imperialism.

Duck Hunt - Canine Relations In The Post-Modern Age: Man's Best Friend...Or His Harshest Critic?

Pacman - Obesity In The United States: An Analysis Of Why We Keep Eating Despite Being Haunted By The Specters Of Our Own Mortality.

Don't you love how peer reviewed article titles always have the same format-

serious title, colon, academic tomfoolery title.

[FerretGamer]

Metal Gear Solid 2: An experiment by a popular and successful game designer to test the audiences ability to suspend their disbelief by applying, seemingly at random, a variety of plot devices and characters archetypes deliberately juxtaposed together with no conscious forethought. Also themes of inadvertent homosexuality.

Brilliant!

[J T]

Joust: Ingenuity in the Domestication of Struthio Camelus during the Medievel Period, or Flying Phallus Fight?

Bad Dudes: A psychological case study in using cognitive reframing to convince "bad dudes" to engage in good deeds while only adding the supplemental positive reinforcement of cheeseburgers.

Kung Fu: A video series demonstrating martial arts exercises for use in self defense against knee biting midgets, plus a bonus booklet of asian pottery techniques for embedding snakes in ceramics.

[AmishSamurai]

Frogger: An ecological study of how road development has interfered with migratory patterns of animals, endangering many species.

Civilization: A game applying Leslie White's neo-evolutionist perspective of culture and progress being quantifiable as energy.

The latter was a joke in my Anthropological Theory class. When discussing a White article, somebody said it sounded like he was playing too much Civ.

[Niode]

The Legend of Zelda - A man persecuted as a thief returns to his homeland and raises an army in an attempt to forcibly reform the country; In the end, this activist is foiled by a vigilante with a penchant for collateral damage and wholesale slaughter of any wild life he comes across.

Pure gold!!

[Flake]

Final Fight: An incumbent mayor needing quickly demonstrable examples of his leadership embarks on the ultimate low-cost, highly-kinetic political campaign of his life.

NiGHTS into Dreams: A treasonous dream creature coerces two vulnerable children into aiding him in betraying his people, his country, and his king. His motivation: To avoid having to do his job.

Duck Tales: A well-to-do capitalist travels to some of the most remote and impoverished places in the world, intent on relieving the natives of any wealth he might not yet possess himself. This adventure in a world where the rich truly are above the law extends even into space, as Mr. McDuck expands his financial empire beyond the stars...

[MrPopo]

Duck Tales: A well-to-do capitalist travels to some of the most remote and impoverished places in the world, intent on relieving the natives of any wealth he might not yet possess himself. This adventure in a world where the rich truly are above the law extends even into space, as Mr. McDuck expands his financial empire beyond the stars...

Speaking of Duck Tales, when I was at the Nintendo World Store in New York they were playing the NES Duck Tales theme. It was pretty badass.

[J T]

Final Fight: An incumbent mayor needing quickly demonstrable examples of his leadership embarks on the ultimate low-cost, highly-kinetic political campaign of his life.

This is good, but you are missing the critical part about his revolutionary recycling program that allows him to convert oil drums into edible food stuffs. Since the process is done completely through the use of his bare fists, he reduces emissions of chloro flor carbons into the earth's atmosphere, thus reducing Metro City's environmental imprint by 35%. This is what swayed the left-wing voters, while his tough-on-crime position swayed the right.

[Rurouni_Fencer]

Castlevania: A sociological study of man and his internal struggle with that which he cannot understand. Is it jealousy of eternal life which drives a man to persecute his foil, or an overwhelming prejudice for that which he cannot comprehend?