Abject Suffering

If you go anywhere used games are sold, you’ll see shelves choked with DS and Wii shovelware. And this week’s game, Wonder World Amusement Park, is emblematic of everything about that phenomenon. But of course, Gary picked this game to have an excuse to talk about his trip to the Oregon State Fair, which featured a real life reenactment of The Zoo Race.

Gonna be honest, it’s weird to record an episode that stays on topic like this one does. Everyone remembers the Eternal Champions, right? A franchise beloved enough that it got two character-specific spinoffs before Mortal Kombat got even one? X-Perts (unrelated to the X-Men) is in the running for one of the worst beat-em-ups we’ve covered for the show, which is really saying something.

Behold, the Nega-Bear. It exists within and without our dimension. Do not try to shut your eyes, as the Nega-Bear moves faster when it is not perceived.

I hate to say, but sometimes you just have to respect somebody with that many muscles.

Now to play a nice relaxing game where cops beat up... the incarcerated. Hmm.

Here is a list of your sins: You never used that coupon. Your wallet smells funny. You don't clean your phone.

Well, I don't see why the devs had to make it sexual.

I... I'm told this is a fashion game, somehow?

Spies! Snowboarding! Uh... yeah, we don't get it either.

I was suckered into playing this game because I got a comic book that was just an advertisement.