First off, thanks ruff_edgz. Thanks for reminding me that fair balanced journalism is for **** Thanks for rekindling the old one-sided rant side of me. We've been away for too long. Second, E3 was a washout. Why I tried to salvage something from this desert of a convention, I have no idea.
Third and final, I did have another game prepared for this new feature. But then I remembered this one. No, it's not another reason to humiliate myself. Rather, this is a way to remind you of games that would otherwise have been forgotten.
Name: Play With The Teletubbies
Console: Playstation 1
Average Score: 3.4 (user rating)
Man, I'm gonna get teased about this for weeks. But here goes. I was about 7 and pre-school shows still mattered to me. I remember finding this at a car boot sale (where I found most of my games) and just had to have it. Oh man. But at the time, before when I would assume that everything is **** until it can prove itself otherwise, it was really good. I remember being wowed by the blocky, crumbly, grainy graphics. Marvelled by the linear open world setting, astounded by everything being so much like the show and stunned by the amount of things to do.
Today, well... It's 2008 and the world and I have moved on in those 8 years.
First off, here's a bit of irony for you. 1 year after this game was released, Teletubbies was cancelled. No-one in my household cried. Second, this was 6 months before I got a PS2. And third, everything said in that last paragraph was contradicted by the word after it or before it. I still maintain however, that it is good, clean, family fun.
The challenges (and I use that word loosely) include making tubby toast pop up, watching a train chug along whilst pressing random buttons to make music happen, playing hide and seek, chasing Noo-Noo (by either leaving everything alone or holding one button to speed things up) and finding the gay Teletubbie's handbag (in fetching pink obviously). These will rarely last more than 5 minutes to anyway that hasn't got serious brain damage or doesn't know that you pause to quit the game.
Then you get new clips from the show. Just like the program, if you choose the windmill a random teletubbie will be chosen to show a film of kids having unimaginable amounts of fun. Oh, and the smiling baby is still there. Ominous, smiling and laughing whenever anyone does anything that isn't even remotely interesting.
Now then, when I look at the user reviews. Oh, dear. 1.1. 1.5. 1.7. On a positive note, there is a 6.5. But then, some 3 year old wrote a perfect review. That'll be Jack Thompson. Oh no wait! Jack hates this game because of Tinky Winky's, shall we say, unusual behaviour. Difficulty wise. 40% found it too easy, 40% found it just right (for pre-school to 6) and 20% shockingly found it too hard! So there you go! 1 in 5 people will find this harder than Ninja Gaiden.
So to summarise. 6 out of 10. Better luck next time. As Bloc Party would say.
Next time; sticking to the theme of TV shows becoming games, Sheep Dog 'n' Wolf.