Aficionados will remember 1972 as the year video games were born, with the arrival of "Pong." Perhaps someday they will remember 2004 as the year video games died.
Attribute it to "The Guy Game," from Topheavy Studios, best described as "Girls Gone Wild conquers your Playstation," and the apotheosis of a season when video games finally found sex.
There's not much to review, really. Players spend the game in the following manner: Guess the answer to a trivia question, and then guess whether a woman in accompanying footage filmed during spring break on Texas' South Padre Island will get the answer, too.
If she's wrong, she must remove her top for an excited off-screen crowd. The more often the player predicts her answer, the more the game removes its digital obscurations.
Calling this demeaning is like saying anteaters favorite food is ants.
This title is billed as a harmless trivia game for the college-age guy, yet the naive among you may ask whether it will be sold on store shelves alongside "Mario Kart: Double Dash!!" and "Pokemon Coliseum." Yes, the industry will say, but trust the Entertainment Software Rating Board, which grades the content of each game on a scale from "Everyone" to "Adults Only."
By an impressive feat of persuasion, Topheavy Studios managed to win a "Mature" rating for "The Guy Game," puzzling because it is no different from the "Girls Gone Wild" type of soft-core porn sold to adults only.
Game makers themselves have said for years parents need to realize how games are growing up with their audiences. They ignore their own message by adhering to an outdated rating system.
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