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GameSpot Employees Forgetful but Correct 16 Jun, 2002, 18:56 / 5 comments

By Jake


More GameSpot madness: GameSpot has put up their regular GameSpotting article, where each member of their site's staff sounds off on a random issue. This time around there are two relevant (only one on purpose) articles.

The first talks about how 2002 is seeing the revivals of numerous "dead" genres, like RTS and adventure games. The second one, though, is classic:
About a month or so ago, I was having a conversation with a few people about the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at the various Disney theme parks and how cool it would be to get out of the boat and start pretending that you're one of the pirates. Then it suddenly dawned on me that just about every really good video game has some reference to pirates, whether it's one of the actual scurvy dogs or a ship.
Sounds like the words of one particular R. Gilbert (thanks SCUMM Bar), and the notion that spawned the most piratey games of all time. Oddly enough, the article doesn't mention Monkey Island at all. It does mention Mario 3, though, so it's okay.
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5 Comments

  • Jayel on 17 Jun, 2002, 19:14…
    Gamespot publishes some of the most uninformed and sometimes idiotic articles. I used to like it still because they provided a lot of screenshots and gameplay footages, but suddenly they thought it'd be a good idea to charge people for all that.
    >:(

    Oh well, at least Mix-n-mojo will stay free of charge forever.
    ...Right?
  • Marek on 17 Jun, 2002, 08:25…
    They should've mentioned Full Throttle II and Broken Sword 3.
  • Mad Lord Snapcase on 17 Jun, 2002, 01:44…
    Myst isn't an adventure game.
  • Mad Lord Snapcase on 17 Jun, 2002, 01:44…
    Myst isn't an adventure game.
  • Marek on 17 Jun, 2002, 08:22…
    No, it's a crappy adventure game. Whole different genre.