{"id":512,"date":"2009-02-25T18:15:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T23:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/?p=512"},"modified":"2011-01-28T18:40:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T23:40:18","slug":"backgames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/2009\/02\/25\/backgames\/","title":{"rendered":"backgames"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So on Offworld, a gaming blog I read, they’ve started this thing called ‘backgames’, which is to describe a game backwards.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.offworld.com\/2009\/02\/lets-start-a-new-meme-backgame.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s an example:<\/p>\n

Pacman<\/strong>: Pacman fills mazes with dots, pausing only to regurgitate fruit & ghosts.<\/p>\n

I think this is awesome to the max.\u00a0 I’ve come up with some of my own, and I think everyone should play along.<\/p>\n

R.C. Pro Am<\/strong>: Fastest car in the world drives backwards, spitting out letters that spell ‘ODNETNIN’ until it is really, really slow.<\/p>\n

Super Mario 2<\/strong>: Mario falls asleep, runs through deserts and grassy plains planting vegetables until floating up to the heavens.<\/p>\n

Tiger Woods Golf<\/strong>: Ball emerges from hole and launches itself to player’s club until reaching the tee box. Repeat 18 times.<\/p>\n

Mario Party<\/strong>: Players move backwards on a gameboard in a charitable quest to give away all their stars and coins until they have none.<\/p>\n

Star Wars Battlefront 2<\/strong>: Stormtrooper resurrects Rebels by sucking in blastershots and bombs until there are 150 of them.<\/p>\n

Bust-A-Move<\/strong>: Same-colored bubble clusters appear and dinosaur removes them until a nice pattern of random-colored ones are left.<\/p>\n

If you post on Twitter, add “#backgames” to each of them because when you search “#backgames” on Twitter you’ll get all the posts that other people have backgamed about.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23backgames<\/a><\/p>\n

What other ones can we come up with?\u00a0 If you have a twitter, you should twitter them too.\u00a0 You have to limit it to 140 characters.<\/p>\n

Here are some good ones from my friends:<\/p>\n

Rhyno<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Tetris<\/strong>: The parts of a horribly constructed building start floating away to the heavens while rotating in a random way.<\/p>\n

Donkey Kong (arcade)<\/strong>: Donkey Kong brings Mario a princess. The sight of her scares him though, so Mario tries to flee down a series of ladders.<\/p>\n

Mortal Kombat<\/strong>: One player puts back together the other player’s body and they fight it out until they feel perfectly healthy at the end.<\/p>\n

NBA Jam<\/strong>: The basketball hoop throws a flaming ball repeatedly to Dan Majerle.<\/p>\n

PiFry<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

NHL ’94:<\/strong> Basically a giant game of keepaway with nets that spit out pucks.\u00a0 Also, the goalies are nice enough to help people off the ice.<\/p>\n

John Madden Football<\/strong>: Receiver’s revenge!\u00a0 Everyone throws balls at the quarterback.\u00a0 Defensive backs thoughtfully help people up and get out of the way.<\/p>\n

Super Smash Brothers<\/strong>: Looks exactly the same, except people come flying in from the sides, jump kick from really far away, and ascend to heaven on glowing platforms.<\/p>\n

Minesweeper<\/strong>: OCD players fix a diverse mix of tiles until only smooth gray ones remain.<\/p>\n

Solitaire<\/strong>: 4 holes suck up an entire deck worth of cards, then distribute them in an odd pattern.<\/p>\n

Marble Madness<\/strong>: Looks exactly the same.<\/p>\n

Ocarina of Time<\/strong>: Old warrior discovers fountain of youth, abandons princess to evil monster as he returns to childhood by giving away all his worldly possessions (very Buddhist).<\/p>\n

And finally, PiFry take a jab at my card-playing skills:
\nPoker<\/strong>: Corey accumulates money at a decent rate over a period of several hours.<\/p>\n

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Drew<\/strong><\/a>, who apparently has expanded this to non-video games:<\/p>\n

Monopoly<\/strong>: The wealthiest players are apparently hit with antitrust laws, give everything away until socialism reigns.<\/p>\n

Jeopardy<\/strong>: Players ask Alex Trebek extremely obvious questions, which he answers in the most difficult way possible.<\/p>\n

Baseball<\/strong>: Random fan makes herculean 400 ft throw to strongman, who uses a stick to deflect it to a man about 60 ft away.<\/p>\n

Pong<\/strong>: exactly the same as regular Pong.<\/p>\n

Fun Fun!\u00a0 Come up with some more!<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/strong>: Sweet!\u00a0 The guy who started backgames left a comment and a link to his site, where he’s compiling a “Best of”.\u00a0 Find it here: http:\/\/justonemoregame.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/24\/backgames-videogame-plots-in-reverse\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So on Offworld, a gaming blog I read, they’ve started this thing called ‘backgames’, which is to describe a game backwards. http:\/\/www.offworld.com\/2009\/02\/lets-start-a-new-meme-backgame.html Here’s an example: Pacman: Pacman fills mazes with dots, pausing only to regurgitate fruit & ghosts. I think this is awesome to the max.\u00a0 I’ve come up with some of my own, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}