Attention Rich Parents! Your brat needs this!

 I play Rock Band. I have close to replica size plastic toys that I pretend to play because it makes me feel like if I stuck to learning the guitar, I could've been somebody. I could be the one on VH1 Celebrity Rehab crying about why its so hard to quit Elmer's glue because its got more tangy flavor than Miracle Whip. I play on those controllers because it adds a pretty necessary feel to what the game is trying to accomplish. I do not play Mario Kart feeling at a loss because I don't have that low to the ground feel and tight turns of an actual cartoon like kart! The Wii is notorious for having third party publishers that release some pretty stupid shit to go along with their games. Adding a piece of blue plastic tube to the end of your already crazy wireless controller and charging 30 bucks for it is ingenious but still pretty stupid...though I did feel more like a Jedi...hmm. My point is, video games that make you use a little bit of your imagination and then add some pretty interactive visuals to it are fun, but if you remove the imagination part, and you give too much to the player, in this case children...i hope. Then you are taking away from them the chance to make believe they are in the game, to make silly ass turn motions and jumping up and down with the controller. Worse, you are pushing those video games closer to reality, and for quite a few video games, that could be really bad. CLick through the jump to see my example.



Take this precious gem of a minor:


Now imagine his genuine love for the shelled reptiles and he gets an epiphany, brought about by this...um...realistic blow up kart. Maybe he gets the idea to step up his game and get more into it. Maybe he adds his convenient love for turtles to the already turtle murdering world of Mario Kart. Gets his parents to take him to the local Golf'n'drive'n'pizza'n'poop and gets in a real go-kart...

...Now imagine the 7 oclock news as they show video of a very victorious zombie face painted turtle lover hucking small innocent reptiles at competing karts on the track.

...wait that's a freaking awesome idea. I gotta order this thing! 
Infaltable Kart Thing!

Blue Shells for the win bitches!