Don’t fear the Reaper
By rights when the Grim Reaper comes you are allowed to challenge him to a game to buy some extra time. Back the old days this was just Death taking the mick. Chess was only one game in town and he’d had eternity to practice. In comparison, you were just a numpty who barely remembered how the horsey moved. You had no chance.

But now things have changed. In my lifetime we’ve had the Super Nintendo, the Sega Megadrive, the Gameboy, the DS, the Playstation, PS2, Xbox and all the rest of them, each one with hundreds, nay thousands of games available. I reckon if I pick one game, just one, on one particular platform, and then I spend the next 50 years or so playing for 8 or 10 hours a day, I reckon if I do that then I’ll be ready for the Reaper when he comes. Of course I don’t need to pick a game yet, so I’ll have to do some research for now, buying games when they come out and playing them through to the end, seeing what games I have a natural aptitude for.

Well, that’s what I tell myself anyway. If this isn’t true then I’m probably just throwing my life away playing computer games every weekend.
( GarbageFan didn't know what to have as a board sig on, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 22:16, 6 replies)

Computer games?
Surely everyone knows the Reaper's weaknesses are Battleships, Cluedo and especially Twister.

Station!
(dxg, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 22:29, closed)

^ Hee.
Should this be true, then I want to play Super Puzzle Fighter with him. Or Soul Calibur, if he lets me play as Ivy. Or Claw.
( Maladicta, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 22:47, closed)

there's no way the Reaper could beat me
at Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, a game at which I am supernaturally good.

either that or Britney's Dance Beat, if I can use the controller instead of the dance mat....
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 9:25, closed)

I would rock the Grim Reaper's world...
If we could play the amiga game 'North & South', if we played SF2 Turbo Hyper Fighting on the SNES with me being Ryu, or played championship three-handed "widow" whist.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 10:06, closed)

He would not be able to defeat me at
Association Football.

Pro Evo 2008

Call of Duty 4 or 5.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 10:37, closed)

I presume
that you are tenth level prestiged to make such a bold claim about COD4?
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 10:48, closed)