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Warshaw Awards Celebrate 2003's Gaming Missteps

Posted by simoniker on from the worst-awards-ever dept.

Thanks to Shacknews for their feature revealing The Warshaw Awards for 2003, celebrating "some of the worst missteps of the year" in videogaming. The awards are named after Howard Scott Warshaw, creator of the famously poor E.T. for the Atari 2600, and victors include Namco for R: Racing Evolution, which "eschews virtually everything that Ridge Racer fans had come to expect", David Duchovny for "quite possibly the worst [voice acting] I've ever heard from a mainstream actor" in Ubisoft's XIII, and the IGN gaming website for their "obscene McDonald's advertising campaign."

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  1. The McDonalds ad campaign by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Penny Arcade comic here.

  2. Re:Mario Party by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you don't like Mario Party its probably because you don't have 3 friends 3 controllers and a freakin' party.

    Maybe the problem is he has 3 friends and 3 controllers so he has to sit out all the time!

  3. Obscene? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wtf when I read "obscene McDonald ad" I expect to see Hamburglar raping Grimace or something, not tacky commercialism.

  4. Re:Enough with the E.T. bashing... by Zoshnell · · Score: 2, Funny

    The E.T. floggings will continue until morale improves, don't you know that?

    --
    "Do you suppose that's why God lives in the Heavens? Because he lives in fear of His creations?" - Steve Buscemi