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Breakey Elevates Key Wrestling To Artform

Posted by simoniker on from the strong-right-hand-important-to-adolescents dept.

Jesse writes "My local games store has been running tournaments for one of the stranger non-video games to come out recently. Breakey is a 'collectable key game' made by Upper Deck. That's right - collect keys and compete with your friends to see who has the stongest key! This is accomplished by inserting two plastic keys into each other, and twisting until someone's key breaks. That person loses. Oh, and the winner keeps all the broken keys." Unsurprisingly, it appears that critics such as online comic Full Frontal Nerdity are already poking fun at the concept.

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  1. Re:Similar to Conkers by Smidge204 · · Score: 3, Informative

    (Most of) the keys have scratch-off numbers which can be entered on the BreaKeys web site.

    Which, in turn, acts as a raffle ticket of sorts to get prizes. The "breaking" part is just a gimmick to add some element of interactivity and make it seem less like a lottery than it actually is :)

    Kinda like Pogs, but without the chance to win anything. It'll probably die just as fast, though. (If you don't know what Pogs are, that's because they lasted a whole month before disappearing overnight. A fad at it's finest!)
    =Smidge=

  2. Re:Anyone try this? by pantycrickets · · Score: 2, Informative

    Fear not. There is going to be plenty of trendy, crappy stuff that your son will want when he is old enough.

    Well, better that he's young.. otherwise he might ask you to waste money on a PS2. *duck*

    Honestly.. I think this BreaKey thing is kind of cool. If anyone had read the article.. they'd know that it's a little more involved than just breaking things and tossing them. Each key potentially has a prize associated with it. Each key also has a serial number hidden by a scratch off pad. So, you go to school.. beat some kid, and take his key. Now you have 2 keys & 2 serial numbers.. you can enter both of these on the web site and battle other people. If you win you get the prizes associated with both his key and yours. You can also choose to just cash your keys in without risk.. but there may be no prize for that key. So really.. it's kind of a neet idea I think. They also track stats online. When I was a kid, I probably would have loved this.