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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. Conkers by Drey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This reminds me of an old British kids game, conkers, except that conkers is played with a cheap and readily available resource -- horse chestnuts. H2G2 has an entry on it here. Ah, but even a game like this can face significant legal pressures (you don't have to be GTA). Why, conkers have even been hit with performance enhancing scandal!

  2. Pencil fights by KirkH · · Score: 5, Funny

    Reminds me of the pencil fights we used to have on the bus going to and from elementary school. I wrote with a lot a half-pencils back in those days...until I started buying those huge 1/2 inch diameter pencils!

  3. Key Envy by djNocturne · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unless they start producing these things in the shape of imaginary animals, this concept will dry up and blow away a few hours from now. Kids like pokemon because of the creature angle. If you were to replace the creatues with, say, all of the US presidents, leaving everything else the same, the pokemon phenomenon would have been a non-event.

    Also, since I *know* at least half of the slashdot crowd initially read the headline the same way I did, I'll be the first to make the obvious "When I first read that ..." comment: When I first read that, I thought we were talking about crypto keys. You know, collect keys, see who's is stronger, etc. Now *that* I could dig:

    "Hey honey, went down to the comic store and bought some new BreaKey cards. I have a good feeling about this new 256-bit DES Charmander key I got. Let's battle! ... Oops, I guess I should have waited until it evolved into an AES Charizard."

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    1. Re:Key Envy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Kids like pokemon because of the creature angle. If you were to replace the creatues with, say, all of the US presidents, leaving everything else the same, the pokemon phenomenon would have been a non-event.

      William H. Taft, I choose you!

  4. Re:This is BRILLIANT by dewie · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Obtain regular, plastic, breakey.
    2. Fashion exact replica in carbon steel, thinly coated with plastic to avert suspicion.
    3. Profit!!!

    (Disclaimer: Profit may be in the form of broken plastic keys and crying children.)

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