PopCap Titles Life-Savers

GameSetWatch has a humorous look at a recent press package they received from PopCap Games. From the article: "'Earlier this summer I had a terrifying situation where an unexpected interaction of two new prescription medicines sent me into a panic attack so severe it made me attempt suicide. When I got home from the hospital that night, I sat there playing the endless version of Bejeweled 2 for most of the night, while the last of the overdose I had taken worked its way out of my system.' This, kind readers, is why casual games are actually pretty hardcore."

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Tetris

[Pig Hogger]

Tetris was developped for brain studies. Some study found some interesting effects on brain waves whenever a subject played Tetris.

That said, Popcap is a very good company with good products. You can play the demo versions as long as you want (they are not crippleware), and they are almost as good as the payware versions, which only offer more levels and playing offline.

You've never been there...

[hackwrench]

Unfortunately in my case, the build up in my system was so slow that it wasn't immediately obvious that the medications were the problem, and I had to deal with the effects for quite some time until switching meds cleared things up.