FarmVille and Nintendo Virtual Boy Labeled Worst Inventions Ever

[RaphaelsRedemption]

Phf.

The times article is stupid. First of all, every video game can be described as random button pressing for a virtual... whatever. I've never played farmville, but I have a sneaking suspicion people only hate it because so many other people love it.

A good invention does what its suppose to do. A great invention does what its suppose to do and is very popular. A fantastic invention does what it's suppose to do, is very popular, and doesn't end up giving its users freaky cancer-like diseases.

Somehow farmville does what it does successfully enough to draw in the crowds (and I'd say about 3/4 of CEOs are lying scamming scumbags so that doesn't really fit into it), and it doesn't have any ill effects that other popular games don't have.

The fact that it's Time makes people think this is a real story. This is a stupid and sad reminder that print media keeps scraping at the lowest common denominator as it uses cheap "I Love the 80's" style lists to substitute for actual content.

I mean, the list includes Honegar, something no one would have heard of if not for the internet. This isn't a story. It's some lazy writer copy and pasting various bits and pieces from various internet sources, forming a list and slapping the Time label on it.

How can Farmville or Crocs be in a list along with un-things like honegar and the baby cage also be with Agent Orange or CFCs without the reader assuming it's a lame attempt at humor mixed in with some very serious things.

Granted, if it was a humor piece honestly trying to say Farmville was similar to Agent Orange, that would be another thing, but it's not. I can just picture people unfamiliar with internet culture reading this and thinking its a real thing...

True. And as others here have pointed out, FarmVille is not a "bad invention" in the sense that it doesn't work. It DOES work! Very well, in fact. That's why Zynga are so successful. But if the definition of "bad invention" is "not entertaining" then, yes, I would agree, although with the caveat that "entertaining" is a very subjective thing. What one person likes, another does not.

 

[_Cake_]

Tamagotchis?! No way. Then again I sorta liked my virtual boy. They also said smell-o-vision was a bad idea. Fuck 3D I want smell-o-vision!

 

[Varanfan9]

In all honesty the Virtual boy only had like one bad game one it. Maybe if they put more effort into it the Virtual boy may have been a success.

 

[GamingAwesome1]

I wonder how Zynga feels knowing that everyone with a brain cell completely hates their games and them.

 

[RaikuFA]

least in harvest moon you can screw girls

or guys

 

[tim98042]

haha id have to 100% totally agree with this. haha.

 

[Yopaz]

I am not really sure farmVille can be called an invention though. It's a game, and I am not sure it counts as an invention any more than an apple, tree or a car does.
The virtual Boy does deserve a spot among the worst, but the thought was nice though, but of course the result counts more than all the thoughts in the world...
Still, there are things worse than those 2. This is just another random article about video games being bad. PCP Can probably hurt you more than either Virtual Boy or Farmville, but that's just my thought.

Edit:

I wonder how Zynga feels knowing that everyone with a brain cell completely hates their games and them.

10 bucks they don't care and just shrug it off and roll in their big pile of money while laughing the stereotypical villain laughter.

 

[Delusibeta]

Also on the list is that Cooking Without Looking[footnote]hur, Sam & Max reference[/footnote] staple and grog[footnote]hur, Monkey Island reference[/footnote] ingredient, Red Dye No. 2 [http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1991915_1991909_1991901,00.html], that proof that DRM doesn't work[footnote]hur, Securom[/footnote], Sony's DRM for CDs [http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1991915_1991909_1991762,00.html], that fine internet invention, spam [http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1991915_1991909_1991845,00.html][footnote]not the processed meat variety[/footnote] and the grandfather of that paperclip thingy in Office, Microsoft Bob. [http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1991915_1991909_1991855,00.html]

 

[Weaver]

And people honestly wondered why we didn't want Zynga in March Mayhem...