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#Obscure pc 98 games series#
Instead, it's a blatant, unfunny, and above all else, incredibly cheap rip-off of the excellent quiz series You Don't Know Jack. It's based on a show called Win Ben Stein's Money (which came out in the UK as Win Beadle's Money), but doesn't use its format. There's Pinbill, which actually isn't much worse than the actual Microsoft pinball game, even if its only real joke is Bill having a large nose, which he doesn't, Winblows Exploder, which may be one of the worst shooters ever, and. Instead, your random parodies are a board game called The Roll Ahead, based on Gates' book "The Road Ahead", in which Bill Gates and Steve Jobs race by rolling a die and making you wish you could just do exactly that. I'm pretending to be told something I clearly already know. Obviously, Winblows serves up hilarious parodies of all of these to.
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What are the traditional games provided with it? Minesweeper. Cue the tumbleweed of failure.īy far the most painful parts of Winblows 98 though are the mini-games it throws in. In the intro alone, Graham tells a suddenly worried Meg, "They could never fire you, my little megabyte," to which she wittily replies, "Call me that again and I'll rip out your modem." Good grief. Most of the time, it smacks of non-technical people desperately trying to write jokes in what may as well be a foreign language, and sounding about as convincing as your average Oxbridge politician trying to 'get down' with his 'homies' in 'da hood'. It doesn't help that Winblows is stuck mining geek humour almost exclusively, rendering many of the jokes that do work (I counted about three) more a case of 'Oh, OK, yes, that was fairly clever' rather than actually laugh-out-loud funny. (At the very least, they could have been "Touched By A Nerd" and "Elliot Baywatch".) But "Bill Watch" instead of Baywatch? "Touched By Bill" instead of Touched By An Angel? Stop! Parodies do not work like that! "Mister Gates' Neighbourhood" is a reasonable concept.
#Obscure pc 98 games code#
"Xena: Code Warrior" is a lazy idea, but you can at least vaguely see how it came together. Most of the parodies on offer suffer not just from being about as funny as waking up in the morning to find you've suddenly got your mother's herpes, which is admittedly a fairly serious flaw, but being incredibly tenuous. "I just felt my soul leak out of my anus."