jackassworld

And so we come to the end of the making of jackass the video game. I hope you’ve enjoyed the haphazard presentational roll out, considering two parts posted in one day and then nothing the next, but hey, it all came out in the end, as most everything eventually does here in the jackass universe. Shit, if nothing came out of our end I wonder if we’d even be where we’re at today? But that, my friends, is nothing that Stephen Hawking would be asking a big question about, because he’s already had his fill of Uranus and is onto much more quantum physical things.

But enough of my scatological ruminations. Did any of you catch that video game-inspired documentary, The King of Kong? I never did, despite many glowing recommendations. I always meant to, of course, I mean Donkey Kong was one of those pop culture pillars of my youth when it first came out in 1981. The video game genre still smacked of innocence then, back when leaping over and onto all sorts of crudely animated crap was considered state of the art arcade entertainment. Nowadays, at least from what I overhear in the office, you can virtually hook up with prostitutes and do all sorts of other “bad” real-life stuff in a “harmless” make-believe manner. I often wonder what this would’ve been like when I was a kid, but the truth is it probably wouldn’t have had much of an affect at all. With an Atari 2600 game system, you couldn’t tell the difference between a hooker and a priest (or, for that matter, an oddly stacked box of multicolored pixels long before they were measured in the mega-sense), and when your player life finally expired there was a simple “Wah wah wah” sound with a corresponding “Game Over” message.

I’m not sure what happens when your time as a cast member on jackass the video game grinds to a terminal halt, but I would sincerely hope you exploded in a spectacular burst of fecal fragments—kind of like that bad guy in RoboCop who took a full-body chemical bath just before stumbling out in front of the squad car. I’d buy that for a dollar!

more jackass:

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