The 10 Worst Things About Video Games

GamePro and Mad magazine team up to highlight the lows of video gaming.

While gaming has risen to dizzying highs with revenues that rival the movie industry, all isn't well in the world of pixilated entertainment. GamePro magazine and Mad magazine have joined forces to bring to you the 50 Worst Things About Video Games, a section of which is featured with our September issue of GamePro Magazine. Too much Hot Coffee? Pick up a copy and discover the socially redeeming features added to Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto.

Here are ten of the most annoying, aggravating and obnoxious gimmicks that drive gamers crazy:

1. Game designers who can't understand why more women don't play video games, especially since they feature such outstanding female role models as a globetrotting archeologist (with big boobs), world-class volleyball champions (with big boobs) and, of course, easily murdered hookers (with big boobs).

2. Console manufacturers selling systems without basic essentials like memory cards or a second controller, so you have to shell out another 60 bucks before you can see so much as a hair on Luigi's mustache.

3. The once-realistic Sims "busting out" into settings so fake and ridiculous, it's only a matter of time before we see The Sims Team Up With Sonic the Hedgehog to Take on the Giant Fire-Breathing Turtles.

4. Sega's long, pathetic parade of short-lived console systems, from the Sega CD to the 32X to the Saturn to the Dreamcast, establishing a legacy of failure on its way to rivaling that of the Chicago Cubs.

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