Bad Dudes

I was recently reminded of the 80s arcade and Nintendo game "Bad Dudes."  Looking back, it truly had to be one of the laziest video games ever created.

They just tried to make a game around buzz words.  In fact, the internet confirms that the game is based on 80s pop culture when Michael Jackson's "Bad" and ninjas were popular.

The plot focused around ninjas kidnapping the U.S. president only reinforces this belief.  Because you know, ninjas are always doing stuff like that.

Not to mention, the government asks two street smart brawlers named Blade and Striker to rescue the president.

It's probably because of their cool 80s names and the fact that Nitro and Laser were unavailable.

I imagine the development of this game went something like this:

Executive # 1:  What if the main characters are bad, but they're also                                      dudes?  They're bad dudes.

Various Executives agree.

Executive # 1:  Okay, now we need a plot.
Executive # 2:  How about ninjas kidnap the president?
Executive # 1:  Great.
Executive # 3:  Are you sure we should just use the first idea we come up                              with?
Executive # 1:  Why not?  It's good enough.

Jennifer Lopez's Fiat Commercial

A commercial hasn't annoyed me this much since every Old Navy commercial ever made.

It doesn't help that it's shown ten million times during NFL football games in an attempt to brainwash you into buying a Fiat.

You know because football fans are clearly the target audience for a Fiat.  They'll just get one instead of that pick up truck they wanted.

Even worse, the commercial expects you to believe several things that just aren't true.

First, that people would care that much to chase after Jennifer Lopez driving a car.

At most someone would mention in passing that Lopez was driving some weird European car and go back to that they were doing.

Second, we're still supposed to think Lopez is some huge sex symbol.

A 42-year-old woman trying to be sexy and dancing awkwardly in front of a car doesn't make me want to buy it.

I'd want nothing to do with that car.  Especially if that's the type of woman it's going to attract.

The commercial only has one use: as a means of psychological torture though.  Show that enough times to anybody and they'd definitely break.