# Idea for a video game **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 3, 2003, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-a-video-game/172821 "2003-05-03T06:19:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-a-video-game/172821/1 "2003-05-03T06:19:30Z")
This is pretty silly…but I think it would be fun. A Street Fighter II/Mortal Kombat type game, but with the Microsoft Office Assistants! Imagine…Einstein vs. the Paper Clip Power Pup vs. The Bouncy Ball Characters could have their own “fatality” moves…e.g. Einstein could say, “E=mc[sup]2[/sup], so eat this!” then straighten out Clippy. Power Pup could have the “leg hump of death”. There could even be cross-overs: Office Assistants vs. X-Men. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Hand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mr.Hand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Hand)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-a-video-game/172821/2 "2003-05-03T06:25:02Z")
Maybe submit this to Fark? I bet they could design a great photoshop contest for this… ---
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-a-video-game/172821/3 "2003-05-03T06:28:51Z")
Obtaining the copyrights would be horrendous, and I can’t imagine Microsoft allowing this (unless of course _they_ produced it) - it would have to be some kind of underground effort. Can you imagine the gratification of dismembering Clippy in dozens of gory ways? Fark…hmmm not a bad idea. ---
**Author:** ![hebesphenomegacorona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@hebesphenomegacorona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hebesphenomegacorona)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-a-video-game/172821/4 "2003-05-03T12:39:06Z")
Oooh… I have one. Alien Nazis ressurect hitler’s brain and place it into a giant robot of doom(with a cape!). Several other super powerful robots go after him. And hitler has WAYYY more than just nazis Like necromancers and a demon made out of a mountain and a shapeshifting acid guy and several tanks several billion mutants a transforming guy made of blocks a cross between Cthulhu, a turtle, a tank, and an obapinia some giant bugs a BFG kind of giant bug golems made of lava a robot that turns Concentration camp inmates into zombies the zombies a big werewolf you get the picture or a fighting game where you control Real world Religion gods. Think about Ganesha beating the crap out of Buddha for a moment. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-a-video-game/172821/5 "2003-05-03T14:17:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hebesphenomegacorona \* > \*\* > or a fighting game where you control Real world Religion gods. > Think about Ganesha beating the crap out of Buddha for a moment. \*\* Now \*\* that’s \*\* good. The special combo moves and weapons possibilities are infinite. \* Buddha \* will be tough to beat, though, he’s got the size and he’s always so calm and happy you have to wonder what’s up his sleeve. I like it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![hebesphenomegacorona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@hebesphenomegacorona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hebesphenomegacorona)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-for-a-video-game/172821/6 "2003-05-03T14:25:20Z")
But Cthulhu would eat buddha’s head off! AHA! But god would send Cthulhu to hell! AHA! But anubis would sic his frogdog thingy on god! AHA! and etcetera… And the game would be called Spiritual Warfare…