History Fanfic / TheElementsOfGaming

The scientists of Canterlot develop an UsefulNotes/XBox360 and a PC, and Princess Celestia sends them to her loyal student Twilight Sparkle and her friends to beta test for them. Read as they try their hooves at everything from FPS to RTS to rhythm and more in the form of ponyfied real world titles.

* BowelBreakingBricks: Pinkie's reaction to Twilight Sparkle playing ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' flawlessly. [[UpToEleven INVISIBLE Tetris]].

* NightmareFuel: VideoGame/{{Gears of War}}'s trademark chainsaw bayonette proves to be this [[InUniverse for everyone]] [[FandomNod except]] [[{{Fanfic/Cupcakes}} Pinkie Pie.]]

** After losing to Pinkie Pie in ''VideoGame/CommandandConquerGenerals'', Twilight goes into bookworm-mode, dashing off to come up with a foolproof strategy. She isn't even mentioned again until the end of the chapter, where she finally perfects her strategy and challenges Pinkie again. It's the dead of night and everypony is long gone by this point.

[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/20965/The-Elements-of-Gaming The Elements of Gaming]] is a WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fanfic written by [=Ryden and Xephfyre=].

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Fluttershy takes to ''VideoGame/TheDarkness'' surprisingly well considering the Pegasus' personality, and even names her [[VideoGame/TheSims Sim]] ''Jackie'', the protagonist of ''VideoGame/TheDarkness''.
** Not to mention her rage while playing {{VideoGame/Team Fortress 2}}.

* BreakTheHaughty: Poor Rainbow can't seem to catch a break…she's the first to be annihilated playing [[VideoGame/HaloReach Halo: Reach]], thrashed in her moment of glory by Rarity in CommandAndConquerGenerals (which she kind of had coming due to her ego at the time), shamed by Applejack and Pinkie in ''VideoGame/RockBand'', and is thrashed by ''[[spoiler: Ditzy]]'' in ''Burnout'', a game about speed, ''her special talent''. She does do fairly well at ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' though.

* [[MarthDebutedInSmashBros Capcolt, in general, Debuted In Marevel Vs. Capcolt 3]]: The in-universe justification for a MascotFighter being around without half the mascots having debuted yet.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Fluttershy proves a deft hoof at ''[[VideoGame/HaloReach Halo: Reach]]'' and FirstPersonShooter games in general, and Pinkie Pie gets 99% on [[{{Music/Dragonforce}} Through The Fire and Flames]] on ''VideoGame/RockBand'' on Expert.

* [[ThatOnePlayer Those Six Players]]: The Mane Six playing Team Fortress 2: [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]] as it's left them pretty bored: nopony is willing to go up against them and they beat the ones who DO way too easily.

* VomitIndiscretionShot: We get this when Rainbow ''vomits on Pinkie.''
* ZergRush: Pinkie Pie takes this to such an extreme with ''Command And Conquer: Tiberium Wars'' that the computer breaks.

* BowelBreakingBricks: Pinkie's reaction to Twilight Sparkle playing {{Tetris}} flawlessly. [[{{Up To Eleven}} INVISIBLE Tetris]].

* MundaneMadeAwesome: The video games in general, due to being something completely new for ponies, come off as this, but special mention goes to Twilight playing VideoGame/{{Tetris}}.
* NightmareFuel: VideoGame/{{Gears of War}}'s trademark chainsaw bayonette proves to be this [[{{In-Universe}} for everyone]] [[FandomNod except]] [[{{Fanfic/Cupcakes}} Pinkie Pie.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Pinkie's behavior during the ''GearsOfWar'' section; behaving like a psychopath after the rest of the gang were already freaking out about the chainsaw-bayonet scene in the game when you chainsaw one of the locusts. She goes so far as to ambush Twilight with a fake chainsaw while she's in bed, an act which scares the unicorn so badly she ''hits Pinkie with a crowbar!''

** Pinkie is bored at every single song in {{VideoGame/RockBand}}'s library...until she finds "Through the Fire and Flames".

The scientists of Canterlot develop an XBox360 and a PC, and Princess Celestia sends them to her loyal student Twilight Sparkle and her friends to beta test for them. Read as they try their hooves at everything from FPS to RTS to rhythm and more in the form of ponyfied real world titles.

* BreakTheHaughty: Poor Rainbow can't seem to catch a break…she's the first to be annihilated playing [[VideoGame/HaloReach Halo: Reach]], thrashed in her moment of glory by Rarity in CommandAndConquerGenerals (which she kind of had coming due to her ego at the time), shamed by Applejack and Pinkie in ''RockBand'', and is thrashed by ''[[spoiler: Ditzy]]'' in ''Burnout'', a game about speed, ''her special talent''. She does do fairly well at ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' though.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Fluttershy proves a deft hoof at ''[[VideoGame/HaloReach Halo: Reach]]'' and FirstPersonShooter games in general, and Pinkie Pie gets 99% on [[{{Music/Dragonforce}} Through The Fire and Flames]] on ''RockBand'' on Expert.

* BreakTheHaughty: Poor Rainbow can't seem to catch a break…she's the first to be annihilated playing [[VideoGame/HaloReach Halo: Reach]], thrashed in her moment of glory by Rarity in CommandAndConquerGenerals (which she kind of had coming due to her ego at the time), shamed by Applejack and Pinkie in ''RockBand'', and is thrashed by ''[[spoiler: Ditzy]]'' in {{Burnout}}, a game about speed, ''her special talent''. She does do fairly well at ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' though.

** Applejack and Rainbow Dash both get trashed playing ''Burnout: Revenge'' against [[spoiler:''Ditzy Doo'']]!

* ThePowerOfFriendship: The Cutie Mark Crusaders get this Aesop after defeating a supervillain team in ''[[MarvelVsCapcom3 Marevel versus Coltcom III]]'' by working together to defeat them with their chosen characters, and then pulling off a Crossover Combination[[note]]"A Crossover Combination is when every character presently on your team unleash supers all at the same time"[[/note]] on the last remaining opponent.

* NightmareFuel: VideoGame/{{Gears of War}}'s trademark chainsaw bayonette proves to be this [[{{In-Universe}} for everyone]] except Pinkie Pie.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Fluttershy proves a deft hoof at ''[[VideoGame/HaloReach Halo: Reach]]'' and Pinkie Pie gets 99% on [[{{Music/Dragonforce}} Through The Fire and Flames]] on ''RockBand'' on Expert.

** After losing to Pinkie Pie in ''VideoGame/CommandandConquerGenerals'', Twilight goes into bookworm-mode, dashing off to come up with a foolproof strategy. She isn't even mentioned again until the end of the chapter, where she finally perfects her strategy and challenges Pinkie again. Everypony was long gone by this point.