I'd definitely go for the definition of shallow and simple. In that case, Kirby Super Star is in no way junk food by this revised definition.
SURPRISE
I seriously play ever arcade game like this.
FUCK TACTICS SHOOT 'EM IN THE FACE
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If it isn't doing anything relevant outside of a fun experience its junk food to me, and that's most video games.
"Oh look at me, my game has more complex controls/enviorments/invetory/modes and or is more difficult to play than your game even though its not making me smarter or more physically attractive than your game, but yours in junk food because I'm an eltists who is likely to take part in console wars on the internet." The vibe this thread gives me.
Oh My
I am an elitist, yes. All gamers who like casual games should be shot or forced to go through Super Hard Extreme Ball Buster Mode. BECAUSE I'M SO LEET.
edited 1st Mar '11 8:25:36 PM by Aondeug
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Two-bit blockhead
Mario's Cement Factory. Easy to understand, easy to play, hard to put down. No goal or story, just a way to kill time.
Although, from my experience, most Game & Watch games are like that.
edited 1st Mar '11 9:30:54 PM by DrFurball
Weird in a Can (updated M-F)
Oh My
Oh god yes. Game and Watch collections on the gameboy were awesome... No hard thinking. No sophistication. Just simple joy.
edited 1st Mar '11 9:38:52 PM by Aondeug
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
HIGH IMPACT SEXUAL VIOLENCE
The Wario Ware games come to mind.
ALL CREATURE WILL DIE AND ALL THE THINGS WILL BE BROKEN. THAT'S THE LAW OF SAMURAI.
I dunno, I'd consider Facebook games like Farmville and Mafia Wars to be junk food gaming. They're best consumed a few minutes at a time, they have short-term benefits balanced by the strange urge to have more of them in the long term which can get unhealthy, they whet your appetite until a larger full-course meal, and they're kind of crunchy.
The blind man walking off the cliff is not making a leap of faith.
I forgot to mention Tempest 2000. LOVE that game. Junk food gaming cranked to 11!
edited 2nd Mar '11 8:45:25 AM by chocoboxxx
Responsible adult
Sounds like me and Meteos.
I do dig that game, but it's kind of like really fudgy brownies. In small quantities they're delicious. But after a while, you start to feel kind of bloated—or, in Meteos' case, your hand starts cramping up. And heaven help you if your favorite planet has a really grating Variable Mix.
I'm glad my "traditional" home planet (Layazero) at least has good music to go along with a width/gravity rule I like.
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada
The Prodigal Returns
Dynasty Warriors and it's extended family. It's a ham-flavoured grinding simulator wherein the only real goal is to kill more mooks faster each time, and thus power up your vaguely Caucasian looking post-Han warrior into a one-person army. The story doesn't change with each number, it just gets set in different looking levels, with a few more pieces of shiny shit to pick up and more bad voice acting to listen to.
And I'm addicted. Oh so bad.
Now if only Koei/Omega can apply this to an original setting. That isn't Mystic Heroes or Ninety Nine Nights. Blech.
edited 2nd Mar '11 11:34:49 PM by DarkDecapodian
Aww, did I hurt your widdle fee-fees?
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AGREED SO FREAKING MUCH.
Yeah more or less. That or you forsake the goal of the game entirely and just decide to bash the fuck out of the other player...Oh River City Ransom...
edited 1st Mar '11 5:29:39 PM by Aondeug
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah