Boonie
Growing up we all loved the movie The Goonies. It was always a feel good movie that our school would let us watch when the teachers didn’t feel like teaching. Our love for this movie continued throughout our adulthood eventually peaking mid 2009 when we so lovingly coined the phrase “Boonie it up!” I was at home when I received a call from my Fragfest buddies who were at the store buying some beer for the night’s festivities. “What your favorite snow cone flavor?” Not really thinking that the question had any real relevance I answered “blue” and hung up the phone. Ten minutes later my friends arrived carrying some particularly nasty looking is Blue Hawaiian Boone’s Farm. Now if you’ve ever drank much Boone’s Farm you know one thing: YOU WILL HAVE A HANGOVER. We were very all very aware of this fact and didn’t really want to drink the Blue Hawaiian, but our manly competitive spirit prevented any of us from actually ADMITTING that we didn’t want it. This left us with a dilemma, how do we decide who has to Boonie (the phrase used to signal to another man that he needs to take a healthy swig of Boone’s Farm, usually followed by all of us yelling “BOONIES NEVER SAY DIE!”) in a manly and equitable manner.
Games for Boonies
After much deliberation we decided that the best way to dispense drinks was through video games. But what video game to use? It can’t be a game with a high learning curve and it needed have a high turnover (from player-to-player). We found just the perfect game: Geometry Wars 2. The pacifism game mode is perfect a competition such as this. We would have “rounds” which consisted of each of us getting one life on the pacifism game mode. He with the lowest score would have to Boonie.
The Result
The result was one hell of a good time! This was competitive gaming at it’s best! This was the first competitive gaming I’ve done with real world consequences. If you lost you had to drink the death wine (Boone’s) and wake up with a splitting headache. As the night progressed we REALLY didn’t want to lose, but in the end it was all in good fun. We eventually expanded the Boonie game to other games (such as the new Scene It: Box Office Smash) and it holds true that it is super fun and gives you great motivation to win.
Give the Boonie game a shot and let me know how you all fare!!!
5. The Audience – It seems as a whole that PC gamers are usually mature. You see quite a few more whipper snappers playing the consoles these days. That is okay, I like to surf different crowds. You know, hop on Xbox live and pretend to be 16 then go to the Montana Fragfest TF2 server and be an angry 40 year old. This age gap is very apparent when on Xbox live when that DAMN 12 YEAR OLD WONT SHUT THE HELL UP AND QUICK SCREAMING INTO HIS HEADSET ABOUT “PWNING” AND TALKING SMACK ABOUT YOUR MOTHER. PC gamers just talk about getting drunk and/or stoned and still kicking ass on the server.
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