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Stereotypes within Genres

Bogost’s “pranks” in video games can refer to a satire about certain genres. The game Syoban Action that we played for this week for class was joke about anticipation and repetition of the original Mario game (just taking those aspects to the extreme).  Many games incorporate unbelievable physical aspects to the game that make the game more, for lack of a better term, playable (user-friendly and enjoyable).  Many Role-Playing Games (RPGs) do just this with regard to the interaction of your character and other characters.  College Humor has done many videos poking fun at some of these unbelievable, yet readily accepted, oddities in games.  In class, we discussed how types of media would resort to referencing their own media once many of the good ideas have already been taken.  However, with videos like these, someone who plays games can find humor in a reference to something they know through a different outlet (I’m not sure where “Youtube Videos” would fit as media, but it certainly isn’t under “Video Games”).  As video games have become more mainstream, references to them in other media was inevitable and “pranks” are not limited to just other video games, I feel, but could be anything from a webcomic to a video or even a blog.