Vh1 Games for Everyone

Vh1 Games for Everyone by Roxanne McDonald

It may be common knowledge that a great number of television shows—especially reality TV shows—have adjunct games on their corresponding websites. But I discovered Vh1 games and game matrices just in time.

With the advent of “interactive” TV, which I am for the most part opposed to, I was still delighted to find a more standard kind of interactivity—the acceptable kind where TV viewers and/or pc users can “compete” against or in favor of the celebreality stars of their choice.

For “I Love New York,” Vh1 has the I Love New York Premonition Matrix, wherein one can place pictures against captions that read New York’s Favorite, Mama’s Boy, or Not Good Enough—casting your premonitory vote.

For “Surreal Life Fame Games,” Vh1 has brought us The Fame Games Matrix, where you decide whether the celebrities belong on the A-List or the C-U-Later List by putting them “in their place”—rating current episodes; and the Celebrity Ugly Stick, in which you intentionally make one of three celebrities “get ugly,” so he or she can win the Ugly Award.

For “Big Egos: White Rapper Show,” there’s the White Rapper Synthesizer, a game which offers the rhythm and asks for you to lay down some lyrics—keeping in mind if your song aint phat you will be asked to “Step Off!” You can also send the finished rap/hip-hop number to a friend….

For general entertainment, if you prefer not to connect your TV viewing with your game-playing, Vh1 original games include I Love Toys (users indulge in guilty pleasures, playing with favorite childhood toys in a “fast acting, three-in-a-row matching” game); The Arcade Strikes Back (10 classic vintage console games that “geek out on the graphics” and that are “still better than the

Atari 2600”); Pop Culture Challenge (where you can check your popular culture quotient, or index); and Escape the Paparazzi (where you get to try to outrun the rabid, collect stars, and win prizes for doing so). Then, if you want to venture into special territory—which I am reticent about exploring—you can check out Satan’s Hollow, Root Beer Tapper, Intellivision Lives, and Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run (featuring The Rock!).

Hey, the platforms are simplistic, but at least they are safely far from the supposed interactivity of viewers and media folk and celebrity…that are coming soon to your living and bedrooms. Yikes.

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