Breaking Madden: The Super Bowl, in which the machine bleeds to death
Oh god I laughed hard on that one. FWIW, and I am not making this up, this is Don Knuth's[1] favorite way of playing video games. I had set up an experiment with an xbox, a copy of Halo (fighting aliens game) and a copy of Dead or Alive (fighting boobs game)[2], Don came by and wanted to see the games, he dismissed DoA pretty quickly but Halo2 we played for about an hour and a half. Don loved to have the character do things the developers probably had not thought they would try to do (like fall through a crack in the geometry and walkaround in "space" underneath the ship) He was really creative, we sat for a while with six aliens who wanted desparately to kill us but would not cross a door threshold which if we stepped through the door would close. It was very entertaining. Much like this Madden game. The color commentary though was really priceless.<p>[1] Yes the "Art of Programming" Don Knuth.<p>[2] It was a simple experiment at a conference, first half the console sat there, play either game, mid conference announced that we were tracking hours played on each game and compare second half ratio to first half ratio.