This aquatic entry comes courtesy of our very own vice president of MTV News, Ocean MacAdams...
This weekend, I was working the MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles, and decided to take a break and headed over to the EB Games at the Universal Citywalk.
As I usually do when I'm in LA, I had just gone for a pre-work surf session (the less said about my wave skills the better) and was thinking -- "maybe I should get a surfing video game."
In the back of my closet, I have a copy of "Transworld Surf," and back in the day I played a few satisfying hours of "Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer." But when I started to look, I realized that except for a "Surfs Up" movie tie-in, I could not find any surfing games.
What gives?
A quick Google search confirmed my suspicion. In fact, I could only find two other surfing games ever made: "Sonny Garcia Surfing" and "Surfing H30" from Rockstar Games. None of these games are available for Wii, Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.
I know that surfing isn’t as popular as football or bass fishing, but at least as many people surf as snowboard. Hell, if I can buy a ping-pong game, I should be able to buy a surfing game.
I can only imagine previous attempts haven't sold well. I certainly see the argument of "well, all you do is stand on a wave -- where's the fun in that?" But I think most people would have the said the same thing about skateboarding before they played "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater."
Any thoughts from the Multiplayer community on the lack of surfing games?
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