There is one online game in which I am undefeated.
That's "Buzz! Quiz TV," the game show video game on the PS3. Last night, I played one match against three random people via the Internet. After three rounds packed with a surprising amount of trivia about tennis, of all things, I took the lead. I took that lead on the last question, somehow remembering that the golfer known as "The Shark" is a guy named Greg Norman.
Once I had my one win, I quit the game. For now, I'm retired, undefeated.
Winning a round of "Buzz" online felt like a nice revenge after the many hours of my life that I've spent getting out-reflexed by expert players in "Halo 3" online. With "Buzz," my brain can lead me to victory. Of course, it's not the part of my brain that I'm proud of that let me win. It's not the thinking part or the writerly part. It's the part that remembers who Greg Norman is and can recall that "Deep Impact" is a disaster movie.
After I won my session of "Buzz" online, I tried the game's downloadable video game trivia pack. I couldn't figure out how to play it online, so I competed solo. I flubbed a question about "Gurumin." I correctly answered questions about "Crash Bandicoot" and "Loco Roco." I shook my head that the game considers "Facebreaker" a "beat-em-up." And I was crushed to hear the game's announcer pronounce "Ico" as if it rhymes with Tycho. That's can't be right!
I ended my sessions happy, because, well, I'm a winner. Undefeated. Take that, my "Halo" nemeses.
Next: I'm just starting "Sonic DS" as I just about give up on "Air Traffic Chaos," a game I liked so much before discovering that, on the hardest difficulty level, it cheats.
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