Against All Reason, Muscle March Is Coming to America
I already told you guys about Muscle March, the WiiWare game starring bodybuilders in speedos, a polar bear in a diaper, and so on, as they run through walls in various bodybuilding poses. This game was impossibly Japanese, so I never dreamed of it coming to America… but I was wrong. Bandai Namco is bringing it out the the U.S. Wiiware library, apparently. Why? I don’t know. Whether you find the premise hilarious and awesome or not, it’s clearly not that deep a game, and I have my severe doubts about the Wii controllers ability to match the poses in time. Most of all, it seems like Bandai Namco is just setting itself up to become a Fox News special report on how videogames are giving American children “teh gay.”
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.