The Guy Game

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The Guy Game
File:The Guy Game.jpg "Oh me me! I'm a pussy" — Scott the Woz
Genre(s): Party Quiz/Trivia Erotica Rating(s): ESRB: M Platform(s): PlayStation 2 Xbox Microsoft Windows Release Date: PlayStation 2, Xbox August 31, 2004 Microsoft Windows December 22, 2004 Discontinuation: July 2005 Developer(s): Topheavy Studios Publisher(s): Gathering of Developers Country: United States

The Guy Game is a 2004 adult puzzle game released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, and Xbox, developed by Topheavy Studios and published by Gathering of Developers. It was directed, produced, and designed by Jeff Spangenberg, the founder of Iguana Entertainment and Retro Studios. After he left the latter at Nintendo's request as he was found to be using one of their computers to host his website with inappropriate content, he founded another company named Topheavy Studios, with the main objective of producing this game based on his lifestyle.

Gameplay

The Guy Game is a trivia game in which up to four players answer multiple choice quizzes and complete minigames in a series of 'episodes' that feature a progression of four rounds. Most gameplay is complemented by full motion video of comedian Matt Sadler asking trivia questions provided to the player to bikini-clad young women ('Hotties') on spring break. Players have dual objectives of earning enough points to reach the highest rank of competing players, and earn bonus points that add to a points pool named the Flash-O-Meter. In the full motion video footage of The Guy Game, Hotties are expected to flash their breasts on camera if they answer the questions incorrectly. As players contribute to the Flash-O-Meter, footage of Hotties flashing the camera becomes less censored, starting from fully censored at 'Soft and Squishy', pixelated at 'Sorta Chubby', and uncensored at 'Super Stiff'. At the start of a round, players select a 'Cheerleader' avatar who reacts to their performance in the game, progressively losing their clothes if the player earns points, and putting on their clothes if they answer incorrectly.

The first quiz round, 'Foreplay', is a multiple choice quiz in two sections. Firstly, players answer a multiple choice question, with more points earned the sooner a correct answer is made. Incorrect answers disappear from the multiple choice over time, at the cost of fewer points being earned. Secondly, players earn bonus points and contribute to the Flash-O-Meter by guessing if the Hottie answered the question correctly or incorrectly. The second round, titled 'Ballz', features interactive variations of skeeball (Ballz Shotz), Pong (Ballz In) and a game where players attempt to knock each other's rolling balls off of a platform (Ballz Out). The third round, 'TitWitz', is similar to 'Foreplay', except players are tasked to guess which of two incorrect answers was given by a Hottie in response to a question. If the Flash-O-Meter is sufficiently filled, players enter a fourth round, 'Hottie Challenge', where they can bet their points on one of several Hotties filmed completing a physical challenge. At the end of the game, the player with the most points wins. In multiplayer rounds, players are ranked between 'President', 'Vice President', 'Treasurer' and 'Asshole', with the highest-ranking position of 'President' having additional privileges including the ability to choose additional rules in a round, with the intent implied that violating the rules requires losing players to take a drink.

Why There's a Lot Wrong with This Game

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1. To get the elephant in the room first: the game is considered as child pornography by U.S. law standards thanks to a lawsuit sent by one of the girls featured in it as she wasn't informed that the footage they took was for this because at the time of recording, she was only 17 years old at the time. This resulted in all produced copies being stopped and recalled. To this day, it is the only video game in the U.S. to be illegally sold and owned other than Custer's Revenge, which was banned in Oklahoma City due to it being offensive to Native Americans living in Oklahoma.
   • Thanks to this, Topheavy released a DVD version called The Guy Game: Game Over, containing additional stuff and bonus features. However, this version is incredibly rare due to Topheavy going out of business.
2. Like BMX XXX, it relies on FMV for its sexual content, which was already obsolete when the game came out.
3. The objective of the game is to answer the questions given to the girls (referred to in this game as "hotties"), and if they answer it incorrectly, they will flash their breasts, which is not only considered sexist by today's standards but also prostitution.
   • Also, thanks to the "Flash-O-Meter", the more the player predicts the outcome, the higher the meter rises, which leaves the flashing less censored. This can also be creepy, knowing the lawsuit mentioned earlier.
4. The gameplay itself is a blatant rip-off of You Don't Know Jack, minus the interesting questions and presentation, and even the charm. Not to mention, the gameplay itself is absolutely boring as this game is a quiz-game.
5. The game's host, Matt Sadler, is a bland and uninteresting announcer with zero charm about him compared to the numerous hosts in the You Don't Know Jack franchise.
6. When playing the Xbox version on an Xbox 360, there is audio choppiness in the videos under the bonus unlockables and on the extra videos at the end of an episode.

Reception

The Guy Game received "generally unfavorable" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic, scoring 48/100 on the PlayStation 2, and 47/100 on the Xbox. IGN, however, gave it a positive 7.7/10 while GameSpot gave it a 7.5/10.

After this game flopped, Topheavy Studios filed for bankruptcy and its founder, Jeff Spangenberg, vanished from the public eye ever since and is presumably in jail.

Controversy

Four months after its release, the aforementioned 17-year-old featured in the game sued Sony, Microsoft, Topheavy, Gathering of Developers, and Take-Two Interactive, claiming she was never informed that the footage of her was used in the game. After the lawsuit, The Guy Game was completely banned in the United States.

Along with Criminal Girls and BMX XXX, The Guy Game is one of three games available on the consoles to be prohibited from being streamed on Twitch due to said lawsuit and FMV nudity.

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