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In the real world, the Internet has turned newspapers into a dying breed. After all, why would you spend money on a newspape🍸r subscription when you can get the same news on social media for free𝐆?
But in video games, newspapers are alive and well, serving as a way to comment on in-game events, add texture and life to a game's world, and occasionally as a way to hide sidequests or secrets. Crafty developers might even hide easter eggs in video game headlines for attentive players who are looking for a good, dumb laugh. Here are a few of the funniest.
7 Paperboy Considers Invitation To Whit😼e House
Atari's 1984 arcade classic Paperboy casts you as... wait for it... a paperboy. Your job is to cycle around your neighborhood, tossing newspapers onto the front porches of subscribers while avoiding obstacles; if you mess up your aim, your paper can turn into a destructive missile sailing through their front windows.
You can also score extra points by damaging houses owned by non-subscribers... which means that the victory screen's sub-headline, in which the paperboy considers an invitation to the White House to celebrate his paper-delivering skills, is baffling.
6 Marvel's Spider-Man's Pigeon Saga
Throughout 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Marvel's Spider-Man, you can collect issues of the Daily Bugle that display various headlines responding to events in the story. It's a cool way to keep an eye on how the game world is responding to you, but the real fun here is in the smaller headlines at the top and bottom of the page.
You'll see one about a viral sensation known as "Pizza Pigeon" - a reference to the real-life Pizza Rat, whose struggle to carry pizza down a set of subway stairs made it a beloved meme icon for about a week. But the pigeon saga doesn't stop there. A later paper features instructions on how to start your own pigeon coop; then, a short few issues later, a headlines blares "Pigeon-pocalypse: Where Are They Coming From?" You might want to ask your staff, J.J.
5 ⛎ 🐼 Red Dead Redemption Is Not Peer-Reviewed
On the dark-funny end of the spectrum, we have 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Red Dead Redemption's questionable medical advice. In both the original Red Dead Redemption and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Red Dead Redemption 2, you can purchase newspapers throughout the story to access sidequests, read updates o𝔉n the main story, and occasionally find cheat codes.
But one headline in the first game both foreshadows the end of Red Dead Redemption 2 and offers a bleakly humorous look at medical science in the Wild West: "Tobacco Fights Tuberculosis." At the turn of the 20th century, tobacco was thought to be respiratory medicine; of course, we know better now. But Arthur Morgan, the protagonist of the second game, might have found the a⛦rticle interesting, since he dies of tuberculosis.
4 Detroit: Become Human's Tabloid Androids
Quantic Dream's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Detroit: Become Human is deeply invested in its world and characters, so it makes sense that the game would be littered ♏with newspapers and magazi🦹nes to read. In each chapter, you can find digital tablets and scroll through the stories in different publications. Some are prestigious, while others are... less so.
For instance, there's one kind of trashy tabloid that splashes the headline "Android Sex Oficially Better!" across the cover. Later on, the same outlet promises something even juicier: "'My husband got an android pregnant' - story inside!" The game never really explains how the, ahem, mechanics of that might work.
3 🐬 Life Is Strange And The Mysteries Of The Art
While 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Life Is Strange has made a name on serious, earnest stories featuring emotionally vulnerable characters, the series isn't above a little bit of goofy humor now and then. Case in point: The Golden Gate Reporter. You can find a copy of this paper in the first game during a missable sequence where Max travels to San Francisco.
You'll end up at an art gallery where Max's work is featured, and you'll meet a journalist named Daniel who admires her art. If you're concerned about his credentials, you can check out a nearby issue of the Reporter, which features one of his articles on the first page... titled "I Left My Art In San Francisco." Sheesh. With a pun that bad, maybe he's not so trustworthy after all.
2 The Republia Times' Seriously Goofy Headlines
Before making the indie hit 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Papers, Please, Lucas Pope worked on a number of smaller games with an experimental slant. One of these is the free browser game The Republia Times, in which you play as a small-time newspaper editor weighing the choices for different headlines. It sounꩲds a little boring, but like his later hit, the game uses its format to ask wider questions about the nature of truth, and provides opportunities for players to prioritize certain ideological commitments.
In between these weighty ideas, though, you'll read headlines about two celebrities getting married and then splitting up days later, or a boy band admitting that they don't sing and are terrible dancers, or about a TV actress claiming that her butt size is "just right." It's just like real life!
1 ๊ ꦗ Elvis Lives On In Liberty City
You knew 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Grand Theft Auto had to appear at some point. The groundbreaking third installment in Rockstar's open-world playground series brought unprecedented scale to video games, giving players more freedom of choice than they ever had before; it also brought a profoundly silly, parodic sense of humor.
Not all the game's jokes 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:have aged well, but one is still pretty funny. Throughout Liberty City, you can find copies of a tabloid newspaper with a rather inappropriate name lying on the ground. If you take a closer look, you'll see the headline "Zombie Elvis Found!" screaming at you. I wonder if Zombie Elvis can still do the thing where he swings his hips around.