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Post #463844

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Bingowings
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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Date created
14-Jan-2011, 11:49 AM

Over Christmas I attended a birthday party at a bizarre little themed hotel in Brighton.

They were short staffed and got this lady in to act as a barmaid who had never done it before and was helping herself quite liberally to the stock.

I'm not much of a heavy drinker these days and I tend to purchase a token drink which I swirl around the glass as long as I can to fit in with the crowd but as the lady got more and more bladdered the measures got bigger and bigger as a result everyone (including myself) got incredibly drunk.

I mention this on this thread because they had a room with a Playstation 3 fitted out with SingStar Next Gen.

Not since my PSone days playing Bishi Bashi Special on gin and IT have I had so much fun being five sheets to the wind playing a computer game.

This was further enhanced by having one of the microphones (the red one) either low on batteries or buggered up in some other fashion thus creating a handicap to be overcome.

Utterly wrecked my vocal cords (not to mention the songs) trying to keep up with the range shifts on Ultravox's Vienna and the la-la-las on Suede's The Beautiful Ones.

Crazy Taxi was also a good 'drunk as a skunk' game and was one of the few games that ever got an airing on my Dreamcast.