Sorry for the mean score, Q*bert, given that you are another little piece of gaming history.

Hop on a stack of blocks to make them change color and run away from the enemies, but inevitably lose and hear Q*bert, the dirtiest mouthed video-game character of all time, drop some hardcore swears (they'd be really shocking if you could understand his language or see them translated other than as punctuation marks).

It's an okay game but greatly overshadowed by other early 80s arcade games for me. It's very difficult for what it is and there's not a lot of drive to keep playing, when the only gameplay mechanic is just running over squares -- it's like Pac-Man but a lot harder and with cooler graphics.

My dad really liked it, but it was never a hit with me.

2.5 - Interesting: Interesting but not quite enjoyable

This is the game where the Rabbids used Rayman's legacy as cover to infiltrate our lives with a pretty pedestrian minigame collection and then somehow leveraged that into being an increasingly grating cultural powerhouse for the next decade.

Are Rabbids' responsible for the Minions? it's a tempting theory but I think that the primordial ooze from which Rabbids and Minions emerged from has existed in French culture for decades waiting to be unleashed on an unsuspecting world. it's unclear why the time for their arrival was ripe in the mid to late 2000's. I think we were all just rightfully embarrassed by the whole Freedom Fries debacle and willing to hear them out while they shared their findings after meditating on the works of Jerry Lewis for fifty years.

The worst console Mario Kart game. Whether you're steering with motion controls or with a nunchuk, the controls are floaty and leave a lot to chance. There is somehow NO co-op Grand Prix mode, something MK8 thankfully fixed. Mario Kart games are fun for multiplayer, but the most fun for me was always playing through the Grand Prix mode with a friend and unlocking everything.

The biggest shame is how much there is to unlock. There's a ton of it! It's fantastic! And you have to unlock characters like Funky Kong by doing genuinely difficult things! MK8 went too far to the opposite end of the unlocking spectrum and practically gave you everything, which I really don't like. It's a shame that there's so much cool stuff to unlock in such a lackluster Mario Kart game that makes you do it all alone.

I remember reading some time ago that Minesweeper and Solitaire were deliberately chosen as the preinstalled games on early Windows computers because they would teach users important skills for interacting with a mouse - Minesweeper for left/right clicking and Solitaire for dragging and dropping.

Wii Sports played that exact role for the Wii and the Wiimote. It enabled players to get used to the new hardware quickly, and more importantly - made the process fun. It's obviously not as polished as more recent games, but it's actually still good fun to play today and that's all I can realistically expect from it.