PopCap Games Are A Lifesaver
The nice folks at PopCap sent us here at GameSetWatch a package including their latest press release, which has psychologist Dr. Carl Arinoldo decrying: "Casual word and puzzle computer games can help people develop new cellular brain connections thereby helping to keep the healthy brain active and vital". Also included in the package was a PopCap branded mini-massager (!), and retail versions of their current games, which include Bookworm and Chuzzle.
But what got us particularly enthralled was the accompanying 'PopCap Games Customer Quotes' PR sheet, and particularly, this part of a quote from the also press release-cited Gail Nichols of Kansas:
"Earlier this summer I had a terrifying situation where an unexpected interaction of two new prescription medicines sent me into a panic attack so severe it made me attempt suicide. When I got home from the hospital that night, I sat there playing the endless version of Bejeweled 2 for most of the night, while the last of the overdose I had taken worked its way out of my system."
This, kind readers, is why casual games are actually pretty hardcore.
Comments
"mini-massager"? I guess PopCap wants you to stimulate your body as well as your brain. Is it a USB massager that delivers pleasure based on the score you get in the game?
Posted by: k0an | December 28, 2005 3:18 PM
Nope - I think it's to help reinforce the fact that PopCap games are relaxing, heh. But a Rez Trance Vibrator-style peripheral might be welcomed by PopCap's target market?
Posted by: simonc | December 28, 2005 3:25 PM
I'm so happy she pulled through. I'll say a prayer for you tonight to help against your fight with Satan's tool, depression.
Remember that Jesus love YOU!
Posted by: Terry J. | December 29, 2005 2:46 PM
^^Are you serious?
Posted by: Mike T | December 30, 2005 12:28 AM
HA HA HA
and all along i thought that depression was a sympton of an infinitely complex brain chemistry and socio psychological responses to our environment and all along it was just the devil tinkering with my noggin. nice one jesus freak. Simon C I know what you mean. panic attacks are hell you have my deepest sympathy not my ignorant platitudes and patronisation
Posted by: Not ignorant | December 30, 2005 4:51 PM
Sorry, I don't exist - its just been necessary to invent me!
Posted by: God | December 31, 2005 6:21 AM
drugs can save lifes!
Posted by: Tei | December 31, 2005 12:10 PM
hello from Greece
Posted by: Anonymous | January 13, 2006 12:16 AM
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Posted by: hot fool | January 31, 2007 7:36 AM
I was wondering if you had a listing of games as they came out for me to look at.
Posted by: David MacNeal | May 24, 2007 11:34 PM