growler_south | Bad Katamari Damacy. Bad.

After a recent three-day binge of playing the Japanese cult hit video game Katamari Damacy, Los Angeles artist Kozy Kitchens discovered that walking away from the game was not as easy as putting down her joystick.

"I was driving down Venice Boulevard," recalled her husband, Dan Kitchens, "and Kozy reached over and grabbed the steering wheel and for a moment was trying to yank it to the right.... (Then) she let go, but kept staring out her window, and then looked back at me kind of stunned and said, 'Sorry. I thought we could pick up that mailbox we just passed.'"

While motorists and pedestrians shouldn't worry too much about rogue Katamari Damacy players, Kozy Kitchens' experience with having a difficult time separating her real-life consciousness from that of her game playing is all too common among hard-core gamers.

"The weird thing was that last night in my half-sleep, half-awake haze, I thought I was playing Katamari Damacy, too, and I kept trying to roll Kozy up in my ball," said Dan Kitchens. "I think I got this just from watching Kozy play the game for hours."

Wired.com article for all you video game nutcases out there. If I catch you trying to pick me up just so you can add me to your katamari (rather than your Hareem) I will NOT be impressed. Unless you're as hot as

bikerbearmark or

subwoofr.

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We'll need designated drivers for gamers next!

bikerbearmark and I had the use of a friend's PS2 and Katamari Damacy game cartridge over the holidays while said friend was out of town. So, Mark and I had at least 2 weeks worth of game-binging. Like Kozy, we also found that stepping behind the wheel too soon after setting down the game-controller was a risky proposition - even more interesting when KD-think is mixed with a little bit of road-rage. Thoughts like, "I wonder what satisfying screams that cell-phone-addicted driver will make when I roll her up."

We're a tad better now since we had to give back the PS2 and KD cartridge.

Oh, and will you be too disappointing if neither Mark nor I put up too much of a struggle in avoiding your Katamari?

Tell me, what do you think the appeal of Katamari is as compared to other games? I know little about video games so I'm intrigued by the emotional attachment this games seems to engender (an not just in LJ world.)

Good question, because I can't fathom this at all - and there are video games I really like to play - though they're mostly tres retro at this point.
Yay for The Lost Vikings!

I'm afraid that I'm not really qualified to answer that question. Due to being poor and a non-functional game-addict for most of my life, I have thus far deliberately played relatively little in the way of home video console games.

I like what I like, and that's *not* all of these stupid martial arts and commando fighter variations that all the big game manufacturers seem to be pumping out by the gross these days.

Katamary Damacy is truly infantile - and I can't stop playing it!!! I compulsively want to roll over everything while singing along with the equally addicting soundtrack. I liken it to that South Park "Chimpokomon" episode, where Stan's parents are dumbfounded while watching Chimpokomon on TV, finding it to be irritatingly indiscernible, yet Stan's dad still admits, "...but, I want to buy them all!"

Don't be too surprised if the sequel to Katamary Damacy brain-washes us all into commandeering fighter jets to bomb Pearl Harbor.

I might just have to investigate this; I hate the thought of missing out on fun I could be having!

Oh, and will you be too disappointing if neither Mark nor I put up too much of a struggle in avoiding your Katamari? Not at all, though I, too, wonder what satisfy-ing/ed screams *you* will make...

;-)

...picturing the bearish katamari Growler would roll up...

Schwing!

Bad Katamari Damacy. Bad.

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