Really Bad Chess is a really good game that’s sort of like chess if you only vaguely understand the concept of chess. It’s worth picking up, it’s out now, so give it a crack, see what happens.
But it also got me thinking - what other classic boardgames should get the Really Bad treatment on mobile? I mean that’s the sort of question we’re all asking ourselves right now, yeah?
Eh, I’m tired, let’s just get on with this.
Really Bad Monopoly
To be honest when I play Monopoly it’s really bad anyway. I mean I’m pretty much the worst venture capitalist ever, I just want everyone to be happy. Here have my money, buy yourself something nice.
Anyway, this could work like that. A boardgame where you scoot around in a giant shoe giving money to people because you’d rather see all the world succeed than build around your part and laugh as everywhere else burns.
Really Bad Scrabble
It’s Scrabble, but instead of using words that actually exist, you just have to make up awful swearwords, complete with descriptions.
And you don’t get points, you just keep playing until someone has managed to offend all the players around the board. I’m pretty sure I’d win.
Really Bad Dizzy Dizzy Dinosaur
You probably don’t remember Dizzy Dizzy Dinosaur, but it involved a wind-up dino that would trash the board if you accidentally landed on one of its squares. Or something like that anyway.
In this version one of you would get really drunk and every time someone lands on one of their squares you need to wake them up and see what happens. I bet it’ll be something… really bad.
Realy Bad Kerplunk
Just throw marbles at each other.
Really Bad Noughts and Crosses
I mean it’s not even a boardgame, but I don’t care. And this would essentially involve a grid of infinite proportions that you could never ever hope to make a straight line across.
It’s more of a social experiment to see just how long two people will keep playing before they accept the inevitability of their demise and go lie in traffic.
Really Bad Buckaroo
Go annoy a donkey.
