Videogames, ahh….the great equalizer. Fat, skinny (Mostly fat pimply kids though…and Asian), old, young…video games will never judge you based on your appearance, rather they judge you on your hand eye coordination and your ability to shit talk. Yes since the dawn of video games people have shit talk their way to a higher state of self confidence. Cause as every gamer knows his opponent is a huge fag, who’s mom you fucked while his sister watched.
In the early days kids packed arcades and strived for that high score so under their initials they could spell out “ASS” or “BLWME” or some other cool insult that would rub it in every time some kid put his quarter in and never beat your score. In today’s day and age we have Xbox live and WOW, where we can constantly shit talk the looser who’s eating our shit and asking for more. Today we have the Top 5 Greatest shit talking video games of all time.

5. NBA Jam (TE)- Arcade, Sega, Super Nintendo
For those of you who had played this in the arcade or were fortunate enough to have it on sega, you remember the birth of the two on two basketball game. NBA Jam is the predecessor (and partly responsible for sports games in the arcade) to Blitz, and yes even the dreaded piece of shit that goes by the name of Virtual Tennis. NBA Jam was a great catalyst for shit talking. Not only did the announcer shout out sweet phrases like “OHH MY” and the lucrative “BOOM-SHAKA-LAKA” when you took it to the house and made them smell your junk, but you also go to shit talk your way to sweet victory. And although this may have cause your opponent to play dirty (the dreaded two hand push which knocked your pussy ass on the floor while the guy you were guarding got a Scott free pass or shot the J) you still talked shit. It’s the nature of the beast and anything that would knock Ewing or Morning off their game was good enough.
4. Rock Star Table Tennis- Xbox 360
Electronics, huge walls, cheep fast food, and cheaper toys the Chinese owned ping pong. Here in the states and in other parts of the world the game of ping pong was reserved for college students (beer-pong) and break

rooms. But videogames, being the great equalizers they are gave everyone a chance to smack some balls, and once again make French dudes with head bands Smell Your Junk! (Although I think that’s what it already smells like where they’re from so it wouldn’t be anything new). Either way there is nothing more satisfying than swatting the shit out of a little white ball hitting it so hard it travels at light speed giving your opponent no chance to make a play, followed by, of course “Yak Juew La”…which is Eat Shit in Cantonese
3. Halo Franchise- Xbox, Xbox 360

Like all great first person shooters halo came with the option of online play via Xbox live. Games ranged from death match to capture the flag and so fourth. Kids played this game meticulously for hours on end memorizing all the maps so when a “Noob” like your dumb ass joins the game you have no chance. The worse part about it is being called a “Cock Shiner” by some 12 year old after he hits you, repeatedly, with the but of his gun, culminating in your death and his squeaky pre-pubescent voice laughing in your face. Yes this will haunt your dreams for a while and every time you look at that Xbox you’ll see the pocked face, braces wearing little prick who killed you 30 times in a 5 minute match.

2. The Street Fighter Franchise- Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, Arcade, playstation(2)
The Street Fighter franchise has been around for quite a while. Capcom built an empire on the back of a Hadouken. Kids packed arcades and played Street Fighter four hours on end (cause like Highlander…there can only be one…champion? sorry that one kinda sucked). From the beginning of SF2( The Championship Edition) when the intro video shows two dudes brawling in the streets and one dude inevitably knocks out the other, you know the shit just got real. Due to the amazing arcade and consol popularity of SF you got games like Marvel Vs. Capcom which included popular marvel characters against the likes of Ryu and Ken. We also got a shitty movie staring your favorite, and my main man the muscles from Brussels himself Mr. Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Raul Julia.

1. Madden- Nintendo, Sega, Super Nintendo, Playstation (2, 3), Xbox (360), Wii
Nothing beats the great American past time of throwing the pig skin around. Madden has reached the pinnacle of its existence in the new platforms. Tournaments are held all over the world as kids with no real athletic capabilities battle it out on the virtual gridiron. Thus lays the four way intersection of popular video games, football, competition, and shit talking.

Once again there is nothing worse then getting beaten by 30 points by your opponents B squad. When the other person is up by so many points that they decide they would rather use their alternates and run the ball consecutively getting the first down each fucking time, you have no other choice then to just hang your head in shame and talk as much shit as humanly possible, till they quit the game announcing you the victor.
Video games and shit talking go together like Sonny and Cher, Beer and Cigarettes, Oreos and Sunny D. Without one the other wouldn’t be as good. For the past 25 some odd years arcades have been filled with teens cursing like sailors and pumping quarters in 16 bit machines. They dominated and have been dominated. For every Mortal Kombat and Tekken Tag champion on the leader board there are five willing and waiting to take their places and leave the good ‘ol BLWME.