There’s a game available for the PS2 called "Katamari Damacy". I’ve never played it, but I’m absolutely fascinated by it. Train-crash/moldy-meat/Brad&Jen-breakup style fascinated with it.
As I understand it, you have a ball. You roll it around. It picks stuff up.
That’s it.
Now, I understand that it could get kinda interesting as it gets more stuff attached to it, and gets larger – we’re talking lipsticks, and fire hydrants, and cows, and hot-dog stands. But seriously, you roll a ball around. It picks stuff up. Why is it creating such a sensation? Why are people so obsessed with it?
And people really are obsessed with it. Here‘s a Play-Doh version of it. Here‘s the puppet. Here‘s where you can buy a hat that makes you look like the ball. Here‘s an origami version. Oh, here‘s the real page for it too. (Incidentally, that page talks about a "royally contagious storyline". I’m definitely missing something.)
Alex told me about this story: In LA, a Katamari-Damacy-playing chick tried to wrench the steering wheel out of her husband’s hand because she thought a mail box would be interesting to pick up. And I thought rotating and slotting blocks in my sleep was an indicator of too much Tetris-playing.
This is why the PS2 is ahead of XBox – they have weird, Japanese games that make absolutely no sense. We have Halo 2. It’s clear.
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