New WiiWare racer answers the question: What's a SPOGS?
by Kyle Orland 
{ Apr 18th 2008 at 12:00PM }
The fast-action racing game will feature 12 tracks -- including stunt tracks -- and gameplay based on ramming opponents and stealing their SPOGS-enhancing parts. Players can control their SPOGS by tilting the Wii remote or, more likely, using an attached the Classic Controller. The game is also planned for the PC and the PSP, but you all know we're only posting it because it's on the Wii's hip new download service. Plus we like saying it's name. SPOGS. SPOGS!
Check out the SPOGS-y video after the break.
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Benny @ Apr 18th 2008 12:05PM
It looks like sprogs + pogs (+ Angry Kid?).
Benny @ Apr 18th 2008 12:06PM
It also looks like a bad PS1 game.
Haggard @ Apr 18th 2008 1:24PM
Well.. I live up north in England and nobody has EVER asked me for some Spogs. That's not to say it's made up - I don't exactly hang around with the type of people who're likely to say it.
PSN: KillaKornbread (the shirt is a lie!) @ Apr 18th 2008 1:24PM
i instantly thought Pogs when i saw the picture. im thinking Super Pogs, or maybe Speedy Pogs. lol i have no idea what this is.
TheOverlord#2 SPEAKS: YOU READ IT NOW(Brawl: 1461-5875-9923) @ Apr 18th 2008 3:36PM
It does.
Super Cold School @ Apr 18th 2008 12:05PM
also answers the question: 'what does no one want?'
xFenixKnightx @ Apr 18th 2008 12:06PM
Is that tire even rolling? It looks like its floating along.
AWESOME graphics BTW...
^Sarcasm^
WiiSports Machine...Fernandos in disguise PSN: Killjebus @ Apr 18th 2008 12:29PM
I did not know that some developers were STILL using PSone kits. It looks DATED for a PSONE game.
xFenixKnightx @ Apr 18th 2008 12:50PM
I know, those horrible textures...MAKE IT STOP MOMMY MAKE IT STOP!!
Neowyrm @ Apr 18th 2008 4:49PM
It's not that bad, you asses. I'd say early PS2 graphics. Now, I don't support this game in any way, but you guys don't know your hardware very well.
DangerMouse @ Apr 18th 2008 12:06PM
Who cares, i'm here for the low-res textures.
Robotic Rocker @ Apr 18th 2008 12:08PM
*the Wii is utterly perfect*
WiiSports Machine...Fernandos in disguise PSN: Killjebus @ Apr 18th 2008 12:30PM
yes yes...I agree.
xFenixKnightx @ Apr 18th 2008 12:08PM
D2C
-----
Games
PLAY.CRAP.TOGETHER.
Shmil @ Apr 18th 2008 12:09PM
Its amazing how some good editing can make a piece of crap slightly enticing.
Monthenor @ Apr 18th 2008 12:10PM
Why oh why do they all make engine-revving noises when they don't have any discernible combustion engines?
WiiSports Machine...Fernandos in disguise PSN: Killjebus @ Apr 18th 2008 12:37PM
Because the developer has to INNOVATE, this is on the system that INVENTED innovation after all.
Anni @ Apr 18th 2008 12:59PM
Irrelevant Wii flaming responses to an unrelated question? From MY Killjebus?
It's more likely than you think!
Co @ Apr 18th 2008 1:59PM
Hey Ken your mom innovated on my balls last night!
WiiSports Machine...Fernandos in disguise PSN: Killjebus @ Apr 18th 2008 2:08PM
I hope you had fun. Now, give me my money bitch or I will pimpslap youre John ass back to 1980.
Fernando Rocker @ Apr 18th 2008 12:12PM
Joystiq sure like to attack the every Wii related thing lately...
I'm not defending this title, or the Konami title... not at all, they look all crap... but you Joystiq really like to only make a thread about the crap titles...
What I mean is, you are giving people the wrong impression about the WiiWare... why don't you better make a thread about all the announced WiiWare titles? There are excellent games that you seem to forget.
You just only put tue crap and forget about the good games...
Shmil @ Apr 18th 2008 12:18PM
Fernando, the reason they're covering this is because Wiiware is the next big thing for the Wii. Sure there are plenty of crappy titles on XBLA, and i'm sure there are some on the PSN (remember that office humor game). No one's attacking the Wii. Even if they are, so what. Has joystiq never attacked the 360 or ps3 before?
xFenixKnightx @ Apr 18th 2008 12:19PM
Oh its a deep burn Joystiq! Answer the man Kyle, Justin, The Ludmeister? No?
K
Benny @ Apr 18th 2008 12:22PM
Joystiq do it to personally piss you off Fernando. Obviously.
DangerMouse @ Apr 18th 2008 12:23PM
Oh, cut the bullshit. If it was a shitty XBLA or PSN title, you wouldn't have said a damn thing.
Robotic Rocker @ Apr 18th 2008 12:24PM
*Joystiq should only report positive Wii news. Bad PS3 news if fine though*
*Hi double-standard*
NATO_Duke @ Apr 18th 2008 12:24PM
Fernando - it seems to me they are just making the annoucements on the crap games being offered because they have little else. I have not seen more than 1 or 2 wiiware titles posted anywhere that look interesting.
Sadly, the stuff being turned out for wiiware is looking more and more like the lame 3rd party shovelware you are getting now in disc format.
Your gripe should be with Nintendo at this point - not those who point out what Nintendo is doing.
Fernando Rocker @ Apr 18th 2008 12:25PM
That's why Im telling this... WiiWare is a big step in the Wii... if people want to get informed and happens to read Joystiq, they will get a bad impression...
Why dont they better do a thread with all the WiiWare titles, separating the bad games and the good games?
Besides, its not only Nintendo...
Im going to be honest... Joystiq is not the best place to get news, at least not anymore... its a great place, I love the community in here. But they seem to focus in post very old news, and only every half hour...
At least they should cover more recent news, or exclusive news... heck, maybe even if the threads are were more diferent, maybe there would be less fanboys wars... heck, I may be stop being a troll.
WiiSports Machine...Fernandos in disguise PSN: Killjebus @ Apr 18th 2008 12:27PM
Fernandos,
90% of the games on the WSM or Wiiware ARE KayRap. What do you expect Joystiq to do...NOT report WSM Wiiware news?
I would complain to Nintendo...not a videogame blog.
Fernandos,
you better buy some stock in the comany that makes Kleenex tissues, there are going to be alot of Fernandos tears to wipe away in the coming months and years.
xFenixKnightx @ Apr 18th 2008 12:27PM
Fernando just switch to defending the 360 since you own that also. Its less embarrassing over here =)
ViagraFiend @ Apr 18th 2008 12:28PM
Fernando-
If you dont like it LEAVE!
Please leave?
Please?
Benny @ Apr 18th 2008 12:29PM
A big step in the Wii? Seems more like a big step in the shit to me.
(I know English is your second language, but just for future reference it would be "a big step FOR the Wii").
Anni @ Apr 18th 2008 12:43PM
Actually, I have to agree that this isn't really a warranted criticism. I mean, it's a game, it's being announced, why wouldn't they do an article about it? There's nothing particularly IN the article that's attacking anything. I say pick your battles more carefully in the future, Fernando, this one isn't really worth it.
Also what isn't being pointed out, this silly game is for the PSP too, so to people who insist Sony has some kind of rigorous software quality seal that Nintendo lacks: lol
DangerMouse @ Apr 18th 2008 12:47PM
Another dual release on the Wii and the PSP only makes it that much more embarrassing.
Anni @ Apr 18th 2008 12:50PM
How? This is a WiiWare title, not a full release. PSP games being equivalent to Wii download games doesn't really strike me as damning.
WiiSports Machine...Fernandos in disguise PSN: Killjebus @ Apr 18th 2008 1:04PM
PSP and WSM titles ARE on the same page. Just look at Star Wars FU for an example.
This game would look like KayRap back in 1997.
el serpiente @ Apr 18th 2008 1:20PM
BYE FERNANNY! *waves*
KeenCommander @ Apr 18th 2008 1:28PM
The Wii doesn't actually NEED a new big thing until people can actually buy them, which is to say in about 10 years. Who cares if some WiiWare titles suck, the Wii still wins sales hands down. Sad to say it, but Nintendo doesn't need to do better - they've got a money printing machine.
PojoMofo @ Apr 18th 2008 12:22PM
Nintendonalds at it again
@Fernando, they are just reporting on what they hear, I dont think they are making an effort to shine Wiiware in a bad light, it is kinda doing a fine job of that on its own. *cough* Major league eating *cough*
Shmil @ Apr 18th 2008 12:23PM
Pojo you fool! You've invoked a list war!
NATO_Duke @ Apr 18th 2008 12:31PM
Lists of crap? What, no, there couldn't be...
Home Sweet Home
Fresco Beach
Major League Eating: The Game
Plättchen Twist 'n' Paint
Critter Round-Up
Angel's Solitaire
OMG, where did that ever come from!!?
xFenixKnightx @ Apr 18th 2008 12:35PM
Duke
How dare you!
ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force) @ Apr 18th 2008 12:23PM
SPOGS = Super Piece of Grand Sh- ...
/just trollin
SoulBlade @ Apr 18th 2008 12:25PM
Wow looks painful. Guess I'm not gettin this title.
PojoMofo @ Apr 18th 2008 12:25PM
@Schmil
Most of the PSN games are very good. I am officailly taking the stance that Go! Skydiving never happened, and it no longer on PSN store, and all recolection of the title deleted from memory
Shmil @ Apr 18th 2008 12:28PM
Why the hell do people keep putting a C in my name?
Benny @ Apr 18th 2008 12:32PM
It's schnappy.
WiiSports Machine...Fernandos in disguise PSN: Killjebus @ Apr 18th 2008 12:36PM
What are you talking about? There is no skydiving game. A concept that retarded would make its apperance on the Wiiware.
Hopefully, that skydiving game that my 6 year old thought was KayRap and got bored with....will be the only attempt at copying the WSM business model.
Shmil @ Apr 18th 2008 1:14PM
@ benny
touche
Jerk Face @ Apr 18th 2008 12:25PM
*barfs*
God, why do I even watch WiiWare videos? And Joystiq even warned me!
It's like when your girlfriend is like, "Oh this tastes so bad, try it," and then instead of striking her you actually taste it.
I have some regrets.