SPOGS Racing slams into WiiWare

21 Comments by Justin McElroy Jul 7th 2008 10:30AM
Filed under: Nintendo Wii

Talk about your emotional roller coasters. We spoke just yesterday of our attempts to bring Pogs back into the public consciousness, so a brief glance at this week's WiiWare title, SPOGS Racing (1-2 players, 1,000 Wii Points), filled our hearts with glee. But just as we made bids on every eBay Pogs lot we could find we re-read the title and started praying that someone out there was willing to pay more than $23.50 for an Alf Slammer.

So, apparently, SPOGS have nothing to do with Pogs, except in the fact that they're both disc shaped and that you likely have a minimum of interest in them. So ... moving on.

Gallery: SPOGS Racing (WiiWare)

Tags: spogs-racing, wiiware, wiiware-weekly

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(Page 1) Reader Comments

Chase: Jul 7th 2008; 10:37AM

Is the Alf Slammer covered with authentic cat hair? If so, sold!

Van Faulk: Jul 7th 2008; 11:04AM

Remember Alf? He's back. In Spog form.

Shagittarius: Jul 7th 2008; 10:58AM

Wow MCElroy is on quite a roll today, being quite snarky and inspired. Someone must have gotten laid this weekend!

Woot!

Shagittarius: Jul 7th 2008; 11:12AM

I use to have an OJ Simpson slammer.

I remember I convinced this girl in school that pogs were actually little hamster like rodents and you used the heavy metal slammers to knock them unconcious and score points.

That was sweet. She thought we were so mean.

Optimus Prime: Jul 7th 2008; 3:27PM

Hahahaha thats hilarious! :D
Kinda reminds me of that scene from Donnie Darko.
"The basement is flooded and there are feces everywhere. What are feces? Baby mice. Awwwwww"

Rocketboy: Jul 7th 2008; 11:18AM

I still want to know, does this game have Loops and or Jumps?

snorkel: Jul 7th 2008; 1:03PM

Yeah.. If only Joystiq had a photo gallery that showed actual screenshots of the game with with cars in the process of doing a loop and or jumping.... If only.........

riggs: Jul 7th 2008; 9:34PM

LMAO^ winner for best sarcasm today.

WiNG [Life in a Game]: Jul 7th 2008; 11:20AM

"TRU FACT": Solid gold pogs win more.

4MyFriends: Jul 7th 2008; 11:43AM

If it had online play, I'd consider buying it

Dan: Jul 7th 2008; 11:59AM

ooor you can go and buy a game thats called mario kart wii.... came out a while ago and its 100x then this crap your thinking of getting.

bm: Jul 7th 2008; 11:48AM

I found this retarded when I first heard about it, and I still do. I mean, what the fuck? Just put any random object inside a fucking wheel and call it "[random object] racing"? What's next, postage stamp racing? They should have just made it wheels without anything in them and it would've instantly looked about a hundred times better.

Holy shit this is so retarded.

Dan: Jul 7th 2008; 11:55AM

Hence the reason it is now considered shovelware... with titles like this my Nintendo wii continues to collect dust...

bm: Jul 7th 2008; 12:24PM

Well your loss, since there are plenty of great titles. It just makes this one look all the worse.

Jody Anthony (gamertag and psn: JodyAnthony): Jul 7th 2008; 11:56AM

i would prefer a new Uniracers

Markez (MKWii 4339-2878-5120): Jul 7th 2008; 12:16PM

So does this totally suck? It sure as hell looks weird, but people, please? Does it suck?

Balls?

Alex: Jul 7th 2008; 12:25PM

SPOGS the TV Show

I can HEAR the theme song in my mind!

DangerMouse: Jul 7th 2008; 12:38PM

The texture work is terrible. Some look pretty decent, then right next to it is an ugly, stretched out muddy one. Picture 2/7 is a perfect example of this. Maybe the game moves so fast that everything looks like a blur, but the screens looks like shit.

Top Wii Games: Jul 7th 2008; 2:16PM

This game will suck

Faar: Jul 7th 2008; 2:32PM

"Spogs Racing slams into WiiWare" the headline says - and the picture looks like complete and utter crap!

Not that I'm neccessarily a total graphics whore, but upon seeing that screenshot, all I can think of is, "DAYM!"

derf: Jul 7th 2008; 4:38PM

Game isn't so bad, looks ok in action, better than the screens. I dont get the "spogs", but trying to blow up anything is fun and the racing is good.

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