PAX 2008: Family Feud not so family friendly

by Dustin Burg { Sep 1st 2008 at 6:30PM }

The 2008 edition of PAX's Family Feud could have easily followed the "Sex and Violence in Video Games" panel, because it too had a healthy dose of sex and violence. Really, PAX Family Feud (or should we say Family Freud?) could best be described with three adjectives: entertaining; intense; and overly sexual. As attendees clapped to the Feud's theme song music, both teams (sans Joystiq readers, for shame!) answered questions ranging from, "Name a power-up used by Mario," (yay for fire flower!) to "What's your favorite Penny Arcade character?" Fruit "lover" got our vote.

Everything was quite tame, albeit a bit verbally violent as the show's host received constant heckling from the audience due to his sometimes ... questionable hosting abilities. But then things turned towards sex, sex, sex when Feud players were asked, "What do you do when the electricity goes out at home?" We thought it to be an innocent enough question, but then we remembered that PAX attendees answered the questions. As a result, things got interesting.

Suddenly, within mere moments after the "lights out" question was asked, the audience spewed sexual answer suggestions to both Feud teams in some sort of a hormonal fury. Gone was the Feud's "E for Everyone" rating -- this was an "M for Mature" event. The best part? Both Feud teams took the audience's sexual suggestions and actually got the survey question right! Turns out some 6% of PAX attendees decide to have sexual intercourse when the electricity goes out while around 3% answered, "Pleasure yourself." All we can say is that it was a bad good thing that the Penny Arcade Expo didn't blow any fuses throughout our weekend stay.

Tags: family-feud, joystiqfeatures, pax-08, pax-2008, penny-arcade-expo, sex

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Maverick Saturn @ Sep 1st 2008 6:41PM

OMG! Sex! Isn't that like a sin for some gamers? How dare they mix innocent gaming with a such vile thing

Neebs @ Sep 1st 2008 6:47PM

I would have voted for reading >_>

Mr.ESC @ Sep 1st 2008 7:24PM

You know reading with candles or in the living room with the chimney on, if you have one, can really hurt your eyes.

I say Sleep or a handheld.

WiiFTW @ Sep 1st 2008 7:46PM

How about using a handheld for reading?

eBooks on DS (probably not good for the eyes)

Using a DS Lite to provide light for reading books

Mitch @ Sep 1st 2008 6:55PM

This just in: 97% of PAX attendees lie when responding to surveys!

j.howlett @ Sep 1st 2008 7:09PM

the powers out so no porn. if the PAX audience is even a modest representation of the PA forums, their not getting off to anything less than hardcore porn.

Psaakyrn @ Sep 1st 2008 8:43PM

It's a good thing laptops have an internal power supply, eh?

007craft @ Sep 1st 2008 8:27PM

Well the power went out for 8 hours on my street a couple months ago. Because of that, I learned that there are actually people living next door, and its not just an empty house :)

Vegnagun bwf @ Sep 1st 2008 8:54PM

When the power goes out I turn to handheld gaming. Jerking it in a dark room isn't my thing.

Mr.ESC @ Sep 1st 2008 10:40PM

No one needed to know that, really you could just end your post with the first sentence. Now that information is stuck in my head using a part of my brain, an important part that was reserved for the USEFUL information I have to hold for the upcoming exams.

If I fail one question because all I can remember at the time is that you don't like to wank in the dark I'll pursue you and bring you down and I’ll promise you it won’t be pretty.

Mitch @ Sep 1st 2008 10:16PM

When the power goes out, I rev up the generator and continue on with my day. Out in the sticks where power outages usually last a week, inn't no-one dat ain't got onna dose.

ogvor @ Sep 1st 2008 10:42PM

I was totally their (and I have a clearer picture if you guys want it) but opted out of putting my name in the comments because I thought the questions would be to tough. I think I would have done just fine after seeing those questions. Also, it was hilarious!