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Margaritaville trademarked for video game use

by Griffin McElroy on Nov 3rd 2009 7:00PM

From the second our feet left the comfort of our bed in favor of the harsh, cold ground this morning, we knew it was going to be a terrible day. What we expected were little accumulative annoyances -- stubbed toes, traffic, cold coffee and the like. What we got was a report from supererogatory pointing us to a terror-inducing trademark filing, which permits "Margaritaville" to be used for video game software purposes.

As we see it, there's an infinite number of ways that Jimmy Buffett's tropically-tinted tune could manifest itself in video game form:

A near-endless RPG: The Quest for the Lost Shaker of Salt
A sailing simulator: Son of a Son of a Sailing Simulator
A smooth rhythm game, which is sadly what it probably will be
A smooth rhythm game/sailing simulator, which ... which might be kind of magical

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Tags: jimmy-buffett, margaritaville, music, rhythm, smooth-music, trademark, yacht-rock

Reader Comments (37)

dear god why?

I fucking hate Jimmy Buffet

Please be a Brutal Legend DLC pack in which their is a tear in the universe that causes Jimmy Buffet fans to invade, and then we can melt their faces. Please.

I'd play that.

Add-on-OTY

Only if it adds a new unit: Dick Dale's Dickheads.

I can see the quest log now.
Get drunk.
????
Profit.

I'm in.

GTA: margaritaville

A remake of California Games?

I do believe Jimmy Buffet is more of a Florida guy than a California guy.

That son of a son of a bitch!

Guitar Hero: Margaritaville

Sorry. I'll stop this now.

Borderlands

Except Melee weapons

On a tropical island.

Margarita-land

/waxes pencil thin mustache, drinks heavily and prepares to fornicate.

thats fucked up

Your a snuff queen aren't you?

Snidely Whiplash? Is that you?

John Waters?

Maybe it'll be an incomplete MMORPG set in the golden age of pirates called: "A Pirate looks at 40 Online".

It's not incomplete, it's just 200 years too late.

Those Frat Party Beer Pong games is for sissies - BRING ON THE MARGARITAS!

It'll be a gritty realistic first person shooter full of chiseled men with short hair and possibly a 5 0'clock shadow. Everything will be brown, including the water.

It will be set in the future where a bunch of aliens want to attack the last defense of mankind, Margaritaville - a place where slow, heavily accented music thrives. I hear it'll also hire a 5 year old writer for the script and story

I feel this game will be revolutionary! Nothing like it this generation!

Holding out for the Pinacoladaberg game myself.

A Margaritaville video game would be the most chill game ever. There wouldn't be any enemies, or any platforms to jump over, or any levels or anything. The game would be nothing but you ordering margaritas, rum and cokes, Coronas, and the occasional banana daquiri. Occasionally you'd have to shoo away a parrot, or re-apply suntan lotion so you can continue to sunbathe out on the beach, gradually turning a golden brown color.

Sounds like it needs motion control then.

It would be DOAX but with alcohol instead of boobs....

....so it would have no appeal whatsoever?

I mean alcohol is great, but virtual alcohol? What's the point?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uYuScZOyiM

classic

Sony's Home, now rebranded Sony's Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville! Watch your avatar wait in line at the virtual bar for a virtual drink!

Also known as Farmville: The Sequel.

A rhythm game based on Buffett would only be tolerable with album cuts. Those Rock Band DLC live tracks sound like shit.

GOTY!
What if its a tropic shooter like Crysis!
Where your a bird that been injected by a mysterious substance, but then you find out the only cure is in a mysterious temple in Tibet.
Where this dude named Lazara-Bitch is!
Along the way theres several FOXXXY birdets that you can swoon over an boink! (In SPAAAACE)
Oh an you find out it was all a simulation an your ancestors were assassins!(:

Not going to lie, I'd dig the Quest for the Lost Shaker of Salt RPG.

[YOU JUST RECEIVED A TATTOO OF A MEXICAN CUTIE. UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVEN'T A CLUE AS TO HOW IT GOT THERE.]

I'm guessing it will be a first person shooter. (Get it, tequila shooters).

You guys are on the wrong track imo. The filing is vague of course like most are, and it really could just be interactive game software of any kind. The likely product is something for casino gambling, like a slot machine. Slot machines are essentially video games in a way, they use computer graphics, input devices, and are intractable. The proof of thought being that the Trump Marina casino in Atlantic City was recently bought out and is soon going to be transformed into a new casino called Margaritaville, themed after Jimmy Buffet's song itself. So it's likely a brand of slot machines that will be used there that they don't want competing casinos to use, hence the trademark.

As a Buffett fan, I think this has the potential to be something very cool or very disappointing. Personally, I think it could be the next Resident Evil or Left 4 Dead game. Have you ever seen Parrotheads after a concert? Zombies!!!!!

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