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Caption Competition: Aren't video games supposed to be fun?

What's this gamer so upset about?

By silicon.com staff on 13 July 2007 09:30

This competition is now closed. The winning entry was: "Blue scream of death... " from Richard. You can check out all the captions below.

Photo credit: Reuters/Jean-Paul Pelissier

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  1. 1. Corlis Byrne

    Merde! What's Mario doing as the goalkeeper. And hey, why is Sonic holding a 5 Iron?

    • 13 July 2007 09:40
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  2. 2. Dave Devine

    The beatles make a comeback.

    • 13 July 2007 09:41
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  3. 3. Dave Devine

    Houston we have a problem.

    • 13 July 2007 09:44
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  4. 4. Dave Devine

    Video killed the radio star
    video killed the radio star

    • 13 July 2007 09:56
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  5. 5. Carl Brown

    you will respect my authoritaaaaahhhhh!!!!!!

    • 13 July 2007 09:59
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  6. 6. Valérie Ganne

    The new Lara Croft was even more realistic than usual

    • 13 July 2007 11:11
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  7. 7. Valérie Ganne

    When George asked if he could share his headphones, Jack hadn't realised he was going to cut them in half

    • 13 July 2007 11:13
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  8. 8. Robert Lindsay

    Thats' the best thing about virtual sports - virtual cheerleaders

    • 13 July 2007 11:19
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  9. 9. Robert Lindsay

    How much is the PS3 going to cost?!?

    • 13 July 2007 11:25
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  10. 10. Rob Falconer

    The game isn't very good, but these virtual hot dogs are absolutely brilliant!

    • 13 July 2007 11:38
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  11. 11. Rob Falconer

    What team are you supporting? I'm supporting Virtual Madrid!

    • 13 July 2007 11:45
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  12. 12. Rob Pendragon

    Darren remembered what his old mentor had said and remained focused

    • 13 July 2007 12:02
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  13. 13. Rob Pendragon

    Suddenly Kevin realised he'd connected his headphones to the mains by mistake

    • 13 July 2007 12:15
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  14. 14. HUw Owens

    "I am not a number, I am a free man..."

    • 13 July 2007 13:07
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  15. 15. anonymous

    I think a little bit of poo just popped out.

    • 13 July 2007 13:15
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  16. 16. Ian Stroud

    Hey! That was my iPhone you dropped in the blender...

    • 13 July 2007 13:26
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  17. 17. John Ray

    Potential EX-box as gamer becomes frustrated

    • 13 July 2007 13:29
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  18. 18. Greg SMith

    In a flash of inspiration, tom decided that electrodes to the testicles was taking the virtual gaming experience just a bit too far.

    • 13 July 2007 13:44
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  19. 19. Chris Paley-Menzies

    A delegate experiences, first hand, the new Prometric® ElectroFeedback® feature when he gets a question wrong in his Microsoft exam.

    • 13 July 2007 13:45
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  20. 20. Matt Wheeer

    BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM HEADSHOT!

    • 13 July 2007 13:49
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  21. 21. Richard Harris

    ah, I've found the microphone

    • 13 July 2007 13:55
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  22. 22. Richard

    Aaaah! Cramp in my twiddle finger!

    • 13 July 2007 14:09
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  23. 23. anonymous

    I knew I should of gone to the toilet before I started

    • 13 July 2007 14:34
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  24. 24. anonymous

    You can't be serious The ball was in, even a virtual umpire would see that...

    • 13 July 2007 14:50
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  25. 25. Matthew Gingell

    "Ahhh...That was no virtual pencil"

    • 13 July 2007 15:21
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  26. 26. anonymous

    Trevor's loud singing of "Eye of the tiger" was really starting to annoy the other competitors

    • 13 July 2007 16:36
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  27. 27. David Bell

    Aarrgh I knew I shouldn't have beta tested the vibration sensitive jockstrap

    • 13 July 2007 17:29
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  28. 28. Neville

    These new headphones are TOO HEAVY! We can barely keep our heads up!

    • 13 July 2007 18:39
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  29. 29. Jeremy Follick

    What do you mean those pills from Quake aren't suppositories?!?

    • 13 July 2007 19:11
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  30. 30. kenneth wilkinson

    "New Audio treatment for constipation sufferers has dramatic result."

    • 14 July 2007 21:08
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  31. 31. Stuart Fawcett

    Frik, i really killed him; I thought this was just a friendly fire game.

    • 16 July 2007 09:44
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  32. 32. Craig Mitchell

    This year shouting at inanimate objects final gets off to a good start.

    • 16 July 2007 09:46
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  33. 33. Brooksie

    Warning: some applications may not be suitable for the testicular stimulator add on.

    • 16 July 2007 09:51
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  34. 34. Colin Campbell

    Cyberman basic training, even the French will be converted.

    • 16 July 2007 10:07
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  35. 35. Ian Paterson

    Oh No! I just Wii'd myself!

    • 16 July 2007 10:34
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  36. 36. Johnathan Perry

    DIE DIE DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.
    Another educational computer game on violence and mass destruction.

    • 16 July 2007 10:40
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  37. 37. Johnathan Perry

    Wrist cramp gets the better of gaming contestant.

    • 16 July 2007 10:49
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  38. 38. Johnathan Perry

    Shout as loud as you like my friend. No-one can hear you. They've all got their own headphone on.

    • 16 July 2007 10:52
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  39. 39. Jeff Howarth

    You can not be serious, that ball was IN - you useless bag of electrons !

    • 16 July 2007 12:18
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  40. 40. Jeff HOwarth

    I don't believe it - the have added a blue screen of death to the X Box !

    • 16 July 2007 12:22
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  41. 41. Brian Chappell

    You sank my battleship!

    • 16 July 2007 12:31
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  42. 42. anonymous

    Zazou pressed the Cold Play button!

    • 16 July 2007 12:38
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  43. 43. Mark Copp

    ARRRGH!!
    Who's idea was it to use the xbox?

    • 16 July 2007 13:10
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  44. 44. Carl Brown

    Why is everything but my head so fuzzy???

    • 16 July 2007 14:35
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  45. 45. Jon Morton

    “DON'T SWEAR AT ME, FLIGHT CDG174! I don’t care if you need to land urgently, we need to get Mario past these bouncing monsters first!”

    • 16 July 2007 15:01
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  46. 46. anonymous

    Productivity soars at call-centres following the installation of electric-shock headphones.

    • 16 July 2007 15:03
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  47. 47. anonymous

    Through the course of the day, Daniel realised why his woollen underpants had been so cheap.

    • 16 July 2007 15:04
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  48. 48. anonymous

    Oh no, I seem to be surrounded by fuzzy wuzzys.....

    • 16 July 2007 15:40
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  49. 49. Dave Devine

    It's football manager 07 and Kevin tries the Fergie hairdrier out on his players

    • 16 July 2007 20:57
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  50. 50. Simon Coley

    Sacrebleu!
    Anger in france as Sven becomes the new French Football manager!

    • 17 July 2007 10:15
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  51. 51. anonymous

    Pierre livened up his days at the call centre with the occasional Gordon Ramsay impression.

    • 17 July 2007 11:54
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  52. 52. anonymous

    1 in 4 call-centre workers suffers from ‘phone rage’.

    • 17 July 2007 11:55
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  53. 53. Richard

    The blue scream of death.

    • 17 July 2007 13:28
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  54. 54. anonymous

    Oh come on Lara you can jump further than that !

    • 19 July 2007 01:12
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  55. 55. anonymous

    "What the hell?! AIMBOTTER!"

    • 19 July 2007 10:25
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