Videogames For Homework

Click for Obama: http://www.click4obama.com/
This is a simple trivia game. It makes for a good political game because tests your knowledge of politics and US history. I quickly found myself addicted to it because of ranking system that rates your knowledge from mere resident to political scholar. Your ranking goes up with each question answered correctly but comes down with every wrong answer. Apparently, you help the Obama campaign through ad revenue on the site, but I could couldn't care less as I just wanted to reach the rank of political scholar.

Catch the Sperm: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/Home-Education/Catch-the-Sperm.shtml
Honestly, I only decided to play this because of the title. The game certainly lives up to the title in that the idea is to catch sperm (and STDs). They come flying out from the left side of the screen and you have use your condom cannon on the right side to fire condoms at every single one. It's a pretty challenging game because if you let one sperm through, it's game over, or as the game calls it, FUN'S OVER. Other than that, it's not very representative of sex. I left the game thankful that safe sex isn't as hard as this game.

Passage: http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/passage/
Passage is an interesting game I came across a while back. It uses very simple, I'm talking atari-like, graphics and gameplay to get across it's ideas about life. Your character starts out on the far left side of the screen as a young man, being able to see far in front of you, but not much real estate above or below you. Soon as you make your way foward, you come across a young female character that attaches at your hip so to speak if you get close enough. From there you can explore a scrolling map looking for treasure or just sit there, either way, the game ends in five minutes. As those minutes tick away your characters start looking older and older and they shift from left to right on the screen, no longer being able to see very far foward. There's no points far as I can tell. The game is mainly about showing the passage of time and does so in creative way.