Cosmopolitan Magazine is now hosting the flash game "Boy Toy" on their website:
"In this exclusive Cosmo game, our cute, sweet guy exists solely to serve you. That's right, you control what he does, and if he keeps you happy, then you win points in the game. Watch out for the skanky ex-girlfriend though!"
Okay, so this is basically the set-up of the whole game:
You are in a nightclub with your fantasy boyfriend. He must fetch you a drink every time you ask. He must give the DJ your song request every time you ask. And he must snuggle with you on the couch and give you schnookies every time you ask.
Points are taken off for not getting drinks fast enough or letting your "boy toy" be accosted by his "skanky ex-girlfriend."
What this game says about how Cosmo Mag thinks of its readership is certainly one good question.
Another point to ponder is -- "boy toy" might be a woman's fantasy boyfriend, but it is the woman who controls "boy toy's" action. The woman is, in terms of actual game play, slaving to do all these things for the computerized "Cosmo Girl." I see no actual dude in this equation.
Thirdly -- the "Cosmo Girl" had my "boy toy" get up and give her drinks like 25 times. By five minutes into play, "Cosmo Girl' really should have been dead from alcohol poisoning.
Or boredom, it sounds like.
ReplyDeleteDoes said "boy toy" drink either or is he just planning to take advantage of the dead-drunk cosmo girl?
ReplyDeletethat is one demanding bitch!!! i got 40,000 and gave up.\
ReplyDeletealthough the names were awesome.
dream boy was tony soprano and the chick was hal jordan, the creepy guy was troll and the ex was cunt.
THOSE ARE AWESOME NAMES! or, wait, what is the opposite of that.
ReplyDeleteBoy toys (with "product" in his hair and his shirt cuffs unbuttoned) and their girlfriends (in her bootcut slacks and Manolo Blahnik shoes) don't do anything more than drink manhattans and martinis in soulless wood-paneled clubs? Do they ever say... read books to each other or go scuba diving or hit Tokyo to see Melt-Banana?
ReplyDeleteBecause if not, screw 'em. Screw 'em both. Cosmo-World looks like a vision of the worst part of Hell to me.
I direct you towards another game this one reminded me of. The action-platform wonder that is Fly Girrl...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.addictinggames.com/flygirrl.html
YOU are an attractive young woman in a bar filled entirely with unattractive, pervy guys. What do you do? If you said "kill them and steal their drinks" then this game is for you!
cosmo scares me. deeply. and i dont know what's more insulting, the fact that they think all women want to boss guys around... or the fact that they think all women like shitty games.
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