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		<title>More on the lack of video games about Boston</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John M. Guilfoil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, I had the opportunity to write a fun column in The Boston Globe about the lack of video games about Boston.
It&#8217;s really not fair, because Boston is not only the greatest city in the world, it&#8217;s also a technological Mecca &#8212; even the makers of the mega-hit game Rock Band are based in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last month, I had the opportunity to write a <a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/games/articles/2008/02/19/hub_hijinks/" target="_blank">fun column</a> in The Boston Globe about the lack of video games about Boston.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s really not fair, because Boston is not only the greatest city in the world, it&#8217;s also a technological Mecca &#8212; even the makers of the mega-hit game Rock Band are based in Cambridge!</p>
<p>Now that Activision released a <a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/03/21/shipping_up_to_guitar_hero/" target="_blank">Dropkick Murphys free track pack</a>, here&#8217;s a few more games that didn&#8217;t make the initial cut.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Madden: Pats Rule edition&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>All the Patriots players have a their skills maxed out, while every other team&#8217;s players are rated 50 or worse.</p>
<p>Any halfway decent AFC team &#8211; Colts, Jags, Steelers, Chargers &#8211; are removed from the game.</p>
<p>The Giants start every season with Plaxico Burress on injured reserve. David Tyree drops every pass thrown to him.</p>
<p>Mike Vrabel is the third tight end, and every catch he makes is an automatic touchdown, and Tom Brady throws a touchdown by default if the team is losing with under two minutes to play.</p>
<p>There are also throwback teams and jerseys to such unforgettable teams as the 1990&#8217;s 1-15 effort that shortened Bob Ryan&#8217;s lifespan by a good five years.</p>
<p>&#8220;Each week we ask, &#8216;How can things get worse?&#8217; and each week they do,&#8221; he wrote at the time.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Beanpot, The Game</strong> &#8221;</p>
<p>College hockey anyone?</p>
<p>My Northeastern Huskies still won&#8217;t win, no matter what hidden cheats I implement. I have to give this one to our sports editor, Micah Warren &#8212; BU always wins and Harvard and NU play the consolation game.</p>
<p><em>Update 3/22. Oh Snap. <a href="http://goterriers.cstv.com/sports/m-hockey/recaps/032208aaa.html">Nevermind</a>. Vermont? Come on, Terriers. Even I was rooting for you.<br />
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<strong>A new addition: City Councilor Mike Ross in &#8220;Sim City 4-Maximum&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Now that the City Council has decided that <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/03/12/boston_imposes_four_roommate_limit_for_students_in_apartments/" target="_blank">no more than four college students can live in one apartment</a>,  let&#8217;s just turn it all over to Councilor Ross and let him rebuild the city in his own image.</p>
<p>Watch out for evil space aliens, tornadoes, earthquakes, destructive mobs of college students and other things that occur all the time in the Hub.</p>
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