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Because videogames, let's be honest, have so far mostly appealed to only half the population (the one with doodles), videogame makers have long been racking their brains trying to come up with a way to attract that other half (the ones with hoo-has). It's that eternal dance of nerds trying to woo ladies and failing miserably. But now they've got a new plan that's sure to work! Video games based on girly movies like Mean Girls, Clueless, and Pretty In Pink.

Paramount is developing all of these as so-called "casual titles." We don't really know what that means (maybe our brother site Kotaku does), but we like to guess challenges include fighting all the junior girls in a hallway battle royale, running around the Valley dodging muggers and the sleazy Elton's car, and trying to do the Duckie prom dance while dodging Bolo tie projectiles. Squeeeeallll doesn't it sound fun? So much better than those games where you just indiscriminately kill people. Right?
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45 responses // New girly videogames based on teen movies

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    How are these even going to work? Is it going to be like that awful 'Dirty Dancing' game that was released a few months ago?

    Hopefully the 'Mean Girls' game will have a Toaster Strudel making competition.
    Scott_Bromley
  • watch this comment being used here, here, here, here and here
    Actually wasn't movies like "Jawbreaker" and "Heathers" about killing the popular people? Or movies like "Bring It On" about "owning" someone? Hmm...I think there is some potential in this if marketed correctly.
    maasanova
  • http://wellheeled.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/sexandthe...
    I can't wait for the Sex and the City video game.
    joshuaheller
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    Hey, if the "Imagine: Babyz" game can sell, so can these.
    Arcade_The_Musical
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  • There are a bunch of so called "chick flicks" I'd love to see video games made out of.

    How about "Memoirs of a Geisha" where you can practice how well you can perform the exact rituals of the "tea ceremony?"

    Or "Working Girl" where you can see how long you can pull off being a secretary and prentending to be an executive at the same company.

    Making a game out of "Thelma and Louise" where you could practice how long you can go on a crime spree before you're forced to drive off of a cliff would be totally awesome!
    Argon18
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  • OK, where is Sarah Haskins when we need her?
    Allsunday
  • I just want to get wet all over. In reality.
    wiredbirds
  • No wonder we live in such healthy, balanced societies. Kids of both genders spend all day playing computer games, and boys learn how to kill stuff, while girls learn how to put make-up on it. Go outside kiddies! There are real people there and everything!
    LindseyIndigo
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  • I like video games just the way they are. I just wish more of them had brighter colors!
    Becky6378
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  • Oh, they'll still be violent. Get enough female teenie boppers into a single room and the eye gauging will ensue. Hmm.....I wonder if Jack Thompson will protest these as well?
    NoGodsNoMasters
  • EVERY movie should have a video game tie-in! Not just "chick flicks" and summer blockbusters. How about some "Annie Hall" mini-games - quick, pick up all the lobsters! You control the relationship shark ... don't let it stop moving!

    Argon, Thelma and Louise would be rad, especially in 2-player cooperative mode.
    superkiy
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  • sounds like a bad idea to me. technology already makes it so that young, preteen girls can bully each other relentlessly on the web -- do they really need something like a video game version of 'mean girls' to potentially encourage petty and aggressive behavior amongst them? (unless they opt to play the one based on the film 'clueless,' in which case the resulting behavior would most likely be even more undesirable/disturbing...)
    orangeseverywhere
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  • This is some bullshit!!! As a female gamer I want a game with war, fighting and all the things that a male gamer want. This girl games shit is crazy. I got a idea for a girl game.

    5 female strike force,try to wipe out some aliens force that can kill mens. they are the only hope for human survial.

    There a start; somebody make it to a game.
    We are not stupid and don't need games that downgrade what women has done for the past 40yrs.

    Also why all the games have to have some big tit chick with nothing on, and the men look like women?
    Tradiggy
  • This is stupid... Come on Current.
    Nefri
  • I'd play the Pretty in pink game, lol. Not sure what you would do in the game.
    shroomfairy
  • watch this comment being used here, here, here, here, here and here
    This is doing nothing to help the state of gaming for girls in America.

    A recent study confirmed that roughly 40% of gamers in the US are, in fact, female.

    You think they're all playing cute, borderline idiotic games? I doubt it. They're right alongside us guys, chainsawing off limbs and decapitating their way to victory.
    Plarom
  • This is what they're offering girls? Blech.

    I'm not into video games, but if I were going to play, I'd want to play the violent games more--but I hate the fact that I'd have to play a male character or some ridiculously silicone-enhanced bimbo.

    The last thing I'd want to do is play a game like Mean Girls--especially if I were a teenager. You're already living that crap, why spend your free time worrying about bullies and gossips?
    sgwhites
  • From an uninformed standpoint it’s not unreasonable to assume video games appeal to mainly guys. However a lot of people buy into stereotypes, including those who supposedly denounce stereotypes. So I would think the best way to appeal to women is to stop perpetuating the stereotype that video games appeal for the most part to men.
    Ricky84
  • I am insulted that someone would call Mean Girls a girly movie! This whole idea is preposterous, chicks like guns and killing people in fake worlds too! At least any of them that are worth while do.
    SLindsayM1991
  • I'm still dumbfounded by how utterly clueless corporations are about their own people.

    Maybe if they did about half a second of research, they'd see that plenty of girls play videogames already. And the games they play? The same games that guys play.

    Then again, we're not talking about premier game developers here. We're talking about Paramount, a company who's last experience with video games was likely Pac-Man. Watch them scratch their heads when their games crash and burn while all the girls buy Diablo III instead.
    Saladin
  • Why don't they just stop making males as the main characters in all the RPGs and war games...Zelda is a start I suppose. It would also be nice if the character is not mistaken for a sex object since that seems to be a favorite role for women in general.

    Mean Girls would be pretty funny, though, just cuz I picture one of the constant missions being not to get hit by the school bus!
    achromatic
  • movies,episodes,reality humans,tv shows willnot make it with any other games because,they all lack quality,and varity,they should really stop making video games into tv shows, and START making video games at least into movies......
    metalcookiesxy70
  • they should make super smash bros. brawl into a movie!!
    metalcookiesxy70
  • im not so sure about corpoarations being dumb, saladin.... u have to remember Hanna Montana was created on the girls are stupid and like pink and wont to bully each other by gossip theorem....
    kewal91
  • I've played video games since Pac-man. Proud female here. In my opinion, games based on Tv shows or movies are always dumb.
    shroomfairy
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  • If girls got into video games, it wasn't because they resembled bad movies and girly themes. Why would you insult half of your consumers by bringing out bad games? We like our share of blood splatter, headshots, and kick ass plots too you know...
    bekah_1984
  • It is really going to depend on plots of these videogames to see if they do well in the market. But my theory is, regardless if they do well or poorly, as many males will purchase this game as females.

    (I know lots of guys that like Pretty In Pink)
    AlinaJette
  • oh, i cannot wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    benzzy
  • Molly Ringwald! I would. with simple minds on the radio.

    Yeah though games and girls, there are a lot more out there than you think, its an entertainment medium no different to books, film, tv, music, with Genres to suit all.

    these go in the genre of cheap crap however.
    Owwmykneecap
  • girly video games!!!???? girly teen movies!!!???
    John Hughes' Brat Pack films are not girly. They're awesome!!!! Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller, Breakfast Club, St Elmo's Fire. Love it!
    Also love Clueless and Mean Girls.

    I would play these games!!!
    Ben_Traffic_UK
  • This site is truly becoming esoteric and tabloid. This made tv? Embarrassing.
    JanforGore
  • I can understand how unnecessary these games are, personal experience suggests most female gamers have similar desires as male gamers. The key part to this is that they're film games, 90% of Games based on a film property are usually awful. I don't understand how you can make a successful game based off Pretty in Pink or Clueless. And why play Mean Girls when you could have more fun playing Bully or GTA. The game producers should stop considering making games based of films to appeal to female gamers, try making original games that would appeal to a wider audience then the hardcore gamer.
    ghost2047