Why aren't there any bodybuilding video games?

[BurritoJimmy]

You see a bunch of other sports as video games, why not bodybuilding? I'd definitely buy one.

[Scimowser]

there was a website where you could train your guy, oversee his diet, purchase a combination of steroids, choose a training partner  and enter him into contests. It was brilliant, and someone should have picked up the idea and taken it further. Unfortunately the site couldnt cope with the demand and was taken down

[bigmikecox]

Who the hell would buy a video game about BBing?  What the hell would they do?

[tommywishbone]

They actually had one that came out in the early 80's. It was cleverly marketed as Pacman, but everyone knows that the little Pacman thing that went around eating those little dots was actually a metaphor for Joe Weider running around gobbling up bodybuilder's nutz.

[Bear03]

Who the hell would buy a video game about BBing?  What the hell would they do?

Because the name of the game these days is trying to live vicariously through people who are better than you at something.  Like, it's not enough just to play football or basketball on the Xbox now, you've gotta manage the dudes finances and his house and stuff....

[Jr. Yates]

hahaha yeah thats true...i just finished playing blitz the legue.

[BurritoJimmy]

Who the hell would buy a video game about BBing?  What the hell would they do?

I would.

I would play the video game.

[Unknown8471]

Unfortunetly a game like that would apeal to a vary small minorety of people. and in a day and age where your suckses is mesured by how much Revinue you get it is unlikly that such a game would ever be created even thow it would practickly be a ground braking game.

[gibberj2]

what would be funny is if each copy you buy of the game gives you a character you can build from zero. if you get a hardgainer or real ectomorph type you're screwed. gotta get your money back.

[BurritoJimmy]

what would be funny is if each copy you buy of the game gives you a character you can build from zero. if you get a hardgainer or real ectomorph type you're screwed. gotta get your money back.

Lol, yeah or if you get a bodybuilder who keeps growing tits.

[gibberj2]

yea of course. he gets gyno if you juice too much

[onlyme]

They did.  It was fun.  You choose your favorite BB.  There can be up to 10 players.  You are given 10 syringes.  YOu race each other to see who can load their syringes the fastest.  The oil base vials you get more points cause it is harder to suck into the syringe.  But the trick was if can book a Gay for Pay gig the money you earn you buy a larger gauge needle and thus suck up more oil base and get more points.  The water based vials are half the number of points.

Then once all the syringes are filled for each BB.  (you get points for the speed round).  Now, you have start injecting yourself with the needles.  But you had to watch out cause if you inject in the same location to much it forms a hard area and the needle bends.  So youhave to chose your locations smartly.  Every 3cc's you have to go train.  And the more you put in yourself the more you'll see your strength and size increase.  At the end of round 4 the final competition round happens.  All the roids andall training all come together to find out who did the best.  Now in this round there are alot of hidden secrets that you needed to know to get anywhere in the compettion round.  It wasn't always the best looking BB won.

Some of the hidden secrets to insure a better placing included; blowing a judge, gay for pay with one of the major sponsors, doing Betty Weider in front of Joe and Ben (this was an old tradition starting way back in the mid 70's., and there was also the telling everyone you were taking Weider products to get big and strong.

SO yea it was fun but didn't catch on cause there was no real payoff in the end and if you did to much steroids you died or got a huge gut.  There was a trap door where if you quit in the middle and started doing real hard drugs like crystal meth or something like that you end up killing someone then trying to act innocent by burning the body and driving cross country.  Just didn't hit the mainstream like they had hoped.

[Psychophysio]

They did.  It was fun.  You choose your favorite BB.  There can be up to 10 players.  You are given 10 syringes.  YOu race each other to see who can load their syringes the fastest.  The oil base vials you get more points cause it is harder to suck into the syringe.  But the trick was if can book a Gay for Pay gig the money you earn you buy a larger gauge needle and thus suck up more oil base and get more points.  The water based vials are half the number of points.

Then once all the syringes are filled for each BB.  (you get points for the speed round).  Now, you have start injecting yourself with the needles.  But you had to watch out cause if you inject in the same location to much it forms a hard area and the needle bends.  So youhave to chose your locations smartly.  Every 3cc's you have to go train.  And the more you put in yourself the more you'll see your strength and size increase.  At the end of round 4 the final competition round happens.  All the roids andall training all come together to find out who did the best.  Now in this round there are alot of hidden secrets that you needed to know to get anywhere in the compettion round.  It wasn't always the best looking BB won.

Some of the hidden secrets to insure a better placing included; blowing a judge, gay for pay with one of the major sponsors, doing Betty Weider in front of Joe and Ben (this was an old tradition starting way back in the mid 70's., and there was also the telling everyone you were taking Weider products to get big and strong.

SO yea it was fun but didn't catch on cause there was no real payoff in the end and if you did to much steroids you died or got a huge gut.  There was a trap door where if you quit in the middle and started doing real hard drugs like crystal meth or something like that you end up killing someone then trying to act innocent by burning the body and driving cross country.  Just didn't hit the mainstream like they had hoped.

Sounds like a scorcher!

You can go to the gym in San Andreas and your character does develop muscles just from doing dumbell curls and bench presses, fueled by fried chicken and pizza 

[Jr. Yates]

I KNOW! that shit is funny!

[tu_holmes]

Who the hell would buy a video game about BBing?  What the hell would they do?

Eat, sleep, lift, and do some cardio before a competition... Oh, and they can burp and fart because of all of the damn food you'd make your guy eat... Look out "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out"

Let's face it... bodybuilding as a total sport would be freaking boring to have as a video game.

I don't just hang out at the gym and watch other people train... who would pay 45 bucks for a game to do that?

I just don't think it would work.

[dantelis]

They did.  It was fun.  You choose your favorite BB.  There can be up to 10 players.  You are given 10 syringes.  YOu race each other to see who can load their syringes the fastest.  The oil base vials you get more points cause it is harder to suck into the syringe.  But the trick was if can book a Gay for Pay gig the money you earn you buy a larger gauge needle and thus suck up more oil base and get more points.  The water based vials are half the number of points.

Then once all the syringes are filled for each BB.  (you get points for the speed round).  Now, you have start injecting yourself with the needles.  But you had to watch out cause if you inject in the same location to much it forms a hard area and the needle bends.  So youhave to chose your locations smartly.  Every 3cc's you have to go train.  And the more you put in yourself the more you'll see your strength and size increase.  At the end of round 4 the final competition round happens.  All the roids andall training all come together to find out who did the best.  Now in this round there are alot of hidden secrets that you needed to know to get anywhere in the compettion round.  It wasn't always the best looking BB won.

Some of the hidden secrets to insure a better placing included; blowing a judge, gay for pay with one of the major sponsors, doing Betty Weider in front of Joe and Ben (this was an old tradition starting way back in the mid 70's., and there was also the telling everyone you were taking Weider products to get big and strong.

SO yea it was fun but didn't catch on cause there was no real payoff in the end and if you did to much steroids you died or got a huge gut.  There was a trap door where if you quit in the middle and started doing real hard drugs like crystal meth or something like that you end up killing someone then trying to act innocent by burning the body and driving cross country.  Just didn't hit the mainstream like they had hoped.

Actually, the object of the game WAS to kill off your bodybuilder at the end through overuse of diuretics, steroids and growth hormones!  The younger he is when he dies, the more points you get.  Bonus points if your bodybuilder develops liver or kidney diseases before they die.  I think the game was created by Chad Nichols.

[FREAKgeek]

Back in the late 80's there was a computer game series called leisure suit larry. In the third game of the series there was a part where you had to go to a gym and workout to get big. You actually had to sit there and press buttons an x amount of time to do reps on various machines. Built your character while you got carpel tunnel 

[gibberj2]

they made more of those games. i haven't played em.

[bmacsys]

They did.  It was fun.  You choose your favorite BB.  There can be up to 10 players.  You are given 10 syringes.  YOu race each other to see who can load their syringes the fastest.  The oil base vials you get more points cause it is harder to suck into the syringe.  But the trick was if can book a Gay for Pay gig the money you earn you buy a larger gauge needle and thus suck up more oil base and get more points.  The water based vials are half the number of points.

Then once all the syringes are filled for each BB.  (you get points for the speed round).  Now, you have start injecting yourself with the needles.  But you had to watch out cause if you inject in the same location to much it forms a hard area and the needle bends.  So youhave to chose your locations smartly.  Every 3cc's you have to go train.  And the more you put in yourself the more you'll see your strength and size increase.  At the end of round 4 the final competition round happens.  All the roids andall training all come together to find out who did the best.  Now in this round there are alot of hidden secrets that you needed to know to get anywhere in the compettion round.  It wasn't always the best looking BB won.

Some of the hidden secrets to insure a better placing included; blowing a judge, gay for pay with one of the major sponsors, doing Betty Weider in front of Joe and Ben (this was an old tradition starting way back in the mid 70's., and there was also the telling everyone you were taking Weider products to get big and strong.

SO yea it was fun but didn't catch on cause there was no real payoff in the end and if you did to much steroids you died or got a huge gut.  There was a trap door where if you quit in the middle and started doing real hard drugs like crystal meth or something like that you end up killing someone then trying to act innocent by burning the body and driving cross country.  Just didn't hit the mainstream like they had hoped.

Thats fucking hilarious!