The Opponent

A literal barrel of sunshine. *Contents may vary.

THE GREATEST (OR POSSIBLY STUPIDEST) IDEAS OF 2019


  • Stephen King-sized beds
  • Neo Turf Shockmasters
  • Rival Schools with elementary school students
  • Rival Schoolhouse Rock
  • Capcom vs. SNK: Millennial Fight 2000
  • A fast food restaurant called Legendary Wings
  • Internet of Barbie Tingz
  • Visual BASICs of CQC
  • Track and Field Programmable Gate Array
  • Child Predator, a movie about the Predator’s offspring
  • A movie about Africa with no black people in it. Just rivers and animals and stuff.
  • Shit-canceling headphones
  • Reverse G-Gundam where tiny androids pilot humans
  • A horror game called There’s No Such Thing As Satchmo. Your goal is to disprove Satchmo’s existence while also being stalked by Satchmo.
  • Make a brand new NES game, manufacture cartridges for it, and sell it only at yard sales and flea markets and pretend it’s actually an old game.
  • Wrestle Kingdom Hearts
  • A marathon, Wacky Races style: One where you still have to run, but everyone is encouraged to cheat and sabotage the other runners.
  • Brak Mirror
  • Zombie Goasts ‘n Goblins
  • Mortal Kombat DLC for Surgeon Simulator. No tools, you just punch all the organs out of the way and rip the organ to transplant out with your bare hand.
  • Ys IV-2: Son of the Mask of the Sun
  • Dry Ice Climber
  • Essential Oreos
  • A shmup based on Fight of Gods, like King of Fighters Sky Stage: Flight of Gods
  • Donkey Kongtra
  • A RPG where the six stats are: Luck, Skill, Concentrated power of will, Pleasure, Pain, Reason to remember the name
  • Spice physics
  • Piper’s Pit Fighter
  • Non-alcoholic Gatorade
  • Randomizer that combines Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime
  • A sequel to Kirby’s Dream Course, except with Samus
  • A reboot of Comix Zone with manga
  • Carl Sagat
  • Fortunado, the most underrated Ninja Turtle
  • Neo Turf Masters randomizer, with procedurally generated courses
  • A futuristic reboot of Castlevania set in space, where the Vampire Killer is a laser whip and Dracula is basically Darth Vader
  • A car alarm that shouts “Oh, my car!”
  • Martin Luther King Kong
  • A fighting game with every character of a certain natural element, like all ice characters, etc.
  • Ironic Maiden
  • A hack of California Games with all the characters changed to California Raisins
  • Fighting game based on live-action Sailor Moon
  • Rockman & Fortenite
  • Have Jesus turn a watermelon into a winemelon
  • A game in which killing every NPC is possible, but extremely difficult and unintuitive to the point where it’s not worth the effort. Doing it anyway will result in being subjected to a rant about how Under***l sucks.
  • Goddammit! All Berries
  • Halftime shows for boxing main events
  • High-Yeast Investment Program — “Profits are going UP”
  • Virginia Beach Boys
  • Shannon Lee commentates Evo
  • SNK Middle Managers
  • Slot machine that pays out in Fruit Roll-Ups
  • May-December Romance of the Three Kingdoms
  • A flamethrower park, where people can rent flamethrowers and go into spaces filled with kudzu and destroy things without risk
  • Mood vapes: The color of the smoke reflects your mood
  • The King of Fighters 2098
  • Alien vs. Predator vs. Plants vs. Zombies
  • Josie and the Pussy
  • A mod that changes Ryu’s Shoryuken to Right You Are, Ken
  • A game jam with the only restriction that all of your sound effects have to come from arcade Final Fight. You’re not allowed to modify the sounds in any way but you can use any music you want.
  • A Smash Bros. Ultimate mod that replaces Joker with Joaquin Phoenix
  • A MUGEN with every fighting game clown character ever
  • A storyline for Capcom vs. SNK 3: Ken’s ending has him buy out the rights to the Masters Tournament so Neo Turf Masters can have its old name back.
  • Survival Arts & Crafts
  • Trusting a doctor named Ed to treat your ED
  • Lisa Lisa Frank
  • A recurring pair of beat-them-up enemies named Args and Kwargs
  • Reverse Zombie Nation, where the head of a famed American soldier goes to Japan to save them from aliens.
  • Surviving Perfect Weapons, a film about protecting yourself against Jeff Speakman
  • A licensed sequel to Space Harrier for the British home computers called Time Harrier, similar but jankier gameplay set in multiple time periods that make less sense as it goes on
  • Cobra Unit boss named The Shame, who runs around yelling “The Shame” all the time
  • Neural network that vomits those stupidly long light novel titles
  • #NotAllTerrainVehicles
  • Floating Point OPeration Wolf
  • Ys Howard
  • Start a city named Die, and make it a sister city to Hell, Michigan
  • Godfrey Ho movie based on The Super Spy
  • An arcade game that does nothing but arrest you. No gameplay or graphics or sound or any other kind of interaction, just put in a credit and the police come and take you to jail.
  • Shitpostopoly
  • A modded battle royale game server that, when two players are left, immediately delete all items from the map and both players’ inventories, set them to full health and 0 armor, give them five seconds of invincibility, and force them to melee while the Mortal Kombat theme plays.
  • Bionic Kim Kommando
  • A Transformers game but they never change into the robots. They’re always the cars and it’s a Twisted Metal crossover.
  • A character in a Japanese game with an R in their name, but the game randomly changes it to an L sometimes so you’re never sure what their name is.