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Hold off a bit on ordering that Japanese Wii to play Miburi & Teburi. Sega has seen fit to grace the world with a demo version of their amazing charades game, so you can try it first! In case you forgot about Teburi (though we don't see how that's even possible), it's the game in which actors in costumes pantomime activities in front of some extremely nostalgic CG backgrounds, and you write (in katakana) the word for the activity they are acting out!

So, yeah, in a sense this demo won't do much for you if you don't know Japanese. But as far as we're concerned, Miburi & Teburi is exactly the same amount of awesome whether you can actually write the answers or not.

Sega's Mibri & Tebri is absolutely, without a doubt, the best game of the year-- to write mocking blog posts about. This thing is like a gift to sarcastic jerks like us who spend their days making fun of video games. Yes, this is a Sega game, but we doubt we'll be accused of an anti-Sega bias for saying that this game is completely ridiculous.

The game looks like a refugee from the Sega CD lineup, both in concept and execution. It appears to be a combination charades/crossword game, in which players fill in the characters making up a word that describes the actions played out in pantomime by live actors.

Everything about the game-- the costumes, the lame green-screening, the low-quality, early-90's CG background, is incredible. We have to know more. Why does this game exist? Who thought it was a good idea to make it? And when can we start buying multiple copies? We want this to be our new party game; the only issue now is finding friends who can appreciate Mibri & Tebri.

[Via NeoGAF]

We'll admit it: the video in this week's spotlight is a bit of a stretch, but bear with us and we think you'll agree that it's simply perfect. With this week's controversy over Manhunt 2, our colleagues over at GayGamer decided to delve into the history of controversial games, and they've dubbed this Night Trap week. Night Trap was an FMV-based game starring Dana Plato that is infamous for its overacting and horrible scenes. No, wait ... that's just our opinion now. At the time, Night Trap was considered sexist, ultra-violent, and downright shameful. My, how far we've come. Night Trap seems far less horrific than the slasher films we grew up watching, and these days, this sort of "violence" would be considered laughable in games. Check out this little slice of history after the jump.