Some video games are released to huge acclaim and enormous sales. But other games get released, only to be criminally ignored by the masses. hecklerspray brings you the Games That Time Forgot - a critical reassessment of the video games that should have been huge, but somehow weren't.

Some games have the ability to immerse you in it's world. Take GTA San Andreas - you play a character running freely around an entire US state. But let's be honest, taking control of the west coast of America is a tad time consuming. Sometimes you want hardcore entertainment, distilled into a bulletproof nugget of fun. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Bishi Bashi Special.

It's Friday, and that means only one thing - most of you will spend tomorrow night in a sorrowful alcoholic stupor, trying to mask the cracks in your disappointment-filled life by getting drunk in a joyless pub and then trying to push a broken bottle into a policeman's face.

So now's the time to get in a bit of practice. In this online game,

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? The big bad wolf, the big bad wolf. Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? Tra-la-la-la-la.

So goes the song - probably the most famous song about a big bad wolf of all time. But who is afraid of the big bad wolf?

Well mainly Doctor Who and some pigs. But you shouldn't be afraid. Not when you

Picture the scene. You're walking around the streets of Seoul minding your own business when wham! Some little oik has rammed their fingers into your arse.

That crippling pain you feel is the result of a dong chim ("shit needle"). And in Korea they do that kind of thing for fun.

Luckily, the majority of the world will never have to experience the pain and

That bloody Darth Vader. If he's not swanning around the universe being all evil, he's having his arm and legs burnt off and going "Noooooooooo!"

Really, who does this Darth Vader think he is? He thinks he's better than you. But he's not. And now you can prove it by playing this online Darth Vader game.

Think of something. Anything. Darth Vader will read

Do you live in Cornwall? Rubbish, isn't it.

Don't be too despondent - next month sees the Animal Beach Ball roll into town - two towns, in fact: Newquay and Polzeath. You'll be able to watch all kinds of surfing malarky for free during the day and then go to some of the marvellous-sounding after parties when it gets dark.

In the meantime, why not

Microsoft have completed the script for the movie version of the Xbox game Halo, and it looks likely that Universal and Fox will team up to make the 'run around and shoot the aliens' movie.

For a while, it looked like the Halo movie would never get off the ground, as Microsoft were being very aggressive with their terms. For starters, they said that the budget had to be at least $75 million - not including actor and director fees, plus $10 million paid upfront just for the rights.

Why are they bothering? The Halo film's going to be rubbish anyway. Or is it?

Microsoft has unveiled the Xbox 360 - the next next generation of videogames.

The mega-corporation has taken taken the unusual step of launching the console six months before it goes on sale, by making a TV show about for MTV, presented by Frodo Baggins with music by The Killers (CDs).

The Americans have already had the chance to see this marketing extravaganza,