Fawkner talks up Neopets
by Candace Savino 
{ Jun 5th 2008 at 6:00PM }
Steve Fawkner, the CEO of Infinite Interactive, chats a bit about the recently announced Neopets and some of its features in the video above. Neopets takes the game Othello (also known as Reversi in some circles) and spruces it up a bit with magical spells and things of that nature, while also adding an adventure storyline. This may not excite some of you, but we still have fond memories of 7up's Spot: The Video Game, which showed us that Othello can be awesome in the right circumstances.
Fawkner also claims that if you play just one game, you'll be hooked. Since Infinite Interactive gave us Puzzle Quest, a title that people had big doubts about until they realized it was video game crack (the DS version, at least), we're inclined to see if Neopets can live up to Fawkner's promise -- even if we still think the tie-in with the Neopets franchise is just weird.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Drahken @ Jun 5th 2008 8:28PM
Hey! Spot! I still have that game. 's a good game.
min @ Jun 5th 2008 9:52PM
I don't care if neopets has been out for twenty years, nobody cares. It's for children.
Dani @ Jun 6th 2008 4:32AM
ummm. Didnt know that neopets has been out for 20yrs. I was really hooked on it when I was a kid. I mean, it was the ONLY thing I would do on the net, and it took up most of my day (including at school)
Reading all this has made me nostalgic. Im gonna go an see if my account is still there. :)
Dio Brando @ Jun 7th 2008 10:48PM
In b4 "cult" game. :D