Water Cooler Games
Water Cooler Games served as the web's primary forum for "videogames with an agenda" — coverage of the uses of video games in advertising, politics, education, and other everyday activities, outside the sphere of entertainment.

The site was maintained at watercoolergames.org from 2003-2009, where it was edited by myself and Gonzalo Frasca. It is now archived here in full.
Search Water Cooler Games:  
You are reading an archived version of this article. The original URL was (loading...)
Scalpel, scissors and Game Boy
by Gonzalo Frasca December 11, 2004

According to an anesthesiologist at University Hospital in Newark, Game Boys are better than tranquilizers before surgery. They tried first with PSPs, but it ran out of batteries way before the surgeon was ready ;)

Comments (2)

Man, I had a camera stuck down my throat when they thought I had an ulcer and they offered me valium, which i refused. If they had said "want a game boy?" I probably would have been a lot better off...