Acne Be Gone - Quotes From The Web

Acne Be Gone, the zit popping game released on December 1st, 2002, was an instant infamouse classic. Created by Spore Productions for Health Straight Up, it immediately spurred various reactions, most of which seemed to be along the lines of the game being "disgusting", but also very addictive. It's strange how we humans can be simultaneously attracted yet repelled.

The following are some reviews and testimonials about the game that have been found on the web: (If you find some not listed here, please let us know).

About.com's humor section offered up Acne Be Gone as The Funny Site of The Day, June 1st, 2004.
http://humor.about.com/b/a/2004_06_01.htm

Miss Vera analyzes how the game works:
http://www.thum.org/missvera/archives/001351.html

Colinicus said it was "Like bubble-wrap with puss". Eww!
http://www.colinica.com/default.asp?cid=28&sCategory=Insanitary

Eircom.net called it "vaguely disgusting, but it is really more satisfying than it should be":
http://content.eircom.net/broadband/game/2003/apr/

The game was featured on BackWash.com:
http://www.backwash.com/

Rock band "Revelate" posted the game on their official site:
http://www.revelate-rock.com/games.htm

Blogged in Singapore:
http://gssq.blogspot.com/2003_06_01_gssq_archive.html

Links for Bored People said "It's like puberty all over again." (isn't that a bad thing?) and I Am Bored also linked to the game.

Quibbles n Bits called it "the nastiest game on the net".

Various comments found at Newgrounds.com:

"That was a cool yet disgusting idea for a game...Good job!"

"Great game!"

"Ok well as it was a very good game, it was abit sick, but still fun, and entertaining, i gave some style points as it has lots of it, anyways great job, it was fun..."

"i Gotta say thats been a fear of mine to have that many zits and kinda sick but hey that game kicked ass"

"Awesome choice of idea! Kinda.. strange but... cool!"

"haha,disgusting,yet funny,yet easy,yet hard"

"that was gross but very funny"

"Very Intresting look at such a common problem. That dude had a really serious acne problem though... Good work."

"Unique. Absurd."

Last updated: June 8, 2004