Ok so late night Conan show host Conan O'Brien isn't getting David Letterman's gig (congrats to Stephen Colbert on that achievement), but he did get to fulfill what's likely every true gamer's dream: playing on one of the biggest Jumbotron screens in the world.
As part of his ongoing show skit, Clueless Gamer, O'Brien and a counterpart traveled to the Dallas Cowboy stadium last week and after settling in seats just about midway of the bleaches, grabbed PlayStation 4 controllers to have fun on the stadium's 72 - by 160-foot DiamondVision screen that is equal in size to 4,920 52-inch flat-panel televisions and weighs 1.2 million pounds.
First they played the obvious, a Madden 25 football game, and Conan's lack of skills became evident very quickly. His verbal play-by-play of what the game's animated football squads talked about in huddles was extremely amusing however.
Next up, a bit less obvious as O'Brien noted, was the game Flower. "No way they weren't high when they made this game," said O'Brien, quickly opting to move to another game that was "more intense."
That happened to be Need for Speed: Rivals, a racecar game. Once again O'Brien's lack of skills was evident. He immediately crashed his car and then continued crashing through gates, road rails and even streets. His game score of 6,759, he joked, reflected how many crashes he had in just a few minutes of playing.
Then it was onto Street Fighter II where Conan chose the US player Ken and soundly defeated his opponent with well-thrown crotch kicks and punches. Cheering his character on in the game were a bunch of Americans standing on a boat waving and clapping. In the second round he took on the game persona of a Russian fighter. This time the crowd supporting him were rowdy adults clearly drinking.
"This is the most depressing view of Russia I ever saw," he said as he battled on.
The stadium gaming experience, said the comedian, "was the most fun" he's had gaming.
"I recommend everyone come here or rent out a football stadium to play games," he said, quickly adding that if viewers couldn't afford such a luxury then "you should at least rent out a basketball stadium."
Take that Stephen Colbert.
