Bullet Points: 8 Great Video Games to Play Drunk or High

Guitar Hero

Gets the whole party involved because everyone likes at least one of those songs! Not everyone can play (for instance, I suck at it), which actually works for well for the party atmosphere, since as soon as you screw up your buddy will immediately think that he can do better than you did.

Gran Turismo (any version)

Gran Turismo (any of them) Follow with me on this one... Your buddy is trashed, you boot up the game, turn the view to the bumper camera, and stick him significantly closer to the television. Watch as he freaks out everytime he thinks hes going to crash. Hilarious!

Mario Kart 64

Back in my early college days, this was the definitive dorm room gathering game. Many a night has been drained away playing this game, with plenty of laughing, yelling, and shit-talking to go along with it.  There are at least a dozen drinking games to go along with Mario Kart 64, and I learn a new one almost every time I talk to someone new about it.  It may even get a few girls to come back home with you and your buddies after a night at the bar.  Awesome.

Earthbound 

Okay, after a few minutes on Google I was unable to find a better picture of the backgrounds for the fights in this game. Suffice it to say, they are TRIPPY. This game also has possibly the greatest enemies ever made.

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

I think you would be hard-pressed to find anything better than beating up cranky old ladies whether you are intoxicated or not. And fighting a large puddle of vomit -- that's just BADASS.

Exhibit C:

Oh, you also get to fight the hippie scourge.

REZ HD

A cult classic in the video game world. This games is without a doubt, the best game to play under the influence. What makes Rez so amazing when you're messed up is the music and visuals. The trance music is really atmospheric and the graphics are a trip. If Tron and the stargate sequence from 2001 were to copulate ("My God, it's full of stars") you'd end up with Rez. Playing the game makes you one with the music. You become like Neo and can see the matrix of the sound. Sega tried to create virtual synesthesia, a world where we could see the sounds. It's hard to explain but once objects move past you, you can hear (and feel) the beat they create and your shooting of objects creates musical cues as well.

Super Mario Galaxy

Here's a game full of all kinds of trippy stuff; an outer-space playground of bright colors, odd celestial bodies, and altered gravitational physics.  Super Mario Galaxy can draw a player in for hours - especially under the influence.  Drunk, high, whatever, this game is easy to pick up and play, and there is plenty here for one's perceptions to warp in a variety of ways for quite some time.

Halo 3 on XBox Live

Trash talking. There is no game better suited for drunken trash talking. This is a recent riff I heard two nights ago:

Drunken Bob - You're such a faggot.
Drunken Me - Really? Is it because I've killed you three times in a row.
Drunken Bob - Nooooo... because you like to suck dick. Why don't you
put your Levis on your arms and make me a lettuce wrap.
Drunken Me - What the fuck does that even mean?

(pause for 5 seconds)

Drunken Bob - FAGGOT!
Drunken Me - I guess you don't like guys who are into other guys.
Drunken Bob - haha, he just admitted he looooooves the cock. I will
end you. You faggot.
Drunken Me - But we've only just started.

(I kill him for the fourth time in a row)

Drunken Bob - Hey don't hit me on bub, I'm not into dick. Dude, you're so gay, you ejaculate mayonnaise.

(I erupt into uncontrollable laughter.)

And well, it just goes on from there. The absolute best trash talkers are the guys from the U.K. Every single time they say something its like living a scene from the movie Snatch.

Katamari Damacy

I'll put this simply; Katamari Damacy is bugged the fuck out. From the moment the game begins, you're hit with cows, geese, and elephants animated in a sort of papercraft stop-motion style, along with a crazy, cosmic, tights-wearing, guitar-playing ballerina king riding a fucking rainbow into your cerebral cortex. From there, you take control of a pint-sized prince who rolls up everything in sight - from thumbtacks to people (flailing and screaming the whole time) to full size ocean liners - into an ever-growing ball of junk. Why? To make stars. Yeah, I told you it's bugged out.