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UNO is the first Xbox Live Arcade game to be downloaded one million times photo

According to Albert Penello, marketing director for Xbox, UNO, a card game deemed “the devil’s work” by my loving grandmother, is the first XBLA game to go platinum.

Most people will cry foul, thinking a more “deserving” game should have achieved this milestone, but I have to defend the addictive little distraction. I love me some UNO, I’m not ashamed. So what if I like dropping a hardcore “Rev” (that’s what us street UNO players call a reverse card) on some unsuspecting player? What are you going to do about it? Don’t hate.

Yeah, that’s right, I’m gangster. UNO gangster. Draw four, b*tches.

[via CVG]


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velcroman's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/29/2007 18:44
velcroman
not surprised, it was given away with the vision camera and promoted well. I smell another special edition card set for UNO, and no damn PDZ cards this time!
Hipple's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/29/2007 18:47
Hipple
Nice. The best part about Uno is meeting all the weird ass people that play it. In my very first Uno match, the first three people I played with all had Vision cams and were smoking pot, and two of them left after a while and were replaced by two more pot smokers. Good times...
Danzuke's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/29/2007 18:47
Danzuke
one of my favorite xbox live games
glg20decoy's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/29/2007 18:51
glg20decoy
It was a great bonus with the Vision camera.
broham's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/29/2007 18:51
broham
I LOVE the Uno internet gangstas who play. "Draw fo' mo'fucka!!" Also, since the camera, I have seen one pair of tits and two pair of balls. Not the draw two I had in mind.
s0lesurviv0r's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/29/2007 21:57
s0lesurviv0r
Broham, at the same time or on seperate occasions?
ZeeJayTL's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/29/2007 23:59
ZeeJayTL
"Uno Motherfucker..do you play it?"
jimjo's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/30/2007 00:06
jimjo
i swear this one dude was playing from a crack house, had like 8 homies sitting around the tv stadium style with all sorts of traffic in the background. the house was run down bad too.everyone just kept hollering, lol.
Mxyzptlk's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/30/2007 00:12
Mxyzptlk
Uno is straight up gangsta!
bobafettm's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/30/2007 03:15
bobafettm
I just got done playing a solid 2 hours of uno with the same group of southern guys. Mic + southern they sounded exactly like Workman yet not enough sheep talk.

Them being high + sports talk for 2 hours quite possibly made me the biggest uno fan ever.
broham's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/30/2007 04:02
broham
@Soul: One game had a dude who asked a girl to flash and if she did, he would show his balls. She showed her tits which were fried egg titties. As Rick James/Dave Chapelle would say "The milks gone bad....ha haaaa ha!!!" Other time, dude just flashed the camera. He had about an uno inch.
trax's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/30/2007 08:40
trax
Not surprising - Uno is only the best card game in the history of the world. I find it to be a nice, relaxing end to a long gaming session. I try to get in a game or two every night.

I would love to see a Hot Death Uno theme deck. Doubt it'll ever happen though.

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