Digital Journal — Wherever you find someone selling something, you will find someone selling a lemon. Lemons are products that don’t work properly, don’t work well, or don’t work for long.
As a regular section of Digital Journal magazine, the Lemon Awards go to products that disappoint, and Digital Journal reviews products not worthy of your hard-earned cash.
Chris Moneymaker’s World Poker Championship
One word says it all: pathetic. This Texas Hold’em PC game is as attractive as TV static, featuring boring pixelated players and lame announcer chatter.
The overly predictable AI weakens gameplay — computer opponents are incapable of folding post-flop — so it’s too easy to lure the avatars into a betting war.
The box trumpets playing “against real opponents via online play,” but that mode is so desolate there might as well be tumbleweed rolling across the e-landscape.
Mpio Chill FL300 MP3 Player
Yes, it’s small, cute and blue — just like Cookie Monster.
But at least Cookie Monster doesn’t completely break down on the job, far as we know.
After just one day, our Chill stopped working forever — this is a common occurrence, according to online reviews. Maybe they should call it the “Freeze.”
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