I've got it, Ma. The game for you would be called "Mother-In-Law Target Practice." There would be a cackling, extraordinarily evil old bat zooming around the screen in a wheelchair and your job as the player would be to simultaneously avoid rotten comments and psychoChristian phrases being pelted at you (the words "You must kneel at the throne of Jesus!" shaped like a rocket, coming right for you; "You kids today ain't got no respect!" in the form of a bomb) while launching your own assault against her. The player would have a whole arsenal: rocket launchers, grenades, bazookas, poison dart guns, a big bucket of angry pit vipers ... the whole lot. Hell, yes, it would be violent, but I guarantee it would serve as healthy catharsis for the millions of women in this country whose husband's mothers were manufactured in the most fetid bowels of hell.
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