LOL (video game)

LOL: Never Party Alone!
Developer(s)Route24
Publisher(s)
Designer(s)Kenichi Nishi
Composer(s)Hirofumi Taniguchi
Platform(s)Nintendo DS
Release
  • JP: July 19, 2007
  • NA: May 30, 2008
  • EU: July 4, 2008
Genre(s)Party
Mode(s)Multiplayer

LOL (full title: LOL: Never Party Alone!), known in Europe as Bakushow and in Japan as Archime DS (アルキメDS, Arukime DS), is a Nintendo DS video game. The game was published by Skip Ltd. in Japan, Agetec in North America, and Rising Star Games in Europe.

Developed by a group of five people headed by Kenichi Nishi, LOL is a multiplayer game implemented with a PictoChat-like interface in which a host player asks a question, requiring others to write or draw their answers on the DS touchscreen.

The developers refer to LOL as a "comedy-training" game with the tagline of the game being "If you think this game is boring, you are boring." LOL received largely mixed reviews by critics upon its release.