We haven't seen the last of Conan O'Brien attempting to play the newest video games just yet. Back when O'Brien was hosting Conan on TBS, he often appeared in Clueless Gamer segments. As someone who's admittedly not a gamer, O'Brien would struggle as he tried out many big titles over the years, and though he'd most often fail spectacularly, the Clueless Gamer segments provided a fun new look at the hottest new or upcoming games.
Conan aired its final episode last year, and it had seemed that this would also mean the end of Clueless Gamer. That is not the case, as O'Brien has taken to his Team Coco YouTube channel to upload a preview video for the return of the segment. This time, O'Brien gets to play some games through his Samsung television rather than on a traditional video game console. You can watch the preview below.
Showing that anything can be made into a video game, the first title O'Brien looks at is for something called Power Wash Simulator. O'Brien is stunned that this has been made into a game and wonders if other household chores will be given the video game treatment as well.
"Wait, the game is now, 'We're going to clean a car?' And then, after this, are we going to play, Fix That Toilet 7000?" the funnyman quips.
After spending some time power-washing a vehicle, O'Brien is treated to a very different kind of game. He tries out A Plague Tale: Requiem, a game set during a plague with infectious rat hordes coming after the player character. The goal is to run away from the vicious rats, but for O'Brien, who has some issues with mastering the controls, he cannot help but run toward them instead.
"Why did I go into the rats?!" he asks.
Conan O'Brien Keeps Clueless Gamer Alive
While the Clueless Gamer series was originally a web-only segment, it was eventually featured on Conan where it became one of the show's most popular aspects. At one point, it was announced that there were plans to develop an actual Clueless Gamer spinoff series for TBS, and while that didn't materialize, it shows how popular the sketches have been for the show. The segments hadn't gotten to be so popular that celebrity guests would start coming in to play some games with O'Brien, such as Elijah Wood, Tony Hawk, Kumail Nanjianai, Bill Hader, Billy Eichner, Peter Dinklage, and others.
The last segment of Clueless Gamer to be featured before the end of Conan was on the game Biomutant with JB Smoove.