Playing games with ‘box specs’ on MSNBC points out that on occasion, what the box can tell you about a game's minimum system requirements can be an outright lie, saying: "One of the most agonizing torments in computer gaming is to tear the shrink wrap off the title you’ve been drooling about for months, do the monster install and find that the game runs like a slide show — or, worse yet, not at all." Thanks Conan Ford and Hanson.