The best (and worst) mini-games in video game history

From Bioshock to butt battles: the hidden games we both love - and hate - to find

If you remember Pimp My Ride, the long-running TV show in which rapper Xzibit modified people's cars with gigantic speakers, horrible decals and velvet seats, you may also recall that the programme spawned a particularly daft meme.

"Yo dawg," the original joke went, "I heard you like cars, so I put a car in your car so you can drive while you drive". It was, of course, a reference to the show's habit of building each owner's interests into their remodelled car - however laboured the connection happened to be. The meme was absurd and recursive, but it's probably how mini-games - those little nuggets of alternative gameplay hidden within a larger experience - came about. "We heard you like games," the developers of the first ever example may have said, "so we put games in your games so you can play while you play."