A successful king played the Fame Game, and the pride of Uzziah led to his downfall.
There are some Lame Games we should no longer play in life. One of those games in the Fame Game!
The Fame Game is a game where you define your value by having gained the attention of others. It is a tricky & destructive game.
Uzziah had much success, but success can bring pride & pride always brings destruction.
Is there a way to beat the Fame Game?

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Lame Games we Play 5 – Fame Game
Sermon notes by Pastor Chris Fluitt
Redemption Church Plano Tx
 
Welcome to Redemption Church! My name is Chris Fluitt. It is a beautiful day in Plano Tx and I excited to be preaching the word to you today. Hello as always to each of you in the room and watching or listening online.
 
We are in the 5th week of our series – The Lame Games We Play.
Lame Games we Play 
We have talked about THE SHAME GAME, THE BLAME GAME, THE NAME GAME, and THE SAME GAME.
Today I want to talk to you about the FAME GAME.
The Fame Game

The Fame Game is a game where you define your value by having gained the attention of others.
Do you think our culture plays the Fame Game? Do you think our society is constantly trying to gain the attention of others?
People flip out when their instagram picture from the front row of the Beyonce concert doesn’t get enough likes. If you knew how many times they took that picture to get it just right, and how much they spent on the tickets, and how much they need your validation, you would be upset too.
We will trade being a good person, for someone saying we are a good person. Somehow more value is placed on the attention of others than the actual content of our character.
This is the Fame Game, where we spend more energy on gaining attention, than on growing as a person. But is the Name on the cover more important than the content within?
In 1982 a sci-fi film came out that became, for its time, the highest grossing movie ever.  The Movie was named ET.
Atari, the leading video game console at the time, thought that they needed to cash in on the cultural phenomena by making a video game version of the popular movie. Atari paid 22 million for the rights to make an E.T. game.
This is that game… ET Atari Game
Could you even figure out what was going on? That last part was actually how the game ends…
The ET video game broke records in release sales. When ET hit the stores people recognized it by name and bought it up, only to take it home and realize it was a terrible game. Many of the people who bought the game brought it back and were furious.
Howard Scott Warshaw, was approached by his bosses at Atari to make the game. They gave him 5 weeks to make this game.  Warshaw said “The bosses believed that as long as we put anything out the door with ET’s name on it would sell millions and millions.”
The ET game failed so badly that they the company actually tried to bury their problem. They buried thousands of these unsalable game cartridges in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Atari would later declare bankruptcy.  Atari played the Fame Game and lost everything.
Content matters
The name on the cover received a lot of attention, but it was not enough. When people discovered the content inside was worthless it brought about the end of a video game empire.
A name without content will end up in the garbage.
The world we live in is consumed with names and celebrity,