I think on Wednesdays I'm going to spotlight punk rock/alt games.
I'm kicking it off with a game I mentioned a while back in a column for Next-Gen about punk rock games.
(Metamorphed Dick Cheney, Tom Ridge, Donald Rumsfeld, and John Ashcroft surround Bush in his Imperial Walker with VOLTRON in the background)
The game is EmoGame 2.5: The Anti-Bush Game. It's made by a bunch of full-time devs who do emogame.com as a labor of love. EmoGame is a series of games that chronicle the struggle of Emo in a hostile universe. Yes, the ubiquitous Emo stands for the shoe-gazing whiny indie-rock subculture that has exploded beyond all reason and proportion. I remember when DagNasty was considered Emo. My how times have changed.
Anyway, the Bush game is fucking hilarious, merciless satire wedded to some well-executed, traditional 2D gameplay. What makes it all work is that the devs really know their game history, and they do an amazing job of implementing oldskool mechanics (think Contra, early Zelda, etc.). Their satire is also spot on, making the game not only fun but bitingly funny as well.
Play as true Americans Hulk Hogan, He-Man, and Mr. T. (cameo by R2D2) in order to defeat Halliburton's latest military harbinger of anti-democratic doom, VOLTRON!
The art is a fantastic riff on NES/GameBoy RPG graphics and the music is equally well-chosen and thoroughly unlicensed.
If you hate Bush and like games, you owe it to yourself to check it out. It's free and it's online right here
Anti-Bush Game
I'm kicking it off with a game I mentioned a while back in a column for Next-Gen about punk rock games.
(Metamorphed Dick Cheney, Tom Ridge, Donald Rumsfeld, and John Ashcroft surround Bush in his Imperial Walker with VOLTRON in the background)
The game is EmoGame 2.5: The Anti-Bush Game. It's made by a bunch of full-time devs who do emogame.com as a labor of love. EmoGame is a series of games that chronicle the struggle of Emo in a hostile universe. Yes, the ubiquitous Emo stands for the shoe-gazing whiny indie-rock subculture that has exploded beyond all reason and proportion. I remember when DagNasty was considered Emo. My how times have changed.
Anyway, the Bush game is fucking hilarious, merciless satire wedded to some well-executed, traditional 2D gameplay. What makes it all work is that the devs really know their game history, and they do an amazing job of implementing oldskool mechanics (think Contra, early Zelda, etc.). Their satire is also spot on, making the game not only fun but bitingly funny as well.
Play as true Americans Hulk Hogan, He-Man, and Mr. T. (cameo by R2D2) in order to defeat Halliburton's latest military harbinger of anti-democratic doom, VOLTRON!
The art is a fantastic riff on NES/GameBoy RPG graphics and the music is equally well-chosen and thoroughly unlicensed.
If you hate Bush and like games, you owe it to yourself to check it out. It's free and it's online right here
Anti-Bush Game
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buttonbutton:
actually, that would be kind of awesome.
headlessbill:
It's about goth/alt erotica.