What’s the best game? best game ever? If you can figure this out, you’re already well ahead of our regular group.
Some of the worst games ever made are also the funniest. Take Night Trap, for example: it’s arguably one of the most important games in the history of the medium. Questions were raised about this during congressional hearings: Despite narrative hints to the contrary, it’s a voyeur simulator in which you, as the player, spy on a roomful of teenage girls at a sleepover (of extremely trashy quality). Video source. Your goal is ostensibly to save the girl from a vampire, or something, but it doesn’t matter because so few people have actually played Night Trap, and even fewer will admit it.
Interestingly, it caused such a moral panic in the United States that it led directly to video games having their own age rating system, which was an important thing in the evolution of the medium as video games were now an accepted fact The gaming audience isn’t just made up of impressionable kids. That means we get mature, mature games like The Last of Us, which is about headshotting zombies and throwing bricks.
The point is that games don’t have to OK become interesting. So what absolute rubbish did our regular panelists Tom, Alex and Bill Cliff bring to the table today? Find out by watching or listening to the best gaming podcasts ever with these convenient ways, and enjoy our extended subscriber-only podcasts for free through February:
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