The 50 Weirdest Moments in PC Gaming
Via GameSetWatch, a feature on the personal site of the well-traveled games journalist Richard Cobbett. The Circe Du Strange details fifty of the strangest, most out-of-place game elements in the history of PC gaming. From classic text adventures to games released in the last few years, the piece outlines some mighty odd design decisions. "30) Command and Cretaceous - While the original Command and Conquer suffered from really bad expansion packs, the first offered a particular entertaining secret. Adding the -funpark parameter when running the game opened up a top secret set of five missions that pitted the standard armies of GDI and Nod against. dinosaurs. For no reason. There was even a briefing movie and bonus music track. And developers Westwood didn't even mention it."
1996’s Spycraft: The Great Game featured the most disturbing mini-game ever, one deemed so unpleasant that it could be deactivated during installation. As CIA agent Thorne (kept deliberately gender neutral, until the developers blew it with a ‘thrown into clearly male prison’ bad ending), you had a choice between a fiddly, tedious puzzle, or torturing the information out of a female prisoner via the electric chair. Painful and horrible to watch, most players went with the puzzle.
An evil curse has turned you into… a cockroach. This absolutely revolting game is still turning stomachs today, thanks to the re-released version - dead rats, chopped up fish, evil spiders, and all manner of other horrors await. But it’s the behind the scenes story that really unsettles. No animals were harmed in the making of…
...oh. “Only animals who were on death row anyway.”
An evil curse has turned you into… a cockroach. This absolutely revolting game is still turning stomachs today, thanks to the re-released version - dead rats, chopped up fish, evil spiders, and all manner of other horrors await. But it’s the behind the scenes story that really unsettles. No animals were harmed in the making of…
...oh. “Only animals who were on death row anyway.”
The 50 Weirdest Moments in PC Gaming
