It’s the 50th anniversary of the most gruesome, over-the-top video game ever created
Photo: MECC . It was graphic, it was sadistic, and it was on Windows 95 at the Springfield Public Library in New Jersey. Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter wish they had what this piece of cybernated Americana has.To give you some context, I was 7 when I started playing OT 1996. And I’m not an outlier — most people my age were introduced to this educational hellscape in grade school.
When you failed a level, the screen didn’t read “Game Over! Play again? Y/N.” It showed you the gravestones of your dead family members and explained, in graphic detail, how they succumbed to the elements. When your loved ones died, the most they got by way of acknowledgment was a pop-up window as part of the quickest roadside funeral imaginable.
Just as Oregon Trail made me realize I could potentially, theoretically, possibly, maybe die from a snake bite, docuseries like Making a Murderer made me realize I could potentially, theoretically, possibly, maybe go to prison by accidentally confessing to a murder I had nothing to do with. By nature, humans are curious, and I’d argue there is nothing more interesting than watching “what if?” circumstances that just do not ever actually happen to real people. The darker the story, the harder it is to look away. And what’s more, everyone in documentaries looks like regular people, so it isn’t hard to put yourself in their shoes.
They even let you name the members of your family in the game, and I would always name them after my own. This meant that each time I’d play, the Levines would saddle up and head out West … then all slowly die. This game’s origin story could not be less edgy. It was created in 1971 by a college education student named Don Rawitsch who was looking for a new way to teach his 8th-grade class about American history. He made a board game about western expansion, and then two of his friends coded the concept for screenless Teletype computers. At no point was it meant to be nightmare fuel.
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