Although the action takes place in only six rooms, each of those rooms contains dozens - sometimes hundreds - of individual screens. The entire game world is a run-down two-story apartment building. After a brief and unpleasant encounter with his landlord, Roger lapses into an inconvenient coma, and his soul enters the body of a lowly roach. The Roach GameĪs the game begins, a miserable and slightly neurotic Roger is packing his bags and preparing to skip town with the $1 million he’s been granted to develop a new pesticide that will finally put cockroaches on the endangered species list. It’s all wrapped in a very attractive aesthetic despite its repulsiveness. Disturbing images of filth and decay, dead and dying creatures, leftover dinners and vile garbage are all rendered with clarity and immaculate attention to detail, with a throbbing John Carpenter-style score and ambient sound. In what could unquestionably be called the world’s first Cockroach Simulator, you guide the form of Cucaracha/ Roger under, over and through some of the most photorealistically disgusting scenery ever committed to CD-ROM.
Roger Samms, the 32 year-old head of California University at Barbary Coast’s prestigious entomology department, who has been magically transformed into one of the most lowly, despicable forms of life on earth.
In a good way.īreaking out of the Myst mold and drawing more than a little inspiration from Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” Bad Mojo casts you in the part of Dr.
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