My Name is Penge
Author: Penge | Date: May 5, 2008
Hi everybody. My name is Penge and I have been given the great honour of being able to write some sort of piffly nonsense on Team Teabag that I can pass off as decent constructive writing. Please stay with me, I promise to improve as time goes on.
It took me a while to decide what to write about. There’s a fair bit of pressure to be as good as Messrs OwningXylophone, Evoroth and… the other one, forget his name now. After looking through the contents of the site, the theme seemed to be mostly regarding gaming and geekery, so posts about how to produce an excellent sugar-free flan or the best approach to dealing with stubborn weeds were immediately chucked out.
Then I spied this post on the Guardian’s blog website. It seemed to tick all the boxes, so here is a tasty link. The topic? What was the weirdest, most ridiculously trippy game you ever played? Looking through a few of the responses triggered my memory but nothing realyl sprang to mind, until I remembered…
How to be a complete bastard, for the Spectrum. A game that was so aimless, directionless and pointless that one of the main elements was to put cling film over the toilet seat so that drunk people suffered catastrophic sprayback. As far as I recall, me and my friends couldn’t figure out what to do after that, so we’d always open the fridge, drink lots of lager and kill ourselves through massive alcohol misuse.
So there’s my contribution to the most foolish game I’ve ever played. Have a look through the comments, you might see games in there that you wasted hours of your life playing, which, now you’re older and wiser, you can look back on in regret and sorrow.
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Oh man, I used to have that game on the C64, and you could do more than cover the seat with cling film… You could chop somebody up with the chainsaw and stash them i the freezer and if you opened the umbrella in the hallway you turned into a cooker… That’s about as much as I could work out, and I spent more hours than I care to think about finding that out…
I never played this game, but I do vaguely remember it from back in the day. I was an impressionable young lad at the time, so anything with a naughty word in the title was obviously hilarious to me.
However, I did have Revenge of the Mutant Camels, a game mentioned in the original Guardian article. That game was absolute mentalist gold, as is pretty much everything that Jeff Minter has ever done.
I also think the Katamari series of games has to be mentioned, as they’re some of the silliest, most surreal games about at the minute.