Adventures in Shit Games: Cho Aniki #1 and #3
I promise, I’m really trying to not use Infinite Lives as my own professional pinboard these days, but I do have a column about Cho Aniki: Bakuretsu Rantou Hen at Vice Motherboard:
The game’s wackiness and camp are superficial. They’re just show. All the while, Bakuretsu’s characters and backdrops hint at something darker. To borrow from Baudrillard, there is a gradual “perversion of reality” until, at last, we are looking at a “facsimile” with “no original copy.”
Really, I’ve never had so much fun writing something in my life. Am I really serious? Who can tell!
I also made a supplementary video:
About Jenn Frank:Jenn thinks the Atari 2600, Game Boy Micro, and Apple iPhone are all viable game consoles. Email her at jenn at infinite lives dot net.
I caught that video on the Tumblr recently, but I had no idea there’d be an article to go with it. Game, video, article – I am so glad that all of this exists.