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A re-release of the Kafka-esque be-a-roach game (http://www.gotgameentertainment.com/badmojo/) "Bad Mojo" is forthcoming this month.

I enjoyed the game when it came out back in '96, but never finished it. It never would run under XP, so I started putting together an old system from some work give-away machines (P2 133s) and was looking up the game to see if there were any notes or patches for playing it when LO I ran across the above.

Viva a game where you get to navigate across roach egg casings to get through a 'roach motel' trap, maneuver a cigarette butt to avoid being eaten by a spider, and crawl around the world at a bug's eye level!

One of my all time favorite games.

I mean, you were a roach. That's it. No inventory, no special powers, no leveling up ... and yet, the game was extremely challenging, clever, and had a fascinating storyline.

This was the only game I ever played that literally scared me ... one particular moment that made me jump out of my chair.

Sure, I will buy this again. I'm interested to see how they update it, and I want to support the concept of innovative, original gaming.

That's cute to say, but it's a re-release. I'll be buying this as I played the first but never caught it in stores. But ya know, it's double dipping no matter how you slice it.

Even if it's a re-release, that means it's a game that's been made twice.

How many times have most games we play been made?  A dozen or so?

I apologize ... I said something positive without a trace of sarcasm or cynicism. I certainly broke the cardinal rule of these boards.

We can toss this ball around for days. Katamari Damacy on it's first release is original. If they release #2, sure, I'll buy it - but it won't be original. Not even remotely.

Same goes for this. I don't know why you're being a jackass.

We're all sado-masochists. We do at least recognize it when we see a rehash of something. Though we'll allow our eyes to become all rosey for things like World of Warcraft. Well, some of us will...

By "original", I meant "unique", "inventive", "maverick". I believe you can apply this label fairly to Bad Mojo, whether the game is 6 years old or repackaged for a new generation of wannabe roaches.

Not original in the sense that it's brand new, never been seen before.

I guess I just get sick of people parsing one word out of a post and pissing all over it. Oh, and I'm always a jackass.

Every board has it's problem. You just defined ours. At least we can agree it was a great game. Most other places people would have no clue what you were talking about.

True dat.

Sorry ... just having a bad week.

Fear not. Gaming heaven occurs in t-minus 5 days and lasts for 3 months.

$20 is an attractive price tag.   I'll wait for the demo, though.   Or maybe I'll just lapse into a "who am I kidding, I don't have time for yet another game" mentality.

The update of this game has been released. (http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/12/09/news_6114745.html)

That's from 5 days ago. Still nowhere to be found in stores (in maryland).

Semantics semantics semantics!

Kafka is cool. It will be interesting just to see how surreal it is.

Picked it up a couple of weeks ago and finished it pretty quickly. Amazes me how a game with such simple mechanics -- move one of 4 directions -- can manage to be so engrossing.

Not a particularly difficult adventure game, but the combination of story, graphics, sound and animation > most of today's shiney.

The Bonus DVD gives some amusing background into it's development. (But did I really need to know that they maintained a cockroach terrarium that started with 12 roaches and had over 100,000 within a year? Or that they used a real rat, freshly killed, for some of the rat visuals? Of course I did!)

Best $20 I've spent on a game recently, even it is a re-release...