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Recommended as the best video account of the Hareraiser affair when treasure-hunt and puzzle stories come up.
Stuart Ashen presents a talk at the 2017 Norwich Gaming Festival on Hareraiser, a notoriously bad video game tied to the Masquerade treasure hunt. He explores why it may be the worst game ever made.
“Ashens has a nice presentation on the video game version of "Masquerade” (HN, 2020)
As a footnote to this, can I recommend Stuart Ashen’s talk about Hareraiser, a lacklustre kind-of follow up and contender for “worst video game ever”: [this video]
Stuart Ashen's talk about Hareraiser, contender for worst video game ever.
> it will be buried somewhere in Arizona desert [link] which then lead into the Hareraiser game which is unofficially the officially worse computer “game” to ever be created. For more info about the affair in video form there is this talk from the Norwich Game Festival a few years back [this video]
Talk about the Hareraiser affair and worst game ever.
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