Podcast: How Rude
This week Fred and Jam talk about toilet humor in video games and eventually overall comedy in games. There is an announcement at the end, so be sure to stay tuned all the way up to the conclusion.
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Gaming History 101 
In 1991 a computer game was released on all the popular 8 and 16 bit computers at the time called VIZ: THE COMPUTER GAME (aka VIZ: THE SOFT FLOPPY ONE). This game was a cash in on the Viz comic, hich iirc was popular in the UK at the time (Jam might know abou it). The game was nothing more than a crap footracing game and, like the comice, relied on it’s crudeness and swearing to sell.
one of the characters was called Johnny Fartpants, and I have some ljnks to an Amiga longplay of the game to show you his powers:
Johnny propels himself along the track with the power of his fart:
Bonus level 1: Johnny blows up balloons with his anus:
Bonus level 2: Johnny propels himself in the air with… I think you can guess:
(ADULT WARNING ABOUT THE WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE BACKGROUOND OF THIS STAGE)
By god this game was shit, and there’s no way anything like this would ever be allowed to be released nowdays.
Sparky Kestrel
December 16, 2017 at 8:34 pm