Pinback
For a brief, blindingly wonderful moment, I thought that someone had made a game out of Dark Star. Alas, it turns out to be just some typical Teutonic space sim with a violently cliched science-fiction backstory.
If you haven't seen it, Dark Star is one of the crowning achievements of bad cinema. It's notable for being John Carpenter's student movie. As well, among its credits you will find Dan O'Bannon as "Pinback"--he would later go on to write the screenplays for Alien and also Blue Thunder, in a textbook example of shooting your artistic wad too early. Hey, at least he had a wad to shoot.
The band Pinback is, in fact, named after O'Bannon's Pinback.
Dark Star would make a great game, the more that I think about it...or maybe just a set of really strange minigames. Blow up planets in an attempt to relieve your existential boredom! Search for your pet alien that looks like a red beach ball with feet, in a 45-minute sequence in which nothing at all interesting happens! Surf suicidally into the atmosphere and burn up on reentry! Make friends with the Phoenix Asteroids and go with them on their 12.3 trillion year circuit of the universe!
Well, maybe it would be a good game if you were really, really baked.
If you haven't seen it, Dark Star is one of the crowning achievements of bad cinema. It's notable for being John Carpenter's student movie. As well, among its credits you will find Dan O'Bannon as "Pinback"--he would later go on to write the screenplays for Alien and also Blue Thunder, in a textbook example of shooting your artistic wad too early. Hey, at least he had a wad to shoot.
The band Pinback is, in fact, named after O'Bannon's Pinback.
Dark Star would make a great game, the more that I think about it...or maybe just a set of really strange minigames. Blow up planets in an attempt to relieve your existential boredom! Search for your pet alien that looks like a red beach ball with feet, in a 45-minute sequence in which nothing at all interesting happens! Surf suicidally into the atmosphere and burn up on reentry! Make friends with the Phoenix Asteroids and go with them on their 12.3 trillion year circuit of the universe!
Well, maybe it would be a good game if you were really, really baked.
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