3. Rocky Interactive Horror Show

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3. Rocky Interactive Horror Show

Developer/Publisher: On-Line Release Date: 1999 Just Adventure Grade: B-

It’s just a simple, everyday rock-and-roll story of boy meets girl meets alien transvestite from another world. Play as either Brad or Janet and release your partner before the house turns into a spaceship and blasts off for the planet of Transsexual Transylvania.

Stock up on hot dogs and toilet paper, then crank up your computer speakers: it’s just a jump to the left and a step to the right as you and your loved one do the Time Warp again. Be prepared to strip to your undies, for if you bump into Riff-Raff, he will steal your clothes–and what could be more fun, and romantic, than to perform a slow striptease along with your monitor persona?

Starring Richard O’Brien, the creator of the original Rocky Horror Picture Show, as the Game Devil and classic horror actor Christopher Lee as the Narrator, Rocky Interactive Horror Show contains over 80 puzzles to solve and features rotoscoped characters from the movie along with video clips and original music by O’Brien interspersed with such toe-tapping classics like Time Warp, There’s a Light and Sweet Transvestite.

What makes this the perfect adventure game for lovers, though, is that unlike most adventure games that monopolize hours of your time, Rocky Interactive Horror Show is a timed game. You have just thirty minutes in which to save your partner. For you purists who would rather just play the game, there are many ways to extend the thirty-minute time limit. For the rest of us, after playing in our skivvies for half an hour, it might be time to turn off the lights and move on to other games.

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