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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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