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the revenge of the gods trilogy

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Sun, 02/17/2008 - 12:47 — kirkjerk

VIRTUAL SISYPHUS! Drag the boulder to the top of the mountain!
VIRTUAL TANTALUS! Reach for the delicious grapes, or duck into the pristine water to slake your endless thirst!
VIRTUAL PROMETHUS BOUND! Drag the bound firebringer away from the eagle that seeks to consume his delicious liver

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Sun, 02/17/2008 - 13:20 — kirkjerk
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SMALL WORLD OF THE RHINOCEROUS

So after making Virtual Sisyphus, I went ahead and consulted the book that first game me the idea:
The Book of Sequels, who have a corny mockup of a screenshot for
Albert Camus' MYTH OF SISYPHUS GAME
(Rock: 2,406, You: 0)

(If you're wondering, it looks a bit more like this GIF:

except the rock is chasing the guy in the suit down the hill, rather than vice versa)

So anyway, they make up the company "Existendo" and have the following copy:

Quote:

Count on Existendtm to bring you the very best in French Existentialist video games. Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus delivers endless hours of philosophically challenging, ego-battering entertainment. Ponder your pointlessness as Man scores big on the uphill push, then the Rock's downward roll sets him back to zip! Fruitless fun for the whole family.
*Also available: Sartre's enraging No Exit, Ionesco's action-free Rhinoceros!, and Beckett's depressing interactive video, Krapp's Last Tape. Buy them all! You'll be dead someday anyway!

So, my whole point is my surprise at seeing our favorite acclimation "Rhinoceros!" sitting right there.
(Also, how the hell did I understand half that book as a teen w/o the Internet to explain the references? Yeesh!)

Mon, 02/18/2008 - 07:46 — kirkjerk
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Oh and FWIW, you can (more

Oh and FWIW, you can (more easily?) see these online:
http://kisrael.com/2008/02/17/
http://kisrael.com/2008/02/18/
http://kisrael.com/2008/02/19/