Hareraiser (The Worst Game Ever) - Stuart Ashen - Norwich Gaming Festival 2017

Norwich Games Festival · 1M views · 2017-07-12 · 36:19

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Stuart Ashen presents a talk at the 2017 Norwich Gaming Festival on Hareraiser, a notoriously bad video game tied to the Masquerade treasure hunt. He explores why it may be the worst game ever made.

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Recommended as the best video account of the Hareraiser affair when treasure-hunt and puzzle stories come up.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2018–2023

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lyso · 2023-09 · Recommendation
As a footnote to this, can I recommend Stuart Ashen’s talk about Hareraiser, a lacklustre kind-of follow up and contender for “worst video game ever”: [VIDEO]
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rzzzt · 2020-06 · Recommendation
Ashens has a nice presentation on the video game version of "Masquerade": [VIDEO] (spoilers ahead!)
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Crosseye_Jack · 2018-10 · Reference
> it will be buried somewhere in Arizona desert [LINK] which then lead into the Hareraiser game which is unofficially the officially worse computer “game” to ever be created. For more info about the affair in video form there is this talk from the Norwich Game Festival a few years back [VIDEO]
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