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

1M views · Jul 12, 2017 · 36:19 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2018–2023

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.

Why Hacker News points people here: Recommended as the best video account of the Hareraiser affair when treasure-hunt and puzzle stories come up.

“Ashens has a nice presentation on the video game version of "Masquerade”HN comment, 2020

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RecommendsrzzztJun 2020

“Ashens has a nice presentation on the video game version of "Masquerade”

Presentation on the video game version of Masquerade.

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Ashens has a nice presentation on the video game version of "Masquerade": this video (spoilers ahead!)

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“can I recommend Stuart Ashen’s talk about Hareraiser”

Stuart Ashen's talk about Hareraiser, contender for worst video game ever.

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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”: this video

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Cites itCrosseye_JackOct 2018

“For more info about the affair in video form there is this talk”

Talk about the Hareraiser affair and worst game ever.

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> 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 this video

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