Halloween Countdown: October 17 – Only Evil can come of it

The year is 1983, the publisher is Data Age, and the game is titled Frankenstein’s Monster…

“Devil, cease; and do not poison the air with these sounds of malice. I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words. Leave me; I am inexorable.”

“It is well. I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night. providing you are unable to avoid the dangling spiders and make the required jumps over the acid pit in the cellar in order to obtain the required chunks of masonry that are your only proof against my fiendish rampages. Even if you obtain them, you must then dodge a swarm of vertically scrolling visual noise intended to represent a flock of bats in order to wall me up before I awaken.”

“That’s a little…convoluted, isn’t it?”

“Blame the programmer. I did not ask to be brought into this medium as a fifteen foot tall albino cyclops with a baby blue Star Destroyer thingee floating o’er my head.”

That Mary Shelley truly was ahead of her time.

Recommended listening: The Fleshtones – You Can’t Get Him Frankenstein (from Flaming Burnout, 1997)

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“Patience, patience. I believe in this stellar piece of garage rock, as you call it. And if you don’t, well, you must leave me alone. So far, it’s been kept in my archives. Wait till I crank up the speakers and turn it loose.”

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