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Hareraiser (The Worst Game Ever) - Stuart Ashen - Norwich Gaming Festival 2017
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 HN readers recommended it
Recommended as the best video account of the Hareraiser affair when treasure-hunt and puzzle stories come up.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Norwich Games Festival
- Topic
- bad video games
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Ashens has a nice presentation on the video game version of "Masquerade": [VIDEO] (spoilers ahead!)
rzzzt on Hacker News · 2020-06
In $1M treasure in Rocky Mountains has been found, says Forrest FennAs 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]
lyso on Hacker News · 2023-09
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