2:00AM Ian Bogost | One more item from my collection. This one’s neither rare nor particularly unfamiliar to many (although this copy is still factory sealed, perversely), but it makes for an interesting provocation.
In 1982 Data Age created Journey Escape, based on the then hugely popular band Journey’s album Escape. In the game, you have to help the band reach their “scarab escape vehicle” (from the album cover) after a concert, while avoiding “hordes of Love-Crazed Groupies, Sneaky Photographers, and Shifty-Eyed Promoters. For some reason the band manager looks like the Kool-Aid Man. A less successful Journey arcade game followed in 1983, from Bally Midway.
What’s interesting to me about this game is that it is one of very few attempts to licence and adapt bands or music to videogames.
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