Today, Yahoo Games has a feature on the biggest busts in video game history. While I know little about the subject, I read somewhere that this game was knocking at the sub-basement door.
STAR CHAMBER TUNA
The object of this game is to prepare casseroles, sandwiches, salads and surprises before the six dolphins caught in the tuna fisherman’s net perish. As a tie in with the Gluttony Channel, a fully-functioning Nimitz class aircraft carrier cyber-galley is available to the players, but Chinese submarines are on the prowl to end the dolphins’ lives faster than the time it takes the friendly mammals to drown. A good communications system gives the player short wave links with various Greenpeace craft carrying stripping P.E.T.A. celebrities who can distract the Japanese and Russian fishing factory ships.
Total game time: 18 hours, 37 minutes.
Suggested retail price: $69.95
Company: EXSTATICO
Release Date: 1998
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Images: (sub) via english.people.com;(Mao) via incontiguousbrick.files.wordpress.com; (Russian factory ship) bp0.blogger.com via dolphinembassy.blogspot.com; (galley) via cvn74.navy.mil; (Mario bro) via tn3-1.deviantart.com via johnromana.livejournal.com; (dolphins) (mink) commons.wikimedia.org; (underarm fish) bp9.blogger.com via cosmicafterthoughts.blogspot.com; (Two ships) oceans.greenpeace.org;(tuna dish) forks.ca;
(clock) soft3k.com; (Thermometer) americanchimneysweeps.com; (blood in water. eastgreenland.com
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