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Podcast: Retro Spectives
Episode: Episode 108: Bad Mojo
Description: Power fantasies are the norm for video games. We play them to blow off steam, to escape into another world where we can let our worries drop away. But Pulse Entertainment wanted to do things a little differently when they developed Bad Mojo in 1996. They wanted to put the player in the little brown shell of a cockroach.   You play as Roger Samms, who, on the verge of embezzling a million dollars, gets transformed into a roach. You crawl around the disgusting tenancy where you live, feebly pushing small objects in an attempt to get back to your re...