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    Hareraiser (The Worst Game Ever) - Stuart Ashen - Norwich Gaming Festival 2017

    Norwich Games Festival

    2 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2018–2023

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    36:19 · 1M views · Jul 12, 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.

    Recommended as the best video account of the Hareraiser affair when treasure-hunt and puzzle stories come up.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @lysoSep 2023· in “The Possibly Never-Ending Quest for the Golden Owl”

      As 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”: this video

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    2. @rzzztJun 2020· in “$1M treasure in Rocky Mountains has been found, says Forrest Fenn”

      Ashens has a nice presentation on the video game version of "Masquerade": this video (spoilers ahead!)

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    3. @Crosseye_JackOct 2018· in “310 Bitcoin challenge has been solved”

      > it will be buried somewhere in Arizona desert [LINK] which then lead into the Hareraiser game which is unofficially the officially worse computer “game” to ever be created. For more info about the affair in video form there is this talk from the Norwich Game Festival a few years back this video

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