I had heard about the game Killer Queen in passing. I had no idea that it would ever get this popular. A.A. Dowd goes into exhaustive detail about this indie arcade title, the players who enjoy it, and the culture surrounding it in this excellent piece for the A.V. Club. Especially noteworthy is that the noxious behavior that often takes place in other multiplayer games is strictly prohibited in tournaments for Killer Queen, boosting female participation to thirty percent. I'm sure some players have complained that it's their constitutional right to act like an asshole, but if they feel that strongly about teabagging their opponents while shouting profanities into their microphones, they can always go back to Call of Duty.
By the way, that Playstation Classic I mentioned in a previous post? It's been a lot of fun, although perhaps not in the way its manufacturer intended. I've swapped out some of the games and even the emulator on the system's internal storage to make it more appealing. You can even coax the PS Classic to run Dreamcast games if you're running the latest version of Autobleem. While performance isn't perfect, it's surprisingly smooth, and a heck of a lot better than you could reasonably expect from a twenty dollar game console. It's money I don't regret spending, that's for sure.
Random observations on the classic gaming scene, courtesy of the former editor of The Gameroom Blitz.
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