That Time in 1993 When Alfred Chicken Ran for Elected Office
272In 1993, UK games publisher Mindscape released Alfred Chicken alongside a very unique, timely and unusual promotional campaign. (Chapter markers and more below...)
0:00 GTV ID
0:05 Chapter 1: 1993! Oh what a year…
3:07 Chapter 2: Karl Hatches a Plan!
6:09 Chapter 3: Life After Politics
9:22 Muh Sponserz
9:35 NG Scene!
Episode Information
GTV 155 “Chicken Run" Season 8 Episode 12
Original Airdate: October 6, 2023
Produced September 26-28, October 1-3, 2023
Recorded at Butsudan Studios and edited on my 14” MacBook M1 Pro! Edited and produced with Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, and Topaz AI. All paid for with Gainful Employment™
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Partial Transcript:
You remember Alfred Chicken right? One of the many, many, many, many animal characters that came about in the mid 90s. Right along side Bubsy, Aero the Acrobat, Rocket Knight Adventures, Earthworm Jim, Rocky Rodent, James Pond, High Seas Havoc, Star Fox, Plok, Awesome Possum, Punky Skunk, and I could go on!
Out of that mix. Alfred Chicken was born! Actually, he was hatched. He is a bird right?
The game was produced by UK developer Twilight and published by Mindscape, in June of 1993 for the Amiga Computer, which was quite popular in the UK and European Continent. Ports of the game did end up on the Nintendo Family of hardware, as well as the short lived Amiga CD32.
Alfred Chicken stars a rooster named Alfred, on a mission to rescue chickens who were kidnapped by, robots who want to make a clones for some reason (????) Well, not every game can have a story like Final Fantasy VII.
The game, dare I say, is very “Western.” That is to say the action takes place across large, wide areas full of exploration. In every stage there are hundreds of shiny objects that don’t really do anything but make you feel accomplished for finding them. You bounce around these huge levels, find the exit and move on.
And I say “Western” as I have found many games coming from outside Japan fit this template.
Jelly Boy, Zool, Jazz Jack Rabbit, Gex, Rayman. I think you get the point.
Contrast this with Japanese games where the action is much tighter, you are forced to follow one track, there are sparse items and power-ups, and overall come with a higher degree of difficulty.
And of course if you grew up in places where Nintendo dominated during the 1980s, the contrast makes games like Alfred, et, al. really stand out, and honestly, feel kind of weird. I mean why are there so many diamonds just sitting out there? Super Mario World made you earn them coins!
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