Abnormal Mapping 15: Rollercoaster Tycoon 2

Trans-media beings exist in a digital realm, transcending the
archaic definitions of one art or another. Words become images,
images become environments, narrative forms change shape in a
strange alchemy of noble intent and desperate capitalism. The
Mappers navigate this technoplane, where all things change and
the nature of creation is itself in flux, and they find
themselves gripped tight to their seats. How many Gs exist in
cyberspace? Will the Mappers survive, or are they doomed to hurl
their lunches at the very thought of all things being subverted
into newer, bigger, more engaging? This is the thin line between
good and evil, light and dark, reality and dreams: this is the
blurred space where adaptations and roller coasters become one.


Games Discussed: Final Fantasy VII, DanganRonpa:
Trigger Happy Havoc, FIFA/Madden, Spider-Man 2, Batman: Arkham
Asylum, QWOP, South Park: The Stick of Truth, The Hunger Games:
Girl on Fire, The Great Gatsby, The Lion King, The Incredible
Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, Waiting for Godot, GoldenEye: 007,
Tom Clancey’s Rainbow Six, Spaceteam, Keep Talking and Nobody
Explodes, DuckTales, Dante’s Inferno, Chronicles of Riddick:
Escape from Butcher Bay, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 2: Rogue
Leader, Star Wars Episode I: Racer, Roller Coaster Tycoon series,
The Sims, Little Big Planet


Next Month’s Game Club: Dishono(u)red


Music This Episode:
Blown Away by Kevin MacLeod
Main Theme of The Lion King by Frank Klepacki, Dwight Okahara,
Patrick Collins
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 Main Theme by Allister Brimble
Goonies 2 Stage 1 by Satoe Terashima
Infogrames Rocks My World by an unknown but beautiful angel of
music