History VideoGame / EmoGame

* DropTheHammer: Toxic Cheney Robeast in ''The Anti-Bush Game'' uses a spiked mace.

* ChristianRock: Music/{{Creed}}'s [[AmbiguouslyChristian tenuous relationship with the genre]] is parodied in the first game. Before fighting them, Scott Stapp asks you if you think it's cool to be a Christian. If you reply yes, then he goes on about how Creed is totally a Christian band. If you reply no, then he denies that Creed is Christian, claiming that "With Arms Wide Open" is about a stripper.

* WhoWritesThisCrap: Shortly before facing Music/{{Creed}} in their shit helicopter, the player character remarks:

* ButtMonkey: Chris Carrabba in the first game, being TheChick of the seven man group. Brett Detar in the sequel as the tagalong attention-seeking guy nobody wants in the group.

** The Mandy Moore fingerbang minigame, which gets progressively more complex[[note]]a simple push of a button in the first game, moving the mouse up and down in ''Alkaline Trio vs. Hell'', and alternating, and shifting, button presses in the second main game[[/note]] as the series goes on. Concept art for the third game featured Mandy as a [[HornyDevils succubus]], meaning that the gag likely would have continued.

* ChristianRock: Music/{{Creed}}'s [[NotChristianRock tenuous relationship with the genre]] is parodied in the first game. Before fighting them, Scott Stapp asks you if you think it's cool to be a Christian. If you reply yes, then he goes on about how Creed is totally a Christian band. If you reply no, then he denies that Creed is Christian, claiming that "With Arms Wide Open" is about a stripper.

* CreepyCoolCrosses: Almighty Ashcroft Robeast's weapon is a cross on a chain.

* WhatTheHellPlayer: In the first game, if you engage in the HotCoffeeMinigame with an [[JailBait underage]] Mandy Moore, [[SchmuckBait you get arrested for statutory rape]] (represented by your currently-selected character dying).

** In the second game, the music of the Friends Theory also turns guys into this, with Tim {{brainwashed}} into becoming a Gap-wearing, ''[[Series/BeverlyHills90210 90210]]''-watching douchebag who works at Creator/ClearChannel.

* GIJoe: In ''Alkaline Trio vs. Hell'', you team up with them.

''Emogame'' is a series of free [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]] games made by Jason Oda between 2002 and 2004. While the original homepage is down, the Wayback Machine still has them [[https://web.archive.org/web/20190411100516/http://www.emogame.com/ archived.]] All of them can be accessed and played [[http://www.emogame.com/ here.]] There are four games in the series:

''Emogame'' is a series of free [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]] games made by Jason Oda between 2002 and 2004. All of them can be accessed and played [[http://www.emogame.com/ here.]] (WARNING: Very, ''very'' NSFW.) There are four games in the series:

The games are [[GenreThrowback 16-bit-style]], action-adventure side scrollers that parody both popular culture and the EmoMusic scene. Most of the humor is derived from its over-the-top portrayal of media figures and TV shows, as well as in-jokes for {{emo}} fans, {{shout out}}s to [[TheEighties '80s]] and [[TheNineties '90s]] kids shows, and its willingness to [[CrossesTheLineTwice cross every line of decency]] to make the player laugh.

* JumpingTheShark: [[invoked]] According to [[Music/SunnyDayRealEstate Jeremy Enigk]], all emo bands are doomed to either do this by the time of their third or fourth album or break up before then due to the ovaries of emo guys kicking in, rendering them either insufferable or tone-deaf. This is meant to keep emo in the twilight zone between underground and mainstream, alive but not massive and corporate. The fact that Music/JimmyEatWorld is actually entering their prime with their fourth album ''Bleed American'' is a sign that something is very, very wrong.

* AllAmericanFace: HulkHogan himself, who's a secret character in one game and the lead protagonist of the anti-Bush game.

* ''The Anti-Bush Game'' -- Jason Oda created this game in the run-up to the 2004 election in response to what he saw as the [[TheWarOnStraw corporate greed, warmongering, and religious fanaticism]] of the UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush administration. It features Wrestling/HulkHogan, Creator/MrT, and [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse He-Man]] going on a righteous rampage to claim the five keys that control Anime/{{Voltron}}, which is currently being used by Dubya and his cronies to enforce their will on the world, ending with an endorsement of Bush's 2004 election rival John Kerry. Sadly, it looks to have been taken down (perhaps as a result of Bush no longer being in office), as the link to it from the website is {{dead|Link}}; fortunately, it is available [[http://scuzzstuff.org/bushgame/ elsewhere]] on the web.

* Creator/{{MTV}}: The entire second level of the first game takes place in MTV Studios in [[BigApplesauce Times Square]], with the BossBattle being fought on the ''TRL'' set. The climax of the second game's first level, meanwhile, is set at the Video Music Awards.

* TakeThat: The games sling tons of them at every target in [[TheNineties late-'90s]] / [[TurnOfTheMillennium early-2000s]] popular culture, including ''Series/AmericanIdol'', {{MTV}}, Hot Topic, [[PointAndLaughShow point-and-laugh]] {{talk show}}s, [=SUVs=], pop music, {{reality TV}} and, of course, Music/{{emo}}. ''The Anti-Bush Game'' is also a pair of giant middle fingers raised at [[StrawmanPolitical the right wing of American politics]].

The games are [[GenreThrowback 16-bit-style]], action-adventure side scrollers that parody both popular culture and the Music/{{emo}} music scene. Most of the humor is derived from its over-the-top portrayal of media figures and TV shows, as well as in-jokes for emo fans, {{shout out}}s to [[TheEighties '80s]] and [[TheNineties '90s]] kids shows, and its willingness to [[CrossesTheLineTwice cross every line of decency]] to make the player laugh.

* BlackComedyRape: Inflicted on Music/TheGetUpKids by [[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Steven Tyler]] in the first game, and on Music/SavesTheDay by Music/EnriqueIglesias and on Ian [=MacKaye=] by the cast of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' in the second.