Bloodlust Software And Games Produced By It

I don't know if you've ever heard of Bloodlust Software and the games made by it. This company was started by high school students Ethan Petty and Icer Addis. Their games followed the themes of True Art Is Offensive and making a Parody of the Video Game violence hysteria going on in the 1990s.

I don't know what happened to Petty, but Addis ended up at Electronic Arts and is supposedly helping to make sports games. I frankly feel sorry for Addis, because sports games are a far cry from the games he made in B.S., and I'm sure EA would never approve of games like the ones in B.S.

I would provide a link to the BS website, but it's not what you would call Family Friendly. Luckily, you can Google it with little difficulty!

The funny thing is, Bloodlust Software's greatest accomplishment wasn't some ridiculously bloody game, it was Nesticle, a NES emulator ahead of its time that pretty much changed the whole emulation scene.

I don't think I've ever used this Nesticle, but it is pretty clever how the name combines "NES" with "testicle". Then again, it was made by two high school students and what's the number one topic on a high school student's mind? Sex, of course!

I like how on the Bloodlust Software website, they use Word of God to reveal a number of interesting details. For instance, there's a piece of Vapor Ware called Timeslaughter II that will supposedly feature characters from their first game Executioners.

Roadkill (1986) St. Louis, Missouri - Weapon: Automobiles and Body Parts - Harlan Gummel was the worst barfly in all of St. Louis. He didn't even settle for just one bar per night. He'd hit every location trying to pick up "bodacious babes" which really meant any woman who would give him attention - all the while trying to keep control of the wheel. His drunken cruising eventually plowed him straight into a souvenir shop run by an American voodoo priest named Mr. Mojo. As Harlan cried desperately for help from the twisted debris of his sports car, he saw Mr. Mojo dig up a voodoo doll from the remains of his Mojo Kiosk. It looked exactly like Harlan. Mr. Mojo called to his guardian spirit, Mojumbo, and then rammed a tiny aluminum toy car repeatedly into the doll's face. Mojo spat one word... "roadkill." Harlan soon found that he was cursed. As most people are never hit by lightning and others are hit every year, Harlan is frequently run over by vehicles of any kind. The curse was meant to kill him, but something in Roadkill's blood just wouldn't allow him to die. That something? Atomic Beer. Cannibal Ed's first beverage product on the market, and the first to be loaded with mutagenic compounds. Harlan had consumed mass quantities of the stuff and now suffers endless torture due to his vice. In seeking a cure from Ed himself, Roadkill briefly found himself employed as an Atomic Foods thug. He used his own dismembered body parts to intimidate Ed's enemies but suffered a humiliating defeat to the Executioners.

Roadkill was the first boss in Executioners and a pretty disgusting fella. Mr. Mojo was the second boss in that game and that Hawaiian-skirt (leafy-looking) wearing guy actually stabs voodoo dolls of your characters, which does a lot of damage and is such a cheap shot! That Makes Me Feel Angry!

Cannibal Ed Bujone (1992) "Nawlens, Weeziana" - Weapon: Rack & Rump (Meat Cleavers) - Cannibal Ed grew up in the deep south with his Cajun family but was tired of the muddy taste of what they called swampmeat. His father, an expert chef, put the art above everything, and had no problem when Ed served up his own mother for dinner. Dadda Bujone was sad, but could not deny the succulence of the meal. Ed decided to leave the swamps with his new discovery (namely that people taste damn good). Ed was warned that his appetites would not be accepted in the world outside, but he had a plan. He would start his own restaurant called "Chili Boy." It was a success. The combination of the ground up secret ingredient and his own special seasoning made his all-you-can-eat chili a Louisiana phenomenon. Soon he was approached by the Louisiana Nuclear Power Commission who wanted to back his menu on a national scale. They offered to push Chili Boy as a fast food franchise. Ed was soon disgustingly rich and bought out the LNPC, gaining control of its power plants. It only took a few years before his new corporation, Atomic Foods, had a monopoly on the entire food industry. He had everything a backwater illiterate could ever hope for, but the foundation of his happiness began to slip. The waste from his power plants was beginning to pile up and his recipes were getting old. He decided it was not his seasoning, but the meat itself that was bland, and quickly set into motion a plan that would combine the nuclear sludge and food products. He would feed his customers the tainted food products, sweetening the meat, customers would disappear, and then reappear - as sweetened meat served in a pleasant little cardboard box. It was an endless resource and had a nifty side effect. The horrible mutations of those that lived flocked to Ed as their messiah in an age of change. As we join Ed in 1992, Atomic Foods have transformed the United States into a mutant wasteland, but he has not yet met the Executioners.

Psycho Ed/Cannibal Ed is the Final Boss of Executioners and he is as tough as they come! First he has maybe 20 Midget-Mice attack you. Then he has maybe 20 Midget-Men attack you. Finally, he takes you on himself. He uses meat cleavers for chopping at you, he can throw them at you, he can spin around like a tornado with them, he can take out a bazooka to kill you in one hit, and he can take out a chainsaw and run across the several times with it! I beat this fella who hails from New Orleans, Louisiana, and he reveals a bunch of dynamite strapped to himself. He blows it up, taking himself and the factory with it. It's just too bad that in the ending of the game, Reaper and Guillotine were ording a meal at a restaurant, only to find out to their horror that their waiter is Ed, who spouts his Catchphrase, "So much meat, so little time!" and an Evil Laugh! Clearly Ed has serious Joker Immunity!

The Executioners (3000) - Weapon: Reaper Unit & Multitask Weapon - Countless (ok, countable, but it will take a while) years after Cannibal Ed's Atomic Food Crisis, Guillotine exists in a world dominated by Ed. The timeline has been altered by Spade's meddling and now the Earth itself is gone - completely used up by Ed's ambitions. Once Guillotine had a partner named Reaper, but a key player in Ed's downfall was snatched away by the unstable timeline before she could kill the fiendish chef. Ed ambushed the Executioners while they were treating themselves to a fine meal and Reaper was eviscerated. Guillotine was unable to live without his partner, so he had him recreated as a hologram. It's not just a computer simulation, though, it actually uses Reaper's old DNA to simulate his old personality. Guillotine still prefers a nice battle-axe in combat, but his multitask weapon allows him to change weapon types with the press of a button. Government Project Executioners was originally formed as a high-powered task force to take down Ed's empire, and Guillotine, a hulking cyborg with the brain of an ape (an ape brain enhanced to match the intelligence of a six year old child), was one of its founding members. The Executioners kept fighting for over 1000 years, and Guillotine has seen most of his partners fall before Ed's mutant onslaught.

Reaper and Guillotine are the player characters of the Executioners game. Reaper did most of the talking, and Guillotine seems to communicate in grunts, growls and roars. However, G. did speak fluently in one cutscene, although I kinda wonder if that was a possible Plot Hole Played for Laughs. They did say that G. is supposed to be an ape wearing a skull mask, but he was poorly drawn at the time so you couldn't tell. Oh, well, we can't all be Leonardo Da Vinci when comes to drawing stuff!

edited 24th Apr '12 3:28:20 PM by TiggersAreGreat