History Trivia / Emogame

* OldShame: Jason Oda [[http://www.washedupemo.com/news/shedupemo.com/2013/04/interview-jason-oda-of-emogamecom.html doesn't regard the games particularly fondly]], seeing them as fairly immature goof-offs that got popular largely because there wasn't much interesting content on the internet in the early '00s. The games' [[https://web.archive.org/web/20190411100516/http://www.emogame.com/ homepage]] even has a letter that he wrote for the first game's [[MilestoneCelebration fifteenth anniversary]], in which he compares the experience of playing them again to going back and reading his cringeworthy high school poetry.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** Playing these games is like stepping back in time to 2002-04, what with all the pop culture references, '80s kid show nostalgia, Music/{{emo}} treading the line between "underground" and "mainstream", Music/MandyMoore being an underage TeenIdol (she has since had a CareerResurrection as an actress and singer with an image far removed from her early days), and Creator/{{MTV}} [[NetworkDecay still, at the very least, basing its reputation around music videos]].
** ''The Anti-Bush Game'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as its name suggests]], is a political agitprop piece that's firmly dated to 2004 by its references to the impending Presidential election and endorsement of John Kerry in that election, as well as controversies and issues from the early '00s like [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the war in Iraq]], Bush's tax cuts, Music/JanetJackson's WardrobeMalfunction, stem cell research, the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Enron scandal]], health care reform, same-sex marriage, and the power of [[MoralGuardians the Christian Right]]. Notably, it doesn't contain any reference to controversies from Bush's ''second'' term in office, such as Hurricane Katrina, the housing bubble, or the onset of the Great Recession, due to the fact that none of these had happened yet. The fact that John Edwards, Kerry's running mate in 2004, appears in the game as a populist crusader for economic justice also rings HilariousInHindsight given how Edwards' career imploded in a sex scandal a few years later.
** The fact that the third game had become one of these to the mid-'00s, [[{{Vaporware}} before it had been released and after that period of time had passed]], ultimately led Jason Oda to cancel it.

** Playing these games is like stepping back in time to 2002-04, what with all the pop culture references, '80s kid show nostalgia, Music/{{emo}} treading the line between "underground" and "mainstream", Music/MandyMoore being a JailBait TeenIdol (she has since had a CareerResurrection as an actress and singer with an image far removed from her early days), and Creator/{{MTV}} [[NetworkDecay still, at the very least, basing its reputation around music videos]].

** ''The Anti-Bush Game'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as its name suggests]], is a political agitprop piece that's firmly dated to 2004 by its references to the impending Presidential election and endorsement of John Kerry in that election, as well as controversies and issues from the early '00s like [[TheWarOnTerror the war in Iraq]], Bush's tax cuts, Music/JanetJackson's WardrobeMalfunction, stem cell research, the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Enron scandal]], health care reform, same-sex marriage, and the power of [[MoralGuardians the Christian Right]]. Notably, it doesn't contain any reference to controversies from Bush's ''second'' term in office, such as Hurricane Katrina, the housing bubble, or the onset of the Great Recession, due to the fact that none of these had happened yet. The fact that John Edwards, Kerry's running mate in 2004, appears in the game as a populist crusader for economic justice also rings HilariousInHindsight given how Edwards' career imploded in a sex scandal a few years later.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Playing these games is like stepping back in time to 2002-04, what with all the pop culture references, '80s kid show nostalgia, Music/{{emo}} treading the line between "underground" and "mainstream", and Creator/{{MTV}} [[NetworkDecay still, at the very least, basing its reputation around music videos]].

* OldShame: Jason Oda [[http://www.washedupemo.com/news/shedupemo.com/2013/04/interview-jason-oda-of-emogamecom.html doesn't regard the games particularly fondly]], seeing them as fairly immature goof-offs that got popular largely because there wasn't much interesting content on the internet in the early '00s. The games' [[http://www.emogame.com/ homepage]] even has a letter that he wrote for the first game's [[MilestoneCelebration fifteenth anniversary]], in which he compares the experience of playing them again to going back and reading his cringeworthy high school poetry.

* OldShame: Jason Oda [[http://web.archive.org/web/20140424034241/http://www.washedupemo.com/2013/04/interview-jason-oda-of-emogamecom.html doesn't regard the games particularly fondly]], seeing them as fairly immature goof-offs that got popular largely because there wasn't much interesting content on the internet in the early '00s. The games' [[http://www.emogame.com/ homepage]] even has a letter that he wrote for the first game's [[MilestoneCelebration fifteenth anniversary]], in which he compares the experience of playing them again to going back and reading his cringeworthy high school poetry.

* OldShame: Jason Oda [[http://web.archive.org/web/20140424034241/http://www.washedupemo.com/2013/04/interview-jason-oda-of-emogamecom.html doesn't regard the games particularly fondly]], seeing them as fairly immature goof-offs that got popular largely because there wasn't much interesting content on the internet in the early '00s.

** ''The Anti-Bush Game'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as its name suggests]], is a political agitprop piece that's firmly dated to 2004 by its references to the impending Presidential election and endorsement of John Kerry in that election, as well as controversies from the early '00s like [[TheWarOnTerror the war in Iraq]], Bush's tax cuts, Music/JanetJackson's WardrobeMalfunction, stem cell research, the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Enron scandal]], health care reform, same-sex marriage, and the power of [[MoralGuardians the Christian Right]]. Notably, it doesn't contain any reference to controversies from Bush's ''second'' term in office, such as Hurricane Katrina, the housing bubble, or the onset of the Great Recession, due to the fact that none of these had happened yet.

** ''The Anti-Bush Game'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as its name suggests]], is a political agitprop piece that's firmly dated to 2004 by its references to the impending Presidential election and endorsement of John Kerry in that election, as well as controversies from the early '00s like [[TheWarOnTerror the war in Iraq]], Bush's tax cuts, Music/JanetJackson's WardrobeMalfunction, stem cell research, the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Enron scandal]], health care reform, same-sex marriage, and the power of [[MoralGuardians the Christian Right]].

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Playing these games is like stepping back in time to 2002-04, what with all the pop culture references, '80s kid show nostalgia, hatred of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, Music/{{emo}} treading the line between "underground" and "mainstream", and Creator/{{MTV}} [[NetworkDecay still, at the very least, basing its reputation around music videos]].

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Playing these games is like stepping back in time to 2002-04, what with all the pop culture references, '80s kid show nostalgia, hatred of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, Music/{{emo}} treading the line between "underground" and "mainstream", and {{MTV}} [[NetworkDecay still, at the very least, basing its reputation around music videos]].