Line #8 VideoGame/ImOK


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3	''I'm O.K - A Murder Simulator'' is a freeware BeatEmUp {{platformer}} game created in 2005 by Derek Yu and others in response to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Video_Game_Proposal Jack Thompson's]] "A Modest Video Game Proposal", a letter in which he asked the Entertainment Software Association to create a videogame involving the mass murder of videogame industry employees. Thompson claimed that he would donate $10,000 to a charity of Paul Eibeler's (former chairman of Creator/TakeTwoInteractive, a company heavily criticized by Thompson) choosing if such a game were made.
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5	This game involves... well, rampant cartoonish over-the-top violence against video game industry customers, vendors, developers, and executives. In the course of several levels the main character, a distraught father named Osaki Kim (O.K. for short) whose son perished in a videogame-induced shooting, goes on an angry rampage to avenge his son's death.
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7	As a footnote: Thompson later reneged on this promise, [[MovingTheGoalPosts saying that the game had to be commercially published and sold.]] He later even tried to sue ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' when it donated the $10K [[TakeThat in Thompson's name]] to the Entertainment Software Association Foundation charity.
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9	[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No relation to]] ImOkay.
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11	!!This game provides examples of:
12	* AllNaturalFireExtinguisher: The game makes it possible for the main character Osaki Kim to pee on stuff, and there are some areas where the ability to urinate can be used to put out fires. As the game was made to make fun of Jack Thompson and followed his "Modest Video Game Proposal", the peeing ability was included in the game to emulate the feature from Postal 2 per Thompson's request.
13	* ArmsDealer: Where you buy ammunition between levels. For fun, try poking him with your cursor.
14	* BatterUp: From Thompson's letter, describing the weapons Mr. Kim should have access to: "even baseball bats. Especially baseball bats."
15	* BerserkerTears: Osaki ''never'' stops crying.
16	* BlandNameProduct: One of the bonus stages takes place in Beast Buy.
17	** Beast Buy, P.U. Games and Mal-Wart, to list them all.
18	* BoringButPractical: Nothing clears a room faster than the submachine gun.
19	* ClassicCheatCode: Entering the Konami code on the title screen shows an... [[HotCoffeeMinigame interesting]] cutscene.
20	* CollapsingLair: The final obstacle, and no, [[NintendoHard there's no checkpoint in that level]].
21	* DanceBattler: Azn_Dragon and his VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution arcade cabinet.
22	* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The final boss [[spoiler:WOULD have been the developers of the game, but [[BaitAndSwitchBoss they were stomped on]] by a giant [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] with a TradeSnark symbol above his head.]]
23	* {{Gorn}}: More bloody violence than you can shake a stick at.
24	* HideYourChildren: Completely averted. The first level has you ''exploding children's heads.''
25	* LoadBearingBoss: Killing the FinalBoss causes the entire building to start collapsing.
26	* LudicrousGibs: Every enemy type has an over-the-top death animation. The attorneys, for example, vomit ''fountains'' of blood.
27	* MacheteMayhem: It's a throwing weapon, for whatever reason.
28	* MockHollywoodSign: When the game scrolls up the title screen building, letters standing next to each other on a hill reading "JOLLYGOOD" are shown.
29	* MurderSimulators: This game is one designed by the TropeNamer himself.
30	* MusicalNod: Listen carefully to the FinalBoss theme. [[spoiler: You can hear a variation of a snippet of the main ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' theme.]]
31	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Paula Eibel (for Paul Eibeler), obviously.
32	** Also, you know, Jack ''Offson''.
33	* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Osaki Kim's rampage starts because he intends to avenge the death of his son.
34	* {{Retraux}}: This 2005 game goes for a 16-bit aesthetic.
35	* SoundtrackDissonance: The entire second stage is set to a 16-bit mix of "Lawyers In Love" (at Jack Thompson's specific request).
36	* TakeThat:
37	** This is a videogame made entirely as an InsultBackfire, and it is actually ''fun to play''.
38	** Two direct potshots are made at Jack Thompson himself. The game's startup screen claims to be made by the fictional company Thompsonsoft, which bears the slogan "We'll do anything for attention!" Osaki Kim is also motivated to go on his rampage by a stand-in for Jack Thompson who is pointedly named Jack Offson (a play on the insult "jackoff").
39	* UnexpectedGameplayChange: The bonus levels are gallery shooters. Ready your mouse.
40	* UrineTrouble: Osaki Kim inherits the peeing button from ''VideoGame/{{Postal}}'' (again, at Jack Thompson's specific request). In addition to desecrating brains, the pee also functions as a fire extinguisher.

Context VideoGame / ImOK