'Member the Alamo? is a First-Person Shooter game released on Steam in 2020. In this rather strange title, you play as an unnamed silent protagonist. They live in an abusive household in a unnamned, but similarly terrible city. One day you are whisked away by a magic, flying, anthropomorphic gun named Betsy who takes you to the Alamo in order to help defend it against the Mexicans. And trust us, that's only the tip of the iceberg with this game.
Each level features you fighting off against the Mexican Army, along with giant flying eyeballs for some reason. The graphics are in a strange cartoony style, resembling something akin to South Park or Family Guy, but in 3D.
The game is perhaps more notable for its hidden themes, which promote a Christian-Nationalist or Fascist worldview that deems the Covid-19 pandemic a hoax and porn a distraction created by the Devil himself to keep the white race down and destroy Christianity. The game serves as a strange far-right propaganda piece delivered in perhaps the most bizarre fashion.
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- Author Filibuster: The game concludes with a lengthy sermon where Dr. Jones preaches various radical extremist views, such as how Jews are trying to control the population to destroy Christianity.
- Author Tract: At first, it seems seemingly like it just has edgy sense of humor, but over time it starts to deliver its message in a way that makes it clear it isn't always joking. Once during the second level when you get the ability to buy upgrades, the characters go on a bizarre rant about how the banking system controls everything and how money is fake, you get an achievement for this. Then, the Mexican Army proceeds to summon the Devil, by singing John Lennon's Imagine, which the Devil claims he "demonically possessed and influenced" John Lennon to create. The Devil then suggests to the Mexicans to defeat the Texans by making incest porn to destroy the family unit and society and to spread propaganda of a non-existent disease in order to turn the Texans against each other and distract them from defending the Alamo using a Chinese scientist named Dr. Li Ing.
- Gainax Ending: Woo boy... It is to some extent a downplayed example, but it still comes out of nowhere even with what the game's previous so-called "skits" contain, with no other characters you've met so far besides Betsy briefly singing a cover of "Amazing Grace" having any dialogue. The game goes full mask off and pretty much stops being in it's own world, and subjects you to an 18 minute sermon by Catholic Neo-Nazi Dr E. Michael Jones, who talks about how porn and the Covid-19 pandemic are all a ploy to control the population and destroy Christianity, all completed with a plug-in for an e-book he wrote.
- Irony: Betsy sings "Amazing Grace", a song with very overt anti-slavery undertones, in a game that is essentially far-right propaganda.
- It Makes Sense in Context: The game is filled with many bizarre situations and skits, such as being taken back in time by an anthropomorphic gun, and the Mexicans summoning the Devil by singing John Lennon, where the Devil implies that he possessed Lennon.
