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NinjaGoth Rhinestone Cowboy from USA Since: Jul, 2019 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
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#1: Jul 24th 2019 at 6:51:47 PM

So I've been thinking a lot about old-school video games lately and I've been wandering around the TV Tropes Wiki and I've been reading random pages for fun.

However, while I was on the wiki just killing time, I found some inspiration while reading the trope page for Mascot with Attitude and I've come up with an idea for a story about a fictional video game featuring a somewhat different spin on the character archetype.

The idea is that the Mascot with Attitude character in question is not a character in a platform game nor is he a Funny Animal either, but otherwise fits a lot of the other hallmarks of the 90's gaming archetype.

The game in question is sort of a Totally Radical take on Grand Theft Auto and similar fare, with the protagonist being a wise-cracking mafioso who embodies a lot of the "too cool" cliches of so many 90's video game mascots and cartoon characters.

It's both a loving homage to those days and also a Darker and Edgier parody of such characters and the general "extreme cool" attitude that was all too common in the 90's.

I'm not sure if I should write it as a standard piece of web fiction, or if I should make it an interactive "Choose Your Own Adventure" story. Is there potential in such an idea?

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