A lot of item combination and logic leaps.
The interface uses a Full Throttle-style verb coin, and there are more points of interaction than a lot of adventure games from the era.Īs for the puzzles, they’re what you might expect from a mid-’90s adventure game. If their sniggering cynicism and toilet humour leave you cold, you won’t get much out of it. It’s funny, but only if you find Beavis and Butt-head funny. There’s an enormous amount of dialogue in the game, and almost everything you look at or interact with is rewarded with a bespoke line. They worked on the show with Judge, though, so it feels authentic, and is every bit as puerile as you might expect. Mike Judge provides the voices of Beavis and Butt-head-and supporting characters including Van Driessen and Tom Anderson-but the dialogue was actually written by Sam Johnson and Chris Marcil. Adventure game heroes usually get tangled up in a conspiracy or find themselves on a desperate mission to save the world, but Beavis and Butt-head are utterly self-serving and narrow-minded. “This is gonna be cool.” There’s something compelling about how little is at stake in Virtual Stupidity. “From Highland High to Burger World, help the boys avoid things that suck, find things that rule, and be sure to stop along the way to break something,” reads the game’s manual. They’re on a quest simply to become cool, and they think joining local criminal Todd’s gang will help them achieve this. But the best is undoubtedly Virtual Stupidity, a point-and-click adventure released in August 1995, just as the show was entering its sixth season.īeavis and Butt-head’s famous lack of ambition is reflected in the game’s story. Among these are Bunghole in One, a crazy golf simulator, and Little Thingies, a collection of minigames. This resulted in a movie, a merchandise empire, and a number of Beavis and Butt-head videogames.
But this controversy only inspired more people to watch it, and its popularity continued to grow. Like anything vaguely subversive, Beavis and Butt-head were blamed for a number of real-world crimes, forcing MTV to bury them in a late night time slot.
The violence, childish humour, and nihilistic tone drew a lot of criticism at the time-mostly from people it wasn’t aimed at-but that didn’t stop the pair from becoming unlikely icons of ‘90s pop culture. It stars a pair of idiotic, immoral, heavy metal-loving teenagers who spend their days watching music videos, flipping burgers, and terrorising their suburban hometown of Highland, Texas. On a quest for coolness in Virtual Stupidity.Ĭreated by Mike Judge, Beavis and Butt-head is an animated sitcom that originally aired on MTV from 1993 to 1997. Revisiting Beavis and Butt-head’s forgotten point-and-click adventure