One Afternoon’s Work
by David Sims
THERE IS AN ACADEMIC paper that mentions a “racist” game that I wrote one afternoon during the late 1990s.
Aryan 3 was a simple game [and no, it’s no longer available, so please don’t ask — Ed.], written and compiled in Turbo Pascal, the coding language that I was using at that time. Your character had a magic sword that could kill all of the monsters in the local area with one mighty swing.
The Aryan Hero, on a mission for the King, went into a nest of Spicnigs, who were terrible monsters (like the Orcs in Tolkien’s stories). He had to destroy all the Spicnig eggs before they could hatch.
The Spicnig nest was a 3x3x9 volume (like nine tic-tac-toe grids stacked in a tower). The Aryan Hero went in at the top and worked his way down. (One room on each level had a ladder that connected it either to the next level up or to the next level down.) He had a certain number of moves in which he had to find the nine Spicnig eggs, which were randomly scattered through the nest, and destroy them and any adult Spicnigs that might show up.
The Spicnig defenders were also scattered randomly through the nest. The Spicnigs could kill the Aryan Hero if they got the drop on him. Or the Aryan Hero could fail to destroy the last Spicnig egg and get back to the King before his time ran out.
The game could be lost in either of two ways. First, the hero could lose all of his hit points and die. Second, he could run out of time before the eggs hatched, resulting in mission failure. But if the Aryan Hero was successful, and if he got away from the spicnig lair without suffering enough endgame damage to do him in, then he was rewarded by the King with the hand of his daughter in marriage.
(There was to be a sequel game about another kind of monster that, somehow or other, reminded the player of Jews. It was to be called SLITHER.)
Here’s the relevant part of the academic paper:
In the downloadable game “Aryan 3, Adventures of the Aryan Hero, The Third Quest,” on the Blood and Honour site, the objective of the game was to “destroy all the ‘Spicnig’ eggs,” with the insinuation that blacks and Hispanics don’t breed like humans and instead lay eggs.
That extract is quoted from: “Skinhead Super Mario Brothers: An Examination of Racist and Violent Games on White Supremacist Web Sites” by Andrew Selepak, who styles himself as a “Media Professor” at the University of Florida.
I take my bows.
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