Original Release: Noviy Disk, 1997, PC
While the Russian adventure game this came from remained an extreme obscurity, the mini-game Xtet was briefly an internet sensation.
Xtet (PC, Noviy Disk, 1997)
Where to Buy: Freeware – download at Archive.org
Review by: Master-B
It’s funny how the times change, if you live long enough to see them. From the late 90s to early 00s, Xtet was a very popular meme game and I’d wager most PC gamers knew about it. Fast forward to, say, 2010, and it was already almost completely forgotten. By 2020 it would probably have been lost to the internet entirely if not for the Internet Archive.
This wasn’t widely known back when the game was popular, but this is actually the mini-game “Gag Boy” cut out of of an adventure game called “Gag: The Impotent Mystery” that never made it out of Mother Russia. I still don’t know if it was released intentionally this way as some sort of promotion, or if some enterprising hackers cut it out and created a standalone executable for it, but the mini-game ended up becoming WAY more famous and widely played than the maxi-game.
You should be able to figure out the premise instantly, line up the holes with the bits to clear the nakeds off the screen. But the game is not the most polished thing in the world, it is a bit fussy and doesn’t allow some positions that you would expect it to. It takes a bit to figure out its little quirks about massaging the figures into copulation, and it’s strictly No Homo as well.
Since it was a mini-game, you can’t expect much meat to it. There are 13 levels or so, which are simply more of the same that you start out with but sped up more each time. But hey – it’s free, it’s tiny, and it’s a piece of internet nerd history.
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