Ja-haw! The Space Quest Historian gets In Bred with Rednex

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One of these things is not like the others: LucasArts, Sierra On-Line, Revolution Software, Cyan Worlds, Rednex.

If you're rightly now asking yourself, "What the heck is a campy Swedish musical group even doing in the same stratosphere as these legendary adventure game developers???!!!!" (appropriate punctuation required), the answer, as it turns out in the latest fun Space Quest Historian video retrospective, is that Rednex sorta, kinda, technically made an adventure game of their own.

The game was not sold separately (because, as you're about to find out, no one would be insane enough to buy it) but rather included as bonus content on the band's 1995 best of(?) music album called In Bred with Rednex. As promotional tie-ins go, it's a great idea. The execution, well...

To be clear, it's a legit adventure game! A short promotional one, mind you, but it's very much in the style of other Myst clones at the time – a first-person, slideshow-styled point-and-clicker in which you must convince the group's five members to emerge from their remote desert town (curiously accessible only via the elevator you manage to break upon arrival) and embark on a tour.

So far so good. The problem is just about everything else, ranging from its puzzles-in-name-only, to atrocious pathfinding, cheesy low-res FMV video of Scandinavians abysmally trying to speak in southern American drawls, and not one but TWO different non-endings – or one non-ending and a crash, in poor SQH's case.

But at least it's got a kicking soundtrack, right? Well, I guess that depends on one's opinion of the band's countrified eurodance style that enjoyed some short-lived success with songs like "Cotton Eye Joe" in the 90s and has recently drawn renewed meme-worthy attention thanks to a sentient chicken nugget. (Not a typo.)

If this assessment of In Bred with Rednex doesn't sound very "fair & balanced," then click below to laugh and cringe your way to finding out why it very much is. You'll have your answer before you can say "gegagedigedagedago."

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