The magazine that has articles to read, endless ads for perfume, etc. You can even order your in-flight meal… oh yeah, you get fed on your flight.Īside from the screen, there’s the pocket on the back of the seat that houses the safety card you always get on flights.
Just like real life, you can use it to watch movies, play games, check on flight info. There’s the screen in the back of the seat in front of you. Being stuck in an airplane seat in economy class offers you a few options. You even have to endure the pilot’s chit-chat they always do. Airplane Mode starts with you already in your seat… but you do have to go through all the pre-flight safety, taxi to the runway, etc. So, the game doesn’t bore you with having to wait around in the departure lounge, nor do you have to board, find your seat and store your luggage. I went for the latter, shorter flight, but I did stick it through till the end. But if you don’t fancy that, then you can opt for a shorter New York to Nova Scotia, a two hour trip… and yes, I’ve spent the last few hours as a virtual airplane passenger just to to this review. Your flight is from New York to Reykjavik, which takes around six hours, real-time remember. In the game, you are a passenger on a flight in economy class… and that’s about it really. Well, developer Hosni Auji has thrown his pilot’s hat into the ring to try and make a nonsense, long haul travel game for a new generation, Airplane Mode. There’s no racing, no interactions, no traffic. The bus can’t go any faster than 45mph and the in-game journey takes around eight hours of non-stop ‘play’ to complete. In it, you have to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona, to Las Vegas, Nevada, around a 415 mile trip… and you have to do it all in real time too. Penn & Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors was a collection of pointless mini-games, the most (in)famous one being Desert Bus. While the game was never officially released, it has been leaked onto the interwebs.
I think perhaps one of the more infamous nonsense games came from the unreleased, Penn & Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors for the Sega CD. Back in 1993 there was Monty Python’s Complete Waste of Time game, and it was exactly what the title suggested. While nonsense games have become en vogue recently, they’re not exactly new. Games that put you in the shoes of weird and wonderful protagonists… or a slice of bread, and allow you to just play around with the game’s world and physics. Those games that are really stupid and often offer completely pointless and irrelevant style gameplay. Titles like Goat Simulator, I Am Bread and Octodad: Dadliest Catch, et al. Nonsense games (as I like to call them) have become rather popular over recent years.
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