MTVs terrifying twosome arrived on consoles in the mid nineties at the height of their popularity in an adventure that is so damn close to the show in terms of premise (the slack-jawed Generation X-ers get involved in a cross town scramble for their torn up GWAR tickets) and vulgarity, that for players it felt like they were the third character in an episode. This is of course a credit to Radical Entertainment, who developed a game that encompassed a range of genres - action, platform, graphic adventure - boasted balanced difficulty and gleefully encouraged gamers to think with their minds very much in the gutter. To help Beavis & Butthead attend the gig of a lifetime, players have to traverse the locales of Highland, Texas in order to retrieve the tattered fragments of their tickets. Dispatching the likes of security guards, neighbours and bullies via a range of weapons at their disposal, the duo are more often than not are faced with a quandary when they finally discover a ticket piece. This is where the game really hits its stride as some serious thought is required in order to snag that hallowed fragment. With too many belly laugh set pieces to mention, the games standout moment involves Burger World, a rat, a deep fat fryer and one agro customer. This is what the nineties was all about.
Shaun is a former contributor for a number of Future Publishing titles and more recently worked as a staffer at Imagine Publishing.
He can now be found banking in the daytime and writing a variety of articles for What Culture, namely around his favourite topics of film, retro gaming, music, TV and, when he's feeling clever, literature.
