10 TV Shows With Weird Video Game Episodes

It’s strange that it took The X-Files seven years to do a video game episode, but it seems like they’d been storing some weirdness up for it. Bizarre at the best of times, First-Person Shooter dove head first into the Monster of the Week, no boundaries feel that The X-Files had when it was really strong.

However, First Person Shooter can’t hang with the likes of Small Potatoes, Home, Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose or Jose Chung’s From Outer Space. In fact, it takes the energy and greatness of those episodes and seems to turn it inwards, producing one of the worst-received episodes in the show’s history.

This is even more of a shock when you consider this comes during the original Mulder era, albeit very close to the end.

In the episode, the Lone Gunmen brings Mulder and Scully down to the headquarters of a video game design company to preview the game they’ve helped create, only for a dominatrix female entity to infect the code and somehow come to life.

It’s action packed and manic, clocking in as one of the show’s most expensive episodes ever, but there’s not much going on beneath the surface.