What of the steamed hams of the Simpsons has gotten out of hand. What might seem like an everyday scene from the iconic television series has transcended the meme and gone around the internet a half and a half, returning in the form of a graphic adventure. The best? You can play it totally free.
What is that about Steamed Hams and what does it have to do with The Simpson? In 1996 the episode titled 22 short films about Springfield
In essence, steamed hams It shows us an overwhelmed Skinner trying to get out of a dinner with his superior at Springfield Elementary School. A series of catastrophes that will end up leading to a busy evening with a triple serving of hamburgers from the Krusty Burger and extra lies. Burgers or steamed hams? In any case, That absurd situation was meme meat.
Burgers, lies and boxes with verbs in yellow
25 years later, @neodement turns the meme into a video game and does it in the style of LucasArts graphic adventures. Applying the system of Point-and-Click from Monkey Island and the wacky library of sounds from games like Day of the Tentacle, Steamed Hams: The Graphic Adventure He proposes us to step out like the director Seymour Skinner facing the same situation.
Being fair, and as its creator tells, Steamed Hams: The Graphic Adventure wants to be more of a interactive experience than a video game. Whatever it is, the result is quite successful: the visual style wonderfully combines the style of the television series with the visual aesthetics of the best referents of the Golden Age of graphic adventures. Double serving of nostalgia for the price of a meme.
And be careful, as we said, you can download and play it totally free from GameJolt. Will you have better luck than Skinner? There is only one way to find out. That yes, as it is guessed by its name, Steamed Hams: The Graphic Adventure it’s in english. Something that, surely, will not be a great barrier for fans of the Simpson that the dialogues of each episode are known by heart.
