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Messhoff's Pipedreamz: Eat Buckets of Meat, Surf, Flip Patties

Gaming golden boy Mark Essen delivers a new free online game for Adult Swim.

Mark Essen is a man who strips the aesthetics of video gaming back to its lo-fi ZX Spectrum/Commodore 64 basics, adds some garish colours, and hangs it all on a surreal story. His latest free online game for Adult Swim is no exception to these rules. Called Pipedreamz, it follows the pipe dream that every adolescent never has but always ends up living—working in a fast food restaurant. Actually, we’d say that’s closer to a nightmare, and maybe that’s why the character you play in this is as a white as a ghost. In the game you work for a complete pig named Steve (a pig in sunglasses, no less) at a place called Burgertronix. The game requires you to stuff your face with meat (but not when the “unclean ones” are watching you), flip patties and go surfing during your down time, pulling tricks named after burgers, like “mega burger + hold the mayo + extra sauce”.

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It’s a meaty game, for sure, and a fine way to cruise through that Friday afternoon slump.