Conker’s Bad Fury Day

Conker’s Bad Fur Day remains a one-of-a-kind event in video game history for breaking all the rules. In an era of perfectly polished, heavily marketed game heroes, the story was just that a drunken squirrel wandered around, stumbling into elaborate parodies. Mario stomped, Sonic spun, Spyro breathed fire, but Conker attacked by drinking too much beer and urinating on his enemies. You get the idea — everything ABOUT video games at the turn of the century was turned inside-out here. To this day nobody’s made anything like it again, mainly because when Microsoft bought Rare they just remade the original game and made it worse. During last year’s E3 presentation, Conker made an extremely brief appearance in a video that was more about Project Spark, Microsoft’s upcoming game creation software for XBox One and Windows 8.1. Reaction was hostile: that was seriously all we got? MS seemed to be saying, “We give up, just make your own Conker sequel.” Now we know a bit more. While Conker-related assets will be