One of my favorite games in the old days was Super-hero League of Hoboken. For those not familiar with the US, Hoboken NJ is just across the Hudson river from Manhattan. This year's US F1 is going to be run there.

I've been hoping GOG would acquire that title, but it hasn't happened. It's a DOS game, and I bet it would run under DOSBOX. But my copy is long gone, and them's the breaks.

Hoboken's name is obviously funny, and as a town it's strictly bedroom. Most of the people who live there work somewhere else, particularly in Manhattan, to which they commute on the PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson) subway which runs under the river.

One of the PATH stations used to be under the World Trade Center. I'm not sure if it's still in operation.

Anyway, Hoboken is one of those places like Poughkeepsie which pretty much brings a snicker when mentioned, even if unjustly, just because the name is so strange.

And that's why it was used in this game, which is completely tongue-in-cheek. It's full of topical jokes which probably haven't aged well.

One of them is that at one point in the game the League goes to one particular place, and Dick Clark is running a concert, "...and he still looks young!"

Well, not any more. He died today, age 82. Bummer.

UPDATE: Another joke was that at one point the League finds a bunch of corpsicles. They revive two of them, and it turns out to be George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin. Steinbrenner hires and then fires Martin twice in the ensuing conversation as they exit.

The League also visits Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. Sadly, it isn't there anymore. It was torn down last year.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Weird World at 01:43 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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