It's kinda amazing how unpleasant this game sounds.

The weird engine stalling gunshot noises, the modulated screams and woofy sounds the civilians makes, the unsettling slow "UghBLAAAA" sound the player character makes when they die that makes them sound like they're turning into the Blob.

I honestly can't tell which is more unpleasant between this and TechWar.

The producer of this game, Odair Gaspar was my teacher when I was graduating in Game Development, I have an autographed copy, that comes with a Comic book telling the history of the game, he is a marvelous person and an awesome teacher!

The ending is a metaphor. Mankind will do anything and go anywhere for some Varginha.

Fun fact about the import tax: up until the PS3 Era pirated games were absolutely everywhere in Brazil. You could get pirated physical console games for as cheap as a dollar from your local vendor.  It wasn't uncommon to know people that had dozens upon dozens of pirated games and not a single original game.

Then steam came along and consoles became harder to crack so people just started buying discounted games. Everything was all well and good until AAA devs decided to increase the price of their games on PC to ludicrous prices (on par or even more expensive than console games, which have always been more expensive in Brazil anyway).

According to acquaintances from Varginha, this whole alien thing was a big idea from the local town hall in order to bring in tourism, which not only worked but also got way out of hand. The town itself in noticeably unremarkable but everybody has heard of the alien stories from over there. And believe it or not, there is still tourism surrounding the alien stories even to this day,

"We regret having entrusted this important mission to someone like you"
Damn, that's stone cold.

My history teacher literally tried to invade the university that they say the Varginha alien is in it
He got captured, the guards laughed and told he wasn't the first and let him go

"I guess 3-D models is kind of cool for a game that came out in, what, 1994?"
"This game came out the same year as Half Life"
oh

Draw a clock Civvie. The time should read three, thirty-five.

“Slaughtering innocent people is not our policy.”

These guys picked the wrong guy, the wrong game genre AND the wrong planet. Amazing.

To that one guy going "Ohh, I loved this game so much nostalgia!!!!"

I'm sorry your parents hated you.

Governments did use Varginha Incident for training purposes. It was a way to test a soldier's resolve, and as long as recruits could play through the game without trying to kill themselves they passed. It got switched out for Alien: Resurrection for the PS1 intercut with early scripts for Halo's story but it was deemed too inhumane to implement. Then when games with bullshit design and batshit/stupid stories started becoming more popular world governments were unable to use conventional media to break people's wills and harden them against mental stresses. So they split into multiple programs, with Civvie 11 being a subject in an attempt to create a game with the proper mixture of jank and antiquated design elements by cataloging prisoners' experiences with older games contrasted with modern gaming design conventions.

"The Verginha Incident": The game John Carmack doesn't want you to play.

I remember when this "incident" happened there. The media wouldn't stop talking about this. Every newspaper, magazine, TV, radio, people in the streets, schools, everything and everywhere only talked about "the ET of Varginha", even here in Belo Horizonte, 400km away from Varginha. It was a perfect tourism fuel to attract people there, it basically put Minas Gerais on the map again.

Before the end of the decade we've got even Chupa-Cabras in São Paulo. Things were... interesting back then.

I like how Katie is starting to have more of a voice in the recent episodes.

“You wanted DOS trash. I give you, Comic Sans”

"Busque conhecimento" as the infamous ET Bilu would say.

Actually, look this up, even the television was jank in Brazil, there was those people who claimed to witnessed a real alien and that he speaked BR Portuguese and was called Bilu.

A television channel went there and made a really serious interview to what was clearly a guy behind some bushes with his voice modulated, and the alien advice was for us to "seek knowledge of geography"

Its really dumb and hilarious

Brazilians: "Come to Brazil."
Ayylmao: "Aight."

Then this game was made.

The import taxes haven't been cut. They have been increased to 60%.

But we don't pay those for digital only purchases, and since gaming moved that way we don't pay those anymore. Still, we heavily need regional pricing her or a normal release will cost 1-2 weeks of minimum wage work and most people here work at or near minimum wage. So you either have food or you buy a single AAA release.

I can't make important conspiracy theories without my buddy Superfly