Touching some things in the game starts a full motion video in which actors give clues.
During the game, the spirit of Roger's dead mother, Angelina, can help the player. He can also talk to other cockroaches.
An experienced gamer can complete "Bad Mojo" in about an hour.
Part of the story for this game came from "Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka. It is a famous story from 1915. In "Metamorphosis", a man called Gregor Samsa wakes up as a giant insect-like monster.
In "Bad Mojo", insect scientist Roger Sams has stolen one million dollars. He plans to run away with it. Roger's mother, Angelina, died before the game began. Before leaving with his stolen money, Roger touches a necklace that had been his mother's necklace. It is a magical necklace and it turns him into a cockroach and drops him in the sewer below the building. Roger's human body is still upstairs.
Roger has a mean landlord named Eddie. Eddie keeps the building very dirty, so it is full of roaches, rats and spiders. Many of the puzzles the player solves are about sneaking past rats and other animals.
The game can end four different ways depending on whether only Roger lives at the end of the game, only Eddie lives, they both live or they both die.
The electronica group Xorcist made the music for "Bad Mojo". As of 2019, this music was available at Bandcamp.
Richard Cobbett of "PC Gamer" said "Bad Mojo" was "easily the game with the most real-world kills to its name." The gamemakers used many real dead animals to make art for this game.
For one puzzle, the player has to sneak past a trapped rat without being eaten. The gamemakers put a real dead rat on a scanner to make the image. The gamemakers said the only reason they didn't do this with spiders was because the heat of the scanner would turn the spiders' bodies into gas. They also used many live cockroaches and a real dead catfish. They hired a professional cat trainer to manage the real cat, and this cat was not killed or harmed.
The gamemakers said "We only harmed real animals that were on Death Row anyway." For example, the dead rat had already been killed by a restaurant owner.
Reviewers thought "Bad Mojo" was a very good game. Jeffrey Adams of "GameSpot" said it had a "poignant story" and "best computer art you've ever seen in a game." "Metacritic" gave it #10 of the Best Games of 1996 and #9 for the Most Discussed Games of 1996.
In 2004, Pulse Entertainment released "Bad Mojo Redux". It is the same game and story as the original "Bad Mojo" but updated to run on newer computers. Some of the videos and acting were improved as well.
Penelope Pussycat
Penelope Pussycat is an animated cartoon cat shown in the Warner Bros. classic "Looney Tunes". She is usually a non-speaker, though she meows and purrs. She was often called Penelope, Fifi, Fabrette and Le Cat. The name "Penelope Pussycat" was created under Warner Bros. for marketing.
Penelope first appeared in the 1949 animated short "Scent-imental Reasons". That movie got an Academy Award.
Her first speaking role was "Carrotblanca", a 1995 animated short movie.
Inka Bause
Inka Bause (born 21 November 1968 in Leipzig) is a German schlager singer, TV presenter and actress.
Converse
Converse is an American shoe company that sneakers, skating shoes, lifestyle brand footwear, apparel, and accessories.
Stephen A. Smith
Stephen Anthony Smith (born October 14, 1967) is an American sports television personality, radio host and journalist. He works for ESPN. He is a commentator on ESPN's "First Take". He is also an analyst for EPSN's "SportsCenter" and "NBA Countdown".
Smith was born in the Bronx, New York City. He grew up in Hollis, Queens. His parents were from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
Grana
Grana (Gra-nuh) are the thylakoid cell stacks in a chloroplast cell. Its singular name is "Granum". It is located in the stroma of the chloroplast.
Steppe polecat
The steppe polecat ("Mustela eversmanii"), is a type of mustelid. It is also called the white or masked polecat. It is native to Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It is a Least Concern species. It is generally light yellowish, with dark limbs and a dark mask across the face.
Males are 320–562 mm in length. Females are 290–520 mm. Males may weigh up to 2,050 grams. For may weigh up to 1,350 grams.
The winter fur is soft and tall, with short, dense underfur and long, sparse guard hairs. The summer coat is shorter and coarser than the winter fur, and is not as dense and close-fitting, with a more strongly developed ochreous or reddish tone. The ears are completely white, while the throat is yellowish-white or almost white. Sometimes, the head is entirely white. The lower part of the neck is dark blackish-brown or brown, while the chest and front legs are black or blackish-brown. The abdomen is light, yellowish-straw in colour.
During warm seasons, especially in places with lots of ground squirrels. Old steppe polecats do not change territories until there are no prey in it's territory. Generally, the steppe polecat only lives one home range for a few days or up to a few months. In winter, the steppe polecat is more active, and will move 12–18 km a day. During heavy snowfall, the steppe polecat migrates to much better places, such as along the slopes of steppe ravines, near settlements and winter encampments.
The species does not usually dig its own burrow. Instead it uses those of marmots, ground squirrels, hamsters, moles, voles, jerboas and others, after making the burrow a little bit wider.
The mating season is different in different regions. Usually, the steppe polecat mates once a year. The gestation period lasts from 36–43 days. The steppe polecat gives birth to three to six kits. But, the steppe polecat have been known to give birth to 18 kits.
Kits are born blind and naked. At the age of 20 days, the kits darken in colour. Their eyes open after 28–34 days. By the age of 45 days, they are able to hunt young ground squirrels. They start hunting adult ground squirrel at the age of 60 days. The kits stay in the family burrow for 2.0-2.5 months. The kits begin to leave the family from July or later. Steppe polecats reach sexual maturity at the age of 10 months. They become adults at the age of two years.
The steppe polecat hunts large, mammals that live in the steppe such as ground squirrels, hamsters, pikas and young or injured adult marmots. Ground squirrels are the most abundant prey of the steppe polecat throughout the year. In warm seasons, they are hunted on the top of the ground. In autumn, they are dug from their burrows. Male polecats usually have to make the burrows of the ground squirrel to enter them. But, young or female polecats can easily enter them. In places where there are no ground squirrels, the steppe polecat mainly feeds on hamsters and pikas, or water voles on the banks of water bodies. Along the shores of rivers and lakes, fish, chickens and carrion may be eaten. Birds are sometimes killed by the steppe polecat. Amphibians and reptiles are rarely eaten.
The steppe polecat lives in Central and Eastern Europe, southern Russia, northern Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan to Mongolia and northern and western China. In 2014, it has been seen at an altitude of 5,050 m (16,570 ft) in Nepal.
Polynesian languages
The Polynesian languages are a group of languages spoken in Oceania. They all belong in the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages. They are mostly spoken in Polynesia, but some are spoken in nearby Melanesia and Micronesia.
There are around 30-40 Polynesian languages, with Samoan having the most speakers. Other well-known Polynesian languages include Māori, Tongan, Hawaiian and Tahitian.
The Polynesian languages formed when Austronesians in New Caledonia (the Lapita culture) started moving to other parts of Oceania. Navigation of Oceania continued until 1300AD, with the discovery of New Zealand (Aotearoa) by the Māori people.