Danger Is My Business: Stinkerus Americanus

I’ve finished the game; this is continued from my previous post. Portion of the ad from Softside’s January 1983 issue announcing that Adventures of the Month are now being moved to the disk/cassette version of the magazine. Just to get it out of the way first, we’ve got headhunters again, something I’ve written about before. Since this is set in India and vaguely Indiana Jones-shaped I checked in case it was making a reference, but Temple of Doom came out in 1984. Perhaps Indiana Jones was making a reference to it, or at least stereotypes like it; the movie has an infamous “monkey brains” banquet, and as Roshan Seth (who plays one of the villains, Chattar Lal) explained to Empire magazine: The banquet scene was a joke that went wrong. I got a great deal of flak for it because people kept saying, “How does an intelligent man like you agree to be in a film which shows Indians dining on beetles and eels?” Steven intended it as a joke, the joke being that Indians were so fucking smart…