In Romero Games’ Empire Of Sin, you play a prohibition era crime lord in Chicago, organising your rackets and engaging in turn-based combat with rivals. It’s an era developer Brenda Romero has always been fascinated by. She grew up in a town in New York state called Ogdensburg, which hadn’t, historically, had a lot going for it until US prohibition started in 1920, triggering 13 years in which getting hammered was basically illegal.
In a happenstance which perfectly demonstrates how ridiculous border control can be, Ogdensburg is right smack on one side of the St. Lawrence river. On the other side, is, um, Canada. Armed with the knowledge the river isn’t that deep and that it freezes over during the winter, a man could make thousands of dollars by getting the right cargo across it.
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