Have You Played… Ptarmigeddon?

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.

You have probably not played Ptarmigeddon. I mean, I can promise you upfront it does exist. It was a VR game from 2017, where you played as Wayne Discipline, a CIA agent embedded with Afghan Guerillas during the proxy war against the Soviets in the 80s. As a Russian force advances on the pass he’s stationed in, Wayne curses the poor equipment available to his unit, proclaiming “Dammit, I wish we had more army guns” out loud. Unfortunately, his plea is heard by a well-meaning but hearing-impaired haunted rug, which grants what it thought was Wayne’s request for “more ptarmigans”. Immediately, a vast swarm of the arctic birds descend on the pass, obliterating the Russian troops, before wheeling round towards Wayne’s position.

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