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The tragedy of Friday the 13th: The Game

A look back at the glorious, buggy multiplayer fun of Friday the 13th.

There was Sean S. Cunningham, who directed Friday the 13th, and make-up and prosthetics wizard Tom Savini, and Kane Hodder, who’s famous for playing the legendary killer, Jason Voorhees. This sense of familiarity worked beautifully with the music, as well, which would often be low in the soundtrack as you were running around collecting supplies, but would spike and scramble, like an old television set searching for a signal as Jason appeared, and it would get louder the closer he came. Yet silly and broken as it could sometimes be, Friday the 13th stayed true to its source material, and this is never clearer than in that final complex victory method I teased earlier.

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