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'Mad Men: The Game' is a retro adventure played out on YouTube

'Mad Men: The Game' is a retro adventure played out on YouTube

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Mad Men: The Game by Fine Brothers Productions is a retro adventure told entirely via the medium of YouTube, where you make choices by clicking from video to video like a Choose Your Own Adventure book.

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It's fitting that the first Mad Men game adaptation is as retro and original as the show that spawned it. Mad Men: The Game by Fine Brothers Productions is played entirely via the medium of YouTube, where you make choices by clicking from video to video like a Choose Your Own Adventure book. You control Don Draper and must complete three different tasks in order to save the company. Following the similarly classic-inspired Breaking Bad RPG, the graphics and music come off like an unholy melding of NES and LucasArts adventure games, and the game encompasses more than 40 videos in total. It has three distinct endings depending on how your story plays out — given the often acerbic nature of YouTube comments, we hope the Fine Brothers don't come under too much pressure to change anything.