Up North8:59Jonathan Ore on remaking bad video games
Josh Fairhurst understands that to many, working to re-release one of the worst video games of all time sounds like a fool’s errand. But that criticism hasn’t stopped him yet.
“I really enjoyed doing stuff that most other people would look at and say, ‘That’s stupid. Why would you do that?’ I like to defy those odds,” said Fairhurst, CEO of Limited Run Games, a publishing company based in Apex, N.C.
The odds were stacked against Limited Run’s re-release of Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties, a raunchy narrative game originally released in 1993 for the ill-fated Panasonic 3DO
