SLACKERJACK - Roadie Runner
October 30th, 2006 at 12:30 by Stuart Heritage
You know Dirty Pretty Things? They're made of the members of The Libertines that aren't the lanky skeleton who gets supermodels pregnant for a living, and they're also fond of the Make Roads Safe campaign.
The story goes that Dirty Pretty Things got involved with Make Roads Safe after one of their fans was killed in a car crash, and Roadie Runner is the end product of this. Needless to say, road safety is very important - road crashes are the number one killer of young men in the UK, US and Ireland - but Roadie Runner goes about teaching you this in a deeply odd way. For starters, Roadie Runner is basically Frogger, only with a man scuttling across a motorway to get some instruments instead of a frog. And, as you know, the end result of 99% of Frogger games is death by getting run over. Also, when you die at Roadie Runner you're treated to a blast of Bang Bang You're Dead by Dirty Pretty Things. Odd fun.
