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Debt Hole
by Ian Bogost May 10, 2009
categories: Political Games

Debt HoleA game after my own heart: political content and 6502 assembly.

Garnet Hertz's Debt Hole is a little game about the treacherous path one's financial interests must take through 2009's "colon of debt." The player pilots a flashing pixel through a generated maze, attempting to avoid touching its walls.

In fairness, the game is really just a revision of the "spacer.asm" sample game on the 6502asm.com emulator website, but it's a lovely little hack of that original.

(thanks to Liz)