Torrance, California, August 12, 2004 (API) - Empiral Interactive Corporation has announced the October release of a computer game based on the career and hard-living lifestyle of entertainer Dusty Carr. Titled ‘Dungeons and Dusty: Rockin’ Sin City’, the game uses the character of Carr, dressed in a tuxedo, armed with a handgun, cigarette and martini, stumbling through a neon labyrinth populated by such Las Vegas icons as gangsters, magicians, pimps and prostitutes. The Carr character is required to shoot, knife, bludgeon, strangle, vomit and urinate on an assortment of villains and tourists who emerge from hotel lobbies, hot tubs, and bedrooms.

“We always knew there was a market for this kind of underground game,” said Larry Harvey, president, Empirial Interactive. “But it was casting Carr that really put us over the top. He has this kind of dangerous, Keith Richards quality, very cultish, for people in the know. We are extremely pleased with industry and gamer response so far.”

Indeed, ‘Dungeons and Dusty’ is reported by ‘Total Gamer Magazine’ to be the “greatest blast” of the past two years. “’Dungeons and Dusty’ is a really neat mix of 50s Vegas cool and goth darkness,” said Gamer editor Justin Sabich. “I can’t think of another game in which the characters vomit and urinate so much and with such force. It’s really unique and exciting.”

Players are told the Carr character functions at peak performance while drunk or stoned and are encouraged to give him substances, but too much alcohol or drugs will cause failure. “It’s really a fine balance between making Dusty feel greased and confidant or watching him slip and fall in a puddle of his own sick,” said Sabich. The game is won by having the Carr character dispatch ‘Evil Elvis’, a pitiless depiction of a grossly overweight, drooling Elvis Presley.

Carr himself said he has played the game, and that “it’s a waste of time and has nothing to do with me or my capacity for alcohol and drugs. I rarely vomit or urinate in public. Give me some goddam credit please.”

Empirial Interactive said that it plans a sequel to the game, to be based on Carr’s experiences as a soldier in Vietnam, tentatively titled ‘Kickin’ Butt down the Ho Chin Minh Trail’.

Virtual Carr about to dust some pimps

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