A man who is playing Crash Team Racing while the United States threatens airstrikes against a Middle Eastern country is convinced he has somehow gone back in time.
Glenn Fenech, 31, from Iklin, first noticed something was amiss last Thursday evening, when he returned home with a copy of the video game.
“I’d just got the trophy for Tiger Temple when I got an alert on my phone saying America had called off air strikes against a Middle Eastern country at the last minute and I thought, “I’ve been here before.”
Crash Team Racing was released in late 1999, and in the years that followed, America began it’s so-called war on terror.
“The idea that the United States is once again trying to start a war based on flimsy evidence, while at the same time a remastered version of my favourite childhood game is released, is completely silly. The only possible explanation is that I’ve travelled back in time through a wormhole.
“Something must have gone wrong though, because some of the details are really different. Surreal, even. Like for example, the US president is a racist orange scrotum as opposed to a racist cowboy, and a wildly incompetent posh scarecrow is about to become Prime Minister of the UK. The Middle Eastern country that’s being framed is almost the same though, except for one letter at the end.”
Fenech also noted that Crash Team Racing’s graphics were much better than what he remembered, and unlike the early 2000s, he is now comfortable with playing as Coco Bandicoot – a female character -without fear of being called gay.
“I just hope the US has as much trouble manufacturing a war as I have completing a lap on Hot Air Skyway without falling off the track,” he concluded.
