However it was found that a specific brand of a Russian video camera, with some slight tweaking of its circuit boards, could be made compatible. But that didn’t explain how it could send information through a plain old 240-volt plug, or how that data could mess with the mind. He was a dark shape, no bigger than an actual rabbit, without textures and having little more body definition than a balloon animal.

Honestly, it was masterful pixel art for a game that Boris’s group placed at being made in 1990, and I liked how it all started with a flat two-color landscape and gradually became much more detailed as the player progressed. He grabbed a box from the locker, opened it, and took out one of those old, bigger VHS cases—the kind made of plastic that snapped opened and cushioned the tape inside.

That meant that from the time the generator flipped on to it running out of fuel, the rabbit was waiting on a screen in an empty room. I screwed up most of the dialogue choices because Boris only ever translated a few of them for me before, but I did succeed in most of the inventory-based, visual puzzles, as I had memorized those.

You know, from things you learned in the past, that a dark room usually doesn’t have anything sinister lurking within. Normally, I don’t think there’s anything scary about just, you know, physical objects—but this came close. We also got stuck here, guessing names for months like a Rumplestiltskin challenge,” Boris told me after he translated that first bit of dialogue. After that discovery, I taped up the switch and made sure it couldn’t somehow flip on its own again.Just press the tip to her lips and you'll hear the rabbit lapping away, just like a real new born animal would.