This past week I enjoyed a little blast from the past: Daria’s Inferno, a 16-year-old video game based on my favorite TV series ever.
Yes, I really did this.

Somehow I wound up with, apparently, the game CD and case in original shrinkwrap
For what it’s worth, I found this product delightful. The key, here, is that I am a pretty big fan of the show. I have difficulty imagining many people who don’t fit that description giving any thought to this game, particularly long years after it was released. But just in case, well, I would agree with generally negative online reviews that the game doesn’t have much else going for it.
I didn’t care. This was a Daria video game… probably the only Daria video game that will ever exist… and in that regard I think it was mostly awesome.
In some ways I was reminded of one or more Sherlock Holmes video games I’ve played, in that I found a great deal of fun in merely exploring the character’s world. Finding everything in the Baker Street flat, exactly as it should be. Recruiting the services of the Irregulars, or Toby the sleuth-hound. Etc.
Much of the fun in Daria’s Inferno is like that, I submit, except taken even further. This basically was an interactive episode of the show, as much as probably any video game adaptation has ever been.