If you've heard of Cookie's Bustle, it's likely because of a long-standing campaign to erase most traces of its existence from the internet. The game, a bizarre point-and-click adventure only released for Japanese PCs, is the Streisand effect personified – but the efforts of the apparent copyright troll who's spent years issuing DMCAs against the mere mention of its name have been stymied by the work of the Video Game History Foundation.
Cookie's Bustle was released in 1999 by a studio known as Rodik. In it, you play as Cookie Blair, a five-year-old girl from New Jersey who believes that she's a teddy bear. A century after aliens land on earth, Cookie travels to Bombo World, the site of the intergalactic crash, to compete in the Bombo World Olympics. Meanwhile, the island nation is suffering political unrest, as terrorists begin to…
