Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it's the canon height of Thief's Garrett or that time someone in the Vatican pirated Football Manager.
I first became aware of the work of Sam Prebble through Turbo Overkill. Or at least, I thought I did. A largely solo project by Prebble developed under the studio name Trigger Happy Interactive, Turbo Overkill blew me away with its wildly ambitious levels. Taking you from the bowels of its cyberpunk city up into the thick of an interplanetary war, it hardly ever stops throwing creative weapons, abilities, and ideas at you. You even had a retractable chainsaw installed in your leg.
