Superstore of the Dead
First Person Shooter Alternate Ending -------- “Gotta go.” Janine can hear in my voice that something’s very wrong. “What’s happening?” she says. “Our friend just discovered House of the Dead Two .” I never played zombie shooter games when I was a kid. “Too violent,” my mom always said. Plus, the first person view always made me a little queasy. I stuck to Madden. I always make fun of Janine for how much she loves House of the Dead Two - it’s a bad sequel to a terrible game. But of course we sold it at Worldmart. We sold everything at Worldmart. I approach Pretty Zombie Lady carefully, and stop a few feet behind her. We both stand there watching the demo for a while, limbs being blown off, exploding heads, and when she turns around I see that, in her blank-eyed kind of way, she looks hurt. Betrayed. Which, I suppose, is understandable. She started off tonight excited for a date, and then she comes in here and sees this game, and now who knows what’s happened to her self-image. C...