In the Intrigue of the Ratings

31.12.1996

Genre: Point-and-click Adventure

A title which focused on the incompetent detective Elimelech Egoz (voiced by Moshe Ferster), who goes on holiday at the fictional Nofei Hadera Hotel only to be greeted by a bizarre murder case. The game contained intertextuality, inside jokes, irony, and cynicism. In the Interest of Ratings received negative reviews in the press, including in Internet Captain (קפטן האינטרנט), the technology/multimedia branch of the leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz; however it received positive reviews in youth-oriented newspapers. Ultimately the game was relatively popular, though it was not financially successful. But it led the duo to decide to try to develop a second video game, which would become Piposh, under their new development company Guillotine (גיליוטין).

Elimelech Egoz played by Moshe Foster, a good for nothing useless detective, who gets a vacation from his job at the Even Yehuda police department, and arrives at the "Hadera Views" hotel - the no. 1 hotel in Hadera, just by the chimneys of the power plant. In the hotel are also many celebrates, and Elimelech quickly discovers there is a whole web of intrigue and conspiracy between the celebrates causing the disappearance, in the first night, of Gadi Sichon, encore of the host show "Live Provocations with Gadi Sichon". The weird hotel manager, struck with deep dread to the image of his hotel, charges Elimeleck with the task of solving this discrete mystery. The plot thickens when in the second day arrives a new guest to the hotel. Elimelech Egoz, who everybody knows have no idea what is going on with him, must at the eve of the third day to present in front of the guests of the hotel a detailed and full explanation of the events that happened, and point at the suspect in the ordeal.