RetroBeat: Day of the Tentacle is my favorite patriotic game

Day of the Tentacle is a wacky PC point-and-click adventure game from 1993. It’s about a trio of teenagers who have to save the world from a mad scientist’s pet tentacle. It may not seem like a good fit for the Fourth of July, but it’s my favorite patriotic video game.

You see, Day of the Tentacle is one of the best time-travel games ever. The main character, the nerd Bernard, is in the present. The out-there medical student, Laverne, is stuck in a future where tentacles rule and keep humans as their pets. The metalhead Hoagie, however, is stuck in Revolutionary America.