Bad Mojo

Bad Mojo
Original box art
Developer(s)Pulse Entertainment
Publisher(s)Acclaim Entertainment
Got Game Entertainment (redux)
Platform(s)Windows, Macintosh
ReleaseOriginal
  • NA: February 23, 1996
  • UK: April 27, 1996
Redux
  • NA: December 9, 2004
  • EU: June 8, 2007
Genre(s)Adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Bad Mojo is an adventure game by Pulse Entertainment, released in 1996. The player is cast as Roger Samms, an entomologist planning to embezzle money from a research grant to escape his sordid life above an abandoned bar. An accident with his mother's enchanted locket unleashes a curse — the titular bad mojo — that turns him into a cockroach. The storyline in Bad Mojo is loosely based on Franz Kafka's 1915 novella The Metamorphosis; Roger Samms' name is an imperfect anagram of the lead character's in Metamorphosis (Gregor Samsa), and a cat called Franz appears in the game. The gameplay consists of guiding the cockroach through a series of puzzles.

Got Game Entertainment re-released the game in December 2004 as Bad Mojo Redux, packaging it with a DVD containing a variety of extra material.