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What Went WRONG With Mascot Horror

5/1/202620 min

Where did all the mascot horror go?! It feels like we’ve been covering less of it on the channel and there hasn’t really been anything new and original in a REALLY long time. So…what happened? Let’s take a journey down memory lane and figure out what happened to this once popular genre…

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  7. Tom· Host0:59

    Eventually, we will see mascot horror die off. Well, I called it. [scary music] Hello, internet. Welcome to Game Theory, the show [laughs] that's been overthinking mascot horror for the last 12 years. You know, it's funny, this channel was started by applying math and science to retro video games, but as time went on, we began to use our massive brains to break down the stories hidden within haunted animatronics and old abandoned locations from our childhood. So

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