Pompeii in Popular Culture - Other

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• The theme park Busch Gardens Williamsburg features an attraction entitled "Escape from Pompeii", which carries riders through the city as flaming ruins topple around them, ending in a fifty-foot plunge.

• Rexford (Rex) Phillips, a.k.a. "Rexino Mondo", wrote, sang, narrated and produced a 210-minute audio book entitled Messenger From Pei in 1992.

• A Macintosh and Windows computer game was called TimeScape: Journey to Pompeii (2000) by DreamCatcher Interactive Inc.. The storyline involved both time travel and ancient pagan gods.

• Pompeii is also the title of an Aristocrat Mark VI slot machine. It features a volcano wild symbol which erupts as well as a free games scatter feature sounding "Veni, Vidi, Vici!"

• English comedian Al Murrays running gag about Italy being lazy includes him saying "Pompeii, clean up for god sake!

• In the PC/XBOX 360 game Darkest of Days, the player fights through the streets of Pompeii as the volcano is erupting in an effort to save 'The Father of Time'.

• Vesuvius is the name of the fictional glam metal band in the 2008 comedy The Rocker, which produces a hit song called "Pompeii Nights", depicting a glorified but grim version of the disaster.

• In the manga NG Life, the story revolves around a Japanese student who has apparently retained his memories of having been a gladiator in Pompeii, who lost his wife in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.