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  • Covert Gay Representation in Video Games

    Covert Gay Representation in Video Games
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    Date:
    Dec 15 1996

    Upon the release of the 1996 Maxis Inc. computer game SimCopter, the company discovered programmer Jacques Servin had secretly added scantily clad male CPUs to appear in the game and make out with the player character. The company fired him…

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  • Walden, A Game

    Walden, A Game
    Practitioner:
    Date:
    Dec 15 1996

    It’s certainly a long way from Grand Theft Auto. Henry David Thoreau’s classic “Walden” is the inspiration for what Smithsonian Magazine is calling “the world’s most improbable video game”: Walden, a Game. Instead of offering the thrills of stealing, violence…

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  • Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear

    Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear
    Practitioner:
    Date:
    Dec 15 1996

    Original Story: The GOG and Steam store pages for Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear are littered with negative reviews, with gamers trashing the game largely as a result of an encounter that takes place between the player and a transgender…

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  • Undertale

    Undertale
    Practitioner:
    Date:
    Dec 15 1996

    Undertale is a critically acclaimed JRPG indie title that was recently released, and you can get it on the game’s official website or Steam. This EarthBound/Mother series-inspired game does a lot of interesting things with narrative, gameplay mechanics, playing with…

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  • World Without Oil

    World Without Oil
    Practitioner:
    Date:
    Dec 15 1996

    World Without Oil (WWO) is an alternate reality game (ARG) created to call attention to, spark dialogue about, plan for and engineer solutions to a possible near-future global oil shortage, post peak oil. It was the creation of San Jose…

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  • The Great Game

    The Great Game
    Practitioner:
    Date:
    Dec 15 1996

    The Great Game is a Java applet consisting of a realtime 3d terrain map of the Afghanistan region, depicting munitions, aircraft, targets, and troop movements for each day of the conflict. The Artist culls by hand the daily data from…

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  • Gesta Final

    Gesta Final
    Practitioner:
    Date:
    Dec 15 1996

    HAVANA — It’s the latest challenge for computer gamers, in Cuba at least: Fight your way through mangrove swamps shoulder-to-shoulder with bearded guerrillas clad in the olive green of Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Your mission: Topple 1950s dictator…

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