The Residents: Freak Show

The Residents: Freak Show is a CD-ROM by The Voyager Company. A few years earlier they had released a similar work based on The Residents entitled Twenty Twisted Questions.[1] The project was spearheaded by James Ludtke.[2] 0

Critical reception

The Atlantic deemed it one of the most influential early CD-Roms.[3] Wired noted it was "widely hailed as the best CD-ROM ever".[4] PC Mag listed it as one of the top 100 CD-ROM titles.[5] The book Resolution felt the title opened up the "poetic possibilities" of the interactive medium.[6] The Book is Dead deemed it "obscure".[7] The Voyager Company themselves noted the limitations of sound in the meidium which had the potential of alienating players.[8] The New York Times felt the game offered the player a chance to view the characters' "sad yet oddly exhilarating lives".[9]

References
  1. "Twenty Twisted Questions - Historical - The Residents". www.residents.com.
  2. https://binart.eu/freak-show/freak_show_booklet.pdf
  3. "Digital Culture - What Happened to Multimedia?". www.theatlantic.com.
  4. Ginsburg, Lynn (September 1, 1995). "Twin Peaks Meets SimCity" – via www.wired.com.
  5. Inc, Ziff Davis (June 27, 1995). "PC Mag". Ziff Davis, Inc. – via Google Books.
  6. Renov, Michael; Suderburg, Erika (September 2, 1996). Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816623303 – via Google Books.
  7. Young, Sherman (September 2, 2007). The Book is Dead: Long Live the Book. UNSW Press. ISBN 9780868408040 – via Google Books.
  8. Inc, Nielsen Business Media (January 29, 1994). "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. – via Google Books.
  9. Redburn, Tom (July 17, 1994). "Profile; He's Finding the Fire, This Time, in Interactive Media" – via NYTimes.com.
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