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]
Critical reception
editThe 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 medium 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
edit- ^ "Twenty Twisted Questions - Historical - The Residents". www.residents.com.
- ^ https://binart.eu/freak-show/freak_show_booklet.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Digital Culture - What Happened to Multimedia?". www.theatlantic.com via the Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on 14 November 2011.
- ^ Ginsburg, Lynn (September 1, 1995). "Twin Peaks Meets SimCity". Wired – via www.wired.com.
- ^ Inc, Ziff Davis (June 27, 1995). "PC Mag". Ziff Davis, Inc. – via Google Books.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ Renov, Michael; Suderburg, Erika (September 2, 1996). Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816623303 – via Google Books.
- ^ Young, Sherman (September 2, 2007). The Book is Dead: Long Live the Book. UNSW Press. ISBN 9780868408040 – via Google Books.
- ^ Inc, Nielsen Business Media (January 29, 1994). "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. – via Google Books.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ Redburn, Tom (July 17, 1994). "Profile; He's Finding the Fire, This Time, in Interactive Media". The New York Times.