The Residents: Freak Show

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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

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 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]

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References

  1. ↑ "Twenty Twisted Questions - Historical - The Residents". www.residents.com.
  2. ↑ https://binart.eu/freak-show/freak_show_booklet.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  3. ↑ "Digital Culture - What Happened to Multimedia?". www.theatlantic.com via the Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on 14 November 2011.
  4. ↑ Ginsburg, Lynn (September 1, 1995). "Twin Peaks Meets SimCity". Wired– via www.wired.com.
  5. ↑ Inc, Ziff Davis (June 27, 1995). "PC Mag". Ziff Davis, Inc. – via Google Books.{{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  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.{{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  9. ↑ Redburn, Tom (July 17, 1994). "Profile; He's Finding the Fire, This Time, in Interactive Media". The New York Times.
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