I know right
Where the FRICK is SpeedRunsLive
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do you fellas also frequently say “ouch” when you take damage in a game? I was thinking about how I do that a lot.
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of course!
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this is not dissimilar to how I remember the 2000’s being tbh
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I say oof and owie all the time and whenever I fuck up I ask the player character why they can’t do anything right
‘NIKKI WHY CANT YOU JUST MAKE THIS JUMP GODDD. DO IT FOR MOMO’
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“spider man please, that isn’t what I told you to do. spider man PLEASE get off that wall spider man please!”
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No but I do when I drive over a pothole I didn’t see coming, usually followed by an apology to the car
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I say “ow” whenever I get wet ever since I saw Friendship
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Marcel Proust’s In Search Of Lost Boobs
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blurred for mild nsfw
a p good set of response buttons, although apparently “panic” just functions as a boss key that camoflages the game as a spreadsheet.
(“Virtual Valerie”, by one of the Spaceship Warlock guys, found while trying to remember the name of 1993 render-art comic Donna Matrix by the same guy)
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@iguferon I can only recommend some related reading as that review’s not the only one remembering Valerie’s apartment as an unsung immersive landmark:
Also IIRC the panic mode spreadsheet was displaying a sizeable order for marital aids
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There’s even a catchy 1995 synthpop song about it, from famous loser Momus:
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This makes me think of an interesting case that’s more or less of the reverse process of this. Here’s a song called Teenage Queen by little known french singer Ulrich:
Well, little known as a singer as then experimenting with computer-assisted music led him, under his full name of Philippe Ulrich, to create the videogame company Ere Informatique of Captain Blood fame. The same year, Ere Informatique also developed a strip poker game reusing the Teenage Queen title.
Ere Informatique being who they were, the game is known for its hand drawn style when most other games of the type used digitized photos or poor scans, but also because on her final loss the girl peeled off her skin to reveal herself as an alien robot.
Captain Blood spoilered for anecdote-appropriate nudity in the thumbnail
And later, after a name change to Cryo, that dev house became better known as the creators of Dune and many other weird french sci-fantasy CD-ROM titles.
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the playthrough i found for Virtual Valerie (mislabelled as MacPlaymate, but the only vid i could find cuz all the results were for a streamer somewhat unfortunately named Virtual Valerie as well) spends most of the time going through the weirdly elaborate hypercard apartment block. it’s funny that it does pull the Spaceship Warlock thing of putting you in front of a fake door that just makes someone come out and tell you to go somewhere else.
lots of paintings to look at… interactive tv stacked with laserdiscs… a little kitchen you can turn the stove on and off in and open the doors. it feels like kind of an afterthought when the guy starts talking to valerie herself.
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I wonder why. I looked at a teardown to try to get some insight but got nothing.
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I didn’t need thi scursed knoweldge today
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