Originally published at: The text adventures of St. Bride's School, a mysterious women's retreat in 1980s Ireland | Boing Boing
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Gave me the collywobbles it did.
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the ridiculous outcome of adroid tabloid-baiting
This was meant to be:
“adroit tabloid-baiting” 95%
“Android-tablet baiting” 4%
other 1%
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The Android tablet one may be a bit high. As I may myself.
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I remember the outrage towards the ‘Jack the Ripper’ game and this mysterious St. Bride’s software house. Sadly, I had. C64, so I couldn’t get my morals perverted by this sort of smut - no matter how hard I tried.
There were a lot of these secretive companies at the time - most famously Ultimate: Play the Game who only ever gave one interview and whose upcoming releases were met with almost frantic expectation. I suppose being secretive isn’t something you could do today as a publishing house when you need to work the social media monster to get attention. Like interactive fiction, being low key just doesn’t sit well in the modern gaming world.
Thorin sits down and begins singing about gold >
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There’s been a lot of excellent history of the 1980s British software/games/home computers business scene, but I often feel that it is carefully stripped of politics and weird social stuff. This has a reasonable and pleasant outcome of not feeding the childhoods of Gen Xers and such into that meatgrinder but I wouldn’t mind seeing more (perhaps fictionalized) tales of the various cults and personalities involved.
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Just in case you aren’t aware of it - Jimmy Maher’s Digital Antiquarian site has been doing a sterling job of recording the detailed history of interactive fiction; but he has much less experience of the (naturally weirder) UK software market. Having said that, he has discussed companies like Magnetic Scrolls, Melbourne House and the batshit craziness of Automata and the Piman:
The modern software scene definitely needs more mysterious Irish nuns writing gore and porn.
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A fave site!
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