The opening to VNC: Virtual Nightclub, a very obscure game about touring a futuristic virtual club that barely made it to store shelves even with millions poured into its development over the course of four years. Based on the emerging rave, hip-hop, and cyber cultures, it involved well-known icons like Def Jam Records, Herbie Hancock, Warp Records, Neal Stephenson, PM Dawn, Terence McKenna, etc. They also had deals to include interactive advertising for Levis, Dr Martens, Stella Artois and Lynx in the game as well.
The developer, Philips Interactive Media, basically went bust just as they were printing the final copies of the game to ship. It was picked up by a company called Thumb Candy, and 20,000 copies were marketed and sold via the Sci-Fi Channel and various internet sites (though I can’t find any trace of this). There are quite a few ISOs of the full retail version game available online, though it seems that people are having trouble getting them to run on newer versions of Windows. Thanks to the Lost Media Wiki, we also have scans of the manual!
Small town culture is knowing that there are Old Folks with strange nicknames but never knowing the stories behind them.
Of course, I made the mistake of asking why everyone calls this one guy Brickaday and it turns out that he worked at a brickyard for 40 years, stealing exactly one brick every day and making no particular efforts to conceal the theft. Nobody thought anything of it until years later he was discovered to have built three houses.
His boss is said to have shrugged and made some remarks about the importance of coming up with a plan and sticking to it.
I‘m trying to arrange my face into an appropriate approximation of silent bafflement and failing miserably.
i feel kind of confused by people who just dont even understand the concept of videogames or think theyre poisonous in some way. when its an industry as big as film i kind of presume most people should at least have a baseline understanding even if it isnt their hobby of choice
