Harlan Ellison - 1995 game interview

Interview with Harlan Ellison about his (then) upcoming computer game based on his popular story "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" around 1995 for Interactive Entertainment CD magazine.

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• Harlan
• Ellison
• 1995
• computer
• game
• interview

[Paool3107]

kind of annoying that alot of his answers get cut short.

[supafly345]

What a butchered editing job.

[sihplak]

Why arnt there more games where you can't "win"? It fristrates you in a good way, it makes you think 'at least I lost with dignity' or however you want your character to be. Most games you play you're a hero who saves the world by drilling a hole in someones head or slitting their throat, rather than showing a more realistic depressing loss.

[Curttehmurt]

Ellison is an asshole and I love him

[khaghgoo]

Backwards billed cap shields your neck from the sun while you are plowing

[HexxHK]

I don't necessarily agree with Harlan's take on video games, but the passion he feels for his beliefs is part of what makes him a great author.

Now, I'm gonna go waste my time blasting holes in virtual Nazis for no real intellectual purpose, and I don't have to justify that to anyone.

[Zellig]

@mentalkitty789 I would at the least, definitely advice you to follow through some of the online material ^^ Got AIM by any chance?

[Zellig]

@mentalkitty789 P2 is arguably the best, IMO. Definitely the most dark and serious of the P2-P4 era. Heavilly Lovecraftian.

[mentalkitty789]

@Zellig That is the only one I haven't been able to actually play, or seen a let's play of. I've played all of the ones for the PS2, the DS, the PSP, even played Roms of the first two SMT games. That one though, I haven't played. It is on my list though! Afterall it was just recently released for the PSP.

[Zellig]

1:45 genius. Too bad there aren't more people like him around making games nowadays. : /

[Zellig]

@mentalkitty789 I am a big Shin fan. : ) AM reminds me in many ways of Nyarlathotep's incarnation in Persona 2.

[mentalkitty789]

@MrArmageddon666 Look at Rpgs like the Shin Megami Tensei games. There are plenty of games with Ethical choices that make you think. The mainstream though is still brainless kill them all kind of games. They're fun though, you don't need talent or to think to play them.

I still hold games with roleplaying and making moral choices over any first person shooter.

That is just me though, and I have to go read his short story now. While some might call him rude, I call him awesome. :P