Compton's Patrick Stewart Tour

Patrick Steward (Cap. Picard of the USS Enterprise) has 1.5 minutes of footage as a "guide" for the now-retro Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia for Sega CD, 3DO, CD-i, Windows 3.1 and Mac System 7.x from 1994. These were extracted from the Windows 3.1 CD-ROM version. Which, if you happen to obtain a copy of this Clinton-era software, runs just fine in Windows XP if you just put the option in the properties to display under Windows 95 and at 256 colors. Patrick is also a very nice person, as I know many people who've met him and I've seen him in action at Westwood Studios, as well as James Earl Jones, doing video game footage and narration.

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[vitoaraiza]

I learned more from this program more than what they tried to teach us at school.

[coffee4binky]

@vitoaraiza I learned more from Data and Spock that I learned in school!

[tinkerthecat]

for anyone into interactive programs should check out titanic on the cdi the expansive interactive documentary contains narration by patrick stewart and insights by the late titanic historian walter lord and absorbing title and reccomended

[coffee4binky]

@tinkerthecat As in Philips CD-i?

[adamswapitshop]

I had Compton's Encyclopedia 97. Great software.

[coffee4binky]

@adamswapitshop Was Picard in that one, too?

[qazmko22]

Ha He is wearing RED!

[0871Atta]

I loved this encyclopedia, I read every article! =p

[RobertoKay]

I bought this CD-ROM at a bargain bin at some retailer convention thing. Quite fun.

[jw870206]

Oh shit, I remember Compton's. It came with the first desktop computer my family ever got. When I clicked on the tour button and that little video window came up with Patrick Stewart in it talking about the Encyclopedia, I was like, "WOAH!!!" Good times, good times.