Word: rom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among the citizens of cyberspace met by Kindel and his crew were "Lusty 212," a private eye turned matchmaker who brings together hundreds of lonely people for cybercompanionship; artist and musician Laurie Anderson, who is using the Internet to send out samples from her latest CD-ROM; and "The Visible Man," a dead criminal who has been sliced ("by what looked like a giant salami-slicing machine," recalls Kindel) into 1,800 pieces, all of them digitally photographed and stored for online inspection by medical students all over the world...
...scissors and saying, "snip, snip, snip!" Although "Cyborgasm," fancied itself revolutionary by "exploring new media for erotica," it was merely a novelty and more or less fell flat; the sex noises on it are barely more interesting than the ones heard through the average fire door. As CD-ROM drives for personal computers have become more affordable, CD-ROMs featuring erotic pictures and film clips have become more available. A game called "Virtual Valerie" has become wildly popular. In it, the player attempts to fill Valerie's voracious sexual appetite. You'd be surprised by what your mouse...
What they found was the Viacom New Media release, Club Dead. It's a CD-ROM adventure game for IBM PC and compatibles, and, according to its publishers, it's the first CD-ROM that "truly delivers on the sensibility...
...technical caveat to be aware of: unless you have a double-speed CD-ROM player, stay away from this game. While the manual states that the game works with single-speed CD-ROM players, the cinematic sequences are completely ruined by the short pauses every few seconds as data is loaded from the CD-ROM...
...behind in the race to catch the next big technological wave: the intersection of computers, telephones and cable television as well as the electronic services by which information travels across these networks. Americans call it multimedia; the Japanese call it ``maruchimedia.'' By whatever name, it encompasses everything from CD-ROM games to two-way television to the Internet, and quite a bit more. While foreign companies, most of them in the U.S., are zipping ahead along this frontier, Japan is way behind, clueless in cyberspace. What's going...