[STEAM] George Orwell’s 1984 as a ’90s PC game has to be seen to be believed

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Most readers come away from George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984 with the same singular desire: to inhabit the world of the book by playing a late '90s first-person puzzle-adventure PC game that includes a "zero-g training sphere" for some reason. In 1998, publisher MediaX set out to satisfy that widespread literary desire with Big Brother, an

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set in the 1984 universe.’

After appearing as a demo at E3 1998 and receiving

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, the Big Brother project

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before the game could see a full release. Now, though, you can experience a small taste of this ill-fated literary sequel thanks to a newly unearthed demo that was recovered and

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i has a bit more info on the history of Big Brother, which was

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as the first game ever from multimedia CD-ROM maker MediaX. In that announcement, the company said the game would move focus away from 1984's Winston Smith and to new character Eric Blair, who's on a search for his missing fiancée Emma (sure, why not) in "a completely changed world dominated by the Thought Police."

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