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 Send to email | 20-year-old Memories of a Life Not Lived [Hot Flashes] in Activisionalter egoClassic GamesCulturehot flashesNostalgiaSimsVirtual lives |  By Owen Good
el 17-May-2008 |  Gamers of my generation may remember Activision's Alter Ego, released in 1986. It was a text-and-graphics, choice-based somewhat-precusor to later games like The Sims or Second Life. The game fascinated me, even as a 13-year-old, with the idea of living another life ? and helping to create such a rich narrative ? or just living that far forward. I feel like I actually have memories of the virtual lives I led in the game:
? As a toddler, gorging on a can of aerosol whipping cream and throwing up.
? As a young man, my girlfriend posing for "Genthouse" Magazine (for the record, I was cool with it. We married.)
? Playing in an old-timer's baseball game as a senior citizen, going back for a long fly ball, collapsing to the ground and dying peacefully as my friends gathered.
Well, here's a site where you can play Alter Ego online. It's been up since 2005, so probably some of you have stumbled onto this before. I scoured Kotaku to make sure we haven't featured it yet. It was truly a beautiful and well written game, created by Dr. Peter Favaro, and worth a look anyway. If you played it when you were younger, looking forward to life as an adult, now you can play it when you're older, to relive simpler days.
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| 20-year-old Memories of a Life Not Lived [Hot Flashes] | | Gamers of my generation may remember Activision's Alter Ego, released in 1986. It was a text-and-graphics, choice-based somewhat-precusor to later games like The Sims or Second Life. The game fascinated me, even as a 13-year-old, with the idea of living another life ? and hel [..] Read complete article | | Published 17-May-2008 by Owen Good in Activisionalter egoClassic GamesCulturehot flashesNostalgiaSimsVirtual lives
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| Sunday Timewaster: the irRegular Game of Life [Hot Flashes] | | The irRegular Game of Life is a weird but fun little game (by irRegular Games) based on mathematician John Horton Conway's 'Game of Life' theory. In this iteration, you are given puzzles to solve and must set the little cells into motion to [..] Read complete article | | Published 09-Nov-2008 by Maggie Greene in Hot flashes biology browser games Casual Games Culture Puzzle Games Science
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| Some lived a Life with PlayStation ... briefly |  Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 3, Casual
It appears that someone at Sony proper forgot to drink their morning coffee and accidentally threw the wrong switch, resulting in a handful of lucky insomniacs getting [..] Read complete article | | Published 18-Sep-2008 by Jason Dobson in accidentlife-with-playstationnewssonyweatherwoops
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| Cat Cuddling! Ear Cleaning! Boobs! [Snk] | | Besides featuring SNK characters with big jubblies (old hat!), DS title and romance sim Days of Memories 2 offers things like EAR CLEANING and CAT CUDDLING scenes. Sure, Days of Memories 2 is a [..] Read complete article | | Published 17-Apr-2008 by Brian Ashcraft in days of memoriesdays of memories 2DsJapanOnly in JapanSnk
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| Rumblings Of PS2 Chain Of Memories At GameStop Expo [Rumor] | | A tipster who chooses to remain anonymous dropped us a line to let us in on a juicy little tidbit from the GameStop Expo in Las Vegas. According to the source, yesterday during Square Enix's presentation, mention was made of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories for the PS2. [..] Read complete article | | Published 09-Sep-2008 by Mike Fahey in Rumor Gamestop expo 2008 Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories News Ps2
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| Remembering to forget | | Slowly but surely, scientists are getting closer to developing a drug that will allow people to eliminate unpleasant memories. The new issue of Neuron features a report from a group of Chinese scientists who were able to use a chemical - the protein alpha-CaM kinase II - to successfully erase memories from the minds of mice. The memory losses, report the authors, are "not caused by disrupting the [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-Oct-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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A year ago Second Life was the next big thing; by last summer even clueless marketers were shying away. Now Congress is eager to learn about this whole "virtual worlds" phenomenom, and Second Life creator Philip Rosedale was happy t [..] 
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At least one of those GameStop eXpo rumors turned out to be true: Square Enix has confirmed in a press release that Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories, a PlayStation 2 remake of th [..] 
