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In the 1990s, Theresa Duncan defied industry norms by creating lyrical CD-ROM adventures based on young girls’ everyday experiences. As the CD-ROM market declined, the games gradually fell into obscurity. This online exhibition brings them back, allowing you to play them in a web browser.All three of Duncan’s works were markedly different from most of the “games for girls” of the time. Instead of dating or dress-up, they encouraged players to freely explore fantastical, richly textured worlds. Chop Suey (Magnet Interactive, 1995, cocreated with Monica Gesue) is a delirious daydream, Smarty (Nicholson Associates, 1996), a small-town summer idyll, and Zero Zero (Nicholson New York, 1997), a romp through the bohemian Paris of 1900.
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All three of the games depict a child’s lived experience with richness and complexity, rather than mere niceness: many of the adult characters have bad habits or hygiene, and the soundtrack is full of city noises. Critic Jenn Frank wrote that Duncan’s work “dared to represent the criminally underrepresented: that is, the wild imagination of some girl aged 7 to 12.”The games show a passionate investment in the possibilities of the CD-ROM as a format for interactive storytelling. For example, in Chop Suey, characters often appear in multiple scenes, allowing users to discover relationships among them, as when the gas station attendant reappears in the arms of a protagonist’s older sister. Smarty can be switched between daytime and nighttime as users play; each scene is rendered differently in the light and the dark.
And in Zero Zero, numerous hidden stories and activities—from shadow-puppet plays to books that can be opened and read—are embedded within a larger story.Each of Duncan’s CD-ROMs can be simultaneously seen as single, standalone works and as collections of nested works. They are full of songs, images, and readings that were brought to life through collaborations with uniquely talented artists, performers, musicians, and programmers.
Monica Gesue cocreated Chop Suey, Ian Svenonious and Jeremy Blake contributed illustrations and more, Brendan Canty provided music, and creative types including David Sedaris participated as voice-over artists.For this First Look online exhibition, Rhizome’s Digital Conservation Department in partnership with the University of Freiburg has made the full CD-ROMs available through the web browser–based “Emulation as Service” system. To play the games and explore further,.“The Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs” is copresented by Rhizome and the New Museum as part of.This presentation was made possible, in part, by the 463 backers of Rhizome’s Kickstarter campaign to restore the Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs, with assistance from Leadership Level donor Mark Matienzo and generous support from Mailchimp. The games’ rerelease has been made possible thanks to the cooperation of many people, especially Tom Nicholson and Mary Duncan.
Question from Ashley: Hey there! I just got a new Acer Aspire Touchscreen Laptop and I have an old game that I want to put on it. However, the new laptop doesn’t have an optical disk drive.Is there any possible way to transfer a CD’s contents onto a USB drive so I can play the game on my laptop? Thanks so much!!!Rick’s answer: Ashley, there are several methods of transferring software from an optical disc to a USB flash drive, but I no longer recommend any of them for reasons that I will explain below.What I now recommend instead is to purchase a cheap. That way you will be able to install CD/DVD based software on your laptop, listen to CDs, or do most anything else with optical discs that you need to do.There are two reasons why I now suggest this approach:1 – Simplicity – All you have to do is plug the external optical drive into an open USB port, then insert the CD into the drive and get busy with the task at hand.2 – Low cost – You can literally purchase an external USB DVD drive for about what you would pay for a decent size USB flash drive. In fact, as of this writing, the drive that I personally use and recommend can be purchased from Amazon for less than $20. To check it out.If you prefer, you can also purchase one of these drives at Best Buy or another local retail electronics store for just a few dollars more.Now with the above being said, I need to mention something of a caveatYou didn’t say how old the game in question actually is, just that it’s old and on an installation CD.
If it happens to be “ancient” (in tech years) there’s a good chance that it might not run (or even install) properly under Windows 10.If it ran under Windows 8.1 it should run just fine under Windows 10. And chances are it will run ok if it ran under Windows 7.However, if it previously ran on either a Windows Vista or Windows XP machine, all bets are off.But even if you find out that it won’t run on your new PC, it’s still not a bad idea to have an on hand given their low costs.I hope this helps Ashley. Good luck!Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.Do you have a tech question of your own for Rick? And send it in!Want to help spread the word about this post?
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