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Alice: An Interactive Museum. Synergy Interactive
Corp., 1994. This computer game, set in a house or museum,
features images from Alice in Wonderland. Date updated:
2002-05-05.
AmerZone.
Dreamcatcher Games, 2001. You take on the role of a journalist visiting
a reclusive anthropologist. In the 1930s he removed a sacred bird
egg from a tribe of Indians in the Central American country Amerzone. They guarded it and kept the secret of the mysterious White Birds. The initial clues in this immersive 3D puzzle adventure include letters and
the anthropologist's expedition journal found in the remote lighthouse where the he lives. Date added: 2002-05-05.
Artifact. Outset Media, 2004. Summary: "In the hunt for stolen treasures, players trade cards, take challenges, and assemble teams to retrive 24 historical works of art in this interactive new game."
ArtVenture: A Collector's Challenge. Ottawa, ON: Library and Archives Canada, 2004. An online game developed for students as part of an educational resource for the Peter Winkworth Collection in which they play an art collector picked by the Library and Archives Canada to visit London and "Basil's Art and Antique Shop" where they must collect pieces of art in order to finish the game. Date accessed: 2004-09-25. Date added: 2004-09-25.
BookWorm. PopCap Games
Inc. Online, single player Java game which Daisy Pommer, Archivist, Thirteen/WNET
Pubic Television (New York), described in an e-mail as "a word game ..., and the different
levels include 'Assistant Librarian', 'Librarian', 'Archivist' and 'Grand
Archivist', and include rather humorous renderings of what an Archivist
(sort of a Roman Emperor type) and Grand Archivist (nebbishy neurotic) might
look like. Also, when a 'burning tile' reaches the bottom of the screen,
your 'library' burns to the ground and you lose the game."
Date added: 2003-08-13.
The
Cameron Files: Secret at Loch Ness. Dreamcatcher Games. The 1930s
Chicago gumshoe (private investigator or PI) Alan P. Cameron is hired
by the physicist Allister Mac Farley to investigate paranormal events at
his Loch Ness, Scotland, home Devil's Ridge Manor. The computer game package emulates
a file folder. Date added: 2002-05-05.
Crimson
Skies. Seattle, WA: Microsoft, 2000. Set in 1937 an alternate America,
the software includes an instruction manual is in the form of a fictitious magazine,
Air Action Weekly Magazine (December 10, 1937), and the game prelude
begins with a fake newsreel. A personal scrapbook within the game can be
used to collect souvenirs of your life as the notorious air pirate Nathan
Zachary. Date added: 2002-05-10.
The Matrix Online. Monolith Productions, Inc. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., January 2005.
According to a review of a portion to this unreleased (as of November 2004) computer game based on the movie trilogy, a new section of this online game will be released that is titled The Archive: "As was hinted at already, the Archive is much more than a PvP arena; it
is a remnant from a much older version of the Matrix. It contains valuable
secrets for those strong enough to seize them. In this particular situation,
strength is measured by the ability to survive massive conflict, not only
with rival Organizations, but with the Archivists themselves, who will
fiercely guard their order's secrets." ("The Matrix Online: Player vs. Player combat revealed,"
Game Announcements,
Gameinfowire.com, November 10, 2004, http://www.gameinfowire.com/news.asp?nid=5383). Date added: 2004-11-10.
The Messenger. Dreamcatcher, the Adventure Company. As Secret Service Agent Morgan Sinclair, your mission is to break into the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, and locate and destroy four dangerous objects called Satan's Keys that when united can destroy the world.
Riddle
of the Sphinx: An Egyptian Adventure. Dreamcatcher, the Adventure
Company. Another mystery puzzle computer game set in ancient Egypt, this
one was designed by Jeff and Karen Tobler. A mysterious papyrus scroll bearing
a deadly curse and discovered by the "noted archaeologist Sir Gil Blythe
Geoffreys" bears a secret more chilling than the cold hand of death
that choked Sir Gil. Date added: 2004-02-28.
Riddle
of the Sphinx 2: The Omega Stone. Dreamcatcher Interactive. Sequel
that involves yet another papyrus scroll uncovered by archaeologist Sir
Gil Blythe Geoffreys bearing yet another secret earth-shaking secret.
Date added: 2004-02-28.
Tehutti, the Archivist. A character (no. 8609) from the Bionicle toy series issued by LEGO, his role as an archivist is laid out in the Bioncle Sector 01 Web site and amplified through this LEGO search for his name. Date added: 2005-03-14.
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