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Essential post by Emilie Reed about multimedia CD-ROMs and how they’re related to modern messy indie game aesthetics.

The multimedia CD-ROM is a kind of exuberant over-response to the capability of digital devices to convey things that were previously experienced through different forms, images, text, video, sound, all-in-one. Often, these CD-ROMs were more about the fact that such a thing could now be done than whether the thing itself was actually useful.

I’m 100% here for messy terrines as a metaphor for “multimedia” early internet culture.