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GayBlade
''GayBlade'' is an action role-playing video game developed by Ryan Best and released in 1992. Among the earliest of LGBT-themed video games (preceded in 1989 by '' Caper in the Castro''), and long considered lost, a recovery effort by the LGBTQ Video Game Archive resulted in a playable emulation in 2020. Premise The player battles hordes of homophobic enemies, including rednecks and skinheads in order to rescue Empress Nelda and return her to Castle Gaykeep. The final boss of the game is paleoconservative political commentator Pat Buchanan, the era's most notorious opponent of gay rights. Legacy The 2020 Netflix documentary series '' High Score'' featured Ryan Best and ''GayBlade'' in its third episode, about early RPGs. At the time of production in 2019, Best had lost all copies during a move from Hawaii to San Francisco years before and had been looking for any since then, which he had told the show's producers. As part of their research, the production team searc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GayBlade Windows Gameplay Screenshot
''GayBlade'' is an action role-playing game, action role-playing video game developed by Ryan Best and released in 1992. Among the earliest of LGBT-themed video games (preceded in 1989 by ''Caper in the Castro''), and long considered lost, a recovery effort by the LGBTQ Video Game Archive resulted in a playable emulation in 2020. Premise The player battles hordes of homophobia, homophobic enemies, including rednecks and skinheads in order to rescue Empress Nelda and return her to Castle Gaykeep. The boss (video games)#Final boss, final boss of the game is Paleoconservatism, paleoconservative political commentator Pat Buchanan, the era's most notorious opponent of LGBT rights in the United States, gay rights. Legacy The 2020 Netflix documentary series ''High Score (TV series), High Score'' featured Ryan Best and ''GayBlade'' in its third episode, about early RPGs. At the time of production in 2019, Best had lost all copies during a move from Hawaii to San Francisco years before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Score (TV Series)
''High Score'' is a Netflix docuseries created by France Costrel. It features stories and interviews with the developers and creators of early video games. The series first premiered on August 19, 2020. Episodes ''High Score'' features interviews and segments around the creation and development of video games in the 1980s and 1990s. These are intermixed with animated segments rendered in a pixel art-style similar to video games of this period. The show's intro sequence is also animated in the pixel style and includes numerous references to past video games, with its theme song by the Australian band Power Glove (band), Power Glove. The series is narrated by Charles Martinet, who is the voice actor for Mario. Production Creator France Costrel said that she was inspired to create the documentary as, growing up in France but having American friends, "[video games] are a universal language". She had worked as the showrunner for "8-Bit Legacy", a video game documentary for Great B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Buchanan
Patrick Joseph Buchanan (; born November 2, 1938) is an American paleoconservative political commentator, columnist, politician, and broadcaster. Buchanan was an assistant and special consultant to U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. He is a major figure in the modern paleoconservative movement in America, and his writings, morals, values, and strategic thinking have continued to influence many paleoconservatives. In 1992 and 1996, he sought the Republican presidential nomination. In 1992 he ran against incumbent president George H. W. Bush, campaigning against Bush's breaking of his "Read my lips: no new taxes" pledge, as well as his foreign policy and positions on social issues. At the 1992 Republican National Convention, Buchanan delivered his "Culture War" speech in support of the nominated President Bush. In 1996, he ran against eventual Republican nominee Bob Dole, but withdrew after getting only 21 percent of Republican primary votes. In 2000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microsoft Windows
Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for servers, and Windows IoT for embedded systems. Defunct Windows families include Windows 9x, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone. The first version of Windows was released on November 20, 1985, as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Windows is the most popular desktop operating system in the world, with 75% market share , according to StatCounter. However, Windows is not the most used operating system when including both mobile and desktop OSes, due to Android's massive growth. , the most recent version of Windows is Windows 11 for consumer PCs and tablets, Windows 11 Enterprise for corporations, and Windows Server 2022 for servers. Genealogy By marketing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inverse (website)
''Inverse'' is an online magazine from Bustle Digital Group, covering topics such as technology, science, and culture for a Millennials, millennial audience. History Launched in 2015 by Dave Nemetz, co-founder of ''Bleacher Report'', the site was made possible through seed funding with its headquarters in San Francisco, California and the editorial staff initially based in Brooklyn, New York. As of August 2016, the site had over 4.9 million U.S. multiplatform unique visitors. The company raised a $6 million Series A funding in 2016, led by Crosslink Capital with participation from Bertelsmann#Bertelsmann Investments, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments. In 2017, the headquarters was moved to SoHo, Manhattan, New York City with an expanded staff of approximately 30 full-time employees and 25 freelancers. In September 2017, the company debuted two shows on the Facebook Watch platform. On August 15, 2018, six staff writers (15 percent of the staff) were laid off after it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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