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Méwilo
''Méwilo'' is a 1987 French adventure video game by Coktel Vision. Development It was the first game by Muriel Tramis who was designer and producer at Coktel Vision. It saw a new direction for the developer, which had previously released strategy games. Tramis "proposed to program a game that hethought totally original", which became ''Mewilo''. The head of the Coktel Vision, Roland Oskian, allowed her to develop her own story, and she began work in 1986. Collaborating with Martiniquan créolité writer Patrick Chamoiseau the game was inspired by the Caribbean legend of jars of gold. It was graphic designed by Philippe Truca. The software was accompanied by a short story by Chamoiseau. Plot and gameplay Set in the town of Saint-Pierre, Martinique on May 7, 1902, the game takes place a day before Mount Pelée is set to erupt, causing catastrophic damage. The player is a parapsychologist called into town to investigate zombie sightings. Release and aftermath Tramis sugg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muriel Tramis
Muriel Tramis (born in 1958) is a French video game designer from Martinique. She is known as the first Black woman video game designer. She has written and directed the adventure games ''Méwilo'', ''Freedom: Rebels in the Darkness'', ''Geisha (video game), Geisha'', ''Fascination (video game), Fascination'', ''Lost in Time (video game), Lost in Time'', and ''Urban Runner'' at Coktel Vision. She also co-created the ''Gobliiins'' series with Pierre Gilhodes. Tramis was involved in the creation of the :fr:Adi (série), ADI range for schoolchildren and college students, and since 2003 has managed Avantilles, a specialist in real-time 3D applications for the web. Early life and education Muriel Tramis was born in 1958 in Fort-de-France, Martinique where she attended school at the convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny and then at the Seminary College. She moved to Paris to pursue a generalist and polyvalent engineering training at ISEP (Institut supérieur d'électronique de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coktel Vision
Coktel Vision (also known as Coktel and Coktel Studio) was a French video game developer and video game publisher, publisher based in Paris. It was best known for its educational game, educational and adventure games. History Coktel Vision was founded in 1984 by Roland Oskian, an engineer and a former executive at Matra Espace. The French gaming market was still developing at the time, the company consisted of only several people who worked from Oskian's house, with Roland acting as a director and composer and his wife Catherine creating graphics and cover art. Coktel made its name by publishing simulation, action and narrative-driven adventure titles for the Thomson computers, Thomson and Amstrad CPC computers. Their catalogue included both original and licensed games often based on Bande dessinée, Franco-Belgian comics such as ''Asterix'', ''Lucky Luke'' and ''Blueberry (comics), Blueberry''. They saw a quick growth and in several years entered the educational entertainmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amiga
Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985. The original model is one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16- or 32-bit processors, 256 KB or more of RAM, mouse-based GUIs, and significantly improved graphics and audio compared to previous 8-bit systems. This includes the Atari ST—released earlier the same year—as well as the Macintosh and Acorn Archimedes. Based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor, the Amiga differs from its contemporaries through the inclusion of custom hardware to accelerate graphics and sound, including sprite (computer graphics), sprites and a blitter, and a pre-emptive multitasking operating system called AmigaOS. The Amiga 1000 was released in July 1985, but production problems kept it from becoming widely available until early 1986. The best-selling model, the Amiga 500, was introduced in 1987 along with the more expandable Amiga 2000. The Amiga 3000 was introduced in 1990, followed by the Amiga 500 Plus, and Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zombie
A zombie (Haitian French: , ht, zonbi) is a mythological undead corporeal revenant created through the reanimation of a corpse. Zombies are most commonly found in horror and fantasy genre works. The term comes from Haitian folklore, in which a ''zombie'' is a dead body reanimated through various methods, most commonly magic like voodoo. Modern media depictions of the reanimation of the dead often do not involve magic but rather science fictional methods such as carriers, radiation, mental diseases, vectors, pathogens, parasites, scientific accidents, etc. The English word "zombie" was first recorded in 1819, in a history of Brazil by the poet Robert Southey, in the form of "zombi"."Zombie" in |
Video Games Set In 1902
Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) systems which, in turn, were replaced by flat panel displays of several types. Video systems vary in display resolution, aspect ratio, refresh rate, color capabilities and other qualities. Analog and digital variants exist and can be carried on a variety of media, including radio broadcast, magnetic tape, optical discs, computer files, and network streaming. History Analog video Video technology was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) television systems, but several new technologies for video display devices have since been invented. Video was originally exclusively a live technology. Charles Ginsburg led an Ampex research team developing one of the first practical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video Games Developed In France
Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) systems which, in turn, were replaced by flat panel displays of several types. Video systems vary in display resolution, aspect ratio, refresh rate, color capabilities and other qualities. Analog and digital variants exist and can be carried on a variety of media, including radio broadcast, magnetic tape, optical discs, computer files, and network streaming. History Analog video Video technology was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) television systems, but several new technologies for video display devices have since been invented. Video was originally exclusively a live technology. Charles Ginsburg led an Ampex research team developing one of the first practical video ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Video Games
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Tilt (French Magazine)
''Tilt'' was a French magazine which began publication in September 1982, focused on computer and console gaming. It was the first French magazine specifically devoted to video games. The headquarters of the magazine was in Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S .... The name of the magazine was a nod to the pinball term, where excessive nudging of a pinball machine would result in a "tilt" penalty, and the loss of a turn during gameplay. The final issue of ''Tilt'' was published January 1994. References External links Tiltback issuesprovided by abandonware-magazines.org Archived Tilt Magazines at Internet Archive 1982 establishments in France 1994 disestablishments in France Defunct computer magazines Defunct magazines published in France French-language mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aktueller Software Markt
''Aktueller Software Markt'' (literally ''Current Software Market''), commonly known by its acronym, ''ASM'', was a German multi-platform video game magazine that was published by Tronic-Verlag from 1986 until 1995. It was one of the first magazines published in Germany focused on video games, though the first issues of ''ASM'' covered the software market in general for almost all platforms at this time, hence the magazine's full name.Editorial ''ASM'' (Tronic Verlag), March 1986: " ..Wir haben unser Magazin mit einer Flut an Information über Action-Games, Adventures, Anwenderprogramme, Sound-Software, Lernprogramme oder Denk- und Strategiespiele „vollgepfropft“. .., roughly "We have filled our magazine with a lot o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joystick (magazine)
''Joystick'' (formerly ''Joystick Hebdo'') was a French computer magazine that published monthly issues on PC games. It was founded in 1988 by Marc Andersen, who later left in November 1995. Originally published in the form of a 32-page weekly magazine in 1988 and 1989, it saw monthly 148-page issues (and more) past 1990. It initially sold with one or more floppy disks and then later with several CD-ROMs, and finally, until April 2012, a DVD that included complete copies of video games. In 2012, ''Joystick'' ceased distribution. Despite 80,000 unique visitors per month to ''Joystick'''s website, it was closed in March 2002 due to the lack of profitability. It reopened in early 2008 as a summary of the magazine, including video game reviews and video game news; it would be updated irregularly until June 2012. History The first issue of ''Joystick Hebdo'' was published on 9 November 1988 and contained cheat-code listings, game testings and reviews. Sometime between November 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
