I just remember her being finally comfortable and content once the horror years of youth were out of the way. I forget what career I even had, I think a researcher or something. The creator's assumptions, cultural and personal bias showed through a LOT, but it was fun to indulge in anyway, not least when I became a happily single octogenarian woman (with a habit of bedding younger men) who eventually died falling down stairs. Also your mum is an uptight prudish dick, however you play it. As a child, if you don't immediately sprint away when a stranger in a car asks you for directions, he leaps out of the car and you die (quite how running 3 seconds earlier makes a difference if he's willing to chase you down the street anyway is beyond me).Īt other times, it will slag you off for not taking big, pointless risks, chiding you to 'live a little' or reading fundamental chracter flaws into minor decisions. You live a whole human life, from birth to death, through each 'stage' of development unless you get killed off first. I first played it about six years ago, and mostly I remember how incredibly judgemental and preachy it was.Įven then it felt both outdated and oddly new.

'Life sims' have become a bit of a thing in the million years since Alter Ego was first released in 1986. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives.

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