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(Also telling about gaming culture is Murder on Main Street, a straightwashed version of the game to be sold to a broader audience.) Caper in the Castro is an important piece of that history, вЂњa labor of love for the Gay and Lesbian Community,вЂќ now freely accessible for everyone. LGBTQ games and players have always existed.

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However, thanks to the Museum of Play, digital games curator Andrew Borman, Adrianne Shaw, CM Ralph, and the Internet Archive, a copy of Caper in the Castro has been recovered and is now available to play for free in your browser. Until just a few days ago, this game was thought to be lost. You can read more about Caper in the Castro at the LGBTQ Video Game Archive, which includes extensive coverage of the game, discussion with Ralph, and a copy of an article about the game from The Washington Blade from 1989. The game was released as charityware: in exchange for the game, Ralph asked that you donate to an AIDS charity. As the author CM Ralph explained in an interview from 2014, the game follows вЂњa lesbian detective investigating the disappearance of a in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco.вЂќ It pays tribute to the San Francisco LGBTQ community while also going for jokes like a villain named Dullagan Straightman.

В» Read more about TransarcticaД¬aper in the Castro, a Macintosh HyperCard game from 1989, was the first known LGBTQ-themed video game. And still the journey has a sense of fierce dignity, of perseverance and hope despite the evidence вЂ“ though thatвЂ™s undercut by a bad moral compromise youвЂ™re supposed to accept. You rarely know what direction to head in and could feasibly go in circles for hours. Long stretches of nothing are punctuated with violent loss. From old books, your character learns about the failed climate engineering experiment вЂ“ and another project that could reverse the damage. No one remembers the sun, and the Union likes it that way. In Transarctica, itвЂ™s a network of railways, managed under the profitable tyranny of the Viking Union. Centuries later, with cities collapsing, the worldвЂ™s last surviving infrastructure is its railroads. An experiment to combat climate change leaves the earth in an ice age.

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According to unsourced internet descriptions, the game was inspired by the French novel series La Compagnie des glaces, though it immediately calls to mind the images of Bong Joon-hoвЂ™s apocalyptic 2013 action film and the French graphic novel it was based on.

We canвЂ™t talk about Transarctica without mentioning Snowpiercer.