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    Digital: A Love Story

    Game » consists of 2 releases. Released Mar 04, 2010

    Set in 1988, the player assumes the role of a youth armed only with an "Amie" Workbench PC and a 14k modem. Dial into BBSs, fall in love, and possibly save the new internet.

    zaldar's Digital: A Love Story (PC) review

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    incredible acheivement

    Analogue a hate story was on sale so I bought it. Reading about it, I found out about Digital a love story. I went then to download it thinking I would play a little bit before moving to the newer one. Three hours later I finished the game, and went here to say how great it was. There was only text and sounds - but I was moved more than I think I have been by any game in a long time. It started out being a cool throwback to being an early computer geek of 12 and getting on BBSes. The way those work was lovingly but realistically portrayed. Time delay between sending out things and replies (if anything it was too fast), true BBS sounds, silly arguments over books and TV shows that quickly become "your stupid", "no your stupid". People asking - are you really a GIRL (yes that has been going on for over twenty years). Then the plot kicked in and I was hooked. Great presentation of a wonderful version of the AI idea. Somewhere I like to think *Emilia has been recreated and has found someone to love.

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         I can remember the day I got the internet in my house; it was both glorious and slightly terrifying. I remember the first website I went on was a website for Harry Potter, in which you would fly a broomstick and dodge obstacles, the relevance of this?, well, to me the internet has always either been there, or not been there. I still to this day couldn’t easily explain to people how the early days of the internet operated, as I was never exposed to the technological updates in my youth, hel...

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      Christine Love’s 2010 indie title Digital: A Love Story weaves together technonostalgia and point-and-click adventure gameplay into a unique, touching piece of interactive fiction. Digital takes place “five minutes into the future of 1988,” according to Love. The Internet of this future-past is but a crying babe in Al Gore’s arms. A subculture of tech-savvy hackers post on crude Bulletin Board Systems about everything from FidoNet nodes to fantasy RPGs to the burgeoning genre of cyberpunk....

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