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Midnight Stranger

Midnight Stranger (1994) is the first of two published interactive multimedia CD-ROM based collaborations between writer and director Jeff Green and the Animatics Multimedia Corporation. Noted for its cinéma…

31 December 1994

Midnight Stranger is an adventure, released 31 December 1994 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Midnight Stranger is

Midnight Stranger was released in 1994. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Midnight Stranger (1994) is the first of two published interactive multimedia CD-ROM based collaborations between writer and director Jeff Green and the Animatics Multimedia Corporation. Noted for its cinéma vérité style, it is a Point Of View (POV) video-based experiment in simulated socializing that takes place in an anonymous city late one night. Players navigate between several locations, and can interact with one or more people in each location to varying effects based on the player's "reactions" to that person. The main technical innovation of Midnight Stranger is its use of an emotional continuum Mood Bar for interaction with the in-story characters rather than a text interface or an…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are drama. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Midnight Stranger launched on 31 December 1994, within three weeks of Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw and Mario Andretti Racing.

Released around the same time: Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw, Mario Andretti Racing.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did Midnight Stranger come out?
Midnight Stranger was released on 31 December 1994 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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