The Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs (2015)

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I worked at Magnet Interactive Studios starting during the Chop Suey days, and into the early days of professional web site development. It was a privilege to work with such an incredible group of creative and talented people. Those were amazing days.

hi Dave!

I remember the Quality Assurance guys loved testing new Chop Suey releases, they'd all gather around and point and laugh and had a great time. I'm glad the games are remembered with love :)

That David Sedaris narrated "Chop Suey" is enough to spark my interest. The original ISO an 180MB download from archive.org[1].

The circumstances of Theresa Duncan's death (presumed suicide at 40 y/o) and the death of her partner Jeremy Blake[2] are chilling, and really saddening.

[1] https://archive.org/details/chop-suey-win31

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_Duncan#Death

I had never heard of these games. Very interesting to see them. The early CD-Rom stuff is a fascinating footnote in the development of multimedia.

What? No love for The Magic School Bus and the early Dreamworks' Goosebumps games?

Wow. Don't click this link. A very loud child's voice blare out of your speakers. Annoying as hell. Woke my dog.

She says "Hey, what's the rumpus?" at a fairly normal volume.

You should reconfigure your browser to forbid autoplaying sound if this sort of thing is a problem to you.

My volume was way down; this was strident and unwelcome. I'm unaware that autoplaying is turned on in my browser. Hm.

Ok it was, fixed. Thanks!

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