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The Little People In Your Games
1up.com's Crucial Classics series has a feature up discussing the little people inside your games. From the article: "...someone realize[d] that it was a niche to be exploited by computers, which up to that point weren't particularly cuddly. To be fair, neither were Little Computer People, confined as they were behind the fourth wall of a monitor. Which was probably for their own safety, as they were just the sort of creatures that might die a horrible smothery death in the arms of a little girl."
The link given just leads to the main page at 1up. The actual article mentioned can be found here.
Information doesn't want to be anthropomorphized anymore.
Yeah, it is a horrible blurb. "Little Computer People" is the name of a game for the C64/Apple II. It is the original life simulation game. Think of it this way...
"NetHack" is to "Diablo" as "Little Computer People" is to "The Sims".
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