## Description
A CD-ROM accompanying the book _The New Media Reader_ includes the following
historical New Media programs, including emulators for modern Windows and/or
Macintosh computers wherever possible, among other multimedia and net.art
content:
* Spacewar!, the first modern video game, running in a PDP-1 emulator;
* Eliza/Doctor, the first chatterbot, Hunt the Wumpus, the early hit computer game, and _You!_ , “an interactively created, computer program generated data structure that simulates an intimate relationship between two people”, representing the wave of early creative BASIC programs;
* Adventure, the first work in the interactive fiction form, and Curses, the harbinger of the modern era of noncommercial interactive fiction;
* Missile Command, Yar’s Revenge, and Adventure representing the Atari 2600;
* Karateka, the early cinematically-inspired martial arts tour de force, Mystery House, the first text-and-graphics adventure game, and Wings out of Shadow from the little-known Berserker Works to demonstrate fresh currents on the Apple II;
* _In the Ocean of Streams of Story_ , an interactive essay that includes video documentation of interactive video projects _The Erl King_ and _Sonata_ ;
* Four hypertext poems: “Fours,” “Heresy,” “Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra,” and “Accomplished Night”;
* Commander Keen 1: Marooned on Mars;
* MacTuberling and Spit on Saddam to show off the Macintosh shareware ecosystem;
* _Writing on the Edge_ , the Spring 1991 issue, bundled with Storyspace hypertexts _Izme Pass_ _WOE_ ;
* _The Clue_ , an animated poem with soundtrack, as a program for PC and documented on video;
* Cybertext HyperCard poems from the winner of the Electronic Literature Organization’s first poetry prize;
* and the hypervideo documentary _Jerome B. Wiesner: A Random Walk Through the 20th Century_.