Tender Loving Care (from the English - “Deadly Tenderness”) is an interactive cinema created and published in 1998 by the Aftermath Media film company [1] . It is a psychological thriller . Starring: Michael Esposito, Beth Tegarden and John Hurt as Dr. Turner [2] . The screenwriter and director was David Wheeler, and the producer was Rob Landeros , who was also the developer of the game part [3] . Initially, the game was announced under the Trilobyte logo, but even before the release, Landeros left his own company [4] . After the announcement, Tender Loving Care was published under the logo of Landeros’s new company, Aftermath Media , on DVD-ROM , and subsequently on 4 CDs and DVD-PG (DVD-Video) (the latter was sold through the DVD International distributor in movie stores on DVD around the world) with the ability to simultaneously watch a movie and play a game [5] . The film is based on the 1984 novel of the same name, written by Andrew Niederman [6] .
| Deadly tenderness | |
|---|---|
 Original Tender Loving Care Box by DVD International | |
| Genre | Interactive movie / Psychological thriller |
| Producer | David wheeler |
| Producer | Rob Landeros (also a developer) |
| Author script | David wheeler |
| In the main cast | John Hurt † Beth Tegarden † Michael Esposito Marie Keldar |
| Operator | Kelvin kennedy |
| Composer | John Welsman |
| Film company | Aftermath media |
| Duration | 117 minutes |
| A country | USA |
| Tongue | English |
| Year | 1998 |
| Next movie | Point of view |
| IMDb | |
In October 2012, the game was re-released by Trilobyte on the Apple iOS platform in a censored form (all texts and images from books and dialogs with explicit content were saved, but all scenes from the film itself with the same content were either cut out or censored) [7] .
In March 2017, the game was released on Steam through Night Dive Studios uncensored [8] .
Story
Michael Overton (Michael Esposito) and his wife Allison (Marie Keldar) are husband and wife who suffered a mental disorder after the death of their daughter in a car accident. Allison suffered significantly more than Michael, as she does not even acknowledge the death of her daughter. She lives in an apathetic state and cannot perform any mental and labor tasks. Dr. Cecil Turner ( John Hurt ) recommended that Michael hire a caregiver to help with the housework and treat Allison. Michael eventually made up his mind and hired a nurse proposed by Dr. Turner, Catherine Randolph (Beth Tegarden). At the very beginning of the film, she arrives in the morning in the Overtones house, after which she begins to treat the family in very unusual ways, after which Allison felt much better, but Michael was seriously disappointed in the methods of treatment for Catherine. What the plot features and the ending will be will depend on the choice of the viewer's answers in the polls and tests given during viewing.
Interactivity
The film is divided into several episodes, between which the viewer can influence the development of the plot in various ways [9] . After watching the episode, the audience is asked a few questions from Dr. Turner about their perception of what they saw, as well as about the audience themselves. Then the audience is given the opportunity to walk around the Overtones house (sometimes also the Turner Clinic), in which they can receive additional information about the plot and, in particular, about the characters. Before continuing to watch the film, viewers had to take part in a thematic apperceptive test (TAT) to study the psyche of the viewer. The film contains changing scenes and seven different endings, shown depending on the responses of the viewer [10] .
System Requirements
Windows Version
- Intel Pentium P90 or higher (similar to AMD)
- Windows 95 or higher (compatibility with XP on modern OS is desirable)
- 16 megabytes of RAM or higher
- Windows 95 or higher compatible SVGA graphics card with at least 1 megabyte of video memory and support for at least DirectX 3.0
- DVD-ROM drive and codecs for MPEG2 video
- 100% compatible SoundBlaster sound card
- Hard disk with at least 8 megabytes of free space
- Keyboard, mouse
DVD
- Any disk drive that reads DVDs (player, computer, game console)
- If the playback device is a computer, an MPEG2 video program is required
- Remote Control / Keyboard, Mouse / Gamepad
Steam Version
- Windows XP or higher (Windows 10 recommended)
- Intel Dual Core (optional Intel Core i3 or higher; similar to AMD)
- 256 megabytes of RAM (preferably 512 megabytes and higher)
- Direct3D compatible graphics card
- 750 megabytes on the hard drive
- Sound card compatible with Direct3D
Reviews
| Reviews | |
|---|---|
| Summary rating | |
| Aggregator | Rating |
| Gameranks | 74.67% |
IMDB : 7.3 / 10 [11]
Interesting Facts
- Prior to the creation of Tender Loving Care , Rob Ladnderos, together with Gremi Devine, was involved in the development of video games in the Trilobyte company they created. Their most famous games are The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour , which have become revolutionary for their time. In particular, Bill Gates focused on The 7th Guest and said that "it is a new milestone in the video game industry."
- If you evaluate the disc as a game, not a movie, then this is the first game in the world sold on DVD.
Notes
- ↑ From Game to Movie (June 1, 1996). Date of treatment November 23, 2012.
- ↑ Hollywood Hard Drive (August 9, 1996). Date of treatment November 23, 2012.
- ↑ IS IT A COMPUTER GAME, OR A MOVIE? VIDEO DISC `TENDER LOVING CARE 'MINES VOYEURISM INSTEAD OF COMPETITIVENESS (October 2, 1997). Date of treatment November 23, 2012.
- ↑ Goldberg, Harold. All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture . - Three Rivers Press, 2011 .-- P. 127. - ISBN 0307463559 .
- ↑ Aftermath, Brilliant Digital debut DVD interactive videos (August 30, 1997). Date of treatment November 23, 2012.
- ↑ Archived copy (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment January 15, 2017. Archived July 5, 2014.
- ↑ Medford software company creates mobile device game (inaccessible link) . Mail Tribune. Date of treatment November 23, 2012. Archived January 26, 2018.
- ↑ Save 75% on Tender Loving Care on Steam . store.steampowered.com. Date of treatment June 25, 2017.
- ↑ Wolf, Mark. The Video Game Explosion: A History from PONG to PlayStation and Beyond . - Greenwood, 2007. - P. 130. - ISBN 031333868X .
- ↑ review of Tender Loving Care , at Allgame .
- ↑ David Wheeler; David Arthur, Marie Caldare, Brandy Carson, Kim Chadick. Tender Loving Care (January 1, 2000). Date of treatment January 15, 2017.