Video Games
Jack the Ripper's appearance in video games began in a text adventure game (Jack the Ripper) released in 1987. This was followed by his appearance in the Sega platform game Master of Darkness (1992), where he is revealed to be an animated wax doll upon defeat. Also in 1992, Jack the Ripper featured in the dungeon crawl style role-playing video game Waxworks. Jack is one of the historically-based characters in the World Heroes fighting game series, making his debut in World Heroes 2: Jet in 1994. Ripper (1996) deals with a copycat serial killer in a futuristic New York City in the year 2040, and in Jack the Ripper (2003) the player takes on the role of a reporter sent to cover similar murders in New York in 1901, 13 years after the Ripper's murders; the murders out to be the work of the actual Ripper. Duke Nukem: Zero Hour (1999) is a "light-hearted gunplay romp set in Victorian London" that features Jack the Ripper. He is one of the principal villains in the action-horror Shadow Man (1999), and Jack also appears in the gothic horror platform game MediEvil 2 (2000), but as a tall green monster with giant claws, long sharp teeth and a top hat, rather than as a human. A character named Jack the Ripper appeared as a third character in the Virtual Boy game Jack Bros.
Mystery in London: On the Trail of Jack the Ripper (2007) fuses the Ripper story with The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, while Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper (2009) fuses with the fictional world of Sherlock Holmes.
In Splatterhouse (2010 video game), Dr. Henry West became the mysterious Jack the Ripper after a series of murders he committed, as he claimed to be "bored" while in London.
Read more about this topic: Jack The Ripper In Fiction
Famous quotes related to video games:
“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today’s children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”
—Marie Winn (20th century)
“I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)