Tender Loving Care (video game)

Tender Loving Care is an interactive movie originally released in 1998 by Aftermath Media. It is a psychological thriller starring Michael Esposito, Beth Tegarden, and John Hurt as Dr. Turner. It was written and directed by David Wheeler and produced by Rob Landeros, who also designed the interactive features. The game was originally produced with the intention of releasing the game under the Trilobyte label, but Landeros was fired from the company before it was released. Tender Loving Care was later released under Landeross new company, Aftermath Media, on CDROM, with the option for users to watch the movie as a featurelength film as opposed to interacting with the game. In October 2012 the game was rereleased under the Trilobyte Games label on the Apple iOS platform. the game is based on the 1984 novel of the same name by Andrew Neiderman

The movie is divided into a number of story episodes, between which the user interacts with the story in various ways. After viewing a story episode, users are asked a series of questions by Dr. Turner to test their perception of what they have seen. Users are then allowed to navigate through a graphic reconstruction of the Overton house, where they may gather additional details of the story. Before returning to the movie or Apple device, users must take a short Thematic Apperception Test TAT, which profiles the users psyche. The movie includes alternate scenes and multiple endings which can be influenced by the users involvement.In his book All Your Base Are Belong to Us, Harold Goldberg criticized Tender Loving Care as being the wrong direction to take with Trilobyte. ........

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