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, February 5, 1940) is a
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surrealist painter, sculptor, and set designer, who won an Academy Award for Best Achievement for Visual Effects for his design work on the film
AlienAlien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto...
.
Biography
Giger was born in 1940 in Chur, Switzerland, the son of a chemist. In 1962, he moved to Zurich, where he studied
interiorInterior design is a multi-faceted profession in which creative and technical solutions are applied within a structure to achieve a built interior environment. These solutions are functional, enhance the quality of life and culture of the occupants, and are aesthetically attractive...
and
industrial designIndustrial design is a combination of applied art and applied science, whereby the aesthetics and usability of mass-produced products may be improved for marketability and production...
at the School of Commercial Art until 1970. Giger had a relationship with Swiss actress
Li ToblerLi Tobler was a Swiss stage actress. She is best known as model to several of H. R. Giger's works , as well as for being his life partner up until her suicide in 1975....
until she committed suicide in 1975. He married Mia Bonzanigo in 1979; they split up a year and a half later.
Work
Giger's style and thematic execution have been influential. His design for the Alien was inspired by his painting
Necronom IV and earned him an
OscarThe Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers. The formal ceremony at which the awards are presented is...
in 1980. His books of paintings, particularly
NecronomiconNecronomicon was the first major published compendium of images by Swiss artist H. R. Giger. Originally published in 1977, the book was given to director Ridley Scott during the pre-production of the film Alien, who then hired Giger to produce artwork and conceptual designs for the film.The book...
and
Necronomicon II (1985) and the frequent appearance of his art in
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magazine continued his rise to international prominence. Giger is also well known for artwork on several records.
In 1998 Giger acquired the Château St. Germain in
GruyèresGruyères is a town in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Its German name is Greyerz.The medieval town is an important tourist location in the upper valley of the Saane river, and gives its name to the well-known cheese....
, Switzerland, and it now houses the H. R. Giger Museum, a permanent repository of his work.
Style
Giger got his start with small ink drawings before progressing to oil paintings. For most of his career, Giger has worked predominantly in
airbrushAn airbrush is a small, air-operated tool that sprays various media including ink and dye, but most often paint by a process of nebulization. Spray guns developed from the airbrush and are still considered a type of airbrush.-History:...
, creating monochromatic canvasses depicting
surrealSurrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
,
nightmarishA nightmare is an unpleasant dream. Nightmares cause a strong unpleasant emotional response from the sleeper, typically fear or horror. The dream may contain a situation of extreme danger, or sensations of pain, bad events, falling, drowning, being raped, becoming disabled, losing loved ones,...
dreamscapes. However, he has now largely abandoned large airbrush works in favor of works with pastels, markers or ink.
His most distinctive stylistic innovation is that of a representation of human bodies and machines in a cold,
interconnected relationshipA cyborg is a cybernetic organism . The term was coined in 1960 when Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline used it in an article about the advantages of self-regulating human-machine systems in outer space. D. S...
, described as "biomechanical". His paintings often display fetishistic sexual imagery. His main influences were painters
Ernst FuchsErnst Fuchs is an Austrian visionary painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, architect, stage designer, composer, poet, singer and one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.-Life and Work:...
and
Salvador DalíSalvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol was a Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres....
. He met Salvador Dalí, to whom he was introduced by painter
Robert VenosaRobert Venosa is an American artist living in Boulder, Colorado, USA. He studied with what are termed the New Masters. His artworks reside in collections over the world.-Life and works:...
. He was also a personal friend of
Timothy LearyDr. Timothy Francis Leary was an American writer, psychologist, futurist, advocate of psychedelic drug research, and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space. An icon of 1960s counterculture, Leary is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic, spiritual and emotional...
. Giger is perhaps the best-known sufferer of
night terrorA night terror, also known as a sleep terror or pavor nocturnus, is a parasomnia disorder characterized by extreme terror and a temporary inability to regain full consciousness. The subject wakes abruptly from slow-wave sleep, with waking usually accompanied by gasping, moaning, or screaming...
s and his paintings are all to some extent inspired by his experiences with that particular
sleep disorderA sleep disorder is a medical disorder of the sleep patterns of a person or animal. Some sleep disorders are serious enough to interfere with normal physical, mental and emotional functioning...
. He studied interior and industrial design at the School of Commercial Art in Zurich (from 1962 to 1970) and made his first paintings as a means of
art therapyArt therapy is a form of expressive therapy that uses art materials, such as paints, chalk and markers. Art therapy combines traditional psychotherapeutic theories and techniques with an understanding of the psychological aspects of the creative process, especially the affective properties of the...
.
Documentary
In 2007, Giger and his work were subjects of a 19-minute documentary,
H.R. Giger's Sanctuary, which toured internationally and was released on DVD in May 2008.
Obscenity lawsuit
Copies of Giger's
Work 219: Landscape XX, better known as
Penis LandscapePenis Landscape, or Work 219: Landscape XX is a painting by H. R. Giger. Created in 1973, airbrushed acrylic on paper-covered wood, it measures 70 x 100 centimetres. It depicts a number of penises entering vaginas. One is wearing a condom...
, were included in an insert with the
Dead KennedysThe Dead Kennedys was an American punk band, formed in San Francisco, California in 1978. Pioneers of hardcore punk during the 1980s, the band gained a large underground following in the international punk music scene....
album
FrankenchristFrankenchrist is the third album released by the Dead Kennedys in 1985 on Alternative Tentacles.The album was a subject of great controversy because of a poster inserted in the original record sleeve. The poster, H. R. Giger's Landscape #XX, or Penis Landscape, was a painting depicting rows of...
and became the centerpiece of a 1986
obscenityObscenity , is a term that is most often used in a legal context to describe expressions that offend the prevalent sexual morality of the time...
lawsuit against Eric Reed Boucher, a.k.a.
Jello BiafraEric Reed Boucher , more widely known by the stage name Jello Biafra, is an American musician, spoken word artist and leading figure of the Green Party. Biafra first gained attention as the lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys...
, the vocalist and songwriter for the band.
Other works
In the 1960s and 1970s, Giger directed a number of films, including
Swiss Made (1968),
Tagtraum (1973),
Giger's Necronomicon (1975) and
Giger's Alien (1979).
Giger has created furniture designs, particularly the
Harkonnen Capo ChairThe Harkonnen Capo Chair is one of H. R. Giger's furniture designs. It is manufactured by hand chiefly out of aluminium or black fiberglass and made to resemble a human skeleton...
for a movie of the novel
DuneDune is a science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert, published in 1965. It won the 1966 Hugo Award and the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel...
that was to be directed by
Alejandro JodorowskyAlejandro Jodorowsky is a Chilean scholar in comparative religion, playwright, director, producer, composer, actor, mime, comic book writer, tarot reader, historian and psychotherapist.-Early years:Jodorowsky began his artistic activities at a very young age, inspired greatly by film and...
. Many years later,
David LynchDavid Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker and visual artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for The Elephant Man , Blue Velvet , and Mulholland Drive . He also received a screenplay Academy Award nomination for The Elephant Man...
directed the film, using only rough concepts by Giger. Giger had wished to work with Lynch, as he states in one of his books that Lynch's film
EraserheadEraserhead is a surrealist-horror film written and directed by David Lynch, and released in . In 1971, Lynch moved to Los Angeles to pursue an MFA degree at the AFI Conservatory. At the Conservatory, Lynch began working on his first feature-length film, Eraserhead, using a $10,000 grant from the AFI...
was closer to realizing his vision in film even than his own films.
Giger has applied his biomechanical style to interior design. One "
Giger BarA Giger Bar is a bar themed and modelled by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger. There are two Giger Bars: the first, The Museum HR Giger Bar, is located in Château St. Germain, Gruyères, Switzerland, which opened on April 12, 2003; and the second is the H.R. Giger Bar, in Chur, Switzerland...
" sprang up in
Tokyo, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and is located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the city of Tokyo in the eastern part of the prefecture, totaling over 8 million people....
, but the realization of his designs were a great disappointment to the artist, since the Japanese organization behind the venture did not wait for his final designs, but decided to barrel ahead with nothing more than Giger's rough preliminary sketches. For that reason, Giger disowned the Tokyo Giger Bar and never set foot in the place. Within a few years, the establishment was out of business. The two Giger Bars in his native Switzerland (in Gruyères and Chur), however, were built under Giger's close personal supervision and reflect his original concepts for them accurately. At
The LimelightThe Limelight is the name of a string of different nightclubs that were owned and operated by Peter Gatien: in Atlanta, Chicago, Hollywood, Florida, New York, and London.-History:...
in Manhattan, Giger's artwork was licensed to decorate the VIP room, the uppermost chapel of the landmarked church, but it was never intended to be a permanent installation and bore no similarity to the real Giger Bars in Switzerland. The arrangement was terminated after two years when the Limelight closed its doors. As of 2009 only the two authentic Swiss Giger Bars remain.
His art has greatly influenced
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ists and
fetishists worldwide. Under a licensing deal
IbanezIbanez is a guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki and based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in the United States and Europe.-History:...
guitars released an H. R. Giger signature series: the Ibanez ICHRG2, an Ibanez Iceman, features "NY City VI", the Ibanez RGTHRG1 has "NY City XI" printed on it, the S Series SHRG1Z has a metal-coated engraving of "Biomechanical Matrix" on it, and a 4-string SRX bass, SRXHRG1, has "N.Y. City X" on it.
Popular culture
Giger is often referred to in pop culture, especially in
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and
cyberpunkCyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life". The name is a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk", published in 1983...
. In particular
William GibsonWilliam Gibson is an American-Canadian science fiction author.William Gibson may also refer to:*William Gibson , English Catholic martyr...
(who wrote an early script for
Alien 3) seems particularly fascinated, describes a minor character in
Virtual LightVirtual Light is the first book in William Gibson's Bridge trilogy. Virtual Light is a science-fiction novel set in a postmodern, dystopian, cyberpunk future. The term 'Virtual Light' was coined by scientist Stephen Beck to describe a form of instrumentation that produces optical sensations...
, Lowell, as having
New York XXIV tattooed across his back and in
IdoruIdoru is the second book in William Gibson's Bridge trilogy. Idoru is a science-fiction novel set in a postmodern, dystopian, cyberpunk future...
has a secondary character,
YamazakiThe are descendants of a samurai clan from Kawagoe in the Kantō region. The Yamazaki line dates from the 1700s, and their land was awarded by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Edo Period.- Descendants :...
, describe the buildings of nanotech
Japanis an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
as Giger-esque.
Movies
- Dune (designs for unproduced Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky is a Chilean scholar in comparative religion, playwright, director, producer, composer, actor, mime, comic book writer, tarot reader, historian and psychotherapist.-Early years:Jodorowsky began his artistic activities at a very young age, inspired greatly by film and...
adaptation of the Frank HerbertFranklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. Although a short story author, he is best known for his novels, most notably Dune and its five sequels...
novel; the movie DuneDune is a 1984 science fiction film written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1965 Frank Herbert novel of the same name. The film stars Kyle MacLachlan as Paul Atreides, and includes an ensemble of well-known American and European actors in supporting roles, including Sting, Jose Ferrer,...
was later made in an adaptation by David LynchDavid Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker and visual artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for The Elephant Man , Blue Velvet , and Mulholland Drive . He also received a screenplay Academy Award nomination for The Elephant Man...
.)
- Alien
Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto...
(designed, among other things, the AlienThe Alien is a fictional creature as seen in the Alien film series. Also referred to as a Xenomorph, the creature is a endoparasitoid extraterrestrial species that is the primary antagonist of the film series. The species made its debut in the 1979 film Alien, and reappeared in its sequels Aliens ,...
itself, The Derelict and the Space Jockey"Space Jockey" is the nickname given to a type of extraterrestrial from the Alien series of movies and games, first appearing in Alien .-Production:...
)
- Alien 3 (designed the puma-like Alien bodyshape, plus a number of unused concepts, many mentioned on the special features disc of Alien 3)
- Poltergeist II: The Other Side
Poltergeist II: The Other Side is a 1986 horror film. A sequel to Poltergeist, it features the return of the original's family and once again sees a spirit trying to harm their daughter, Carol-Anne...
- Killer Condom
Killer Condom is a 1996 German horror comedy based on the comic book of the same name by Ralf König. It was directed by Martin Walz and featured Jörg Buttgereit as its special effects coordinator and H.R...
- Species
Species is a 1995 science fiction horror film directed by Roger Donaldson, and starring Natasha Henstridge, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Forest Whitaker, Alfred Molina and Marg Helgenberger...
(designed Sil and the Ghost train in a dream sequence)
- Batman Forever
Batman Forever is a 1995 superhero film directed by Joel Schumacher and produced by Tim Burton. It is the third installment of the Batman film series and stars Val Kilmer as Batman. The plot focuses on Batman trying to stop Two-Face and the Riddler in their villainous scheme to drain information...
(designed radically different envisioning of the BatmobileThe Batmobile is the automobile of DC Comics superhero Batman. The car has evolved along with the character from comic books to television and films. Kept in the Batcave, which it accesses through a hidden entrance, the Batmobile is a gadget-laden vehicle used by Batman in his crime-fighting...
; design not used in the film)
- Future-Kill
Future-Kill is a 1985 low-budget comedy science fiction-horror film about a group of frat boys who are hunted in a futuristic city by mutants. The film was directed by Ronald W. Moore, and stars Edwin Neal, Marilyn Burns, and Gabriel Folse. The poster for the film was designed by renowned artist H....
(designed artwork for the movie poster)
- Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
is a tokusatsu historical fantasy film produced in 1987 by Exe and distributed in 1988 by Toho Studios. It is the first live-action adaptation of the Teito Monogatari series by Hiroshi Aramata...
(creature designs)
Work for recording artists
- Celtic Frost
Celtic Frost was a heavy metal band from Zürich, Switzerland. They are known for their heavy influence on the extreme metal and gothic metal genres. The group was first active from 1984 to 1993, and re-formed in 2001. Following Tom Gabriel Fischer's departure in 2008, Celtic Frost decided to break...
: To Mega TherionTo Mega Therion is the second album by the Swiss extreme metal band, Celtic Frost, released in October 1985. The cover artwork is a painting by H.R...
- Magma
Magma is a French progressive rock band founded in Paris in 1969 by classically trained drummer Christian Vander, who claimed as his inspiration a "vision of humanity's spiritual and ecological future" that profoundly disturbed him. In the course of their first album, the band tells the story of a...
: AttahkAttahk is the eighth studio album by Magma. It was released in 1978.After Üdü Wüdü, Magma disbanded for a year until reuniting under a slightly different direction than before...
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Emerson, Lake & Palmer were an English progressive rock supergroup. In the 1970s, the band was extremely popular, selling over 35 million albums and headlining huge concerts...
: Brain Salad SurgeryBrain Salad Surgery is the fourth studio album by progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1973 and the first under their Manticore Records imprint. It features cover art by surreal artist H. R. Giger. According to the 1996 re-release notes, Manticore Records president Mario...
- Steve Stevens' Atomic Playboys
Atomic Playboys is the first album released on August 8, 1989 by guitarist and songwriter Steve Stevens, best known for playing for Billy Idol for several years...
- Deborah Harry
Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry is an American singer–songwriter and actress, most famous for being the lead singer for the New Wave band Blondie. She has also had success as a solo artist, and in the mid-1990s she also performed and recorded as part of The Jazz Passengers...
, portraits for Koo KooKoo Koo is the title of the debut solo album by Debbie Harry, released in August 1981 while Harry was still a member of the group Blondie.-Album information:...
album cover and videos "Backfired" and "Now I Know You Know" (1981)
- hide
, was a popular Japanese musician. More commonly known by his mononymous stage name Hide , written in all lowercase letters by the artist, he was primarily known for his work as lead guitarist of the popular heavy metal band X Japan from 1987 to 1997...
: Hide Your FaceHide Your Face is the first solo album by Hide and was released on February 23, 1994. The cover art features a mask designed by H. R. Giger.- Track listing :# "Psychommunity"# "Dice"# "Scanner"# "Eyes Love You "...
- Danzig
Danzig is an American heavy metal band, formed in 1987 in Lodi, New Jersey. The band serves as a musical outlet for singer/composer Glenn Danzig. Danzig can be seen as the third stage in Glenn Danzig's musical career, preceded by the horror punk bands The Misfits and Samhain...
: Danzig III: How the Gods KillDanzig III: How the Gods Kill is the third album by Glenn Danzig's band Danzig, and the highest to chart at the time of its release in 1992 on Def American Recordings. It was reissued in 1998 by Def American's successor, American Recordings....
- Dead Kennedys
The Dead Kennedys was an American punk band, formed in San Francisco, California in 1978. Pioneers of hardcore punk during the 1980s, the band gained a large underground following in the international punk music scene....
' album FrankenchristFrankenchrist is the third album released by the Dead Kennedys in 1985 on Alternative Tentacles.The album was a subject of great controversy because of a poster inserted in the original record sleeve. The poster, H. R. Giger's Landscape #XX, or Penis Landscape, was a painting depicting rows of...
, Poster insert of Landscape XX (which led to an obscenity trial)
- Atrocity
Atrocity is a German metal band formed in Ludwigsburg.- Brief history :When the band first started in 1985 it was called Instigators and played grindcore. Atrocity started as a death metal band, and their debut was the Blue Blood EP in 1989, followed by a concept album about drug use named...
- HallucinationsHallucinations is the debut album by the German death metal band Atrocity. It was released in 1990 by Roadrunner Records.The CD includes the Blue Blood EP...
- Black Sun Productions
Black Sun Productions is the project of sound, visual and performance artists & activists Massimo & Pierce.-Biography:Black Sun Productions is the project of sound, visual and performance "artivists" Massimo & Pierce, also known as the Anarcocks....
- Island: album cover for Pictures
- Korn
Korn is an American rock band from Bakersfield, California, which formed in 1993. The band's catalogue consists of nine consecutive debuts in the top ten of the Billboard 200. To date, Korn has sold over 30 million albums worldwide while earning six Grammy nominations—two of which they have won...
's Jonathan DavisJonathan Houseman Davis is the lead vocalist and frontman for the alternative metal band Korn. As well as being Korn's lead singer, he has also recorded and played drums, guitar, and bagpipes in many of Korn's albums...
commissioned Giger to design and sculpt a microphone stand. The contract allowed for five microphone stands to be made, but Davis purchased only two of the three he was entitled to. The design of the microphone stand was later adapted to Giger's "Nubian Queen" transforming it into a fine art sculpture.
- Carcass
Carcass are an extreme metal band from England, formed in 1985 and disbanded in 1995. A reunion was enacted in 2008 without one of its original members, drummer Ken Owen....
used Life Support 1993 for the cover of their 1993 album, HeartworkHeartwork is an album by Carcass, released through Earache Records in 1993. The album was recorded at Parr Street Studios, Liverpool between May 18 and June 21 1993....
.
- Designed the stage for Mylène Farmer
Mylène Farmer born Mylène Jeanne Gautier is a French singer, songwriter, occasional actress and author. She has sold more than 25 million records and is among the most successful recording artists of all time in France...
's 1999 "Mylenium" tour.
- Blondie
Blondie is an American rock band founded by singer Deborah Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the early American new wave and punk rock scenes of the mid 1970s...
's Chris SteinChris Stein is co-founder and guitarist in the New wave band, Blondie. He is also a producer and performer for the classic soundtrack of the Hip hop film Wild Style....
commissioned Lieber Guitars to create Stein's unique "Gigerstein" guitar based roughly on Giger's artwork, but without Giger's direct involvement.
- Helped to design the first professional video clip of "Böhse Onkelz
The Böhse Onkelz were a German rock group.-Founding in the punk scene:Böhse Onkelz started out in November 1980 in Hösbach as a punk rock band heavily inspired by bands such as Sex Pistols and the Ramones by Stephan "Der W" Weidner, Kevin Russell and Peter "Pe" Schorowsky.The name is an...
" called "Dunkler Ort" (dark location) from their album "Ein böses Märchen...aus tausend finsteren Nächten", which was released in 2000.
- Ibanez Guitars
Ibanez is a guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki and based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in the United States and Europe.-History:...
has released second generation of H. R. Giger Signature Models hr giger RG & hr giger S series with legacy artwork on the guitar body, second generation of 4-string guitar bass SRXHRG1 also released with the same concept.
Interior decoration
- Giger Bar
A Giger Bar is a bar themed and modelled by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger. There are two Giger Bars: the first, The Museum HR Giger Bar, is located in Château St. Germain, Gruyères, Switzerland, which opened on April 12, 2003; and the second is the H.R. Giger Bar, in Chur, Switzerland...
s in Switzerland's ChurChur ; ; , and ) is the capital of the Swiss canton of Graubünden and lies in the northern part of the canton.-History:...
and GruyèresGruyères is a town in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Its German name is Greyerz.The medieval town is an important tourist location in the upper valley of the Saane river, and gives its name to the well-known cheese....
- Museum H. R. Giger in Gruyères
Gruyères is a town in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Its German name is Greyerz.The medieval town is an important tourist location in the upper valley of the Saane river, and gives its name to the well-known cheese....
Computer games
- Dark Seed and its sequel, Dark Seed II, both adventure game
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story that is driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenges such as combat...
s for the AmigaThe Amiga was a family of personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation. Development on the Amiga began in 1982 with Jay Miner as the principal hardware designer. Commodore International bought Amiga Corporation and introduced the machine to the market in 1985...
, Amiga CD32The Amiga CD32, styled "CD
32", was the first 32-bit CD-ROM based video game console released in western Europe and Canada. It was first announced at the Science Museum in London, United Kingdom on 16 July 1993, and was released in September of the same year...
, and the PCIBM PC compatible computers are those generally similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT. Such computers used to be referred to as PC clones, or IBM clones since they almost exactly duplicated all the significant features of the PC architecture, facilitated by various manufacturers' ability to...
, were published by CyberdreamsCyberdreams Interactive Entertainment was a game publisher in the 1990s specializing in adventure games developed in collaboration with famous names from the fantasy, horror and science fiction genres. Its most successful titles were Dark Seed, incorporating the art of H. R...
. The games were also released for the PlayStationThe PlayStation is a 32-bit fifth generation video game console released by Sony Computer Entertainment in December ....
and SaturnThe is a 32-bit video game console that was first released on November 22 1994 in Japan, May 11 1995 in North America, and July 8 1995 in Europe...
in Japanis an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
.
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