The game never explicitly describes the color of your skin, but the life of an ordinary black woman in 1986 would have included a significant amount of discrimination, and some forms of that discrimination would be different from the discrimination a black man would have experienced.Īlter Ego doesn't let you live the life of just anyone you only have the option to live as someone who doesn't experience racial discrimination.īy only offering the player a chance to play as an "ordinary" American, the game implicitly assumes that you're like the majority of Americans, that you are not yourself a minority in any way.
On this basis, many readers have assumed (sometimes unconsciously) that the life you lead in Alter Ego is the life of a white American. It takes on significant assumptions about what the life of an ordinary American in 1986 would be like.įor example, in this game, no one discriminates against you on the basis of your ethnic background or the color of your skin. The Life of an "Ordinary" American in 1986Īlter Ego tells the story of the life of an "ordinary" American, as Dr. Instead, we're preserving it as an artifact of electronic gaming history. We've decided not to attempt to update the content of Alter Ego. The current edition includes an updated interface and fixes bugs in the original version of the game, but the content of the game (the writing) hasn't changed from the original 1986 version of the game. The current edition of the Alter Ego game is a production of Choose Multiple LLC.
It was published in 1986 for the Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Apple II, and Macintosh. Alter Ego was originally written by Peter J.
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