Timothy Leary-developed video games found in New York Public Library archive

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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/09/timothy-leary-video-game-archive-1380480062.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/30/timothy-leary-video-game-archive-drugs-are-bad-mmkay/)The New York Public Library recently discovered a treasure trove of video games in its archives created by psychedelic evangelist Timothy Leary (http://killscreendaily.com/articles/radical-dreamers/). Over 375 floppies (http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/) (talk about flashbacks) containing a "dozen or so" games developed by the LSD-advocate in the '80s -- some are playable via emulation -- are now on display in the library's rare books and manuscripts division, according to The New York Times (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/timothy-leary-video-games-unearthed-in-archive/?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=2&). The good doctor's digital works had a self-help bend to them, advocating self-improvement by interactive means as opposed to pharmaceuticals, and apparently recreational drugs (http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/02/tokyoflash-wasted-watch-offers-a-safe-legal-high-thats-much-mo/) as well. If you fancy yourself a cyberpunk, Leary also had an in-progress project based on William Gibson'sNeuromancer, replete with writing by William S. Burroughs and a soundtrack by Devo. He had more than just prototypes, too: His Mind Mirror was commercially released in 1985 and sold 65,000 copies for publisher Electronic Arts. If you can't make it to the NYPL, a version has been adapted to Facebook (https://apps.facebook.com/mindmirrordevsb/) so you can glean your personality profile from your... profile.

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