Nile: An Ancient Egyptian Quest was an edutainment computer game for Windows 95, published in 1997 by Simon & Schuster Interactive and created by Stone House Productions. This is a sort-of playthrough, featuring the videos but not the wandering-around-and-clicking-on-things because the University's archivist didn't have a screen recorder on the PC at the time. The soundtrack was by Brian Eno, with the voices of Alexander Kulcsar (Anubis) and Kelly McGillis (story narration). Licensed in 1996, Eno's music includes some material that was used in other projects from the period*, including the BBC series of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, and Generative Music 1. Some tracks are now included in The Lighthouse on Sonos Radio. The content was squeezed onto three CD-ROM discs; in those far-off days, video and audio had to be compressed so that the data could be delivered without stuttering that might have resulted from factors such as the PC's CPU speed, available RAM, and CD drive speed. The University has previously featured a few of these stories, but this is the whole lot. The archivist says: is it not remarkable that YouTube should choose a thumbnail that is echoed in time by Eno works like Amun, Amunet (
), and Khnum ( • Music for the Royal Academy Summer Ex... )? *Mid-1990s, I mean, not Ancient Egypt. © Simon & Schuster Interactive 1997. Will rapidly comply with any takedown request
