Nile: An Ancient Egyptian Quest Brian Eno Kelly McGillis Alexander Kulcsar PC game playthrough

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 RUclips should choose a thumbnail that is echoed in time by Eno works like Amun, Amunet ( www.paulstolpe... ), and Khnum ( • Music for the Royal Ac... )?
*Mid-1990s, I mean, not Ancient Egypt.
© Simon & Schuster Interactive 1997. Will rapidly comply with any takedown request

[@pmccarty]

Thanks for posting. I've been listening to this via mixcloud for several years. Interesting to hear the voice overs and see the video. Have to say I prefer the audio only, but I'm glad you posted! Thx.

[@FlockOfHawks]

Seeing this , reminds me of another Eno 'game' : Head Candy iirc , early 90s . I still have the box & the glasses it came with ( 3D ! :o) and vaguely remember 'playing' it once .
_This_ one managed to totally escape my awareness , alas - hence my gratitude for the upload 🙏

[@michaelanthonydonato1804]

I’m one of the uncredited artists in this video, My name is Michael A Donato one of the uncredited artists. I did the art for The Shipwrecked Sailor and several others done in a similar style . Sorry I don’t know the names of the other artists or I would list them as well!