Ripper (video game)
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Ripper is a 1996 interactive movie point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Take-Two Interactive for MS-DOS and Macintosh. The cast includes Christopher Walken, Paul Giamatti, Karen Allen, Burgess Meredith (in his final performance before his death the following year), David Patrick Kelly, Ossie Davis, and John Rhys-Davies. It also uses the Blue Öyster Cult song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper". The villain of the game is chosen at random from the four main characters. A limited number of the clues and puzzles, plus a single line of dialogue in the ending, change according to the villain's identity.
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Developer(s) | Take-Two Interactive |
Publisher(s) | Take-Two Interactive |
Director(s) | Phil Parmet |
Producer(s) | Mark E. Seremet Chris Short |
Programmer(s) | Greg Brown |
Artist(s) |
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Writer(s) | F. J. Lennon John Antinori Dennis Johnson |
Composer(s) | Michael Bross |
Platform(s) | MS-DOS, Macintosh |
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Genre(s) | Interactive movie, point-and-click adventure |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
In 1996 home ports for the Saturn and PlayStation were announced,[3] but did not ship. Ripper is the second of the three Take-Two developed full-motion video-based adventure games, the other two being Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller and Black Dahlia.