Playing Timothy Leary's Lost Games

Timothy Leary became a household name in the tumult of the 1960s as an all around anti-authoritarian who advocated psychedelic drug use as a means of spiritual growth.But in the 1980's, he started toying with the idea of making games. We went to the New York Public Library to track them down.

Music: Bis Dann, by Patrick

[williamhornabrook]

Holy shit the names in this video. Timothy Leary was such a visionary.

[ianboswell]

whoah. dude was a genius. the visuals work so well to tell so much with so little actually being said to expand the plot. proof positive that videogames are art, right here!

[appidydafoo]

4:17 - "This is a MIND MOVIE based on the Nobel-Prize winning novel by Herman Hesse."

Fitting tribute to Hesse's last novel, The Glass Bead Game.

[Rob_Owe]

Has no one in the comments mention the guy in the interview said the wrong author Leary was to work with on this game. He said William Burroughs. But it is supposed to be William Gibson. Author of the book Neuromancer.

[xelaeadlim]

I would love to see a new game inspired by 'How to Operate Your Brain'
something like LSD:dream emulator should be good, but not too similar.

[ehrichweiss]

I actually have a copy of Mind Mirror. It was alright for its time.

[ThatTieDyeGuy]

Was this completed?
it would be cool to take all of the information of, by, and about Tim and Create a digital simulacrum like Max Headroom but way way cooler.

[otherreality]

Where is this archive? Can we get the files?

[natotem]

Is there a problem? I can't play it.

[wesleybarlow]

@Kotaku what is the source of the audio clip at the end?

[ChrisMathers]

I'd like to watch it, but I have a massive backlog of work to complete that's likely gonna take at least a solid week to plow through. Think you could do me a favor and sum it up?

Hey...you're the Kotaku guy. Hey, man, I found this through your article. I've always liked y'all's site for game news, especially since Gamespy went belly-up, just never posted because the comment system was confusing as all Hell.

[kittyletitrain]

@felix550 Oh you're still alive then, still struggling with my modeling career actually :(

[trixiedachick]

@hector838 Hi there time to clean the browser history again :/