The year is 1984. The game, also, is 1984. The book it's based on? 1984. The year it came out? 1999, but it might actually be easier to run had it come out 15 years earlier.
I am playing—attempting to play—Big Brother, the recently unearthed demo of a doomed, never-released videogame sequel to George Orwell's 1984 and a videogame technology pioneer in that it seems to actively resist being played.
