Le Louvre: The Palace & Its Paintings

Le Louvre: The Palace & Its Paintings is a 1995 art game developed by Montparnasse Multimedia and published by BMG Interactive.

Production

The game was received six months after the founding of BMG Interactive Entertainment as an "interactive leisure" subsidiary of Bertelsmann.[1] The game cost 1.3 million francs to make, and by February 1996 BMG had reported profits.[2] It was one game in a series by BMG, including Musee D´Orsay, Michelangelo, Inuit.[3]

Content

The title offers an interactive multimedia exploration of the Louvre collection.

Reception

The game sold 15,000 copies by February 1996,[2] and by January 1997 it had sold more than 300,000 copies.[4] Entertainment Weekly praised the game's achievements despite its graphical limitations, deeming it "thoughtful — and less taxing" than a trip to Paris.[5] People magazine thought the game wouldn't offer new insights to art lovers, but had the potential to inspire non-art lovers to take a trip to the Louvre.[6] Billboard felt the title was the "grandaddy" of the art-based game genre, and praised the developer's choice to narrow down the collection to 100 items to prevent the feeling of overwhelm.[7] Newsweek deemed it "satisfying".[8]

gollark: If only I could somehow *combine* potatOS and the staff of travelling.
gollark: Honestly, the staff of travelling, as well as the dimensional transceivers, spawners, travel anchors, capacitors and weather control devices, is basically the only thing in EIO I like.
gollark: So convenient; you don't have to bother with nonsense like "walking".
gollark: They're probably EIO's best feature.
gollark: The best random highly advanced artifacts to get are staffs of travelling.

References
  1. "Bertelsmann cherche sa voie dans le " loisir interactif " - Les Echos". www.lesechos.fr. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  2. "LES POIDS LOURDS DEBAR QUENT DANS LE CD-ROM". 6 February 1995. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  3. Macworld. "BMG Interactive". Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  4. Inc, Nielsen Business Media (25 January 1997). "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved 21 April 2018 – via Google Books.
  5. "Le Louvre: The Palace & Its Paintings". Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  6. "Picks and Pans Review: Le Louvre". 16 October 1995. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  7. Inc, Nielsen Business Media (23 September 1995). "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved 21 April 2018 – via Google Books.
  8. "See Art, Spare Feet". 22 October 1995. Retrieved 21 April 2018.


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