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STRIKER: OCCULTA LAPIS

eveloped by three young brothers from Palermo, was the first interactive comic book developed in Italy. A cyberpunk tale influenced by artists also one of the earliest games to be dubbed in the country. It used a rich soundtrack with Iron Maiden and Pink Floyd, which was entirely unlicensed, since the young kids believed that as long as they paid the rights to publish the game on CD, they were free to feature any music they’d like. In 1993, after finding a publisher, was distributed in a few copies, before the company tore up the contract, leaving the developers with little choice than to hugely lower the price in order to sell the remaining ones. In the end, sold poorly and the brothers moved on to develop interactive collections of photographs.

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