Ripper (video game)

Ripper
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)
  • James H. Dargie
Writer(s)F. J. Lennon
John Antinori
Dennis Johnson
Composer(s)Michael Bross
Platform(s)MS-DOS, Macintosh
Release
Genre(s)Interactive movie, point-and-click adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

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 Scott Cohen, 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.

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.

  1. ^ "News". 1997-06-05. Archived from the original on 1997-06-05. Retrieved 2023-04-09.
  2. ^ "Take Two Rolls Out Ripper". 1997-06-06. Archived from the original on 1997-06-06. Retrieved 2023-04-09.
  3. ^ "It's a Ripper". Sega Saturn Magazine. No. 7. Emap International Limited. May 1996. p. 8.