Tender Loving Care (video game)

Tender Loving Care
Tender Loving Care DVD box
Directed byDavid Wheeler
Written byDavid Wheeler
Based onTender, Loving Care by Andrew Neiderman
Produced byRob Landeros (also designer)
StarringMichael Esposito
Beth Tegarden
John Hurt
Marie Caldare
CinematographyCalvin Kennedy
Edited byMarie Walling Thompson
Music byJohn Welsman
Distributed byAftermath Media
Release dates
  • August 12, 1998 (August 12, 1998) (DVD, Windows)
  • September 10, 2012 (2012-09-10) (iOS)
Running time
117 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Tender Loving Care is an interactive movie originally released on August 12, 1998, by Aftermath Media.[1][2] It is a psychological thriller starring Michael Esposito, Marie Caldare, Beth Tegarden, and John Hurt as Dr. Turner.[3] It was written and directed by David Wheeler and produced by Rob Landeros, who also designed the interactive features.[4] The game was originally produced with the intention of releasing the game under the Trilobyte label, but Landeros was fired from the company before it was released.[5] Tender Loving Care was later released under Landeros's new company, Aftermath Media, on CD-ROM, with the option for users to watch the movie as a feature-length film as opposed to interacting with the game.[6] In October 2012 the game was re-released under the Trilobyte Games label on the Apple iOS platform.[7] The game is based on the 1984 novel of the same name by Andrew Neiderman.[8]

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  2. ^ "From Game to Movie". Billboard. Jun 1, 1996. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
  3. ^ "Hollywood Hard Drive". Entertainment Weekly. Aug 9, 1996. Archived from the original on 27 April 2009. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
  4. ^ "IS IT A COMPUTER GAME, OR A MOVIE? VIDEO DISC 'TENDER LOVING CARE' MINES VOYEURISM INSTEAD OF COMPETITIVENESS". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. October 2, 1997. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
  5. ^ Goldberg, Harold (2011). All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture. Three Rivers Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0307463555.
  6. ^ "Aftermath, Brilliant Digital debut DVD interactive videos". Billboard. Aug 30, 1997. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
  7. ^ "Medford software company creates mobile device game". Mail Tribune. Archived from the original on 26 January 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
  8. ^ "Trilobyte Games - Tender Loving Care". Archived from the original on 2014-07-05. Retrieved 2014-06-27.