Tag: barneysplat
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Austin Seraphin, creator of “Barneysplat!”
Austin Seraphin has been blind since birth and has loved computers since he got an Apple IIe at age 6. In 1993 he released Barneysplat!, one of the zaniest BBS door games ever conceived, in which players try to kill or intoxicate Barney the purple dinosaur and his cast of kids.
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Barneysplat! memories
As a teen, I encountered the show enough to develop a hatred of it: saccharine songs that would lodge in your head; giggly, dopey-voiced dinosaur characters; a “one-dimensional world where everyone must be happy and everything must be resolved right away.” It’s no surprise that Barney spawned a backlash. Barney bashing, “anti-Barney humor and parodies…
