Have you ever wanted to interact with the person living inside your Commodore? I thought so. Little Computer People allow you to do just that. The game presents to you a sideways view of the inside of a three-story house. An animated character will move in and occupy the house. He then goes about a daily routine, doing everyday things like cooking, watching television or reading the newspaper. You're able to interact with this person in various ways, including furnishing the house, entering simple commands for him to perform, playing a game of poker with him and sending him presents. On occasion, the character initiates contact on his own, inviting the player to a game or writing a letter explaining his feelings and needs. Each copy of the game generates its own unique character, so no two copies play exactly the same. The documentation that accompanied the game fully kept up the pretense of the "little people" being real, and living inside one's computer (the software merely "bringing them out"), with the player as their caretaker. Whether or not the character will become emo and self-hating when the game is emulated on a new machine remains to be seen.
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