Ring: The Legend of the Nibelungen is a 1998 point-and-click adventure video game for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS developed by Arxel Tribe and published in North America by Red Orb Entertainment and in Europe by Cryo Interactive. The game is based on Richard Wagner's four opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, and features music from various performances of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Georg Solti from 1958 to 1964, chosen in collaboration with PolyGram and Decca. French comic-book artist Philippe Druillet also worked on the game, providing much of the artwork. The game makes a significant departure from the source material by binding the stories behind the four parts of the cycle with a surrealist science fiction background; the main plot involves a being by the name of ISH, who is guided by the voice of Erda (played by Charlotte Rampling), and who discovers the story of the Nibelungen. Ring received largely negative reviews in North America, but was a commercial hit, with sales above 400,000 units worldwide by October 2002. Gameplay

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Notable quotes

“Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.”
— Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Chapter V. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 119.
“A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.”
— Isaac D'Israeli, Miscellanies. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 119.
“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays. Circles. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 119.
“There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.”
— John McDonald, in The Message of a Master : A Classic Tale of Wealth, Wisdom and the Secret of Success (1929), Chapter 11.
“Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, as quoted in The Puzzle Instinct : The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Life‎ (2004) by Marcel Danesi, p. 71.
“A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.”
— Mark Twain, quoting a schoolchild in "English as She Is Taught", Century Magazine, May 1887, as reprinted in Essays and Sketches of Mark Twain (1995), ed. Stuart Miller, .

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Ring: The Legend of the Nibelungen is a 1998 point-and-click adventure video game for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS developed by Arxel Tribe and published in North America by Red Orb Entertainment and in Europe by Cryo Interactive. The game is based on Richard Wagner's four opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, and features music from various performances of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Georg Solti from 1958 to 1964, chosen in collaboration with PolyGram and Decca. French comic-book artist Philippe Druillet also worked on the game, providing much of the artwork.

Overview

Ring: The Legend of the Nibelungen is a 1998 point-and-click adventure video game for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS developed by Arxel Tribe and published in North America by Red Orb Entertainment and in Europe by Cryo Interactive. The game is based on Richard Wagner's four opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, and features music from various performances of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Georg Solti from 1958 to 1964, chosen in collaboration with PolyGram and Decca. French comic-book artist Philippe Druillet also worked on the game, providing much of the artwork. The game makes a significant departure from the source material by binding the stories behind the four parts of the cycle with a surrealist science fiction background; the main plot involves a being by the name of ISH, who is guided by the voice of Erda (played by Charlotte Rampling), and who discovers the story of the Nibelungen. Ring received largely negative reviews in North America, but was a commercial hit, with sales above 400,000 units worldwide by October 2002. Gameplay

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.”
— Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Chapter V. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 119.
“A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.”
— Isaac D'Israeli, Miscellanies. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 119.
“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays. Circles. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 119.
“There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.”
— John McDonald, in The Message of a Master : A Classic Tale of Wealth, Wisdom and the Secret of Success (1929), Chapter 11.
“Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, as quoted in The Puzzle Instinct : The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Life‎ (2004) by Marcel Danesi, p. 71.
“A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.”
— Mark Twain, quoting a schoolchild in "English as She Is Taught", Century Magazine, May 1887, as reprinted in Essays and Sketches of Mark Twain (1995), ed. Stuart Miller, .