My goal was to see if I could make Cherie an astronaut, and if I could get there potentially by either entering an atheltic or a sports career, but opportunities to do so have never presented themselves here, and you can't become an astronaut in this game, I'm sorry to say. I played the female version and I named my person 'Cherie'. Career options mostly fall to business, management, medical, labour and art sectors, with no room for military and sports careers, or even becoming an astronaut! Outside of the frequent criticisms that you can't play as a racial minority, as a gay or trans person, or a non-American, the choices you have and can divulge within the game, they are also limited. It has a popular browser version which you have no doubt tried at one point, but playing it today also reveals an awful lot of shortcomings as a result of both its limited and predictable game mechanics, but also its narrow scope at the American white middle-classman as its ideal denizen. You essentially play a life of a person as they choose how to be affected and react to various common life experiences, from chidlhood bonding with parents, to the first day at kindergarten or school, to adulthood and old age until death. Alter Ego is a very interesting interactive fiction, and must have been revalatory at the time in the 80s.

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