Software:Le Louvre: The Palace & Its Paintings

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Le Louvre: The Palace & Its Paintings
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Developer(s)Montparnasse Multimedia
Publisher(s)BMG Interactive
Platform(s)Windows, Macintosh
Release1995
Genre(s)Educational
Mode(s)Single-player

Le Louvre: The Palace & Its Paintings is a 1995 art game developed by Montparnasse Multimedia and published by BMG Interactive.

Development

Le Louvre: The Palace & Its Paintings was developed by Montparnasse Multimedia, a company founded in 1992.[1] The game was received six months after the founding of BMG Interactive Entertainment as an "interactive leisure" subsidiary of Bertelsmann.[2] The game cost 1.3 million francs to make, and by February 1996 BMG had reported profits.[3] It was one game in a series by BMG, including Musee D´Orsay, Michelangelo, Inuit.[4]

Content

The title offers an interactive multimedia exploration of the Louvre collection.

Reception

Entertainment Weekly praised the game's achievements despite its graphical limitations, deeming it "thoughtful — and less taxing" than a trip to Paris.[5] People magazine thought the game wouldn't offer new insights to art lovers, but had the potential to inspire non-art lovers to take a trip to the Louvre.[6] Billboard felt the title was the "grandaddy" of the art-based game genre, and praised the developer's choice to narrow down the collection to 100 items to prevent the feeling of overwhelm.[7] Newsweek deemed it "satisfying".[8]

The game sold 15,000 copies by February 1996,[3] and by January 1997 it had sold more than 300,000 copies.[9] The game ultimately sold over 1 million copies worldwide by 2000.[1]

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