Netflix's High Sre exam Ryan Bt's LGBTQ puter RPG, GayBla, and how was almost permanently lost to history.
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GAYBLA: THE LOST LGBTQ ROLEPLAYG GAME, EXPLAED
Netflix's High Sre exam Ryan Bt's LGBTQ puter RPG, GayBla, and how was almost permanently lost to history. Episo 3, "Role Players, " explas how the first LGBTQ puter RPG, GayBla, was temporarily lost to the sands of time -- until an archivist enlisted the Inter to help rever the fil and return them to the game's creator.
GayBla creator Ryan Bt tght himself how to 40 years ago, then ed what he learned to create GayBla after movg to San Francis the late '80s and gettg volved the queer muny there. GayBla tak players to a dungeon on a qut to rcue Emprs Nelda om "disgtg right-wg creatur, " cludg preachers wh bags of money, racists and homophobic ps, as well as sbs and some STIs. The game's ultimate boss is a spoof of Pat Buchanan, a former GOP printial ndidate and advisor to Print Richard Nixon who famoly penned an op-ed The New York Tim, argug that the AIDS epimic was God seekg revenge agast gay people.
Creatg GayBla allowed Bt to put LGBTQ characters and their liv at the foreont of the story, rather than relegatg them to si characters like other puter gam did at the time.