Today is a today to look at Mystic Meg Tarot for IBM PC Compatibles.
I just love this era of the 90s, when a plethora of software erupted onto the scene to take
advantage of "Multi Media".
Amongst the swathes of encyclopedias and film tie-ins, was software like this.
Pretty pointless, but it could be done, and it looked impressive, so we bought it.
Now for those of you unfamiliar with Mystic Meg's work.
When the National Lottery arrived on our shores in 1994, Meg was the resident physic who would
conjure up the identity of jackpot winners.
Through vague descriptions and the human willingness to see patterns, she was sometimes quite close,
other times, like when there was no winner, she was pretty far off the mark.
Still, she became a recognisable face and name, who lives on, hosting various things
for that tabloid rag known as the Sun.
But given her popularity, it would only be natural to merge her image with the multimedia
format, and that's exactly what GSP have done.
Requiring Windows 95 or above, a 486 66MHz CPU, 8MB of RAM and 8MB of hard drive space,
this wasn't a demanding application by any means.
Inside we get a generic crystal case, containing the CD, a leaflet of other software and the
small format manual.
Installation in Windows 98 is swift and painless, and you even get a free screen saver which
blasts tarot cards across the screen in a variety of patterns and god awful scaling.
Booting the software involves the mouse and clicking, with our reward being Mystic Meg
herself reading a lengthy introduction....
yeah, that's enough of that.
The software is pretty straight forward, like most of these quicktime type programs.
You can ask a question, enter some vague details and see what your future heralds.
There's various different tarot readings, all offering increasing levels of vagueness
and depending on how willing you are to apply the reading to your own life, it might just
inspire you, or provide you with encouraging words.
You can opt to have Meg read out the card meanings, along with some cosmic thing or
just read it yourself, until text flows off the bottom of the panel, for which there's
no apparent way to scroll.
Some of the readings were eerily accurate.
Others were just general words which made some form of sentence.
But whatever the outcome, I felt myself being sucked into this program.
My mind was fitting some of the words to my own experience, and I actually came away feeling
liberated and more focused.
I guess if you have faith in someone enough, they can truly help you, and Meg, you're a
winner
for me.