Mind Prober
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Mind Prober asks users questions to rate themselves or other people on a series of 23 adjectives (talkative, pleasure-seeking, etc.), computes the results, and prints a three-page report describing the person.

The questions for users differ by gender (male or female) and age (under 18, or 18 and older). The program comes with a thick manual-plus-book that contains many chapters on how to better understand people around you.

Trivia

As developer Dr. James Johnson Ph.D writes on Mind Media site:

In 1984 my wife Cathy and I wrote a program called Mind Prober that asked users to rate themselves or other people on a series of adjectives and it computed the results and printed a three-page report describing the person. Mind Prober became an overnight hit. It was featured on the cover of InfoWorld and numerous other publications. It sold more than 250,000 copies. And it was named the top-selling educational program of 1985. A follow up program Mindviewer is now published by Mind Media and offered for subscribing to this newsletter on the Mind Media world-wide web site. Mindviewer has sold more than 100,000 copies since its release.

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Description from the packaging:

Personality Software that lets you see people as they really are.
Analyze anyone in your life.
Get to know their secret likes and dislikes.
Find out hidden truths about people you thought you knew.
Learn how to make the most of relationships and how to prevent emotional letdowns.
A self-help book on how to read others.
Remember, it's not who you know, it's how well you know them.
This software is designed for those of us who subscribe to the belief that the more you know about someone, the better off you are.

Probing Report includes:
Introductions.
Relationships.
Attitudes toward work.
Coping with stress.
Personal interests.
Attitudes toward sex (under 18 years old-attitudes toward school).
What makes them tick.

Human Edge's Mind Prober. It may be the most Orwellian software program ever produced, but so what?
