Company: St. Bride's School

The St. Bride's School was an Irish women's school run by the new religious movement the Silver Sisterhood, who intended to recreate the experience of a Victorian era boarding school for interested adults and frequently used corporal punishment. Despite their anti-modernist teachings, the school took an interest in text adventure games during the 1980s, developing eight of them for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum as a way to raise funds. One of their games co-developed with Jared Derrett, Jack the Ripper, became the first video game to receive an 18 certificate rating in the United Kingdom due in part to its gory box art designed by the game's publisher CRL Group. After the school relocated to England in 1992, large quantities of sadomasochist, lesbian, and far-right magazines were found on their former premises. While one former employee denied they held right-wing beliefs, letters were also found on the premises indicating the school was in contact with far-right activist John Tyndall for two years. At the same time, the Silver Sisterhood also ran a publishing house called The Wildfire Club, which specialized in lesbian periodicals and books on discipline.