- a book by Osamu Sato published in 1993 - The computer is a magic box. Many graphic images are hidden inside it. [...] This is an everyday guide to computer illustrating, a collection of design ideas and a compendium of Mr. Sato's own computer art works. [...] Just looking at the myriad manifestations of form is a joy, but for those who will use it to begin creating their own shapes this book offers far, far greater pleasure.
To refer to LSD: Dream Emulator as a game can be as misleading as it is reductive. It was a three-pronged attack on contemporary art conventions as they existed in the mid-to-late 1990s, one comprised of an interactive dream, a profusely illustrated journal, and an avant-garde electronic music album. It was also the most sophisticated coalescence of art and interactive media coming out of Japan at the time. There had never been anything like it before. One may even argue there has never been anything quite like it since.