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[–] 5 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

There were also a couple sequels weren't there? Heart of the Alien and some other one on PC

Edit: Heart of the alien is the sequel to Out of this World. Fade to Black is the sequel to Flashback. Though I see they made a Flashback 2 I might have to check out

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

    Flashback (1992) was inspired by Out of This World (1991, called Another World in Europe) but was not made by Eric Chahi. However, Eric and the creator of Flashback, Paul Cuisset, both worked on a game called Future Wars in 1989.

    Out of This Worlds original Amiga version credits just two people: Jean-Francois Freitas who did music and sound effects, and Eric Chahi who did everything else.

    Personally, I prefer the SNES Interplay port's music by Charles Deenan, but all versions of the soundtrack are good in their own way.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Fade to Black was awesome for its time.

    As was Another World. I watched a YouTube video about it. It explained what the Amiga was good at and the limitations, and how that game worked so well. Real time poly animations. It works so well.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Real time poly animations.

    Just want to post this: This page allows to playback some cutscenes (higher-res than Genisis)

    Not perfect, though I imagine it's probably a fault of being designed 1:1*. Perhaps there is a better version (allowing modern res), though the Steam version uses an upscale filter instead (maybe because the maps aren't polygonal?). Another World seems to have a better treatment (though Steam says 800MB, so not sure if they rastered it or if they just made the audio uncompressed).

    * For a similar problem, some people (One being 'Old Man Yells at Code' on YT) have made newer videos about how classic Sierra games were actually polygons (...at least lines/fill) but don't always properly connect when rendered at higher res (and attempts to re-interpret the data).

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    I was thinking this game reminded me of Another World in terms of the art style and game play. I just went off searching for the name of Another World because I had completely forgotten the name, should have just read the comments!

    They were both published by Delphine software so they could have had some crossover there.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I had this on the Mega drive but the artwork was different in the UK. Either that or I've lost my memory.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    This was a game i really loved as a teen.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I love that they ported this game to the Dreamcast in 2017.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
    [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Wow! I definitely madly need high-quality scan of this comix!

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Would pics of the pages help? I can post them on here. 16 pages I think.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Love this game... first time seeing the US version cover art... as usual they cocked it up.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    One of the coolest games of that era for sure, had such an otherworldly vibe

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    I loved this game. Was probably 7 Yeats when I played it. It taught me patinece and persistence

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