It Came From Lust Angeles.
Added 2017-03-29 19:26:20 +0000 UTCMany of you wouldn't prolly get the pun behind this post title...
And that's great, because it more likely means you're not as old as me (you lucky bastards!).
Matter of fact the above picture compares a Firing Range session from Babe Runner with the shooting minigame from Cinemaware's "it came from the desert", published in 1989 on the Commodore Amiga 500.
Yes, we're talking about a game and a computer both from 28 years ago;
And yes, I'm old enough to have managed to play it with no emulators (and homeworks to do, lol) since my second computer was a Commodore Amiga 500.
The point is, games from that "era" inspired me so much. Guys working in the gaming industry back then delivered games actually bringing something "new" to the scene. They were to be considered nothing less but pioneers, experimenting things around, and prolly creating game genres (as we know them) in the process.
So games like "Zak McKracken and the Alien mindbenders", "it came from the desert", "Monkey Island", "Police Quest", "Leisure Suit Larry", "Syndicate" and many others I'm surely forgetting...All of them kept me company during my youth, while shaping up both my "gaming perspective" and criticism about games.
Comes as no surprise that 28 years later, I so wistfully aim to implement in my games some of the elements which inspired me so much back then...While making me feel lucky to be the old geezer I am today. ^^
Talk to you soon :)
Comments
Oh yes!! Such guilty pleasure in the form of illicit copies of 5 1/4'' floppy discs (3 1/2'' later on, as the series progressed)! :D I remember all the "rumors" circulating that if you wrote in this command or clicked in the right place you would get a... gasp!... SEX SCENE! :P
Mr. Stibbons
2017-03-31 08:32:36 +0000 UTCYes, absolutely..."KEN SENT FOR ME"! I can still feel that frisky/kinky/guilty feeling I had while playing it back then :D ...Also -unlike what happens in nowadays gaming industry, where apparently there's some "retro-fever" going on- 8-bit graphics was genuinely 8-bit graphics because that was all our platforms could afford! lol
TheWorst
2017-03-30 15:12:30 +0000 UTCMy bad! You're right - Syndicate was a strategy game. I must have confused it with something else! Still, you know, BR has tits in it so it stands firmly on its own if you ask me! :P I mean, come on! Back in the day we considered the "Larry" games to be "porn"! :D
Mr. Stibbons
2017-03-30 11:03:59 +0000 UTCAh! I wish BR could even remotely resemble such titles. Especially Bullfrog's "Syndicate", even tho it was an isometric real time strategy game... ^^
TheWorst
2017-03-30 06:02:26 +0000 UTCAh! The only cassettes I've been using were for the commodore Vic20, my first computer ever (and an awful one: 2 colors, just green and black lol) then C64 took the lead, but I've never owned one...I had to visit friends from school to play some Airborne Ranger lol
TheWorst
2017-03-30 05:59:00 +0000 UTCAaah! Nostalgia overdrive! :D I was a PC guy, back in the 8086 days, so the closest I got to the splendor that was Amiga 500 and its 256 (?) colors was drooling over it. I guess THAT'S why this bit of Babe Runner hit a spot with me - it does remind one of "Syndicate" or that other awesome 3d shooter, "Rise of the Triad"
Mr. Stibbons
2017-03-29 20:39:03 +0000 UTCI used to play CPC 464 when I was a kid. I still have the cassettes :D This post brings back so many memories :'(
Rwede
2017-03-29 19:30:38 +0000 UTC
