🕹️ Digital Visions 💿 The interplanetary future of 2142, the jungles of a terraformed Titan, and the frantic escape of alien conspiracy-uncovering intelligence agent Conrad B Hart, as digitally illustrated by Delphine Internation in its signature Cinematique graphics in the 1992 hit, Flashback. - ThreadSky

sharkabytes.bsky.social • 375 days ago

🕹️ Digital Visions 💿

The interplanetary future of 2142, the jungles of a terraformed Titan, and the frantic escape of alien conspiracy-uncovering intelligence agent Conrad B Hart, as digitally illustrated by Delphine Internation in its signature Cinematique graphics in the 1992 hit, Flashback.

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cguanche.bsky.social•236 days ago

I loved playing that game over and over on SNES back in the day.

sharkabytes.bsky.social•235 days ago

It's such a timelessly wonderful game. The versions that have this intro rather than CGI like the Sega CD and CDI ones have aged better in my eyes.

benstylus.bsky.social•235 days ago

It's hard to overstate how impressive those cutscenes were on the Genesis/SNES back in the day.

Cutscenes in general weren't seen much back then, and they were typically still shots or with very little animation.

Flashback's cutscenes were fully animated and vivid - just blew everyone's minds.

dannydrivethru.bsky.social•123 days ago

I can hear these pictures

sharkabytes.bsky.social•375 days ago

Ahem, that should have been Delphine International. But yes, Flashback is one of my favourite games and holds really well with a pretty timeless 2D pixel artwork style.

Recently received a numbered sequel from Microids that was... ugh. Not good.

All is forgiven, Fade to Black.

davem3393.bsky.social•13 days ago

Yeah, later sequels doth sucketh mightily usually. The sequel/modern update of Masters of Magic or Carrier Command (one of my favourite amiga games) seemed to be done by people who either hadn't played the originals, or didn't understand why they were classics. "Dern Young'uns!" (Waves cane)

davem3393.bsky.social•13 days ago

This site REALLY needs an "edit after post" function.

benstylus.bsky.social•236 days ago

I see a lot of games with fun art and interesting premises, then I see the Microids logo on the box...

benstylus.bsky.social•236 days ago

I'm sure some of them are fine, but that logo is my cue to do a lot more research first.

sharkabytes.bsky.social•235 days ago

Yeah, mine too. 😅

kd0082.bsky.social•375 days ago

Best version for me would be the Mega-CD one but sometimes the BG music is a bit tiring. I loved the MD/SNES ambient sounds and occasional music for some action parts.

davem3393.bsky.social•13 days ago

Brilliant game! Played it on an Amiga with a two button joystick (how old does that make me sound), and it was brilliant! A good story, clever and different levels, and very pretty graphics.

taewyth.bsky.social•13 days ago

I love the "cinematic platformer" genre: Flashback, Another world, Oddworld, even Tomb Raider when you look at it.

All classics, and one of these genres I'd love o see more modern takes on.

raymanwithaplan.bsky.social•374 days ago

That game was so cool. I played it on SNES and I fondly remember the running and jumping animations, of all things. My overriding memory is that it was marred by clunky controls, though.

sharkabytes.bsky.social•374 days ago

Ah, yeah, there is some timing with long jumps and control inputs sometimes needed that aren't always intuitive.

raymanwithaplan.bsky.social•374 days ago

Those long jumps were sick though

lexycaviar.bsky.social•10 days ago

And I love it so much!

bowsette.bsky.social•374 days ago

Gods, Flashback was so goooooood.💜

I always associate it with the Mega Drive, funnily enough, despite it starting out on the Amiga.

sharkabytes.bsky.social•374 days ago

I do more myself these days as that's the version I own and play the most. It feels very much at home on the Mega Drive and for good reason with it being developed for the MD but released on Amiga first.

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