![]() The powerful artifact provides a portal to a selection of previous lives, all of which must be experienced by the player in order to prevent an ancient evil from re-surfacing. Developed by Canadian studio Silicon Knights and originally meant for the N64, Eternal Darkness is a fascinating Lovecraftian romp following student Alexandria Roivas as she investigates a book known as the Tome of Eternal Darkness. Resident Evil 4 wasn't the only standout survival horror experience on Nintendo's under-rated GameCube system. Alter Ego (Activision, C64/PC/Apple II, 1986) And when the face huggers leap at you it is terrifying. There's also a brilliantly unsettling take on the movie's motion tracker sound effect that ramps up the scare factor considerably. Although movement is essentially limited to left and right (firing at doors lets you pass through them), the action is tense, and the importance of quick accurate aiming hints at the FPS genre to come. ![]() Players have to guide six of the film's characters through the colony base, toward the queen's lair. It's essentially a prototype first-person shooter, complete with moveable targeting reticule. ![]() Aliens: The Computer Game (Software Studios/Electric Dreams Software, C64/Spectrum, 1986)Īctivision developed a higher profile tie-in with the movie, but this version is far superior and has lasting significance in game design terms. The first-person view and smooth sensation of movement were astonishing at the time (especially considering it ran on the older 16k Spectrum), and it no doubt prepared the way for future variations on the free-roaming driving game. Written by lone coder Mervyn Estcourt (who also produced a PC remake almost 20 years later), this remarkably progressive 3D chase game gets the player to ride a futuristic motorbike through dense woodland, attempting to track down and shoot enemy riders. ![]() 3D Deathchase (Micromega, ZX Spectrum, 1983) But this Kickstarter brings it all together for a whole new generation, with some real-world treats thrown in for the longtime fans.What have I forgotten? What crimes against video game nostalgia have I committed? Add your own favourites in the comments section. That’s a bit of a drag, given that the series started its life on the Mac - but Cyan says getting everything running on the Mac would take resources they “just don’t have.” Cyan notes that while they’ll continue to sell the updated games once the Kickstarter is over, the special box set is a Kickstarter-only deal.Īs arstechnica points out, much of the Myst series is already available for Windows 10 - only Myst III and IV had never been updated for compatibility, as the rights were held by a different publisher. The bad news: most of the games won’t work on MacOS. They’ve updated the games to work on “modern systems, but there’s a bit of a good news/bad news situation there. (For the unfamiliar: in the Myst universe, “Linking books” transport those that touch the book to a far-off destination.) Oh, and they built a friggin’ Linking book, complete with a 800×480 LCD screen that plays video fly-throughs of the game’s environments when the book is opened. Tiers above that include a bunch of real-world goodies, from a recreation of Gehn’s in-game pen/inkwell to original, hand-drawn concept art. $49 gets you digital copies of each game, while $99 gets you DVD copies in a box built to look like a Myst book.
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