All-Time Highest Rated Games Tagged 'Amiga, platform' on The Great Games Experiment http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/css/logo.jpg en-us Another World, known as Out of this World in the US and Outer World in Japan, is a 1991 cinematic platformer designed and developed by Eric Chahi. The graphics and box art were designed by Chahi, while the music was composed by Jean-François Freitas.

While not a great commercial success, Another World was innovative in its use of cinematic effects in the graphics, sound and cut scenes, with characters communicating through their facial features, gestures, and actions only. This cinematic style granted Another World cult status amongst critics and fans.

The protagonist of the game is Lester Knight Chaykin; a young, athletic, red haired physicist. Lester arrives at his high-tech underground laboratory during a thunderstorm, and continues to work on his experiment using a particle accelerator. Right before the particles reach their intended destination, lightning strikes the lab and interferes with the accelerator causing the unforeseen teleportation of Lester to a barren alien planet.

The player can control Lester using the keyboard or gamepad using four directions buttons and two action buttons: one for main actions, and one for jumping. Depending on the player's current position, movement, and status, the main action key performs a variety of actions including attacking and interacting with Lester's environment. At the start of the game Lester can only kick to attack, but later he can acquire a gun. While the movement keys normally make Lester run, the game also features sections where the player must swim, roll, or drive a vehicle. The player only has one life, but there are multiple checkpoints he can return to by entering the relevant pass code given at each one.

]]> 10 Dec 2006 09:53:52 A young Ruff Rogers was happily playing with his marbles (ooohey!) in his local park. When suddenly one happened to go a stray and fall down a nearby rabbit hole. Not knowing this hole was a teleport to another dimension, he reaches down to see if he can retrieve it. To his suprise, he suddenly gets sucked into the darkness.

Ruff now dazed and confused, finds himself on an alien planet which is run by Mr evil himself, Dr Destiny. He also discovers that this mad doctor controls a fearsome army of robots called the tinheads. Furthermore, he spots his marble collection is now lying scattered throughout the planet. As you can imagine, Ruff is a little displeased with his current predicament. So with this, he makes the decision to accumulate his marble collection once more and save the planet from the evil clutches of Dr Destiny and his Tinhead Army.

]]> 07 Feb 2007 11:02:33 The year is 2142. You play as Conrad B. Hart, a man who has lost his memory. After barely escaping from hostile aliens, Conrad's bike crashes on an unknown planet. Conrad finds himself in the jungle, and from now on his quest for survival and his lost identity begins.

]]> 06 Feb 2007 03:49:44 GAME INFO:
(copied from back of Sega Master System cover)
Agent 4125... Half the threat of world annihilation posed by Elvin Atombender from his underground laboratory. Penetrate his stronghold an dodge or deactivate the guard robots whilst unscrambling the secret code that will allow entry to the control center. The world awaits in FEAR. Your mission is stamped 'IMPOSSIBLE'

THE GAMEPLAY:
It's a very difficult game. Each of it's thirty-two rooms are unique(only two rooms are the same), and each one has many pieces of furniture which need to be searched to get pieces of code, in which must be put together to divine the password and open the control centre doors.
The robots, of which there are many in each room, all act differently, some attacking on sight, and some are speeding back and forth, waiting for you to mistime your jump over them and kill you.
Other things include lifts which are essential to getting all the items in a room, and computer terminals which allow you to reset the lifts or freeze the robots(this is temporary) in a room.

INTERESTING TRIVIA:
The main player sprite for the C=64 version is an unused sprite for Summer Games.
It is being remade for the Nintendo DS, and is rumoured to be coming to the Nintendo Wii's Virtual Console in the near future.

]]> 03 Feb 2007 10:13:36 (taken from cover of Sega Master System version)
Tiki the Kiwi stars in the adventure of a lifetime in this arcade No.1 hit. Watch the feathers fly as you guide Tiki through the islands of New Zealand solving mazes, defeating fiendish foes, rescuing his kiwi friends and finally facing the evil Wally Walrus in the ultimate battle.
Will you be the next dish on the fresh kiwi menu? Only time will tell and it is running out fast!

ABOUT THE PLAYER:
Tiki has a range of weapons he can use to defeat the evil minions of Wally the Walrus:

Bow & Arrow : This is Tiki's default weapon.

Ray gun : Fire laser beams of death that will rip through any enemy that is unfortunate to cross it's path.

Staff : Fire a ball of plasma that not only rips through enemies, but bounces off walls as well.

Bombs : Short range bombs destroy all in a blast.

Book : This is used up as soon as it is collected, and destroys all enemies on the screen.

A remake of this game is to be released on the Nintendo DS soon.

]]> 04 Feb 2007 10:38:11 "TEN PINTS"

Amazing graphics (for the time), but so hard you can lose the game even with the invulnerability cheat code. This was the game you used to show off the Amiga to your friends.

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