Another World

The other day while perusing internet as usual I found a posting on someone who is painting scenes from classic video games for use as desktop wallpapers. I love collecting good wallpapers as much as I love cool fonts (that is to say, a lot) so I decided to check them out. The very first one caught my eye, Another World, not because it would make a good background, but because I remembered the game fondly. I remember it from the early 90’s as Out Of This World and it remains to this day the only video game I have ever bought (as long as you don’t count Pac Man that came with my Atari 800.)

I followed the link to the large version and the artist mentioned that the game had been reported to Windows with updated graphics – WOOT! I went to the game author’s site and downloaded the demo. Very cool.

I remember that I never could defeat the thing until I found the cheats on the internet. When I started the game and watched the intro I tried to remember to how the game went. When dumped into the first scene I remembered what to do, but after getting out of the water you have to get by these big inch worm looking things. While I remembered what I was supposed to do I fumbled the controls and was killed in short order. When the code was displayed that you needed to renter the game at that point the computer froze….dang.

I’ll give it another go here after awhile (maybe when I’m done posting this) maybe I should reduce the display resolution from 1920 x 1080 a little?