Can you guess this old game from just one screenshot?
I’ll update this post with the answer at 5pm today if no one has guessed before then. Or if you do guess it before then, feel free to share your memories of a classic game.
It is definitely Captain Blood, I never knew it had a spectrum release, but it would have to be going on the weird blocks of mono-colour that was the trademark of the spectrum.
If I recall right, the objective of the game was to track down Captain Blood’s clones and kill them before dies; as his health deteriorates while they live. The highlight of the game interacting with different aliens using picture cards to track down the coordinates and kill the clones.
I guessed at Captain Blood and now reading the other comments, it looks like I was right. Peter beat me to declaring it to be the CGA version so I’ll second his claim. Colours are perfect – magenta, cyan, and white.
CAPTAIN BLOOOOD
Goddammit I would have got this one, too.
I spent ages playing this on the C64. *nostalgic sigh* I need to track down some of these old soundtracks.
Can you guess this old game from just one screenshot?
Derek
September 24, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Captain Blood. And I’ll go for a guess that it’s on the Spectrum?
Report PermalinkDavid Wildgoose
September 24, 2009 at 9:56 AM
Well done, it is in fact Captain Blood. (Although I like Sing’s suggestion too.)
It’s not the Spectrum version though, even though it looks similar.
Report PermalinkSing Nguyen
September 24, 2009 at 9:38 AM
I have very little hope of identifying any game before the NES era, so I’m just gonna take the alternative route from now on and say…
DJ Hero featuring E.T.
Ding!
Report PermalinkPeter Richards
September 24, 2009 at 9:44 AM
It is definitely Captain Blood, I never knew it had a spectrum release, but it would have to be going on the weird blocks of mono-colour that was the trademark of the spectrum.
Report PermalinkAaron Clement
September 24, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Damn.. Beaten by Derek! Captain Blood it is, although I don’t think there’s enough colour bleed going on there for it to be a Speccy game?
Report PermalinkDr_Stef
September 24, 2009 at 10:11 AM
I could never get this game to work on my very first pc. What was it about?
Report PermalinkAdam Dawson
September 24, 2009 at 11:29 AM
If I recall right, the objective of the game was to track down Captain Blood’s clones and kill them before dies; as his health deteriorates while they live. The highlight of the game interacting with different aliens using picture cards to track down the coordinates and kill the clones.
Report PermalinkPeter Richards
September 24, 2009 at 11:28 AM
OK, I’m calling this as Captain Blood the CGA version for the PC, those colours just scream good old CGA in DOS.
Report PermalinkStinky
September 24, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Oh man does CGA suck, mono was much better.
Report PermalinkMalorion
September 24, 2009 at 11:55 AM
I guessed at Captain Blood and now reading the other comments, it looks like I was right. Peter beat me to declaring it to be the CGA version so I’ll second his claim. Colours are perfect – magenta, cyan, and white.
Report PermalinkPeter Richards
September 24, 2009 at 3:20 PM
I always wondered what genius decided those horrid horrid colours would be the ones you got to take home for CGA.
Report PermalinkPeter Richards
September 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM
Found some footage from the be(ST) version :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaDlfy-ibo8
has the funky music and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afk4kGhXtnI
which shows the cool communication system in action.
I forgot how disturbingly fun this title was.
Report PermalinkPeter Richards
September 24, 2009 at 3:46 PM
Apparently the US version was missing the (slightly) nudie ending.
http://www.emunova.net/img/tests/843.jpg
Report Permalinkduskbringer
September 24, 2009 at 7:50 PM
CAPTAIN BLOOOOD
Report PermalinkGoddammit I would have got this one, too.
I spent ages playing this on the C64. *nostalgic sigh* I need to track down some of these old soundtracks.