A freak laboratory accident transports scientist Lester Knight Chaykin to a brutal alien world, where he must work together with a strange ally to survive.A freak laboratory accident transports scientist Lester Knight Chaykin to a brutal alien world, where he must work together with a strange ally to survive.A freak laboratory accident transports scientist Lester Knight Chaykin to a brutal alien world, where he must work together with a strange ally to survive.
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- TriviaThis was one of the last commercially released games for the Apple IIgs. The port was written by Bill Heineman, who also was responsible for the SNES version (both the IIgs and the SNES share the same main processor). If the screen size was reduced, the game ran extremely smoothly on a stock unaccelerated IIgs.
- Crazy creditsNow Go Back To Another Earth
- Alternate versionsThe original Amiga version of the game is actually shorter than all the others. After some reviews criticized the length of the game, Eric Chahi added an extra level for all future releases.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Gamesmaster: Episode #2.4 (1992)
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Not completely sure, but I think this is the first game of this type...
This game is like many others back in the day where it is realistic movement, where it shows cut scenes and it is 2D but it is not a platformer game. Other games of this type include Flashback, Prince of Persia, Lester the Unlikely and others. I do believe this is the first one, though and Flashback was a close second. These types of games always entertained me, my favorite one being Flashback. This one was okay, but simply does not look as good as the later ones which could be forgiven, but it is also all too brief. I replayed it on the PS4 and was like done in a little over an hour. There would also be a Sega CD version of this game that would also contain a followup to this game and it was pretty short too.
The story, a man is working on some sort of experiment in his lab during a thunderstorm. As he begins, lightening strikes at the machine and he is transported to another world! The title I remember for this one is Out of This World, but Another World works too. Well the world he ends up in is very hostile as he has to escape from a body of water filled with tentacles, stomp out slugs before the kill him and he gets chased by some monster! He is soon rescued, he thinks, but then taken prisoner by this huge humanoid men. He wakes up in a cell with another of these creatures and he breaks free and he and the other captive help each other out on their way to trying to escape this city. The second game the roles are reversed as you play the humanoid and the scientist is the one doing the assisting.
The game play is fun and you will have to solve environmental puzzles aplenty, but that is the norm for a game like this. If you've never played it before, you will probably have a longer time getting through it than I did. It is amazing what you remember over the years. You get some cut scenes that either progress the story or show you the characters gruesome demise at the hands of some sort of mouth in the ground or the slugs.
So, it was good for the day and I rented it a few times; usually with something else as it was a fun play through, but then you were done. The Sega CD version is longer due to having the sequel, which not sure, but I think it was only on the CD with the first one as I have never seen it by itself. Kind of an impromptu sequel to try and coerce those who enjoyed the first to get it as well for the additional content. Like I said, I think it was even shorter than the first one. Worth a play through now for nostalgia purposes and 12 easy trophies on PS4.
The story, a man is working on some sort of experiment in his lab during a thunderstorm. As he begins, lightening strikes at the machine and he is transported to another world! The title I remember for this one is Out of This World, but Another World works too. Well the world he ends up in is very hostile as he has to escape from a body of water filled with tentacles, stomp out slugs before the kill him and he gets chased by some monster! He is soon rescued, he thinks, but then taken prisoner by this huge humanoid men. He wakes up in a cell with another of these creatures and he breaks free and he and the other captive help each other out on their way to trying to escape this city. The second game the roles are reversed as you play the humanoid and the scientist is the one doing the assisting.
The game play is fun and you will have to solve environmental puzzles aplenty, but that is the norm for a game like this. If you've never played it before, you will probably have a longer time getting through it than I did. It is amazing what you remember over the years. You get some cut scenes that either progress the story or show you the characters gruesome demise at the hands of some sort of mouth in the ground or the slugs.
So, it was good for the day and I rented it a few times; usually with something else as it was a fun play through, but then you were done. The Sega CD version is longer due to having the sequel, which not sure, but I think it was only on the CD with the first one as I have never seen it by itself. Kind of an impromptu sequel to try and coerce those who enjoyed the first to get it as well for the additional content. Like I said, I think it was even shorter than the first one. Worth a play through now for nostalgia purposes and 12 easy trophies on PS4.
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